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The Magnetic Pull, a post-rock quintet out of Syracuse, put out their second LP in April. There are no vocals over the course of the 40 minute self-titled set, though the visuals are dense and the narratives vivid. Each track plays out…

Colter Wall travelled from Saskatchewan in southwestern Canada to grace the stage in Ithaca on Saturday night. Though he had no problems connecting with the sold out crowd. Songs centering around cattle branding, ranching and rodeos were…

Josh and Adam Netsky have been mainstays on the Rochester music scene for the past decade at least. Older brother Josh was writing songs beyond his years, while Adam brought the songs to life both on stage, playing drums, and on…

There's something familiar behind everything on the gorgeous new album from Newburgh, NY's Native Harrow. Yet, originality twists through it all, providing a fresh voice for the indie-folk world to fall in love with. A flourish of drums…

For a band, that by normal band-conventions shouldn't even exist, Rubblebucket is stronger and as vibrant as ever. Leaders and remaining original members, Kalmia Travers and Alex Toth, have both climbed personal hurdles over the last…

It was an unremarkable day on the calendar and a fairly unremarkable day outside, but inside the doors of Anthology in Rochester big things were happening. Buffalo's Aqueous, who've called Rochester their second home since near their…

Chris Thile, taking a break from his day job as host of the radio show "Live From Here," got the band back together for a spring tour with the Punch Brothers. The tour started with a return to the State Theatre in Ithaca, N.Y. A place…

Dead Horses, a duo from Wisconsin, and Honeysuckle, a trio from Boston, met somewhere in the middle Tuesday night - geographically in the middle via Rochester, NY to be exact - as a part of the latest show put on by Honest Folk. The show…

Americana journeyman Reed Foehl was on his way to make a new home in Nashville, looking to expand on the success he found in co-writing "Fly" off of Lee Ann Womack's Grammy-nominated album The Way I'm Livin'. But then news came from…

On a snowy night in Ithaca on the precipice of the deep freeze, known as the Polar Vortex, a young college town crowd braved the elements to warm up to folk-rock breakout, Rayland Baxter and his 5-piece band. In the midst of a lengthy…