The Afterbirth Tycoon Releases Purgatory On Parade
Power trio, the Afterbirth Tycoon, have been at it for nearly a decade, however in the past year,we have seen more activity from the outfit. Late last spring, the three piece released Late Bloom, a 10 track studio recorded release, and then last week, they hit us with...
Space Cubs Releases New Single
One of the dilemmas I come across while writing for this blog is to what to categorize each artist in our internal database. For example, Space Cubs was raised in Buffalo, but now calls the backwoods of the south her home. Should I still categorize her "Buffalo" or...
Lesionread Drops “Art All Day” Video
Other than end of year lists, staff picks, and best of's, the holidays are a pretty quiet time for buffaBLOG, so Lesionread's new video "Art All Day"(which dropped last week) might as well have been gift-wrapped. This time we find the avant-electronica wiz doing what...
SHEDS Release Debut Video
It's no secret that the blog has been recently drooling over Lancaster-based act, SHEDS. With that being said, we were more than pumped to get a hold of the band's debut music video for the song "HPBG" or high pressure basketball game. The video is very true to the...
T.M.M.C. Releases Powerful Single, “Too Many Eyes in the Crowd”
Lost in some of the wild performances this past Friday at the Wooden Waves release show was a powerful and understated set from T.M.M.C. Made up of local heavyweights including Bill Nehill and Dave G, the five piece delivered a moving set to the packed Mohawk Place...
Lesionread Drops New Tracks
Earlier this week, local experi-tronic (experimental electronic, duh) artist Lesionread dropped two fresh tracks on his Soundcloud page. The first, a Jon Bap remix of "Neutron Bomb" (appropriately re-titled "Nutron Bomb"), switches it up with a bumbling bass line and...
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[ez amädi] Channels Salvador Dali on New Track
Spanish artist Salvador Dali became famous as a surrealist painter throughout the 1900s, and Buffalo rapper [ez amädi] is summoning his spirit for art of a different medium. "Dali," the latest track from the Erie County emcee and producer, begins with a...
Mile High Muzik is Buffalo’s Rising Rap Posse
Rap groups are a gift to music. Each member of the crew provides a different voice and personality to each track, but still identify with one common name. It's a cool phenomenon that is kinda unique to rap. Buffalo's Mile HIgh Muzik is bringing those vibes to the...
Jon Bap Releases New EP, Let It Happen
Previewing his idiosyncratic songwriting style on releases with the Get Money Squad and hip hop trio Network, along with a solo single last year, Buffalo based singer/songwriter Jon Bap has shown a vast range of influences from indie rock and folk to soul and hip hop....
YES YES Performs on BalconyTV
Eccentric Buffalo folk transplant, now Korean resident, YES YES (aka Michael Ersing), was recently featured on a Seoul roof top as part of BalconyTV, a daily online program featuring musicians and artists performing on balconies all over the world. Ersing, sounding...
Wooden Waves Premieres Music Video for “Big Wheel”
The long wait for Wooden Waves' Wilder Dreams is nearly over. The months (years?) in the making record, which saw the final pressings take a detour to somewhere in Europe earlier this spring, will culminate next week, Friday, December 5th, at Mohawk Place as the...
Listen to New Tracks from Difficult Night, Fashion Expo 1990, and Damian
Last we saw Difficult Night, the slacker quartet was making the most of a soggy Porch Fest afternoon by delivering a set from a crowded Richmond Ave apt. One unknown song from that day, "Ex-Lover" premiered last night on the band's soundcloud page. The song is led...
Passion in Constellation Drops Latest Track in “We Want It All”
Local electronic producer, Passion in Constellation aka Chris Alan, released his brand new pure pop track titled "We Want It All." The single is a collaboration with Cara Doyle, a local singer that has been completely under our radar up until now, but with this...
Hip Hop Duo, Mega Powers, Release “Countdown” Straight from the Studio
Smooth raps and and some fluttery jazz can be a wonderful fusion, and lucky for us a couple of Buffalo artists are doing exactly that on. Broadcasting "Countdown" from inside the booth, emcee Ideal provides a calming presence to contrast some really low-key thunderous...
Hussalonia Releases Well Timed Holiday Benefit Tune, “Soft Drink”
Those hoping to catch Hussalonia's the Founder in the flesh tonight will have to make other plans as the Lannie Flowers/Nude Beach show he was set to open for was the latest local show lost to #snowvember. Luckily for us, the Founder has a way of giving to those in...
Orations Releases Music Video for “Anhedonic Moan”
Brooding post-punkers, Orations, released the music video for the rather dark "Anhedonic Moan" this afternoon. The video plays like one of those B-Horror intruder flicks, where the masked strangers eerily gaze upon the band until something really bad happens. Orations...
EVC’s Cove Releases New Track
Multifaceted producer Cove is always reliable for dope new material. His latest track, "It's the jawn!!!," is a high energy instrumental that keeps the head rocking. Stuttering organ synths and a distant voice encourage you to "Come on!" throughout the length of the...
