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Gallery exudes a gorgeous tragedy and lush noir within the countless facets and folds of its music. It is a sound that skirts both the sacred and secular, the cinematic and sensational. You'll find yourself washed in it and moved by it....

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ingersongwriter Sam Ventura reckons he's written more than 1,000 tunes. And while many remain in larval form in his noggin, others will take up permanent residence in your head. You might want to make room. "I've got so many songs people will...

CLASSICAL REVIEW

Michael MacLeod wishes you would stop watching TV, get off your butt (as he puts it), and go see the opera. The blunt, engaging artistic director of Glimmerglass Opera is passionate about the art form he considers the most immersive and...

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Could jam-band music be the official rock music of this millennium? Rochester's Jae Mood seems to think so. Yeah, it's got its tie-dyed hippy roots, and bands that play marathon solos in marathon songs in marathon shows. But jam has open arms...

MUSIC INTERVIEW

o fully appreciate Blondie you have to look beyond the band's punk roots. Sure it was there for the punk scene's big bang in the Big Apple, but Blondie was never a punk band. Blondie was, and is, full-blown transistor radio snap, crackle, and...

MUSIC INTERVIEW

ersey's God Forbid occupies the very cracks it puts in metal's strata. Clearly weaned on classic metal, God Forbid's heavy thrash and hardcore exhibits a seasoned control and power. It never