more by Christopher John Treacy
[ROCK] The Marshall Tucker Band takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’—you’ll pardon the corny cliché because it’s true. Formed in South Carolina in 1972, the band’s core consisted of guys that’d come home from Vietnam-era military stints.
[BLUES] Most blues players let the music speak for itself, but Victor Wainwright is an unusual showman.
While we marvel at how much the “real” Stone Temple Pilots sound like themselves with recently announced new front man Jeff Gutt and his awesome debut single with the band, “Meadow,” local fans can get their STP fix with Tiny Music at the Tralf Music Hall on
[NEW WAVE] On this side of the Atlantic, Gary Numan is oft thought of as a one-hit-wonder with his Top 10 1979 hit “Cars,” (which reached #1 in Canada and in the U.K.).
Getting dissed by Debbie Harry is a high impact experience, especially for a gay dude. Thirteen years ago, I experienced it over the phone, and it was rough.
Lesbian actress and comic Maggie Cassella brings her new show, Gay Panic, to Babeville’s 9th Ward on the night before Thanksgiving—because on a night before you brave the choppy waters of a family gathering (particularly for us LGBTQ peeps), you ca
[COUNTRY] Twenty years ago when country began it’s painful transition to what it is now, Gary Allan was there—which means that his early material actually resembles real country music.
[HIP HOP] A party band with a message, Rochester’s Subsoil have become regional festival regulars with their infectious hip-hop and funk fusion, featuring the sharp witticisms of Laz Green and fellow MC Mooney Faugh (whose stage presence, by the way, is entertaining in and
[BLUES] Some 50 years on from the 1967 debut, Shake Down, and Savoy Brown is still at it.
[TRIBUTE] Buffalo theater mainstay Tom Makar takes the stage at Sportsmen’s Tavern on Monday, November 27 for a tribute to the music of late icon Tom Petty.