10/12/2013 Pearl Jam (Buffalo, NY @ First Niagara Center)
Thursday, October 31st, 2013It’s a Pearl Jam show, with no opener. How much better could it get? Michaela and I had seats up in the moon (304 to be exact), but we could see and hear perfectly. This was the 2nd show of the first leg of the Lightning Bolt tour, so the band was still feeling out […]
08/24/2013 Chimaira, The Browning, Threat Signal, Dark Sermon (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Sunday, September 1st, 2013[Vanity Strikes, Beneath Hells Sky and Into the Harbor on the bill, didn’t see them.] Didn’t really see much of Dark Sermon, however Threat Signal was a pretty worthy opener. I didn’t realize they were from Hamilton either. Essentially metalcore, they held their own for their half-hour or so set. The direct support was The […]
06/18/2013 Filter (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Wednesday, June 19th, 2013[Ghostfeeder, Violet Mary and a couple other bands were on the bill as well.] Another night, another late arrival. This time because the always-unpredictable first week of volleyball threw us an unannounced 7:40 and 8:30 doubleheader. Where the first opponent never showed up. Got done with game #2 in a reasonable amount of time, and […]
06/15/2013 Drowning Pool, Eye Empire (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Monday, June 17th, 2013[Exilia, Even The Dead Love A Parade, Agressive Betty, AFR, and One Sweet Lie were also on the bill.] Usually, shows at the Montage are completely slanted towards “later”. The locals usually go until 9:00-10:00 or so, then the national acts take over and play until midnight or later. So naturally, the one night we’re […]
06/13/2013 Lamb Of God, Decapitated (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Monday, June 17th, 2013[The Acacia Strain opened, missed them.] As per usual, I arrived after putting Nate to bed, so I missed The Acacia Strain, but got there just as Decapitated was starting up. I don’t know what it is about Poland, but they crank out some super-heavy metal bands (see Behemoth). These guys weren’t as theatrical as […]
06/07/2013 Fuel, Laura Wilde, Melia, Starlight Cities (Rochester, NY @ Montage Music Hall)
Monday, June 10th, 2013[One Sweet Lie was on the bill also, didn’t arrive in time to see them.] I arrived as Starlight Cities came on. They’re a Rochester-based pop-rock band, and were pretty good. A perfect fit to open for Fuel for sure. Not too heavy, not too light, band sounded good, the singer could sing; I’d definitely […]
05/24/2013 Hollywood Undead, American Fangs (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Friday, May 31st, 2013[Stellar Corpses, Beware of Darkness also on the bill, didn’t see them.] I’m not the world’s biggest Hollywood Undead fan, but I like them well enough, had the time and energy on the Friday night of a long weekend to go, so I said “what the hell”. I was taken quite aback as I rolled […]
05/18/2013 Korn, Mindset Evolution, Love and Death (Big Flats, NY @ Tag’s Summer Stage)
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013My second show at Tag’s, and my second show with Tiff’s cousins and their friends. Talk about a good time. Nu-metal heaven… Korn, and HEAD’S BACK! We tailgated through most of Love and Death (Head’s other band), and all I could think of was “these guys sound like Adema”. From the parking lot they didn’t […]
04/18/2013 Hatebreed, Every Time I Die, Terror, Job For A Cowboy (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Thursday, April 18th, 2013[This Is Hell was the first band on, but I missed them.] I walked in pretty much just as Job For A Cowboy were ending their set, so I barely saw them. Not enough to form an impression. But for the rest of the night, one word: ENERGY. I’d seen Terror once before (2007 with […]
03/04/2013 Deftones, The Contortionist (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013The gaps between seeing the Deftones for me unfortunately are of the long variety. Saw them twice in 1998 (the second of which was in this venue!), twice in 2000, then not until 2007, and now five and half years after that I finally got to see them again. Every show had been worth the […]
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