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Hannah Maier interviews Ryan Montbleau ahead of his show at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester on November 20th.
News & Views from WRUR
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The Route afternoon host, Hannah Maier, interviews Mike Calabrese from band Lake Street Dive ahead of their Rochester show at Kodak Center.Tune in Mon-Fri 2-6pm to hear more interviews and great music from Hannah. -
Ahead of her show at the Theatre at Innovation Square on 9/23, Rosanne Cash spoke with our Route DJ Hannah Maier about what she has been up to and where her career has taken her. Tune in Monday-Friday from 2-6pm to hear Hannah's live radio show on 88.5 in Rochester, 90.1 in Ithaca, or online at www.theroute.org. -
Two longtime hosts on The Route announce retirement.
Latest Route Music News
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Canadian musician Yves Jarvis has released a deluxe edition of his Polaris Prize–winning album 'All Cylinders'.
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Some books give Smith's birthdate as Dec. 8, 1925, but more recent sources cite 1928 as his birth year. Regardless, the late musician always delivered the goods, even as the beats behind him changed.
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Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album.
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Lucius has been nominated for three Grammys and their latest album is a reflection on families. -
The French electronic duo turns distressed dreams into symphonies plucked from cotton candy clouds. Yet to see Air's members perform live, everything looks so effortless.
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As a member of Stax Records' Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Cropper helped create some of the most important Southern soul music of the '60s. He died Dec. 3. Originally broadcast in 1990.
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The Zac Brown Band's first five albums hit #1 on the Billboard Country Charts. Their latest is "Love & Fear," and the band is celebrating with a set of shows at The Sphere in Las Vegas.
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Spotify Wrapped is bluntly telling users their "listening age," which in many cases is several decades older or younger than their actual age. It's a calculated strategy. -
Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84. -
When he found himself living alone in the North Carolina woods, he returned to the piano, his first instrument, working through loss, grief, and the promise of new possibilities.
