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Tonight: Roger Waters

September 9, 2017

Former Pink Floyd mastermind Roger Waters brings his Us & Them Tour to the Key Bank Center, making this his fourth show in Western New York in the last 10 years. Touring in support of his first album in 25 years, the Nigel Godrich produced Is The Life We Really Want, Roger will be playing new tunes along with solo and Floyd classics, unleashing the customary audio/visual sensory overload that’s only gotten more impressive thanks to increased computing power, LEDs, and high definition, and putting our President Trump on full Roger Waters blast (see clip below). Tickets are still available at all price points, including $31.50, and the show starts at 8pm.

Still Diggin’: Still Digging For Classics

April 16, 2014

I wasn’t always a vinyl head. Sure I grew up with vinyl, but by the time I was in high school, it was cassettes for my Walkman, and the digitally pristine sound of the CD became the coin of the realm during college and for a decade after. But after reconnecting to vinyl to expand some musical horizons, it became clear that the old vinyl heads weren’t selling soap: music really does sound better on this format, and after buying a turntable, I got down to business, first at Record Theatre and later at the wonderland that is the Record Baron on Delaware in Kenmore. I became a shark, always on the look out. It was at The Record Baron that I picked up the used Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel Genesis albums that confirmed a suspicion that the CD had done the classics of rock jive, draining albums like[...]