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Presenting NYS Music in Motion, a video series from NYS Music and Videographer Schuyler Warrenchak. This series will highlight performances by a variety of bands throughout New York State and bring the experience of being at a show to our…

Fresh off of Long Island came some hot bagels and Mayve’s new EP entitled Animals. Mayve, pronounced like the Irish first name “Maeve” and not to rhyme with “maybe,” got the inspiration for their name from lead singer Nick Micheline; he…

Update 2/24/2016: Mountain Jam finalized their lineup for this year's festival. Among the additions are Houndmouth, Nahko and Medicine for the People, Quilt, Darlingside, the Record Company, the Movement and Scott Sharrard. Three New York…

The Spring Awakening revival on Broadway is really a revolution. It's changing the way we should be looking at Broadway shows. Spring Awakening is based on a controversial 1891-banned play written German author Frank Wedekind. His work led…

The Last Conspirators just released fourth album Hold That Thought Forever moves the band into new territory. While past releases' lyrics have dealt with politics and the feelings towards how things have been moving along in the country,…

Buffalo and Rochester have been announced as two of the 15 cities on the Spring Fling Rock AF 2016 Tour. The tour package will hit the Main Street Armory in Rochester on March 26 and roll through the Queen City on March 28. First Niagara…

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,…

There’s no better way to round out the holidays then with a good live music show. I was lucky enough to spend my evening on Tuesday December 29th at Gorham Brothers music in Syracuse listening to Bryan McPherson and three amazing musicians.…

Norman Dimitrouleas, former keyboardist for Ohio's The Werks, passed away suddenly over the weekend. Having brought his older brother Dino into the band in 2011, Norman left the group in 2014, returning to jam with them at The Werk Out…

Fresh off of Holidaze in the Dominican Republic, the Disco Biscuits returned to New York City for their 2016 New Years Eve run at The Playstation Theater. You could tell that the band was excited for the run, as they had many tricks up…