Florence + the Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
As humans we would never wish personal turmoil, i.e. a tough breakup, on anybody, most of us having gone through a lot of that shit ourselves. As music-fans, however, there's nothing better than a breakup, divorce, death of a loved one or mental breakdown, as tragedy...
Darksleep – Obviate
The imaginative soundscapes of Buffalo producer Darksleep have been among the most otherworldly to emerge from the local underground electronic scene over the past year. With the release of his debut album, 電効営み, the artist caught our attention with a vivid,...
Maybird Releases New Single, Music Video For “Turning Into Water”
Rochester/Brooklyn psych rockers, Maybird, have released its first single in nearly two years and an accompanying music video to go long with it. The track, "Turning Into Water," has some Tame Impala freak outs mixed with just a touch of early 90's Brit Pop (think...
Black Sol’s Dean Chatham Drops “Enrollment” Video
The very active, but until recently, somewhat visually lacking Black Sol hip hop collective has been a regular feature on the blog over the last couple months as tracks from Saint Opal, Melo-Nymbus, and [ez amädi] have been keeping our hip hop writers quite busy....
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-Love
Love is a topic that has been represented in music countless times, and there is no doubt that it will stay that way for years to come. It is also one of the most influential emotions, making you feel so many different and drastic ways, many times leading to an...
Pappy Stardust Reveals Fresh Single “Want You to Know”
Pappy Stardust, the Buffalo based/Rochester bred psychedelic garage rock outfit for the solo work of songwriter Steve Leszyk, just unleashed a fresh track upon the masses last week. The leisurely track, titled “Want You to Know,” offers flavorful guitar riffage that...
VWLS Releases Soft Block EP
Multi-platform artist, Bobby Griffiths, has released his latest collection of ambient drone under the VWLS moniker through his record/media label, Bad Drone Media. The 7-track Soft Block opens with the warm "Early Prighs" and continues to change pace between the...
Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated at Last
It’s something we’ve heard plenty of times in the last few years: John Dwyer has shit out another Thee Oh Sees album. Shit out is not to say that the product is less than grand, rather Shit out is to say that he is some sort of a lo-fi, tape-mongering, fuzz-fanatic...
Faux Leather Jacket’s Trevor Courneen Launches Audible Handshake Podcast
Late last month, Trevor Courneen, member of Rochester's alt-country outfit, Faux Leather Jacket, launched a new podcast series titled Audible Handshake. The first two episodes featured interviews/chats with fellow Rochester musicians Katie Preston of...
THICK WINTER BLUD Releases Music Video for “Garden Face”
Wondering what to do with all of those leftover Memorial Day condiments? Take a page out of THICK WINTER BLUD's book - they made the best of their surplus in the music video for the new song, "Garden Face." TWB excels at keeping things simple; think the best parts of...
Hania Yiska – The Beauty Within
You could be listening to one of two different artists if you’re giving our latest album of the week a spin. Well, kind of. One of Rochester’s primo electronica artists, Jeffery Hull, writes under a slew of various pseudonyms, his name contingent upon the style and...
Short Moscato and Truey V Team Up for “Aaliyah”
Buffalo emcees Short Moscato and Truey V are two of the city's most talented, and one month before their appearances in Herd Fest's 2015 Hip-Hop Showcase presented by Deep Thinka Records, they've teamed up for a great collab. Taking the name from the late turn-of-the...
Genesee Live Premieres Latest Installment feat. Amateur Radio Club
Keeping with its recently steady pace, Rochester's live session series, Genesee Live, released its latest installment yesterday, this time starring Amateur Radio Club, the solo project from former SPORTS keyboardist, Ian Egling. Featuring track's from Egling's debut...
Eskimeaux – O.K.
I remember a couple of years ago when I stumbled across a collection of demos from Eskimeaux on an “album” titled Igluenza. Eskimeaux was a name I had heard mentioned constantly, being interested in many bands in the budding lo-fi scene out of Brooklyn. I almost...
Faith No More – Sol Invictus
Even while experi-metal rockers Faith No More helped inform so much heavy music of the 90s and early Aughts, they always seemed to be miles removed from it. In the early 90s they were too abrasive for the alt-rock crowd, too weird and unpredictable for grunge, and by...
