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Brett Jones attended SUNY Fredonia and currently lives in Rochester, New York. He is an avid road-tripper, outdoorsman and music fan. Some favorite bands (in no particular order) include: Pavement, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Phish, Haewa, STS9, Ocupanther, Johnny Cash and LCD Soundsystem. Outside of writing about music, Brett writes poetry and fiction, with recent work appearing in Dark Matter, Gambling The Aisle, RPDsociety, and forthcoming in Tribe Magazine.
In the middle of their 47-show U.S. tour in 1994, Phish stopped at the University of Missouri on a Tuesday and blew the roof off the place, and phans will now be able to relive the classic show in high quality with a new Live Phish release…
NY Senator Chuck Schumer Introduces Anti-Ticket-Buying-Bot
As if outrageous "service" and "convenience" charges from maniacal agencies like Live Nation and Recording Academy weren’t bad enough, live music fans are also up against a different breed of evil: scalpers. And what’s worse? The scalpers…
Fishbone to Play The Hollow in Albany
Los Angeles born ska and funk pioneers Fishbone will make a stop in Albany tonight at The Hollow with guests Downtown Brown as part of their current U.S. tour.
After 25+ years of making music, the band is continuing to reach into new…
Grace Potter Summer Tour Begins Friday
Blues-Rock bombshell Grace Potter kicks off her summer tour this Friday in Oklahoma City as part of the city's annual OKCFest. Oklahoma's show is the first of 26 dates this summer, eventually ending up in Nashville this October. The Grace…
Hearing Aide: Ride Medeski, Dietch and Skerik’s DRKWV on debut album, ‘The Purge’
Despite the inner workings of this record, which we will necessarily get into, there is a brilliant simplicity to the DRKWV concept and sound. The entire project seems to follow the name-sake DRKWV vision: the melodies are spooky and…
Primus set to Bring a Twisted good time to Rochester Main Street Armory
Today, Primus will turn Rochester Main Street Armory into a twisted-nostalgia-psychedelic-fun-house in support of their new record, Primus and the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble. The band released the album October 21 and…
Electron ends Fall Tour at Syracuse’s Westcott Theater
I still maintain Syracuse is a weird city, but they got one hell of a show at the Westcott on Saturday October 18. For fans of live-tronic music, this was the show to catch. The bill featured three bands (all instrumental) leading up to…
Led Zeppelin Releases Alt. Version Of Stairway to Heaven
Thirty-three years later, Led Zeppelin has released an alternate version to their now uber-classic, “Stairway To Heaven”. This rendition, also recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, offers a warmer, gentler version of the tune, with…
Bassnectar Turns Rochester To Rubble: A Reflection
What are the kids listening to? Apparently dub step -- lots and lots of dub step. Or, on a broader level, “EDM”, a term hijacked by festival sponsors and marketing execs who barely explain what the three letters stand for. But I digress.…
Bassnectar Returns To Rochester with Son of Kick and Kill Paris for ‘Noise VS Beauty…
Attention Upstate Bassheads: this is the show. Legendary DJ Lorin Ashton AKA Bassnectar will again take over Rochester this Friday, October 3, as part of his "NVSB 2014 Tour" performing alongside notable acts Son of Kick, hailing from…