05/10/2010 Pearl Jam (Buffalo, NY @ HSBC Arena)
Thursday, May 13th, 2010[Band Of Horses was the opener, but we didn’t see them.] It had been 7 years, almost to the day (5/2/03), since Pearl Jam had been in Buffalo, and thus, that long since I’d seen them live. After some day-before scrambling for people, Tom and Nikki took my original 300-level tickets, and I joined Dave […]
05/08/2010 Snapcase, Sick Of It All, Cancer Bats, Walter Schreifels (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Monday, May 10th, 2010It goes without saying that Snapcase is one of the most influential hardcore bands ever to come out of the genre, and the fact that they’re from Buffalo allowed a mostly non-hardcore kid such as myself to be exposed to them and appreciate how good they really are. I say that with a bit of […]
03/27/2010 Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Thursday, April 1st, 2010I chose this show over seeing the second night of OLP at the Riviera Theatre (the Spiritual Machines show) because A) SM isn’t one of my favorite OLP albums, and B) I haven’t seen Matt Good with a full band since March of 2001. (Through whatever timing and scheduling misfortunes, I just haven’t been able […]
03/26/2010 Our Lady Peace (North Tonawanda, NY @ Riviera Theatre)
Monday, March 29th, 2010If you go back and read my review of the Lockport OLP show from over the summer, I sounded kind of down on them, but mentioned that A) the album versions of the new songs might grow on me, and B) that show was a “little bit” of nostalgia. Well, the new songs certainly did […]
02/23/2010 Cold, Nonpoint, Day Of Fire, Edisun, Augustine (Syracuse, NY @ Westcott Theater)
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010I rolled in from work, and wandered into the line-less venue as Augustine was finishing up. I only saw about half of the last song, so I have no idea how they were. Edisun was next up, and they’re a pretty straight-up rock band from New Jersey (Edison, NJ, surprised? Not me!) the NYC/CT area. […]
02/11/2010 Five Finger Death Punch, Shadows Fall, God Forbid (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Friday, February 12th, 2010[2 Cents was also on the bill, but I didn’t catch them.] Phill and I made our way down the 90 to the Ballroom, and walked as the stage was just getting set for God Forbid. We hung back on the top level to take in their half-hour set, which was probably the best place […]
02/01/2010 Shinedown, Puddle of Mudd, Skillet (Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory)
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010[Like A Storm was also on the bill, but I didn’t get there in time to catch them.] This show was largely a “game-time” decision for me, as I was on the fence about going. Shinedown had played this same venue 11 months prior, and I wasn’t sure I’d see anything different. With Tiffany going […]
12/27/2009 Every Time I Die, Rhinoceros (Buffalo, NY @ Mohawk Place)
Monday, December 28th, 2009The 5th Annual Every Time I Die Xmas Show. What a fun night! Met Adam at his place, we watched the Sabres beat the Blues at Thirsty Buffalo before heading over to Mohawk to catch this later-start 9pm show. We pretty much hung in the back all night and chilled with Art, had a couple […]
12/16/2009 Strike The Sky, More Than Me (Rochester, NY @ The Club at Water Street)
Friday, December 18th, 2009Local music Wednesday at the club side at Water Street featured two bands we’ve seen more than a handful of times. Strike The Sky “headlined” because they’re the Rochester band, but both them and More Than Me played for about an hour. Always nice to see the MTM boys play fully plugged-in, and per usual, […]
12/14/2009 Hatebreed, Cannibal Corpse, Unearth (Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom)
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009[Hate Eternal and Born Of Osiris were both also on the bill, but I didn’t see them.] The second leg of Hatebreed’s “Decimation of the Nation Tour” rolled into Buffalo. I was fortunate enough to see a show on the first leg in Rochester (with Chimaira), and that show was going to be almost impossible […]
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