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Ryan Sutherland's latest album is a musical think piece on Rust Belt decay that varies from acoustic musings to electric freak-outs.

Hamden's Space Ballroom ascended into a rainbow-splashed, psychedelic heaven Friday night after upstate New Yorker Mikaela Davis set the scene for a…

click to enlarge If you’re into artists of the post-troubadour pop movement — such as Webb Wilder, Marshall Crenshaw, or the late “Excitable Boy,” Warren Zevon — then the waltzing ease of Ryan Sutherland’s new CD “Loner’s Paradise” is for you. The Rochester singer-songwriter rolls out the dreamy music with equal parts mystique and stark reality. The mood and tone are held together by a guitar style so casu...

click to enlarge It was just a matter of time before Rochester’s band of roots-rock raconteurs, The Mighty High and Dry, broke into country music territory. It seems as though that twangy mood was lurking all along. Released in late December, the new, self-released single “I Keep on Coming Back to You” is a beautiful song that’s almost a country ballad. Vocalist-guitarist Alan Murphy, bassist Kyle Vock, drummer Alex ...

click to enlarge There’s no shortage of holiday songs with a rose-colored view of the world. Radio stations and online streaming services gift us stockings overfilled with tunes proclaiming peace on earth and touting the virtues of the big man in the red suit. But the 2020 holiday season feels different, and singing of Christmas cheer while ignoring the hardships of the year — particularly those brought on by COVID-19 �...