Undergroud Electronic Producer, Davor, Drops “City Nights” Single
With the 2014 emergence of acts like Darksleep and FOTISPORN, Buffalo seems to have quite a few underground electronic producers lurking in it's shadows, mostly releasing sultry bedroom compositions. Another name to add to the club is home-studio act, Davor aka Davor...
Royal Tongues’ “The Balance” Remixed by Ra Ra Riot
Buffalo synth pop duo, Royal Tongues (Like A Parrot's Aaron Bonus and Justin Gammella), is prepping the release of The Balance EP, a seven song release containing the title track and a whole lot of remixes of the single. The most notable reworking of "The Balance"...
Lesionread Shares Video For “So Lonely Without,” Preps Greatest Hits Album
The always busy performance artist, Lesionread (aka Shawn Lewis), recently released his latest music video for the track, "So Lonely Without." The song will appear on the young performer's Greatest Hits! Vol. 1 (Live God/Polygraph Records), a collection pf new tracks...
Tiny Rhymes Perfoms “Arrows” at Buffalo’s Unitarian Universalist Church
Sometimes we miss out on material that we stumble across later and are shocked as to how it was not on our radar before. See Applennium's amazing track we discovered 7 months after it was initially released. Same goes to say for this next one. Back in September,...
Lemuria Shares New Comic Book Paired Track
This week, one of Buffalo's major music exports, Lemuria, debuted their new single titled "Foggy Smoke," the B-side off a forthcoming 7-inch. The track is set to be paired with its own 40 page comic, Turnstile Comix #3: Lemuria, documenting the band's eventful tour...
Garrett Klahn Returns Home with New Solo Project
Garrett Klahn hasn’t lived in Buffalo in nearly 20 years. “I just moved back at the end of the summer.” Klahn says. “My mother is here, so for the past 20 years I’d come home for at least two holidays every year, and for weddings, babies all that normal shit. So I was...
Silo Sessions Debuts Latest Clip feat. Bryan Johnson
We like to check in with local video blog, Silo Sessions, every so often. Since mid summer, the site has been premiering a new session, filmed within the grain elevator walls, of mostly local musicians delivering stripped down performances on a weekly basis. The last...
Nevergreens Releases Latest Cinematic EP, it’s already paradise
Local chillwave producer, Matthew Reilly aka Nevergreens, released his latest EP, it's already paradise, this past weekend. The musician has been quietly dropping cinematic, instrumental scores on bandcamp since early summer. EP opener, "graduation," is a jubilant...
Baxter Roy Long Releases Acid-Folk Collection, Palms on the setting stone
Former Denver resident, Baxter Roy Long, recently moved to Buffalo, and upon settling in, released an 8-track collection of dreamy, yet challenging acid folk, titled Palms on the setting stone. While most of the album was recorded in the Pacific North West, the lone...
Camp Counselors Releases “Sighs” on Halloween Compilation No. 2: Gatherings
Spookytacular WNY expat, Kyle J. Reigle, records under the moniker Camp Counselors and for the second year in a row, released another track to producer's yet-to-be-created slasher flick. The creepy new single "Sighs" has the same feel as Camp Counselors previous...
Spooky Stephen Drops “Boom Room” Session Mix
If you happened to be one of the many who attended our sold out Hamlin House Halloween Party this past weekend, you may have caught Spooky Stephen, one half of Buffalo party DJ duo, Spooky Business, keeping the party lively in between Soul Patch sets. The always busy...
Anthony Del Plato Covers Stepfriends’ “Strangers, Friends, and Pictures”
Batavia musician and blog all-star, Anthony Del Plato, has long been teasing his forthcoming local covers album. This weekend, he released the first track that could be a part of the project, a cover of "Strangers, Friends, and Pictures" from emo revisionists,...
Damian Preps Remix Album, Releases Re-Worked “They Fill The Space They Believe In”
Earlier this year, local mumblecore artist, Damian Weber, released one of our favorite local releases in You Don't Need It, which, as the year starts to near its completion, has the staff over at the blog already arguing over which track should make our year end, best...
The Tins Release NSFW Video For “Let It Go”
Does a 4-song EP need a video for every song? Maybe not, but at least the Tins are making them interesting. From Freddie Mercury impersonators to violence on watermelons, the three-piece indie duo has been getting some major burn out of its latest release, Young Blame...
Andy Pothier Releases New Track, “Signs”
Earlier this week, local folk troubadour, Andy Pothier, released the first single from this forthcoming, untitled album. The bare boned "Signs" is another lovely number from the Pine Fever drummer, sounding like hushed Conor Oberst or weary, stripped down Hiss Golden...
Stepfriends Releases New Album, All We’ve Got
The dudes (and dudettes) in Buffalo emo-pop collab-group Stepfriends have just digitally released their debut full-length album All We've Got. The eleven-track record, mostly recorded at The Square Studio in Syracuse, gives emo a little soul--think a jazzier Into It....
Frigid Giant Releases Spicy New Video Complete with Luchadores and Tequila
There are very few things in the this world more entertaining than a good music video, and lucky for us rising Buffalo emcee Frigid Giant has released exactly that with "I Didn't Wanna." Following "Shuma Gorath" as the second video off of From My Cold Dead Hands, "I...
