by Jordan Budd | Mar 13, 2023 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Cooler, a Buffalo-based three-piece, creates deeply personal, ethereal indie rock fit for the most intimate of moments. Doom Spiral, the group’s 2023 release, is their best work to date. The album centers around themes of opposition and devotion while persistently...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 20, 2023 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Nostalgia is often guarded by the thick, indeterminate fog of our own memory. Ex-Pat, a Buffalo recording artist, wades through this fog. His time-warping artwork is genuine, soulful, and full of personality. Echoing the most gossamer, faded shades of 90s shoegaze and...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 13, 2023 | Album of the Week, Buffalo
Just before Last Call Entertainment’s BJ’s Fest 2022, the now repurposed Eerie Shores Instagram posted a cryptic announcement. The dive-bar event would be the band’s final performance under their original SUNY Fredonia-born title. A following series of posts...
by Jordan Budd | Feb 7, 2023 | Album of the Week, Rochester
Since Carpool’s 2020 release of Erotic Nightmare Summer, the Rochester band has played on Audiotree, added a synth player, toured the country, worked with content creator, hate5six, and yelled “quit a job and fuck every single cop” wherever they went. That’s quite a...
by Jordan Budd | Jan 31, 2023 | Album of the Week
Throughout history, art often strikes a delicate balance between humor and depth. We’ve all got that one friend, always authentically themselves, goofy one second, and deep as hell the next. While listening to Neetchy, a sneering chuckle could easily turn sentimental....
