by Nick Sessanna | Dec 1, 2022 | New Music
Buffalo’s Eugene Palmer is prepping for their debut record, Rut, and they’ve shared first single with us, a song they are calling “2014.” Showcasing their wide range of influences from 60s baroque pop, to psychedelic rock, to 90s slowcore,...
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...
by Nick Sessanna | Aug 24, 2022 | New Music
Buffalo’s West Ferry are back with another EP, the five-song Out of Reach. Out Of Touch finds the band further fleshing out their emo-punk sound. Vocally, the band brings to mind the sneering delivery of Conor Oberst in his Desaparecidos days, dripping with just...
by Nick Sessanna | Aug 18, 2022 | Buffalo, New Music
Urge Surfer is a brand new Buffalo-based project created by former coworkers Chelsea O’Donnell (Stress Dolls) and Jordan Smith. The duo used the itchiness of pandemic-era angst to inspire their new musical brew – a blippy and hazy blend of modular synth...
by Nick Sessanna | Jun 21, 2022 | Buffalo
Buffalo’s Amateur Hockey Club explore a new, tightly-wound pop rock sound on their latest offering, “Boxed Wine.” Bringing to mind the super-polished and sugary-sweet melodies of genre frontrunners like Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco (with a...
by Ryan Sciandra | May 27, 2022 | Buffalo, New Music
Bringing yet another bubbly bop with his latest single “3%,” the-Buffalo based hip-hop/R&B artist Pr0 Social is a professional at his craft to say the least. Pr0 Social, born Jerrell Lanos, flaunts his caption-worthy bars with such unpredictable flows on the...
by Ryan Sciandra | May 27, 2022 | Buffalo, New Music
The intro to the Lost Soul EP via Buffalo artist tøbin seems as if it’s the intro to something more; something bigger. The 18-year-old singer/songwriter speaks on what he “Can’t Explain” in a way anyone can relate to. It sounds almost as if tøbin has found...
by Ryan Sciandra | May 25, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo, New Music
Somewhere in the up & coming hip/hop scene in Buffalo, a voice can be heard with sounds of sincerity; the voice comes from B-rent on his debut LP: Everything for Paige. The album resembles something like a modern day Shakespeare tragedy reflecting the beauty in...
by Ryan Sciandra | May 18, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo, New Music
Legend says in the year of 1997, a pop music cult was born via the Nefarico soap company and named Hussalonia. A quarter century later, Hussalonia has given us The Somewhat Surprising Re-Recording of Marsupial Garamond Hussalonia… A project that was dropped...
by Ryan Sciandra | May 2, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo, New Music
The spirit of Buffalo is a very real concept that only true Buffalonians could understand; a sense of community, validity, and authenticity. The legendary rap group Griselda managed to spread the spirit of Buffalo on an international level – one third of this...
by Ryan Sciandra | Apr 30, 2022 | Buffalo, New Music
Buffalo-based artist TTB Donntae saw a lack of hip hop percolation in the local rap scene and decided to capitalize on the situation. Bringing in relentless flows, memorable lyrics, and standout delivery all on a bomb-ass beat; allow me to introduce “START IT UP PART...
by Ryan Sciandra | Apr 13, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo, New Music
Call it alternative, punk, emo, or whatever else you want, but call it correct; Funeral Coat’s debut LP, Is That So, is fire. The gas to that fire might come from professional production from the prominent Jay Zubricky at GCR Audio; but that’s just the tip...
by Ryan Sciandra | Apr 5, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Rolling in like a fog over the surface of a lake, Symmetries by Buffalonian band Coral Collapse came at the perfect timing. Just as the world begins to open up again, Symmetries oozes the sweet sensation of a new day; not only does it sound like a new morning, but a...
by Ryan Sciandra | Mar 28, 2022 | Album of the Week, Buffalo, New Music
Like the first leaves gliding through the wind in fall, the first winter snow, and that first 80 degree week in summer, Canetis is back and it’s the season of Chasing Moonlight. The five Buffalo head bangers hardly touch the ground on their latest five piece...
by Ryan Sciandra | Mar 25, 2022 | Buffalo, New Music
Buffalo-based trio Happy Vacation delivered their latest smash single, “Up All Night,” just in time for spring break. Bubbly melodies covered with a vibrant fuzzy production are tied in with classic lyrics that embody a simpler time and place – just a few of the...