Falconcat Releases Debut Single Via LIPS Records
This morning, Buffalo/Philadelphia based label, LIPS Records, announced the release of the debut album from Falconcat, the new project/moniker of Buffalo musician Tylor Colby (Imperials, Victory for Poland). The forthcoming album, titled Year of the Wooden Horse, is...
Edwang and Duce return with some Gold
Buffalo producer Edwang is back with another dope collaborative effort with rapper Duce. A few months back, we covered The Duce Bootlegs, a wonderfully enjoyable project of happy hip hop. Their latest release together, Fifty Shades of Gold, switches things up a bit on...
DJ Pizza Pizza Serves Up “Slice 34”
Quickly becoming one of our favorite Buffalo personalities, DJ Pizza Pizza has released his 34th song this morning, aptly titled "Slice 34." Yung Zza is not only a cut and splicer, but produces organic instrumental tracks a la Madlib or Flying Lotus. "Slice 34" turns...
Newish Star Shares Previously Unreleased Track, “Food Chain”
After a fairly busy morning, we thought this today's content would be suffice enough to take the afternoon off to go grab a Chippy Sandwich down in South Buffalo. Turns out, Newish Star debuted to the internet an unreleased b-side from their original Look Both Ways...
Bryan Johnson & Family Signs to Admirable Traits, Releases “Dead Fox” Single
Local lake-pop act, Bryan Johnson & Family, have announced that their new EP, Cool Your Jets, will be released next month via Admirable Traits, a record label with Buffalo and Brooklyn roots. The album's first single, "Dead Fox," just premiered this morning, and...
Danimal Cannon Drops Latest Chip Tunes Single, “Love Live New Fresh”
Buffalo's most popular chiptunes producer, Danimal Cannon, released early this morning his first material in close to ten months. The single "Long Live New Fresh" stays in Cannon's realm of expertise, with glitchy, gameboy music combined with upbeat tempo's, providing...
Wild Bear Drops New Track, “Bloody Lips”
After getting our attention with the Grizzly Bear/CANT-esque debut single, "Glass Ceilings," the intriguing new electro project, Wild Bear, quickly returned with its follow up track over the weekend. Titled "Bloody Lips," the song is eerie and vocalless, with an air...
Mags Drops Debut Singles
A couple weeks ago, we wrote about The Slums EP, a new group led by The Malones ex-frontman, Steven Floyd. He is not the only former member with the creative bug brewing. Former Malones bassist, Elliott Douglas, formed a new solo project of his own under the moniker,...
Transfer in Jamaica Releases Speculative Party vol. 1
Buffalo producer/mashup artist, Transfer in Jamaica, creates music that, at it's most compelling, can shift our perception of two seemingly unrelated styles and reveal an unlikely common ground, reminding the listener that genres are dynamic as a result of this...
Hot Tip Releases Simple, Fitting Video for “Human Cage”
Some of the best music videos (any maybe pieces of art in general?) are single concepts carried out simply and directly. I'm thinking of one in particular, the video for The Pixies' "Velouria," but Hot Tip's new video for "Human Cage" is pretty much in the same vein....
Alleys Post Wordy New Music Video
Alleys get existential in their new video for "Can't You Just Make Fun of the Way I Talk Again...?" Singer/drummer Sebastian Cichon literally faces himself in a minimalistic video featuring the two-piece's riffy emo/skramz. Cichon's distinctive Sprechgesang is equally...
Fashion Expo 1990 Releases New Album, waiting for memphis
Earlier this year, the debut release from Fashion Expo 1990, a relatively unknown electronic/house alias of Difficult Night's Miles Kirsch, was named our Album of the Week here at buffaBLOG. That record was filled with nostalgic vibes from various dance music scenes...
Local Rapper ChaunSAY Mackin’ Drops Second Project with Chisom Uzosike
On the Buffalo Brave LP, ChaunSAY Mackin' and Chisom Ozosike's second take on a hip hop duo, the Buffalo rapper and Maryland producer (who previously released The Buffalo Bill EP together) are a fantastic combination of modern bar-rap and smooth soul sample beats....
Daniel Robinson Drops Latest Single, “Head Trauma”
Buffalo born electronic musician, Daniel Robinson, has just released his latest single, titled "Head Trauma." The song, which is currently available for sale/download on iTunes, is tense cut of industrial synth pop gives off an NIN meets Postal Service feel. Robinson...
Handsome Jack Releases Music Video For “Right On”
Following the release of their new single "Echoes," Buffalo retro rockers, Handsome Jack, have continued to tease their forthcoming record, Do What Comes Naturally, with a new music video for the song "Right On." The Go Pro (?) filmed clip for the soulful, slow burner...
Yes Yes Performs On EBS’ Hello Rookie
Buffalo's favorite ex-pat folk singer, Yes Yes Michael Ersing, recently appeared on the September installment of Hello Rookie, a musical competition airing on Korean network, EBS. The monthly program pits musicians against each other for the chance to advance and...