Garage-surf rock band Harmonica Lewinski and electro-pop crooner Beef Gordon will join forces for a show at Abilene Bar & Lounge on July 3.
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The Isotopes combines surf music and Santa in its 2020 Christmas show Saturday
Rochester surf rock band The Isotopes blends sunshine and Santa with its live-streamed 2020 Christmas show this weekend.
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Album review: ‘Human BBQ’
The fun-loving Rochester band Harmonica Lewinski has blessed us with another 10-inch party platter of lo-fi, surf-soaked garage rock ‘n’ roll, called “Human BBQ.”
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Album review: ‘Schlock value’
Harmonica Lewinski ‘Schlock Value’ Self-released harmonicalewinski.bandcamp.com Cut the heart out of the Linkster’s “Jack The Ripper” and goose it with an Elvis Costello-esque, jackbooted march, and you’ve got the opening track to “Schlock Value,” Harmonica Lewinski’s new, most excellent seven-inch pleasure platter of colorfully psychedelic surf trash. Recorded in the bowels of Irondequoit, the band […]
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Album Review: ‘Not Convinced Yet’
Aretheyyestheyare “Not Convinced Yet” Self-released aretheyyestheyare.bandcamp.com Televisionaries’ homeboys Aretheyyestheyare take surf a few clicks weirder than what we’re used to hearing in our hang-ten-friendly landlocked metropolis. “Not Convinced Yet” is a four-song, quasi-primitive, guitar-fueled EP done with old school, perfunctory recording techniques. It’s cool, but the techniques threaten to drown the tune out a bit. […]
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Album Review: ‘… It Came From Lake Ontario’
RoarShark “… It Came From Lake Ontario” Self-released roarshark.com If you don’t include the three-eyed-fish-inhabited, film-developing waters of Lake Ontario, then let’s face it, Rochester is hopelessly land-locked. But for some reason, this town has an inordinately high number of surf bands. At the top of the pile is RoarShark and its new album “… […]
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Pleistocene thinks outside of the blanket
Rochester’s Pleistocene is a band that embodies a simplistic beauty born of pop sweetness and a sonic wash of atmospheric curiosity. There’s an indie salute given between the lines as well. Katie Preston is at the heart of it all, writing and performing songs that possess a casual surrender of excess attitude and posture. It’s […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: “Head Honcho”
Harmonica Lewinski “Head Honcho” Self-released harmonicalewinski.bandcamp.com Harmonica Lewinski has put forth a fabulous new release with “Head Honcho.” This rockin’ slab of greasy goodness mixes the elements of first generation rock ‘n’ roll, surf-a-go-go (think The Trashmen, or better yet Rochester’s landlocked surf legends, The Tempests), and psychedelic freak-out. With “Head Honcho,” Harmonica Lewinski has […]
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Better red than dead
Once you get past the iron curtain shuck and jive, Igor and the Red Elvises will rock your world. Mixing everything from surf to polka and traditional Russian folk into its party-gone-out-of-bounds cocktail, the band goes way beyond your textbook kegger soundtrack. The band calls it Siberian surf rock or rokenrol. The Red Elvises Formed […]
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Music Interview: RoarShark
Just replace the ink from a Rorschach test with some saltwater, and visualize surfboards and sharks and sandy beaches instead of the imagined, tell-tale images of hidden psychosis and genitalia, and you’ve got RoarShark. Or better still, assemble four Rochester rock ‘n’ rollers into a tight, guitar-driven onslaught. Then add volume, liberal amounts of reverb, […]
