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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.…

Stealing a page from the late great Ken Kesey, Rochester's Subsoil opens their new album proclaiming, "You're either on the bus, or you're off the bus." This bus, number 585 (Rochester's area code), is bound for "trans-dimensional…

In early March, the new venue in the East End of Rochester, Anthology, will host a two-day celebration of roots and Americana music called Rochester Revival 2016. Pennsylvania's emergent jam-grass heroes Cabinet will return to Rochester to…

It was a study in contrast Saturday night at the F Shed in Syracuse. Two bands took the stage, each playing their own electro-infused brand of instrumental rock. Two bands at the opposite poles of the same current. Listening to recordings…

In what has become a bit of a tradition, afrobeat-dance-pop partiers Rubblebucket once again worked Rochester's Water Street Music Hall into their New Year's weekend plans this year. Though their visit is never quite held on New Year's Eve,…

Nashville's All Them Witches played an hour-long set at The Bug Jar in Rochester that got started with a couple songs off their latest release, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker. Lead vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr. played the opening…