SLT is a band that has earned a second chance. It first burst on the scene in 1991 with a raw and menacing stab at classic punk rock. The music was direct, uncompromising, and incendiary, played by musicians...
Nevergreen's music is a sneak attack. It packs the power and punch of a rock band within its...
When Canada's globetrotting instrumentalists The Sadies recorded the soundtrack for the Ed "Big...
MUSIC PROFILE: Jeremy Pelt Quintet
When jazz aficionados debate the heir-apparent to the hard-bop trumpet throne once occupied by...
New York Route 89 ain't much; it twists and winds its way like so many rural thoroughfares through the Great Lakes region. There's scenery to be seen (when there's daylight), all sorts of critters to crush, assholes and their hi-beams coming at...
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Rochester's Rainline is a heavy modern-rock band rooted in big guitars and soaring vocal lines. The music thunders along powerfully with catchy, clever hooks and boundless energy. Rainline isn't necessarily breaking new ground - modern rock as...
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MUSIC PROFILE: Mosaic Foundation
People, get ready: Mosaic Foundation will push you, pull you, and rock you steady. The band is a righteous nine-piece, rock-reggae blast with twists of jazz and plenty of coloring outside the lines. It's a mesmerizing mosaic of hooks and...
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PREVIEW: Rome Neal in Exodus to Jazz's "Monk"
Rome Neal had just won an Audelco award - the most prestigious prize in black theater - for his tour-de-force performance off Broadway in "Monk." His portrayal of jazz giant Thelonious Monk had brought him many accolades, but something told him...
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CLASSICAL PREVIEW: Pegasus Early Music
This coming weekend Pegasus Early Music will celebrate two things for which the city of Rochester is deservedly famous: music and medicine. In a concert of eclectic and rarely heard works from various countries spanning the 16th to the 18th...
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In the perpetual comedy that is the life cycle of a rock band, The Black Arrows died too soon in 2008, only to be almost immediately resurrected (in part, anyway) as Inugami - a less angular, less mathematical, more intense rock group. Having...
It's not that Wilkes-Barre dark heavies Breaking Benjamin are letting up on the gas with the...
St. Patrick's Day is filled with corned beef and cabbage, shamrocks, tacky bright green...
"You're in my spotlight," Pandora Boxx says with a coo as she playfully shoos a particularly...
Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
This past weekend I took my nieces and nephew sledding at Harris Whalen Park in Penfield....
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Huge SLT fan said:
Chuck Irving is the single best musician in Rochester today-bar none.
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Dave M said:
I saw the White Devils on WXXI a few weeks ago and was really impressed. I then learned that Paul had passed the year before which is too bad. Now...
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germ said:
Looks like there is a renaissance amongst the local bands in 2010 .... RIGHT ON!
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