local bands

Unlike the burgeoning cover music scene, Rick champions a cause that has struggled to gain traction in the Utica area, but it's just as valid if not moreso. He started the Rick Short Band in order to get his originals to your ears

From Fuel and Target in the 70's to holding down the drum chair with longtime buddy, Vinnie Esposito in their duo DVD, Dean Blask is no has-been... He's still all over the place!

Gary Johnson is a legend to the residents of Sylvan Beach where he grew up and is on a mission to see how far the ripples can spread from where the pebble was dropped 30 years ago.

Normally this column would be accompanied with audio from an interview and some contagious smiles but today is different. I'm sad to say that I've just gotten word that Frank DeRocco, our friend, fellow musician and the guitar player from the band Soul Injection lost has passed away.

Molly is almost 19 years old and has already done more than most musicians do who are more than twice her age! She's a college student who picks up a guitar and wows crowds both big and small, locally and nationally while trying to fit in her studies on the road.

If you haven't met the guy behind the bass in the band Classified, then you're not going to want to miss this! I've seen Greeley Ford play many times but never had the chance to really have a good conversation with him and I'm blown away at his story...

In my ten short years on the live music scene here in Utica, John Kelsey's name has popped up numerous times, but our paths have never crossed until now!

Max Scialdone moved heaven and earth to make it into the studio and finally made it in after a couple days of car troubles when a record-breaking ice cycle fell from the sky through his windshield!

An English prof at HCCC and jack of all trades by day, Michael Peek also moonlights as a musician in the band, Soundbarrier, two of whose members found themselves nominated for the KJ All Star Band last year! Now, here's the guy front and center

His name might be unfamiliar, but his band isn't. Erik Strail plays drums for Hot Roxx, the same band that birthed the lead singer for our KJ All Star Band and is our first musician for the 50 Musicians in 50 Days!

Welcome to Fifty Musicians in Fifty Days, part two in our series amplifying local music louder than any sound system can! If you know someone who takes the stage in the area regularly whether they pick up an instrument (ANY instrument or several), are a singer, a songwriter, play solo or in a band, we wanna know about them!

It's becoming a regular thing: local musicians from all genres and walks of life coming together at Big Blue North Recording Studio to make another record full of Holiday classics that you can stuff your stockings with and put Central New York in the Christmas mood.