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In its third location in three years, the Hoochenanny Festival is still finding its footing among the vast festival landscape. The third edition, held August 14 thru 16, saw it stake ground at Center Park West in Fairport, just outside of…

Phish returned to their drummer's hometown of Syracuse, New York for the first time in three years on Tuesday, July 21 at Lakeview Amphitheater. Phish lore tells that a one-off midweek show holds great promise for a special time. While…

The days and hours leading up to Death Cab For Cutie's concert at CMAC on July 18 were like scenes from a Bible story. Was there a plague descending upon the land? First it was the smoke from the Canadian wildfires forcing most outdoor…

Phish used to love the Finger Lakes region. Might be tough to believe these days. The last time they played CMAC (née Finger Lakes PAC, or FLPAC) in Canandaigua was 2014. They've eschewed the area since the massive curveball that was…

When summer arrives it guarantees only one thing in Rochester, and it isn't warm sunshine. The Rochester International Jazz Fest arrived on June 19, the longest days of the year corresponding with the city's longest days of music. Running…

After a four-year absence, Wilco returned for another show at the picturesque Beak and Skiff Apple Orchard in Lafayette on June 16. The laid back field amidst the apple trees is the perfect atmosphere to receive their loose, playful, but…

When one door closed another was opened for Allen Aucoin. He parted ways with the Disco Biscuits but joined Social Assassins behind the kit, playing his first shows last week, first at Neitszche's in Buffalo and then the next night at Bug…

"We're happy to make some fucked up noise in front of you , and that's it." Peter Prescott announced from the Bug Jar stage amid Minibeast's set on May 14. And that was it, but what it was, was quite an emphatic capital-I capital-T IT. …

Late on Mother's Day Sunday, May 11, a mother of a show blew through the Bug Jar doors in Rochester. Earth Tongue, traveling from New Zealand, were setting off on a Spring U.S. tour. With songs centering around Satan and demons, themes…

The opening seconds of Mikaela Davis' new album, Graceland Way, aurally whooshes you through a wormhole to an alternate universe. A universe where the harp is a country instrument. A universe where a woman from Western New York wears a…