05/14/2015 Hatebreed, Hate Machine, Order Of The Dead, REPS (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Friday, May 15th, 2015This show was on my radar as soon as it was announced! Hatebreed in my favorite Rochester small (300 cap!) venue? HELL YES. Just like the 2013 Water Street show, I sprung for VIP, which got me early entrance, a meet and greet, and a pretty loaded swag bag with posters, a flag, etc. A […]
05/13/2015 Godsmack, Papa Roach (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Thursday, May 14th, 2015[Hellyeah was the opener, but I didn’t get there in time.] I was pretty excited to see Papa Roach again, considering I’ve really enjoyed their last two albums. It had been since the curfew-shortened Rock The Cans in 2011 that I’d seen them, so seeing them get their fully-allotted time was also nice. I found […]
02/27/2015 Bush, Theory of a Deadman (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Sunday, March 1st, 2015[Stars in Stereo were the first band on, but I missed them.] This show was a same-day decision for me, but I ended up being quite glad I attended. I walked in just as Theory was starting their first song, and it ended up being a standard non-headlining set for them. Six crowd-friendly hits, with […]
02/09/2015 Periphery, Nothing More (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Thursday, February 12th, 2015They can’t all be winners. In another case of being on Nate-time, and the venue being ridiculously early (apparently the first band didn’t even make it to the show due to the weather), I only caught the last two songs of Nothing More’s set. Since that’s who I really went to see, needless to say […]
02/05/2015 Machine Head (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Friday, February 6th, 2015Don’t ask why it took me forever to really, *really* get into these guys. I was always aware of them, even saw them twice as openers, and yet never invested the time until early last year, when Robb Flynn started his blogs about the 10th anniversary of Through the Ashes of Empires. I finally gave […]
12/05/2014 Nonpoint, (hed)pe, Recoil, Million Miles From Broadway, Setiva (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Friday, December 19th, 2014I was pretty excited for this show for awhile. Ever since seeing Nonpoint over the summer at Braun’s, and then getting (and immensely enjoying) The Return, getting tipped off that this bill was coming to Montage even before it was officially announced had me pumped. Seeing (hed)pe again for the first time in a long […]
11/29/2014 The Tea Party, Menew (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Monday, December 1st, 2014Ahh… an old favorite. The Tea Party. Just the mention of the name of the band and it’s deja vu all over again. This was my 15th time seeing the band, and I watched this one with a pair of friends whom I’d seen the majority of the prior 14 with as well. Sara managed […]
11/15/2014 Mike Doughty (Rochester, NY @ The Club at Water Street)
Monday, November 17th, 2014It’s become a tradition at this point, Mike Doughty comes to Rochester; me and Matt have a “man-date” to go see the show! Touring in support of his latest Stellar Motel album, Mike and constant cohort Andrew “Scrap” Livingston came to Water Street for another Question Jar show. After a little pre-gaming at the Genesee […]
11/11/2014 Saliva, Future Leaders of the World, Bad Seed Rising, The Everyday Losers, Aggressive Betty (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Monday, November 17th, 2014This turned out to be a long night. There were a ton of locals, last of which was the first band I saw when I arrived, Aggressive Betty. I’ve seen them a couple times at Montage, pretty standard metal, decent stuff. The Everyday Losers were a young four-piece hard rock band that didn’t sound too […]
10/10/2014 Theory of a Deadman, Fozzy (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Saturday, October 11th, 2014[3 Pill Morning also on the bill, missed them.] This was the same night as the Amerks home opener, so I wandered out of the game around the middle of the 3rd period and shot over to Water Street. Ended up missing all but 3 of Fozzy’s songs, but what I heard was pretty good. […]
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