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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…

The Ballroom Thieves returned to the Arbor Loft for another show put on by Honest Folk. They stopped by last winter, Valentines Day to be exact, and were back for another frigid Rochester night. The folksy trio was back to let Rochester…

Most days of the year, Gibbs Street in Rochester's East End is a quiet side street you'd drive by without taking much notice. Though for 9 days in late June, it gets renamed Jazz Street and the surrounding area becomes a vast musical…

Mike Gantzer and David Loss of Aqueous, Mike Carubba and Josh Schwartz of Turkuaz, Ben Carrey of Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Matt Jalbert of Tauk and Hayley Jane all walked into a bar... ...and took the stage at Funk 'n Waffles Music Hall…

The Disco Biscuits played night two of a three-night run at The Fillmore in Philly last weekend on April 20. The show featured two seamless sets of Biscuits who dusted off both "Commercial Amen" and "Boom Shanker," both of which hadn't been…

The Rochester Residency is a new yearlong series being put on by Three Heads Brewing in Rochester. Every month, a local musician takes up a residency on the Three Heads stage, performing each Thursday night. Thus far, the musicians have…

Honest Folk has been around for almost exactly two years, and they've been itching to book San Francisco's Marty O'Reilly and the Soul Orchestra ever since. The dream became reality on Tuesday night at Good Luck, and it was well worth the…

On February 20th, world-famous guitar legend, Joe Satriani brought internationally renowned concert tour G3 to the Auditorium Theater in Rochester, NY. Accompanied by axe-wizards John Petrucci (Dream Theater) and Phil Collen (Def Leppard),…

Spafford played The Westcott Theater with help from Goose on January 19. The band has a full schedule ahead of them, heading south before going out west. They also have plenty of festival dates lined-up this year, as they are playing…

The Disco Biscuits returned once again to New York City to end out the year, playing their New Year's Eve run at Playstation Theater. They've had a month off since their last run at Holidaze, but they sounded like a band that has been on…