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If you go see a Gillian Welch show, you'll see her husband Dave Rawlings accompany her on guitar and vocals. If you go see a Dave Rawlings show, you'll see Welch accompany him on guitar and vocals. The difference is who's driving. At a…

The first day of November, the day after Halloween, All Saints Day. Or, if you're seeing the Colorado road warriors, Yonder Mountain String Band maybe it's All 'Strings' Day. The night prior, the blocks around Anthology in the East End of…

It was a misty cool mid-Autumn Tuesday evening, in a quiet revitalized corner of Buffa-vento at the Iron Works. Sometime after 9 p.m., the three women of And the Kids (Hannah Mohan on guitar/ukelele, Rebecca Lasaponaro on drums and Taliana…

At its core, Blitzen Trapper is, and always has been, a rock band. All Across This Land, released last Friday, is first and foremost a rock record, and probably their most focused effort yet. As has been the case for most of their career,…

There was nary a stone unturned when the two-set, three-hour concert that Aqueous presented at Flour City Station in Rochester was through. New songs were revealed, old songs were unearthed anew, peaks were reached and valleys were…

Folk mastermind Dave Rawlings and his equally masterful wife Gillian Welch are making a lot of news lately, and it is music to the ears of fans everywhere. First off, they accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the…

Starting this week, Rochester's indie electro sensation Joywave sets off on their "World Tour USA 2015" that won't quite be a national tour, though it might be taking the world by storm in the process. The band will bring its acclaimed…

Genre-hopping and genre-defying singer/songwriter Norah Jones is embarking on a few-week-long tour that will be closing with a three-show run through New York state. The nine-time Grammy winner has collaborated with everyone from Ryan…

After 29 years you figure a thing or two about putting on a festival. The producers of the Green River Festival in Greenfield, Massachusetts are proof of that. Everything ran like a well-oiled machine for the 2015 edition. Not in a way that…

The band, seven strong, consumed the small stage at the Bug Jar. Colorful and wild patterns were projected onto the stage, painting them, their instruments and the white sheet they had taped up along the back wall. The sheet and the images…