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Lou Barlow at Bug Jar:

  Rising retro rock outfit Coral Moons have announced the August 6th release of their debut album, Fieldcrest, an evocative 9-story telepathy of liberation and salvation produced by Sam Kissirer (Lake Street Dive, Josh Ritter, The Dustbowl Revival). Coinciding with the album drop is a series of shows in the Northeast including the official launch at Aeronaut Allston (8/6), a stop at Bug Jar in Rochester (8/19), a return to Bowery Electric in NYC (8/20) and a Sunday slot at the Levitate Music and Arts Festival (8/8). Other confirmed acts for the two-day pop-up fest include Billy Strings, Gr...

It’s been a long 15 months for one of Rochester’s largest music venues. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, “My employees lost their jobs, and I was out of work,” said Peter Sewell, owner of Water Street Music Hall and The Club at Water Street, which operate side by side under one roof at 204 N. Water St. “But for me, it was the mental anguish of not being active and being able to see people. That was worse than the financial part.” He's feeling more optimistic now, having booked a lineup of post-pandemic shows, the first of which happens next month.

The Bug Jar is a storied music venue approaching its 30th anniversary, but it has yet to reopen amid shifting guidelines and pending grants.

This was a name almost -- almost -- as big as previous visitors to the Bug Jar, such as The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend, Modest Mouse,