by Admin | Mar 21, 2015 | List
Since the blog debuted on March 28th, 2010, with a truly horrible post about a Passion Pit show (sorry Bill), our ever revolving staff of writers and contributors have spun hundreds of albums and songs, and attended more shows in and out of Buffalo than I dare to...
by John Hugar | Aug 18, 2014 | Opinion
Last week, I picked up the new Judas Priest album, Redeemer Of Souls, and I have to say, I’m stunned at how great it is. At 13 tracks, and a running time over an hour, I never got bored while listening to it. It reminded me of everything that made me love Priest...
by John Hugar | Aug 11, 2014 | Opinion
In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Tom Petty is asked if there’s any album he’s made that he’s not fond of. He responds by telling us that he’s not particularly thrilled with 1999’s Echo, although people have told him it’s...
by John Hugar | Aug 4, 2014 | Opinion
So a few weeks ago Weezer released a new single and… it’s actually pretty good. If you haven’t heard “Back To The Shack” yet, I’d recommend checking it out. It’s catchy as hell and it displays the sense of humor that has...
by John Hugar | Jul 30, 2014 | Album Review
When you woke up on the morning of Tuesday, July 29th, 2014, you might have noticed that the grass was a bit greener, and the air was a bit cleaner. There’s an easy explanation for that: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released a new album! Ok, that might be a...
by John Hugar | Jul 28, 2014 | Concert Review
This was a show that our fair city had waited six months for. Mikaela Davis was scheduled to come to the Tralf on January 3rd, but the show was canceled due to a pipe bursting at the venue. The weeks and months continued to build up, and we were left to wonder if the...
by John Hugar | Jul 25, 2014 | Preview
If you want to be able to say you saw a huge star before she was famous, you would be wise to get yourself the Buffalo Iron Works tonight and catch Mikaela Davis. Davis is a harpist from Rochester who has recorded two fantastic albums. The first was 2012’s...
by John Hugar | Jul 21, 2014 | Opinion
Last week, the winner of the internet was pretty much unanimous: it was Weird Al by a mile. After releasing his new album Mandatory Fun and putting out a new video for eight straight days, it became abundantly clear that the world is still interested in Weird...
by John Hugar | Jul 14, 2014 | Opinion
At the end of 2013, when I made my predictions for what would happen in the year to come, one of them was “Robin Thicke will return to pre-Blurred Lines fame level.” It was something of a throwaway line. I figured a 36-year-old lucking into a monster hit...
by John Hugar | Jul 9, 2014 | Preview
If you’re going to First Niagara Center tonight for Justin Timberlake’s big show, you’ve probably had your tickets for quite some time now. The show was already sold out before its original date in February, which was postponed, with the re-scheduled...
by John Hugar | Jul 8, 2014 | Rochester
The debut LP from Rochester’s Pink Elephant is a head-rush of grunge, punk, and psychedelia that fans of bands like Mudhoney and The Melvins will likely be quite fond of. For 10 songs, the band captures the energy of pre-mainstream grunge mixed with late-60s...
by John Hugar | Jun 30, 2014 | Playlist
America – better known as Murica -is celebrating its 238th birthday on Friday. And that seems like a perfectly good excuse to get drunk and enjoy some barbecue (note: do we need an excuse?). So, with that in mind, we presented this list of songs that will make...
by John Hugar | Jun 26, 2014 | Preview
For more than a decade now, Sam Roberts has been churning out dozens of memorable songs, both on his solo albums, and in recent years, his work with Sam Roberts Band. His work could fairly be described as power-pop, as exemplified on hits such as “Bridge To...
by John Hugar | Jun 23, 2014 | Opinion
I’m still not sure what my favorite song on the new Black Keys album is. It might be the one that sounds like Pink Floyd, or the one sounds like Sweet, or the one with the riff that sort of sounds like an electric version of Cat Stevens’ “Wild...
by John Hugar | Jun 16, 2014 | Opinion
Pop music is in a transitional stage right now. New performers keep sprouting up with mega-hits faster than we can keep track of them. So, with that mind, let’s look and some of the bright new faces in pop and determine what would be the best ways for their...
