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After lying dormant for more than 30 years, Tom Petty reunited his pre-Heartbreakers, pre-breakout band, Mudcrutch, for a tour and album back in 2008. Turns out it wasn't just a one-off a-good-time-was-had-by-all affair; they're back again…

Nashville's Los Colognes, opening the show at the Town Ballroom on the first night of a tour with Houndmouth, impressed the filling venue with a 45 minute taste of their laid back rock. They started things off with "Baby, You Can't Have…

An unadulterated evening of Texas-style and Texas-sized rock and roll with Heartless Bastards got started with a little North Carolina folk music. American Aquarium's BJ Barham played a set of his new songs, commanding the audience at the…

An evening of acts defying easy categorization at the Montage Music Hall on May 12 began with Rochester-born Mikaela Davis and her harp-led melodies. Her band, whittled to a trio from its usual quartet format, consisted of Alex Coté on…

Marco Benevento, touring in support of his recently released half-concept/half dance-inflicted rock anthems album The Story of Fred Short, will make a run through upstate New York this week. Of the new album, the LA Times says, Marco…

MTV's once-popular live performance show "Unplugged," which featured bands playing intimate and acoustic sets, is making a comeback on the station once known for its innovations in music broadcasting and promoting. The show premiered…

Hot on the heels of the release of their new critically-acclaimed and fan-approved new album,  City Sun Eater in the River of Light, Brooklyn-based Woods opened their tour in Ithaca at The Haunt. The quintet peppered their set with the…

Ex-Monotonix guitarist Yonatan Gat returned to the Bug Jar in Rochester and thoroughly scrambled the minds of all in attendance without ever taking the stage. The band set up, as they do for all of their shows regardless of venue, in the…

The blues aren't played. The blues aren't heard. The blues are felt. And on his latest album, Ain't Nothin' But a Revival, Husky Burnette is feeling it, and his audience surely will too. This isn't your back porch strumming blues. This…

Eight years ago Eleanor Friedberger played to a raucous sold out crowd at the Bug Jar with her previous band, The Fiery Furnaces. A lot has changed in eight years. The Fiery Furnaces have taken an extended and possibly permanent break.…