by Brendan O'Connor | Jul 13, 2016 | Road Trip
Last year was my first ever Pitchfork Festival experience, and let me tell you, it’s something I’ll never forget. The bands, the food, the city, and just the overall vibe of the festival, all come together to make one of my favorite music festivals...
by Brendan O'Connor | Jul 12, 2016 | Road Trip
Last year was my first ever Pitchfork Festival experience, and let me tell you, it’s something I’ll never forget. The bands, the food, the city, and just the overall vibe of the festival, all come together to make one of my favorite music festivals...
by Jon Krol | Mar 18, 2016 | Road Trip
In the metalcore sphere, bands are a dime a dozen. One here, one there; most of whom are indecipherable from one another. Formula; intro, fast part, chorus, fast part, scream, breakdown to fade. Unearth, pioneers of the movement and stylistic shred wizards are the...
by Shauna Presto | Oct 22, 2015 | Road Trip
The Front Bottoms carry the unique ability to put listeners through the emotional wringer and have them come out on the other side embracing a limitlessly carefree attitude. Through charm, wit, innuendo, pointed imagery and melodies that nest themselves neatly in your...
by Jon Krol | Oct 1, 2015 | Road Trip
Tonight, Norma Jean are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the group’s landmark album O’God the Aftermath at the California Brew House in Rochester (402 W. Ridge Rd). To say the album was pivotal in the metalcore landscape would be an understatement....
by Mac McGuire | Jun 8, 2015 | Road Trip
After releasing one of 2014’s finest records in Lost in the Dream, Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs has extended its victory lap into the summer with a return engagement to the WNY area, this time at Rochester’s Water Street Music Hall. The hazy...