by Jordan Budd | Apr 10, 2024 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
If you’re out exploring record shops in Buffalo, you might run into local hip hop artist puh-GEEZ who calls music havens like Soul Stop, Black Dots, and Apples and Oranges his home. He shops for his own enjoyment as well as picks up records for his DJ sets which he...
by Jordan Budd | Apr 5, 2024 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Robbery Club is Buffalo-style punk rock done right. The group is hot off a killer set on a stacked show at Casa Di Francesca’s on March 7th, and a debut release of two singles released just a few days prior. It may seem like Robbery Club is coming out of nowhere, but...
by Jordan Budd | Mar 26, 2024 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Buffalo’s latest electronic duo, Jaugust, specializes in a catchy, relatable indie-pop sound inspired by early 2000s electronica-meets-emo bands like The Postal Service, American Football, and The Appleseed Cast. The duo is composed of Nick Sessanna of the Buffalo...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 19, 2024 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Shoegaze is thriving. Scenes in eastern cities like Pittsburgh, New York City, and especially Philadelphia are having surges of creativity and success, yet the sound is relatively untouched in Buffalo. Garden Closet is often in a scene of their own in the 716. The...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 15, 2024 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Buffalo emo-rock outfit, Well Kept Things, has an interesting history. The group got traction in the local scene with well-loved releases in 2015 and 2016, before they ended up shelving the band for seven years. Check out this older post from 2015 about the band in...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 5, 2024 | Album of the Week
Pinch Kitten is Buffalo’s latest artful and insane punk band that refuses to be boxed in. They go by “Buffalo Barf Punk,” an absurd tag that feels fitting for the group who enjoy playing misfit mixed bills, polar shifts in their sound, and constantly...
by Brent Casillo | Jul 10, 2023 | Album of the Week
Buffalo-based band Well Worn Boot takes influence from stylized, western country music within the frame of a ’70s shake rock band. The group draws inspirations from Jethro Tull, AC/DC, GWAR, The Grateful Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Primus, American...
by Brent Casillo | Jun 12, 2023 | Album of the Week
Buffalo-based band Hundred Plus Club (HPC) stays on par with their poppy, story-driven music in their latest three-song EP, Doom and Bloom. The band teamed up with Admirable Traits Records yet again to record this project which joins the ranks alongside a number of...
by Jordan Budd | May 17, 2023 | Album of the Week
The latest release from local electronic artist, Dreamhouse. is titled violencewave. The album is a forlorn stare into the causes and effects of violence in light of the racially motivated 2022 Buffalo shooting. Regarding the tragedy, Jordan Walker, the beatmaker...
by Jordan Budd | Apr 9, 2023 | Album of the Week
Speed Dial bassist, John Carr, comically shout-sings through a low-fidelity telephone crunch, “What up, what up, what up bitch, it’s the dial.” On the other side of the call, the distinguishing lark is met with a gaggle of laughter, a proper greeting to the...
by Jordan Budd | Mar 13, 2023 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Cooler, a Buffalo-based three-piece, creates deeply personal, ethereal indie rock fit for the most intimate of moments. Doom Spiral, the group’s 2023 release, is their best work to date. The album centers around themes of opposition and devotion while persistently...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 13, 2023 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Just before Last Call Entertainment’s BJ’s Fest 2022, the now repurposed Eerie Shores Instagram posted a cryptic announcement. The dive-bar event would be the band’s final performance under their original SUNY Fredonia-born title. A following series of posts...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 7, 2023 | Album of the Week, Rochester
Since Carpool’s 2020 release of Erotic Nightmare Summer, the Rochester band has played on Audiotree, added a synth player, toured the country, worked with content creator, hate5six, and yelled “quit a job and fuck every single cop” wherever they went. That’s quite a...
by Jordan Budd | Jan 31, 2023 | Album of the Week
Throughout history, art often strikes a delicate balance between humor and depth. We’ve all got that one friend, always authentically themselves, goofy one second, and deep as hell the next. While listening to Neetchy, a sneering chuckle could easily turn sentimental....
by Ryan Sciandra | Nov 15, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
On October 1st, 2002, an artist named Kod!e was born into a life of makeshift homes & painstaking anxiety. To celebrate making it 20 years through this journey of life he calls the Cycle of Man, Kod!e decided to drop a 13 track album titled just that on his...