Hip-hop duo Young Black and Gifted brings plenty of hard-hitting substance on its new album, melding slick, streamlined beats with Black liberation thematic elements.
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Red Wings groundskeeper dreams of revealing his field of green
Rochester Red Wings groundskeeper Gene Buonomo tends a brand a new field at Frontier Field just waiting for a ball game.
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A change is gonna come
Danielle Ponder’s new series of singles preview her upcoming solo album and signal a move toward a more personal and emotionally transparent brand of music from the popular Rochester soul singer.
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A look back: Riots of ’64 still haunt Rochester
The mayhem and looting that followed the Black Lives Matter protest over the weekend recalled the Rochester riots of 1964.
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Mayor Warren opposes sex ed, STD vaccine bills
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren asserts her opposition to bills pushing for k-12 sex education and allowing minors to be treated and inoculated for STDs without parental consent.
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Unearthing the forgotten stories of Mt. Hope Cemetery
The book, “Beyond These Gates: Mountains of Hope in Rochester’s African-American History,” seeks to ensure that black residents who broke barriers in life and were laid to rest at Mt. Hope Cemetery continue to inspire.
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Rochester blues rock band Rain releases ‘The Lost Album’ 50 years later
With help from producer and engineer Dave Anderson, the Rochester blues rock band Rain is now releasing “1971…The Lost Album,” nearly 50 years after it was recorded.
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KOPPS: pop plus
KOPPS is a three-pronged attack of techno-fection, but it’s not so sugary as to gum up the works in its live show, plethora of catchy singles, or the numerous music videos that capture the band’s intense visual irony.
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mewithoutYou enters its 20th and final year
The post-hardcore band mewithoutYou and its spiritually-seeking frontman Aaron Weiss have always defied neat explanation.
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Blake Pattengale: Song of the Samurai
A seemingly strange dichotomy is at work in the creative life of Rochester musician Blake Pattengale. A guitarist who graduated from Eastman School of Music in 2018 with a Bachelor’s degree in jazz performance, he’s also the rapper known as Redbeard Samurai.
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Music video review: fivebyfive performs ‘Waiting in the Rain for Snow’
On November 17, Rochester chamber ensemble fivebyfive released its music video for “Waiting in the Rain for Snow” by composer David Crowell — just in time for the slushy in-between season that surely awaits us.
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Leaving the stage
It’s a reasonable question to ask: What the hell were Bat McGrath and Tricia Cast doing in Nashville? True, the city is exploding, and fantabulous architecture can be found on many downtown street corners. When the hotel doorman asks, “Looking for the honky-tonks?” he needs to point only a couple of blocks up the street, […]
