07/31/2010 KROCKathon 15: Limp Bizkit, Flyleaf, Avenged Sevenfold, Hollywood Undead, Ed Kowalczyk, All That Remains, Halestorm, A Day To Remember, Smile Empty Soul, Crash Kings (Syracuse, NY @ New York State Fairgrounds)
Thursday, August 5th, 2010[New Politics and Hail The Villain were also on the bill, but I didn’t get there early enough to catch them.] Since I knew I wasn’t interested in seeing any of the first couple bands, I made it easier on myself by getting there a little later. Getting in was no problem, I had to […]
07/06/2010 Fuel, Danielle Barbe, Strike The Sky, Minds Open Wide (Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010I met Greg out front of Water Street on one of the hottest day of the year, and we reluctantly walked inside. I say reluctantly because we figured it’d be nothing less than a sauna inside, and we were right. The first act up was a Rochester band called Minds Open Wide. I’m not quite […]
06/19/2010 Daughtry, Lifehouse, Cavo (Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena)
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Yay pop-rock at it’s finest! American Idol or no, Chris Daughtry has proven that he can do mainstream rock with the best of them, and with two albums and a bajilion copies sold, he’s doing something right. The tour for Leave This Town had been going on for quite awhile with all three of these […]
05/22/2010 The Gruesome Twosome Tour: Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper (Lewiston, NY @ Artpark)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010When this show got announced, I felt it was something I ought to see, given that I’ve never seen Rob Zombie, nor Alice Cooper, and the two of them on the same bill? Money. Along with Sara and two of her friends, we found our seats at the back of the center section, about 20 […]
05/14/2010 Sister Hazel (Rochester, NY @ Lilac Festival)
Friday, May 14th, 2010[The Coup De Villes and Shannon Curfman opened, but we didn’t get there in time] Tiff was in heaven! Her band, in her town, for free at the Lilac Festival! I got there a bit later and wandered during most of the set, but Tiff had a fantastic time, a great setlist, they sounded good, […]
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. […]
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