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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...