I woke up this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see a great new iPhone app in the iTunes store. For $1.99 you get access to over 70,000 live concerts from over 2,800Â bands hosted by the Live Music Archive. This includes the likes of Umphrey’s McGee, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, moe., Keller Williams, Toubab [...]
McLovins have a sound and talent that is beyond their years. The band that got it’s start covering Phish songs in their parent’s basement and posting them on YouTube is now on the Live Music Archive.
The trio is comprised of Jake (drums), Jason (bass) and Jeff (guitar) and have a unique ability for live improvisation. [...]
Andrew Bird is in the middle of a Church tour across the US that sees him playing some great venue’s including the famed Asbury Hall at Babeville in Buffalo, NY. Many thanks to the guys at the Calcutta Blog for the reviews and photos.
Photos & Review by Michael James Murray:
An Andrew Bird concert is like [...]
Buffalo continues to have one of it’s best fall lineups in years. Just over the past few weeks we’ve seen, moe., Mike Gordon, STS9, and now the electronic, progressive, instrumental sensation Lotus at the Town Ballroom in Buffalo, NY.
Golden Ghost:
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Lotus laid down the funk with sexy improvisational grooves that [...]
STS9 is lighting up clubs across the east coast this fall with it’s unique blend of funk, jazz, drum and bass, instrumental rock, and electronic music.
We’ve never seen a psychedilic rock experiment of this caliber executed to such perfection as we did this past week at Buffalo’s best indoor venue, the Town Ballroom in [...]
This past Thursday night moe. was inducted into the Buffalo Hall of Fame. The band who hails from upstate NY considers Buffalo a 2nd home and was delighted to return to their old stomping grounds for a sold out crowd. UB is where the band first started back in the early 90’s and they have [...]
Sometimes the best part of seeing a band twice in a week is having a recent show to compare it too.  Umphrey’s McGee’s jam-packed performance Friday at the Orbit room was a night & day comparison to the show a week previous in Ann
Arbor. With a fantastic jazz-funk-rock opener by the Macpodz, UM hit the [...]
Caught an amazing show in Ann Arbor, Michigan Friday night as Umphrey’s McGee kicked off their Michigan tour at the Michigan Theater. Opening band was Ann Arbor’s own The Macpodz throwing down their unique breed of jazz rock.
We hadn’t seen UM since Rothbury, and while a completely vibe in the historic Michigan Theater, the [...]
For over 30 years, on banjo and pedal steel guitar, Gordon Stone has been writing his genre-crossing music, and now attracts international attention with his latest configuration of musicians including, former band member, Caleb Bronz on drums, and UVM’s Jon McCartan on bass. Gordon Stone is the real deal and has site in with the [...]
The Brew from Amesbury, MA are maturing before our very eyes. We first covered this up and coming jam band a yeah and half ago when they first started playing in Buffalo, NY. Since then the band has released their 3rd studio album titled “Back To The Woods.”
In this set from Ghent, NY The Brew [...]
With its 6th release, Dig Deep, The Motet once again proves that it is a group committed to exploring and pushing the sonic envelope, while still remaining dedicated to the musical traditions that have defined their sound.
A heavy-horned afrobeat influence countered with a textural blanket of electronica, this album showcases the talents and strengths of [...]
Last year we witnessed the band play Art Park in nearby Lewiston NY at probably the best venue in WNY. Gov’t Mule made the trek up river this year and played the best rock/blues in the country for the Buffalo faithful. This year the Erie Harbor Basin was the party spot for the rock legends [...]
Hill Country Revue played a great show in Buffalo last night! For the first time all year it didn’t rain at the free concert series downtown in the Queen City. We had a blast catching up with old friends and listening to the best blues in the country.
Cody Dickenson was awesome on the guitar and [...]
YMSB has done it again. Another incredible set of intense jam grass in Buffalo. For the 4th year in a row the boys from Colorado were delighted to play for this intimate Buffalo crowd.
Joanne Osborne opened kicking off the 2nd night of a great concert series at the newly renovated Erie Canal Wharf Harbor. Complete [...]
Check out this amazing recording 4+ hours of non stop music featuring moe. and Grace Potter & The Noctournals Bonnaroo 2009.
After moe’s first set the band members leave the stage one at a time as Grace Potter and her band take the stage one by one. The result is a funked out jam as [...]
Dub and noise metal are usually not two musical genres that go hand in hand. But then again, Dub Trio is not your ordinary band.
Specializing in almost exclusively instrumental material, the group is comprised of guitarist D.P. Holmes, bassist Stu Brooks, and drummer Joe Tomino. It should come as no surprise that all three members [...]
