That success solidified the brothers’ status as one of country’s premier vocal groups. They soared with such memorable numbers as “She Used to Be Somebody’s Baby” and “Houston (Means I’m One Day Closer to You),” always featuring the stellar voice of Larry Gatlin, undoubtedly one of the best to ever caress a country tune.

Jeff Tortora, Blue Man Group member and 2010 Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Music Awards (Sammys) Hall of Fame inductee, is taking a break from playing with his Las Vegas-based group to come home and make more music with his home-based band, The Whatafuocos.

Circa Survive's Anthony Green channels his rock energies into a solo side project

Young rockers take their first steps during the Redhouse’s summertime music camps.

Pete Anderson and Willie May make the local hop  with reviews by Jess and Jes.

Local teen Josh Burke achieves a rock’n’roll goal with national act Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Square to Be Hip

Everything from funk to gospel music turned up during Clinton Square’s Northeast Jazz and Wine Festival

Leon Redbone is an easy, breezy, beautiful cover boy, a jack-of-all-trades musician whose renditions of ragtime and blues are as down-home as apple pie and every bit as sweet. Redbone is one of the few guys in music who can use the word “gizmo” and still sound like an educated gentleman. He’ll be bringing a twangy slice of sentimentality to Central New York during his upcoming performance at Cazenovia College’s Catherine Cummings Theater.

Scott Weiland, lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, appealed to the philosophically minded among the 20,000 fans in attendance at the 2011 K-Rockathon with a question he raised at the conclusion of the day’s raucous, crowd-surfing festivities.