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Mac Demarco: “Salad Days”
Mac Demarco has to have some of the most obscene stage antics in indie rock. When he’s not smoking Viceroy cigarettes or crafting his self-coined “Jizz Jazz” in his Brooklyn apartment, he’s apparently pretty fond of exposing himself to his fan base-in the most grotesque of fashions. His track “Freaking out the Neighborhood” on 2012’s […]
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Local Artist Spotlight: Ahzay – ‘The Routine: A Long Story Short’
UR artist raps about college life. Read More
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CT Recommends: Lemuria
Scholars once proposed that a long-lost sunken continent in the Indian Ocean known as Lemuria was responsible for unexplainable fossil distribution patterns in India and Madagascar. In the era of modern plate tectonics, the theory has been long debunked, and the other Lemuria, the Buffalo, NY punk trio, remain similarly undiscovered. Lemuria seem perfectly comfortable […]
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Why Spotify
If you have ever met me personally, chances are I’ve probably popped the question: “What music are you into?” Regardless of the innocence of the question, its importance in the development of my friendships really can’t be understated. Through my years of research in all things socially awkward, I’ve determined it to be the perfect […]
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Institute for Popular Music celebrates Beatles’ legacy
February 9th, 1964 was the beginning of an era. Over thirteen million adoring fans tuned in on black and white TV screens to watch The Beatles in their first performance on US soil: live on the Ed Sullivan Show. After that night, in a phenomenon known as “Beatlemania,” John, Paul, George and Ringo quickly became […]
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Birbiglia brings self-deprecating stand-up to Rochester
It’s easy to tell that Mike Birbiglia is a comedian. From the second he took the stage in Strong Auditorium last weekend, it was clear that Birbiglia embodied the classic awkward but confident “funny guy” stereotype. He looks like everyone’s favorite aloof uncle; you can tell he hasn’t quite got his life together, but you […]
