by Mac McGuire | Sep 1, 2015 | News
Registration is now open for the fall installment of the Elmwood Village Association’s Buffalo Porchfest, set to go down on Saturday, October 3rd. For those new to bi-annual festival, the concept is pretty simple: a band or bands play on an assigned porch...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 31, 2015 | Buffalo
Earlier this spring, Night Slaves, a new industrial duo featuring John Toohill (JOHNS, Alpha Hopper) and Dave Kane (Them Jazzbeards), shared the unnerving first track from a soon-to-be released demo. Now, with summer almost over, the pair has quietly released a second...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 30, 2015 | News
just ending now, the moniker of Buffalo visual artist and genre pushing performer Jeremy Jermaine Jerome, is set to present A Grandeur Finale, the end of the road if you will in his series of interactive performances on Monday, October 19th at Kleinhan’s Music...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 29, 2015 | Preview
While we have been geeking out all summer over the great music our sister city of Rochester has been putting out, Aircraft, one of the blog’s favorite Buffalo acts, has been busy at work on its latest release. Tonight at Sugar City, the soaring psych rock four...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 25, 2015 | News
It seems like rumors have been floating around town for nearly a year that Paul McCartney would be coming to Buffalo for a concert, and those rumors finally turned into a reality this morning as word got out that the “cute Beatle” would be performing at...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 14, 2015 | Rochester
The 1809 Sessions series has been quietly building up an eclectic collection of installments featuring bands from in and out of the Rochester area for nearly a year now. Next up to bat for the Macedon based studio is sister city folk act MD Woods, the ongoing project...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 14, 2015 | News
After two memorable shows at the still missed Soundlab back in 2010, Neon Indian will be back in town this fall at the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, October 23rd. With Toro y Moi also set to hit Buffalo later next month, the Queen City will have the chance to see two of...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 7, 2015 | Rochester
After rejoining the Demos following a short absence, the ever busy Rochester musician Mike James (Longwave, Mikey Jukebox, the Mercies) has released a new track today under his Hawker M. James moniker, the first single from his upcoming solo LP. Titled “Pleasure...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 6, 2015 | Preview
After tackling Detroit last night, Ontario alt-folk collective Beams will continue its first tour through the states this evening at Mohawk Place. Armed with a 1-2 punch female harmony and a singing saw, the group recently recorded its most recent EP, The Gutters...
by Mac McGuire | Aug 3, 2015 | Buffalo
The run of Thick Winter Blud proved to be a short one as the pop-punk trio, which emerged from the ashes of singer/bassist Mat Cox’s I Can See Mountains, is no more. Instead of disbanding, though, the group merged with a couple members of the fellow defunct...
by Mac McGuire | Jul 30, 2015 | Preview
Freak-beat poetry unit Bourbon and Coffee is taking on the task of tackling Neutral Milk Hotel’s seminal album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in full tonight at Dreamland. Those who attended the now defunct Inventory Mondays at Hardware a couple years back may...
by Mac McGuire | Jul 29, 2015 | News
After appearing as a featured act at this past weekend’s Kerfuffle down at Canalside, the electro-pop duo of In The Valley Below will return to Buffalo this fall with a headlining performance at the Tralf Music Hall on Tuesday, October 20th. The Echo Park pair...
by Mac McGuire | Jul 27, 2015 | Rochester
Maybird and Thunder Body’s Overhand Sam Snyder, or OHS, just released the music video to his song “Coma,” a track from his Album of the Week selected EP Long Legs. The video is actually soundtracked by the tape version of the slow burner, which is a...
by Mac McGuire | Jul 24, 2015 | Preview
Rock on for a good cause tonight at Buffalo Iron Works as a cast of locals and non take the stage in support of the Project Grant Fundraiser. The West Side launched program is aimed to work with artists and communities who may be lacking in the proper resources for a...
by Mac McGuire | Jul 24, 2015 | Buffalo
A House Safe for Tigers, the latest project from long time Buffalo players Brandon Delmont and Mark Constantino, has just released the music video for “Evaporate,” the melancholic lead single off the duo’s self titled debut LP. Directed by Stevie...
