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Touring on the back of his 2011 album, "Gold In the Shadow," Pittsburgh-born folk artist William Fitzsimmons brings his melodic, personal songs (and his signature beard) to the Water Street Music Hall on Wednesday, February 22. Fitzsimmons learned to play multiple instruments from his parents, both of whom are
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Mike Doughty has never been one to take his craft too seriously. Whether as lead singer of his former band, beloved 90's cult poppers Soul Coughing, or now in his second life as a solo act, there's always been a certain amount of levity in his music. To some
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Wayne Static is best known for fronting industrial-metal band Static-X, which released its seminal album "Wisconsin Death Trip" back in 1999. Static has left the band he started, however, to embark on a solo career, releasing his debut disc, "Pighammer," this past October. The project tells the story of
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Put simply, buddhahood is the state of perfect enlightenment; whether local outfit The Buddhahood achieves that in its music is a question that will go unanswered, but the eight-piece purveyors of "world-ternative" music continues to try and attain it. Meshing strains of funk, blues, and reggae (among other genres)
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However archaic the music from your old Nintendo games may seem at this point, there's a certain comfort in hearing the first strains of Super Mario Bros. The 8-bit sounds are familiar and nostalgic. New York City's Anamanaguchi start with that familiarity by replacing synthesizers with a hacked Game
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Local folk-rock artist Josh Netsky is set to release his most recent project, an album and DVD entitled "The Spirits," Tuesday at the Bug Jar. The release features Netsky exploring various abandoned towns and buildings in the American northeast, from Centralia in Pennsylvania to Moonville in Ohio. The accompanying
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Local hardcore/metal outfit Sirens & Sailors released its most recent album, "Still Breathing," back in November 2010. The album is an amalgam of hardcore styles, from guttural growling to the singing vein of screamo; the band doesn't stick to a single style, and it's not averse to using more
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Rochester's own Teddy Geiger rose to national fame in 2005, when he appeared on VH1's "In Search of The Partridge Family" and toured with Hilary Duff, and had a huge pop-radio hit with "For You I Will (Confidence)" the following year. Since then Geiger has released a nearly constant
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Three years after the group first brought him to town, RIPROC is bringing Dieselboy back for a show at Water Street Music Hall. Hailing from Brooklyn, Dieselboy - known to his mother as Damian Higgins - creates music in the oft-derided dubstep vein. But when you think of the
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Perhaps in some sort of defiance of the Scandinavian output of metal, Oslo's Supermale creates memorable electro-pop, complete with plenty of danceable hooks. The band's music hearkens back to the angular synth pop of the 1980's that has recently come back into fashion, and the group's debut album should
