by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 16, 2022 | Buffalo
Sounds Like Love” paints the picture of emo/pop-punk and excludes no details. “We could fuck it up, and if you’re asking me, then it sounds like love…” It’s a line that hauntingly holds true to relationships that sink. Hotel Etiquette (aka Mike Hansen...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 16, 2022 | Buffalo
Buffalo-based rock band Sons of Luther released a fresh new single, “The Wrong Way,” on February 1st, and within a week it became their number one song on Spotify. It speaks to the intentional songwriting and the “earwormitis” that comes along with...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 15, 2022 | Album of the Week
When the clock struck midnight on December 17th, the world got a lot colder, darker, and bleak; but to post-hardcore band Worse Things, that was music to their ears. Their newest and bluest offering is a seven-song album of forlorn emo, post-hardcore, and grunge that...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 11, 2022 | Buffalo
It’s almost as if five musicians from Buffalo went back in time, taking elements from the sixties, seventies, and eighties, and brought them to July 1st of 2021. Those people are Tyler Mendola, Cody Morse, Bryan Williams, Ken Shockley, and Andy Pothier, aka the...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 11, 2022 | Rochester
The spacious vocals bellowed throughout Bad Bloom’s latest single “Automatic” are hypnotically intoxicating… Which only makes sense, seeing as it was released just two days prior to Halloween, the spookiest day of the year. On the shoegaze-meets-dream-pop...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 11, 2022 | Buffalo
Hot new gloomy shoegaze band from Buffalo, Dolly Sods is making some literal noise with their debut single “tupelogumswamp.” Comprised of three members of other Buffalo-based bands, Jesse James, Nate Ward, and Andy Pothier, Dolly Sods hit at the very peak of bleak....
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 10, 2022 | Buffalo
Movement of the hips guaranteed or your money back! Buffalo based singer-songwriter/producer Allison Mitchell (aka Velvet Bethany) created a peppy tune titled “Teamwork” that will surely jumpstart your heart. Lines like “I feel like I have superpowers” are truly...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 8, 2022 | Buffalo
Listening to Rafi Bloomberg’s latest drop “Your Eyes” with your eyes closed is not only meta, it’s also borderline dangerous. This sparkly indie-pop jam sounds as if you’re driving through a spiral where both space and time are obsolete. The icy, 80s-esque...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 8, 2022 | Buffalo
A righteous, twinkly guitar riff alone is enough to perk anyone’s head up. Buffalo-based act Quit Yourself is about to celebrate the first birthday of their double single, Get Better, originally dropped February 28th, 2021. The band is still kicking nowadays,...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 7, 2022 | Album of the Week
Retro, goofy, and groovy are just three words that come to mind when asked “Who are The Burkharts?” The four-part Buffalo based indie band consists of Gavon, Trevor, Austin, and James, and it goes without question that these folks got their 10,000 hours in. I swear,...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 4, 2022 | Buffalo
Buffalo punk rock band Fake Space held absolutely nothing back in the rebellious banger “Cut it Loose” from their latest EP, Big Money Only (B$O). Released by Triple Hammer Records on November 17th, 2021, B$O serves as a blueprint to learn how to let loose in life....
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 1, 2022 | Buffalo
The transparency that Buffalo punk artist Stress Dolls possesses is as evident in her music as it is on social media. The last words in her Spotify bio read, “Currently I’m back in the studio with Marc working on a new release that I hope to get out sometime in...
by Ryan Sciandra | Feb 1, 2022 | Buffalo
You can almost hear the blowing of a breeze and rustling leaves while gazing at the nature-esque cover art for Buffalo indie folk duo Tough Old Bird’s latest EP, A Mantle for the Lantern. Buffalo brothers Matthew and Nathan Corrigan recorded the entire EP in...
by Ryan Sciandra | Jan 31, 2022 | Buffalo
The breath of vocalist AJ Newman from pop-punk band Hyperview is frosty enough to give an audience chills. Their most recent addition to their catalog is an EP, I Used to be Normal, featuring a music video for the project’s title-track. This was a big leap...
by Ryan Sciandra | Jan 31, 2022 | Album of the Week
Way back in 2020, singer/songwriter Sean Pratt linked up with guitarist Adam Cwynar and bassist Ron Walczyk to form the breath of fresh air you didn’t know you needed; Rosie Quartz. Their latest project, Astral Bodies, is a sonic transcendence for ears all across the...
