by Nick Sessanna | Jun 30, 2014 | Album of the Week
Do I really need to introduce Every Time I Die? Maybe I should, because every person who listens to them winds up with a melted face. I’m not kidding, check any comment section on any reviews of any of their albums. Anyone who has ever been to their perpetually...
by Nick Sessanna | Jun 26, 2014 | Preview
Tonight will be a glorious night. A night full of experimental indie pop, psychedelica, and walls of sound. Caddywhompus will be blessing us Buffalonians with their presence after traveling all the way from New Orleans. I couldn’t describe their sound better...
by Nick Sessanna | May 26, 2014 | Album of the Week
American Stories is an interesting band. Their new album Horse Beard is a mashup of genres, namely psychedelic, folk, punk, americana, and emo. The opening track, and perhaps Horse Beard’s strongest, is “Programmed.” The song is reminiscent of...
by Nick Sessanna | May 21, 2014 | Buffalo
I thought I had viewed the last moments of I Can See Mountains last year. It was a bittersweet show full of catchy riffs, half sung/half spoken vocals, and even a display of acrobatics when Matt Cox jumped onto the rafters of the Waiting Room and swung himself around...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 29, 2014 | Listen Up
Seahaven have traded distortion for chilled-out guitars and effected drums on this ambient track from Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 25, 2014 | Buffalo
Lucky day! We here at buffaBLOG have recently stumbled upon an exclusive track from the new Stepfriends LP, set to drop by early summer. Stepfriends, of course, is a collective of sorts, featuring all sorts of musicians from the WNY area, but mainly focuses around the...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 21, 2014 | Album of the Week
Nelson-Type is just one of “those” bands. Ever since the duo released 2011’s excellent Grow Homeless, Grow Unbound, we buffaBLOGGERs have been waiting anxiously for their next release. It’s been three long years and, yes… we admit (at...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 16, 2014 | Preview
Baltimore’s Et al. will be touring through Spiral Scratch today, bringing their new-wavey guitar-driven pop along with them. In case you missed the Queen City Lottery Showcase, two of the bands have “made it” and are acting as support tonight. Nail...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 14, 2014 | Album of the Week
I am treated to the best of the best of local music from week to week. Over the past few years, I have had an opportunity to objectively review and appreciate a wide variety of music that comes my way. That being said, nothing ever seems to grip me like a release from...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 11, 2014 | Listen Up
Manchester Orchestra offers a haunting acoustic take on the lead single from their new...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 7, 2014 | Album of the Week
Mapmaker is probably one of the more underrated bands in Buffalo’s catalog. Their new release is called Critical Path and, while putting the finishing touches on this review on this fine Sunday evening, I realize what a real barnburner it is. The production is lo-fi,...
by Nick Sessanna | Apr 5, 2014 | Preview
Tonight’s the night! One of the most novel ideas to come out of Buffalo’s music scene is the Queen City Music Lottery. With an initial showing of 62 members and 15 bands, it has proven to be a force to be reckoned with. Some bands have fallen along the...
by Mac McGuire | Mar 26, 2014 | Preview
This isn’t the first time Top Shelf Records has sent one of their top-tier emo revivalist bands through Buffalo – tonight’s offering is Prawn, whose clean guitars and angsty vocals sound like Joan of Arc if they calmed down a little and tried to put...
by Mac McGuire | Mar 25, 2014 | Buffalo
Since being featured on one of our Album of the Week features last year, Humble Braggers have been quietly working on their live set. They’ve also been hard at work on some new material. The Say EP was released today and features three new songs that show that...
by buffa blog | Mar 24, 2014 | Listen Up
Tigers Jaw gets laid-back and grungy on this charming new song from their upcoming album,...
