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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…

There's a band named King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard coming to The Bug Jar. Weird -- but awesome, right? They're from Australia. Weird -- but awesome, right? Here is the cover from the latest US release, the appropriately titled,…

When Water Street Music Hall came back on the scene last year after a short liquor license renewal process, they promised to bring some big acts to town that had previously skipped over Rochester as The War On Drugs coming to town, in…

It's Memorial Day weekend, the official opening of barbecue season. In Rochester, the land of festivals, what better way to celebrate then with a barbecue festival? Enter the ROC City Rib Fest. Local barbecue enthusiasts will gather in…

The first Rochester Lilac Festival dates back to 1898. It added musical entertainment just a few years later in 1901. Over a century later, in 2015, Pokey LaFarge would grace the Lilac Festival stage playing music that harkened back to the…

May 6, 1993. I was a high school junior, two weeks out from my 17th birthday. It was a Thursday night and Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Aquarium Rescue Unit were playing a gig in Syracuse at the Pump House, a semi-dive bar in a semi-seedy…

New Jersey's Screaming Females may have started as a punk rock band, but they currently are just a rock band. But not "just", they have distilled the mere essence of rock, consumed it, and ooze it out of their every being. The rhythm…

New England has unexpectedly become a hotbed of the new folk scene that has emerged in the past decade. At first glance it felt like it was just a perceived and inflated importance caused by the Newport Folk Fest favoring regional bands in…

If there is always a lesson to be learned, then the one imparted to those in attendance at the Flour City Station in Rochester last Thursday night was simply: Lyrics are overrated. Two rising young bands - Consider the Source Ocular Panther…