by Dan Bauer | Feb 22, 2015 | Preview
End your weekend right: let four bands, two from Ohio, pummel you with sludgy punk. Shit Blimp and Krelboyne are coming to the Glitterbox, joined by locals Dream Journal and Red Heat. If you’re wondering what a Shit Blimp could possibly sound like, check the...
by Dan Bauer | Sep 30, 2014 | Preview
You guys like fuzz, right? Giant Peach is playing at the Glitterbox tonight, and I think you’d like them, too. Poppy, high energy stuff from Brooklyn. Check ’em out. They’ll be supported by locals Del Paxton, Space is Haunted and Grout. Good jams all...
by Mac McGuire | Jun 27, 2014 | Best of 2014
Today’s brings you round 2 of our staff picks for favorite songs and albums at 2014’s half way point. If you missed yesterday’s part 1 of submissions, you may read it here. Sarah Machajewski Album: Neil Young – A Letter Home We should all be...
by Dan Bauer | Apr 21, 2014 | Rochester
We don’t always cover music out of Rochester, but when we do, it’s because it’s that good. And Routine Involvements new tape, Future Days, is some of the best stuff we’ve heard out of Buffalo’s neighbor to the Northeast in quite some...
by Dan Bauer | Apr 9, 2014 | Preview
If you caught last Friday’s Cloud Nothings show, then you also had the pleasure of catching opener Pleasure Leftists. If you didn’t, don’t sweat: they’re coming back. After a few dates supporting Cloud Nothings, they’ll be swinging back...
by Dan Bauer | Apr 5, 2014 | Concert Review
Last night’s Cloud Nothings show at the Buffalo Iron Works was a great experience. The bands played well, the crowd was into it, but it was the synergy between the two that pushed things over the top. I admit I was worried at the beginning. Openers Pleasure...
by Mac McGuire | Mar 31, 2014 | Album of the Week
When I mentioned to people that I’d be writing up the new Failures’ Union release, Tethering, I generally got one of two responses. The first was that these guys were staples over at Mohawk Place. The association makes sense: that’s where the band...
by Mac McGuire | Mar 27, 2014 | Buffalo
Back in November, when Real People’s excellent Ceilings EP got the album of the week treatment, our own Nick Sessanna wrote that “Real People is a prime example of a band meant to be seen in basements.” By which he meant that they’re the kind...
by Mac McGuire | Mar 24, 2014 | Album of the Week
“Play ‘Soul Night’!” There are maybe twenty or thirty people crammed into Damian Weber’s living room. The request came from a guy standing in the doorway, but all over the room, people begin to signal their approval. Up front, Damian...
by Katie Africano | Mar 20, 2014 | Album of the Week
Scrolling back through our past posts on local favorites Unwelcome Guests, it’s hard not to notice a recurring theme: nobody is quite sure how to place them. On the surface, it seems like it shouldn’t be so hard. Guitars, bass, drums, vocals: this is the...