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Personal Style – Garbage Can E.P.

April 23, 2026

It’s not often we’re met with a release that has everyone standing up from their figurative seats, but Buffalo-based band Personal Style continues to exhibit the kind of skill that only builds on their hype with their new four-song Garbage Can E.P. – a pulsating post-punk serenade that scratches all the right itches and further cements the group as one of the most exciting outfits in the region.   Formed in the fall of 2019, the project brings together Bryan Johnson, Evan Wachowski, and Stephen Floyd, a trio of local scene stalwarts. With a collective 15+ years spent cutting their teeth in Buffalo’s DIY circuit under various monikers (Mapmaker, Patchwork, Bryan Johnson and Family, Mallwalkers, many more), these veterans have traded their individual histories for a cohesive new chapter with the project. Garbage Can E.P. was recorded with Jay Zubricky (GCR Recording Studio) and Justin John Smith (Mammoth Recording Studio),[...]

Mikayla Manke – I Want to Feel Like I’m Home

April 9, 2026

The best music, whether written quickly or slowly, is never created urgently; instead, it unfolds naturally, with care, and over a period of time representative of the artist’s present circumstances. This sentiment is especially reflective in Buffalo-based singer-songwriter Mikayla Manke’s debut solo record, I Want to Feel Like I’m Home – a vulnerable, eclectic exploration of the different places and people we leave, visit, and return to in an attempt to ultimately return to ourselves. Permeating with intention, Manke leverages the very songwriting ability that platforms her band Spiria’s success while simultaneously pulling across electronic, acoustic and lofi influences to produce a body of work entirely unique to her.   Outside of the dreamy “Exiting the Maze,” a sonic anchor made years prior in her childhood bedroom, Manke wrote the majority of the record during a temporary stay in Binghamton, NY. It is this very sense of impermanence that translates[...]