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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…

Mike Gordon is not your typical man. And when left to his own devices, things can get quite Gordon-y. The Phish bassist's solo band made a stop in Baldwinsville, just outside Syracuse, at Paper Mill Island. The amphitheater resides on a…

Nine days. 31 club pass shows at eleven different venues. Tens of thousands of steps. A beer or two... maybe three. Distilled down for you here, are my 10 most memorable club pass series shows from the 2015 edition of the Xerox Rochester…

Gary Clark. Jr held the headliner spot at the beautiful Kodak Hall for day six of Xerox Rochester International Jazzfest. Beth Hart opened the show and sufficiently warmed up the crowd, belting out the blues with her confident and strong…

What a difference a year makes. For the weather at least. The band, Widespread Panic, was steady as always. But instead of tempting the dark ominous clouds by playing "Hatfield," which resulted in a show-shortening electric storm at their…

Twitter conversationalist, hotline recorder, and Phish bassist Mike Gordon, taking a break from his ongoing couch tour, is on the road in NYS with his solo band. Next week they'll hit upstate New York hard, with stops in Buffalo, Syracuse…