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Tid’ The Season Night One at Riverworks (10/10/21)

December 21, 2021

After taking a year off from their holiday shows, local legends Every Time I Die returned to their hometown and brought their annual Christmas shows back to Buffalo Riverworks this past weekend.  Still riding high off the release of their latest critically acclaimed record released earlier this year, Radical, the Buffalo boys made for a weekend to remember for locals and out of towners alike.  With pre parties and after parties on Friday and Saturday, a pre show at Rec Room on Thursday, and a massive curated list of stuff to do in the city, the boys in ETID turned Buffalo into a whirlwind for the weekend.   If you were in local restaurants or small businesses, odds are you saw someone going to the shows.  The energy that these shows produce not only at the venue, but in the city as well, is truly something special. Both nights, ETID played[...]

Tonight: 68

May 5, 2018

Heavy is good. Discord is life. Tonight promises to be a masterful combination of both, featuring a set from the Atlantan duo 68. There’s something to be said about the sheer noise that can come out of this duo, whose work is propelled by gravelly vocals and sinewy guitar riffs. 68 is gearing up for a new album, Two Parts Viper, out June 2nd. Rounding out the lineup is the newly-minted heavy-hitting act American Nosebleed, as well as sets from Squatch and Out Last. Tonight’s show is $12. Doors are at 7pm. A friendly reminder that Sugar City is a drug and alcohol free space.

Tonight: The Fall Of Troy

August 9, 2016

Blistering, face-melting riffs. A vocal range of the gods. Inhuman time signatures. Yes, we’re talking about The Fall Of Troy, the post-hardcore heroes who just happen to be visiting Buffalo tonight. They’re playing the Studio at the Waiting Room with fellow heavy-hitters ’68 and Illustrations. Doors are at 7:00pm – tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

The Ongoing Concept and ’68

October 1, 2015

Tonight, Norma Jean are celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the group’s landmark album O’God the Aftermath at the California Brew House in Rochester (402 W. Ridge Rd). To say the album was pivotal in the metalcore landscape would be an understatement. Norma Jean were some of the innovators in a field wrought with imitators, and their impact is felt all over today’s modern metal scene. I’d rather talk about two brilliant and vastly under appreciated bands that will be opening the show, though: The Ongoing Concept and ’68. Former Chariot and Norma Jean frontman, Josh Scogin, has teamed up with Michael McClellan to present a beautifully disjointed rock-hardcore hybrid in ’68. Picture pure-gravel vocals over discordant, violent riffage, and sinewy guitar lines. This here is music that is loose, blue-sy, soulful, and ferocious, all at once. ’68 display a kind of raw aggression that is missing from heavier music these days. And[...]