On May 23 and 24, Floated Magazine hosts a live-streaming event designed to provide musicians with a performance platform and to raise funds to keep the publication above water amidst the COVID-19 aftermath.
The Demos
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2020 CITY Readers’ Picks: Songs of Love and Despair
In conjunction with CITY’s Guide to Sex, Love, & Relationships, we asked you to tell us which local music you think best exemplifies feelings of Love — as well as songs that evoke its heartbreaking cousin Despair — and you didn’t disappoint.
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The F Word: ‘I’ve Got Rhythm’
With an appropriate amount of hometown pride and fanfare, there’s no way vibraphonist Joe Locke couldn’t feel the outpouring of local love from the capacity crowd at the newly renovated Little Theatre Friday night.
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The F Word: Now I Wanna Be Your Cat
Rocco, the cat who let’s me live in his house, talks a lot for a cat. And I respond, which leads to a cross-phylum kind of conversation of his meowing and my matter-of-fact patter.
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Album review: ‘If You Only Knew’
The boys and girls in Rochester’s indie-pop darling The Demos have taken their incredible grasp of songwriting out of its comfy place and blown it up and way out.”If You Only Knew,” the band’s brand-new EP, is epic. It isn’t out of place, but rather out of time. Just try and pinpoint everything you’re hearing […]
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That’s the song
The Demos is truly a well-oiled, melody-driven, music machine. Mixing some Merseybeat with a little nice and poppy rock ‘n’ roll, the band is a sing-a-long personified. After releasing the Mikey James-produced EP “Paramount Clouds” in 2016, The Demos took a little downtime and went through some lineup changes. “Now we’re in full throttle mode, […]
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The F Word: If it’s too loud, you’re not old enough
The F Word. An online column for Frank De Blase to pontificate, ruminate, placate, and salivate. We’ll have reviews and previews, we’ll discuss trends in local and national music scenes, and we’ll try to do it as reverently as possible. Yup. Let’s get started. Going out to see all these shows is taking its toll […]
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I Scene It: Guster at Anthology
Guster knows how to put on a concert, and it certainly likes to have fun. The band smiles and laughs and adds quirky humor while playing with real ease. The sweetness was on display when the alternative rock band performed a sold out show on Thursday night at Anthology. Rochester’s The Demos kicked off the […]
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Foster the People feels the spirit
There’s a certain kind of magic that connects a band with its music, and in the case of Foster the People, the inspiration behind the tunes is indefinable. “When writing, what we call ‘the spirit’ enters the room,” says Isom Innis, the band’s keyboardist. “It’s something that’s elusive, but when it comes, it’s a rush […]