Teenage Satan Releases Latest Song “She Was My Ocean”
Experimental bedroom project, Teenage Satan (now performing under the name Kimmy), sneakily dropped a new song a couple days before the fully fleshed band open from Krill last night at the Glitterbox. Fronted by local writer, Dan Bauer, the now four-piece's latest...
Pink Elephant Releases Video for “Employment”
We've been listening to Pink Elephant for the past couple of years, even naming their 2014 self titled full-length our album of the week last summer as well as their song "Architect" our eighth favorite Rochester track of 2014. Suffice to say, we are fans over at...
The Slums Debut New Song “Craw”
Something about the word "craw" reminds me of The Slums - it's almost as if I can envision them using the word regularly in conversation. Regardless, I think we'll all be seeing the word "craw" around more often now. Fresh off their show with PILE this Sunday, The...
OHS – Long Legs
It stands to say that Sam Snyder is about as DIY as they come. The Rochester-based musician, commonly referred to as “Overhand Sam” on the local band circuit, is the emblematic jack-of-all-trades—writing, playing, recording, and engineering his own sonic outpourings....
Frigid Giant Releases “God Loves, Man Kills” Video
Hip-hop has been a platform for social commentary for the entirety of it's existence. From Kurtis Blow through Ab-Soul, uncovering society's hidden truths has remained a theme in rap everywhere. On "God Loves, Man Kills," Buffalo's Frigid Giant takes on the calculated...
Bill Nehill Releases From Wilderness to Where? Live EP
Long time Mohawk Place staple and TMMC front man, Bill Nehill, released a live recording earlier this week, capturing he and TMMC keyboardist, Ed Hallborg, opening for Bert Jansch at Town Ballroom in 2010. From Wilderness to Where? is the four track recording of the...
The Tallest Man On Earth – Dark Bird Is Home
“Every day a growlin’ storm, but they’re kind somehow…” chirps Kristian Matsson, or The Tallest Man On Earth as he is so endearingly known, on the title track of his newest record Dark Bird Is Home, his lyrics still soaked with the stoic isolation that so beautifully...
Snoop Dogg – BUSH
Snoop Dogg sure is having one hell of a late-career rediscovery. After more than two decades in his revered gangsta rap persona, the D-O-Double-G reinvented himself as a peace-loving, rastacap-wearing reggae crooner for 2013’s Reincarnated. After that he had a brief...
Hop Along – Painted Shut
One could imagine each song off Hop Along’s latest album, Painted Shut, as a string of fictional characters partaking in the same short story collection. The embarrassed ex-girlfriend, the abused kid, the powerful man, the mental patient. All of these situations could...
Yes YES Drops Latest Song “Korean girls”
Buffalo's most interesting man, Michael Ersing (aka Yes YES), continues to make Korea his new home. The always fascinating folkie has been making the most of his time overseas, appearing on Korean shows Hey Rookie and BalconyTV over the past year, and just last week,...
Space Cubs – The Fire And Things Forgotten
The Fire And Things Forgotten, the celestial debut full-length from Buffalo born electronic musician Suzanne Bonifacio (who records as Space Cubs), is the result of what the artist refers to as a "journey of creative reflection and change" that included a move to...
My Rap Name is Alex Unites with Cove, Hooizzy for New Track
Buffalo rappers My Rap Name is Alex and Hooizzy have dropped an anthem about making it through the inevitable struggle of being broke, young and independent. Titled "Broke as F&%K!," the song conveys a sentiment that I think we've all felt one time or another....
CCDS (DEATH SQUAD) Drops New Video
One of Buffalo’s most unique musical projects comes in the form of local drum duo CCDS – DEATH SQUAD, and the pair just dropped a new video on the Buffalo DIY YouTube channel. Normally, CCDS (Cameron Rogers and Amber Kogut) makes use of a sampler which they use to...
BROTH3RKING and the Loot Boys Release “1000”
Buffalo's Loot Boys are a collective of rappers consisting of King, KT, BROTH3R, and $kanks that have been teaming up with each other to produce some quality, catchy street anthems over the last couple of months. Among the crew's recent standout tracks is "What You...
KOPPS Premiere Music Video for Single “Dumb”
Yesterday morning, Joywave BFFs, KOPPS, saw the music video for the electropop quartet's new single, "Dumb," premiere via All Things Go. The song has passed one million listens on Spotify so a video was most certainly in order. The Cultco Music presented clip, which...