- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on October 9, 2025 at 9:18 pm
New concert announcements and live music all this week in WNY
- Geddy Lee & Alex Lifeson will tour as Rush in 2026!by Jeff Miers on October 6, 2025 at 3:10 pm
German virtuoso drummer (and former Jeff Beck collaborator) Anika Nilles will join them in 12-date tour paying tribute to Neil Peart
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on October 1, 2025 at 8:40 pm
Dali Lama’s meditations set to music! Mohawk Place update! Steve Hackett comes to Kleinhans! Stereolab! Gary Numan! So much GOLD!
- Concert Review: Elbow Brings its Sound & Vision Statesideby Jeff Miers on September 30, 2025 at 7:38 pm
Manchester Band delivers arena-sized emotions to Intimate Buffalo club
- Concert Review: David Byrne – ‘Love is the New Punk Rock’by Jeff Miers on September 26, 2025 at 9:59 pm
Shea’s Theatre stop on the Who Is the Sky? tour took Buffalo to heaven
- Why Music Matters with Jeff Miers: Ulithian Vibes – From Micronesia to Buffalo, With Loveby Jeff Miers on September 25, 2025 at 3:15 pm
Ep. 43- Reggae band from the Ulithian Atoll tell their story and discuss their connection to Buffalo
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on September 24, 2025 at 7:23 pm
Dis/Connect: A global day to unplug from digital distractions; David Byrne comes to Shea’s; and a heavily curated list of recommended shows for the coming week! So much GOLD!
- Joss Stone: On her ‘Less Is More’ tour, motherhood, road life, and keeping the flame burningby Jeff Miers on September 22, 2025 at 9:48 pm
Watch the interview and register to win tickets to Joss’ Oct. 1 show at UB’s Center for the Arts!
- Review: Borderland Festival 2025by Jeff Miers on September 17, 2025 at 10:44 pm
Three incredible days of peace, love, community and music
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on September 11, 2025 at 1:47 pm
Borderland is here! And there are loads of other shows this week…Plus, concert announcements and show picks
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
Metric, black midi, Dirty Work, Jeremy Dutcher and more!
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My Morning Jacket melted my face!
There can be no doubt that My Morning Jacket melted my face and rearranged my musical cosmos with their 20-song set.
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
My Morning Jacket, Umphrey’s McGee and Death Kings after-party, Music is Art Festival Fundraiser, and more
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Michael Franti’s musical mission
Michael Franti & Spearhead perform at Artpark Ampitheatre tonight (June 21) beginning at 6 p.m., and I caught up with the bandleader, songwriter, philanthropist and activist earlier this week for a discussion centering on the positive role that music has played in Franti’s own life, and the lives of his international fanbase. That full discussion…
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Mike Gordon and band make a meaningful connection at Town Ballroom show
Mike Gordon’s two-set show highlighted the Phish bassist’s gifts as songwriter and bandleader, and thrilled those assembled.
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Friday I’m in Love: New King Gizzard makes the apocalypse sound like fun
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard delivers a full-bore, detuned, blast beat-bearing, end of the world-summoning metal album.
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
An Evening with Mike Gordon, The 5th Annual Strawberry Moon Festival, Whitetails and more
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Robby Takac announces 21st anniversary Music is Art Festival
If there’s one thing Robby Takac has learned over the past two decades of presenting his Music is Art Festival to Buffalo audiences, it’s how to roll with the punches.
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
Ain’t no time to hate, barely time to wait…I’ve been making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes, eagerly stuffing myself on a diet of live music and washing it all down with the occasional Buffalo-born craft beer
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music and concert news
The summer concert season moves from tentative first-step to straight-up mad dash this week, without so much as a pause for a quick gear shift in between.
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Of a Fire on Mt. Joy
Artpark’s outdoor amphitheater season opener was a warm and glowing affair.
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
Two of the week’s biggest shows are completely sold out… Good to see the summer gig season off to a strong start, at any rate.
