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Posts made in: July, 2010 (7) Currently Viewing: 1 - 7 of 7

July 2, 2010 at 10:06am

CONCERT REVIEW: Alex and Janel, Sans Ego at Water Street

Alex and Janel are a singer-songwriter duo from New York City. I caught their set Thursday night at the Club @ Water Street. Harmonically smooth and tight, the duo breathed life into a genre that is frequently overwrought with the overwrought....

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July 6, 2010 at 11:23am

CONCERT REVIEW: Minus the Bear, Joywave, Fang Island at Water Street


I could feel myself start to melt as soon as I walked through the doors at Water Street Music Hall last night. It felt like an inferno in the club, and body after body packed next to each other only intensified the heavy air. The floor was...

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July 9, 2010 at 5:32pm

CONCERT UPDATE: Friday Big Rib BBQ & Blues Fest acts moved to Water Street

The headlining acts for the Friday, July 9, edition of the Big Rib BBQ & Blues Fest in Highland Park have been moved indoors due to rain. The Average White Band and Shemekia Copeland will play at Water Street Music Hall (204 N Water St), with...

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July 19, 2010 at 5:20pm

CONCERT UPDATE: Music Fest's "Sax and the City" moved to Water Street

The City of Rochester announced today that the Wednesday, July 21, Rochester Music Festival's "Sax in the City" Jazz Night, featuring Najee and Roy Ayers, has been moved from the Riverside Festival Site (Exchange Blvd. and CourtSt.) to the Water...

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July 22, 2010 at 10:52am

CONCERT REVIEW: Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band at CMAC

Walking out of Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band's CMAC show last night, erstwhile man-about-town Tim "gimme the low-down" Brown summed it up like this: he said if someone had put all the songs played during the show on a CD, it would have...

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July 26, 2010 at 4:37pm

CONCERT REVIEW: Flaming Lips, Black Keys at CMAC

CMAC continued its impressive summer 2010 concert line-up by bringing in The Flaming Lips Friday, July 23. Indie band Fang Island opened the show with a short set full of heavy guitars and melodic vocals, but it seemed that everyone I talked to...

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July 30, 2010 at 11:52am

CONCERT REVIEW: Willie Nelson, Levon Helm at CMAC

In order to decipher Willie Nelson's phrasing, you'd have to invent new punctuation: the slow-release comma, the mid-sentence period, the participle (with extra dangle), the endless ellipses... and the total eradication of exclamation...

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Ben Toland said:

YOU GUYS RULE! Awesome show, Awesome time, I LOVE seeing you guys get props <3 Stay sexy!

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Hello! It's been a while since I read such a, shall I say, shocking review. Shocking in its...

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