by Michael Moretti | Apr 6, 2016 | Watch This
Sydney-based quartet Why We Run released the video for their first single “A Moment to Return,” off their forthcoming album due out early summer. The video is powerful, featuring an elderly man swimming, then Benjamin Button-ing back into retrogressing in...
by Michael Moretti | Apr 4, 2016 | New Music
Los Angeles based electronic-producer, 9 Theory aka Gabe Lehner, released a new song last week that is making the rounds in our office. “Get Up, Dig In, Good Luck” starts of with a 4/4 heartbeat, soft keyboards, and Moby-like snippets from “Natural...
by Michael Moretti | Apr 1, 2016 | New Music
My introduction to Swedish pop sensations Ace of Base came after watching Full House. Stephanie Tanner’s band, GirlTalk (not to be confused with Greg Gillis’ one-man splice machine, Girl Talk), covered one of their singles for a talent show and Uncle Jesse...
by Michael Moretti | Mar 29, 2016 | New Music
Right from the start, Sun Cut Flat’s new single “Warped Buddhism” grabbed a hold of my ears and would not let go. The Brooklyn-based collective, fronted by Nick Lattanzi with support from a rotating cast of Berklee-trained musicians, is best...
by Michael Moretti | Mar 28, 2016 | New Music
LA-based indie rock act, Wild Year, released a single this past month that is totally shareworthy. The track “Setting Yourself on Fire” is starts off like a clean indie popr ock track with lead vocalist Cole Morrall cooing “none of us are what we...
by Michael Moretti | Mar 25, 2016 | New Music
Without a doubt, one of the hottest pop singles of 2016 thusfar has been Lost Kings’ and Katelyn Tarver’s “You.” It came in just the right time for when Justin Bieber’s “Sorry” was one play away from getting annoying. Almost...
by Michael Moretti | Mar 24, 2016 | New Music
Aussie native turned temporary New York transplant, Alex the Astronaut, released her first single close to a month ago, and it’s an indie-pop gem. Alex is a passionate story teller, and “Half of 21st Street” is a testament to her skills. The song is...
by Michael Moretti | Mar 22, 2016 | Listen Up
Sometimes a song just hits you at the perfect moment and seems almost like you are in a movie. This is what happened to me when I popped on “Perception” by University at Texas at Austin enrolled ndie act Kindatheart, when I was driving through into the...
by Michael Moretti | Feb 11, 2016 | Watch This
Albany’s music scene is severely underrated. Their atmosphere is a lot like how Buffalo’s was in 2012- minimal legitimate venues spaces for a local band to play and talented musicians constantly talking about moving to another city (mainly NYC). Even with...
by Michael Moretti | Jan 4, 2016 | News
We’ve been updating buffaBLOG pretty much daily or every other day for the past almost six years. In that time we have exclusively written about hundreds of local/regional bands, curated many many nights with our show previews, and spent thousands of hours...
by Admin | Dec 22, 2015 | Best of 2015
To cap off our Best of 2015 coverage, we asked a handful of our staff writers to submit their favorite albums and songs of the year. Make sure to follow all of the blog’s year in review coverage throughout the month of December Cliff Parks Favorite Album Father John...
by Michael Moretti | Dec 20, 2015 | Buffalo
Nicholas Brooks, the lead singer of Buffalo-based post-hardcore act It Dies Today, released two demos earlier this month. Opening the tracks, I expected to immediately crush a beer can against my head and circle pit in the office, but the demos flavor is Americana at...
by Michael Moretti | Dec 17, 2015 | Buffalo
The end of December is always an awkward time to release music – most blogs are doing year-end compilations and best-ofs, music fans are checked out more concerned with visiting family and friends, and generally the atmosphere is not very inviting to...
by Michael Moretti | Dec 15, 2015 | News
New Jersey raucous punk act, Titus Andronicus, will be headlining at the Tralf with direct support from Hold Steady frontman, Craig Finn, on Monday, March 21st. Titus Andronicus will be touring in support of their fourth and most recent album/rock opera, The Most...
by Admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Best of 2015
It’s that time of year again, where we re-think and dissect every local song that we’ve come across organically or via submission. This is our fourth year counting down our top songs and this year, like every other year, has been difficult to whittle down. Like we...
