Tranquilatwist tranquilatwisted the dressed-up-to-get-messed-up crowd for the Devil's Night Fetish Masquerade at Water Street Music Hall Friday. Singer Karlie Cary Lanni seduced and we succumbed as she wailed bitter and sweet beneath a pillbox...

Cellist Helen Money is a rock musician who plays a classical instrument. I asked her before the show to describe her sound. "Dark, kinda raw, and melodic. I have a hard time describing myself," she told me.
If I were her, I would be hard...

The Cult's show Saturday at the Armory had me torqued with nervous anticipation. This was a band I loved -- yet a few red flags had me a little nervous. Ticket sales were slow initially. and the band was not doing any press. No photographers...

The Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival has announced two of the headliners for its 2010 edition:

[ ROCK/JAZZ ]
Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival: Jeff Beck Thursday, June 17. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Gibbs Street....

Much in the way hair metal briefly blinded us with Aqua Net and eclipsed heavy metal, New Wave in its androgynous fervor shanghai'd the spotlight from a period and style of music that never really got classified. Sure, it's all rock 'n' roll in...

First, let me come clean. When someone says the words "jam band," I inwardly roll my eyes and insert a finger down throat. Gag me. I have no desire to listen to another half-hour of the same riff over and over again, with a few minor...

The name Teagan and the Tweeds conjures up several images. I admittedly had an already-developed vision of who I was about to see before walking into the Lovin' Cup on Friday night. I placed my bets on finding a group of young hipsters, with a...

The Grievants wailed animated and agitated with an angry and angular set Thursday night at the Bug Jar. The tunes weren't so much tunes as they were flammable episodes, vignettes of veritable violence. If you look and listen past the sonic...

OK, call off the search. I found Tina Turner's mojo. Sharon Jones has it. Jones and her Dap Kings blew the lid off Water Street Music Hall Saturday night in front of a frenzied crowd. Feet were stompin,' arms were flailin', booties were bumpin',...

I won't lay claim to the term "death metal melodique." I can't remember where I read it, but it accurately sums up the sound of Boston's All That Remains. It was a pulverizing monster crush with extremely nimble speed, metal with cheater slicks....

I ventured out the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to dodge turkeys and dig the rock 'n' roll over at the Bug Jar. Apparently The Quitters had called it quits before they could officially call it quits, and a new bill went up in its place. St....