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Once you encounter it, the music of the Colorblind James Experience is hard to shake. Its songs - anchored by the talk-sing of late founder Chuck Cuminale, who died in 2001 - are bouncy, droll, uplifting, and utterly unique. Genre-wise, the sound is hard to pin down, calling to
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Scissors, a stapler, a rotary fan: those are just some of the instrument-objects songwriter DM Stith enlists on his 2009 debut, "Heavy Ghost," put out by collaborator Sufjan Steven's Asthmatic Kitty label. A graphic designer by trade (the Buffalo native earned a degree from Rochester's Roberts Wesleyan in the subject),
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Moody NYC indie-rockers Interpol have been absent from the stage for the past few years - the group's last show in the United States was in 2007. The Rochester stop on this short tour will be Interpol's first anywhere since 2008. The audience will also get first look at the
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If there's one band that treads the shared ground of adventurous instrumental rock, sweltering post-rock, bumping jazz fusion, and percussive minimalist classical, it's Tortoise. For the last 20 years the Chicago-based five-piece has been exploring those crossroads, and as to which camp the band officially resides in, it's best to
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Glorious, storied nights at summer bonfire parties and other, more dimly lit teenage subjects are the spiritual center of The Hold Steady's possessing songs. The band's bar rock-sound is heavily indebted to The Replacements and other smart, indie-rock forebears of the past. What The Hold Steady brings to the table
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Austin's Strange Boys croak and pluck through a retro-styled rock that seems to have emerged from depths of a swamp. Through that, the crowing of singer Ryan Sambol is a steady guide. For the band's second record, "Be Brave," which came out earlier this year, it picked up two members
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Ween exists in a kind of alt-rock alternate dimension: totally invisible to some, utterly unavoidable to others. Both sides are right: Ween songs creep up in innumerable movies and TV shows, yet the band, going on more than 16 years now, has never really had a hit. Not that its
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Columbus, Ohio's Matt Whitehurst struck gold when he posted the genre label "shitgaze" on his band's MySpace a few years back. The portmanteau of caca and shoegaze, the late 80's/early 90's British scene focused on crescendoing distorted guitars and angelic ethereal vocals gives a certain life to his band's ironic,
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Awesome Color is a trio that rectifies the opposites of psychedelic and punk music into a delightfully grooving medium. The result is a unique kind of terse enlightenment that draws inspiration from the primal rock of The Stooges then stretches it out with drone-y breakdowns and sitar-like leads. Home for
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It's said that musicians are married to their music. Fortunately for rockers Fred and Toody Cole, they're also married to each other. That has to be at least part of the reason the duo has been able to be so prolific. Since the late 80's, they fronted Oregon garage punk
