- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on October 21, 2026 at 8:19 pm
Improvement Movement and the ‘How the hell did I not hear about this show!?’ quandary; plus new announcements, this week’s picks and a curated list of upcoming gigs!
- The Bye Week Ball: Ticket Giveaway!by Jeff Miers on October 20, 2026 at 8:37 pm
No Bills? No worries. 8 bands on 2 stages will chase away your Sunday blues.
- Why Music Matters w/Jeff Miers: Generations: Stu, Ethan & Avery Weissmanby Jeff Miers on October 15, 2026 at 3:58 pm
EP 60: How a legendary Buffalo musician passed on his love for music to his sons
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on October 14, 2026 at 8:13 pm
Steve Hackett, Pat Travers Band, Omar Hakim shows announced, plus this week’s picks and a curated list of upcoming shows!
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on October 8, 2026 at 9:02 pm
Congrats to BMHOF Inductees, Goo Goo Dolls new tour, local favorite Willie Nile coming home for annual holiday show, more concert announcements, plus the curated list of shows
- If Pat Metheny asks ‘Are you going with me?,’ just say yesby Jeff Miers on October 2, 2026 at 5:39 pm
Concert Review: Pat Metheny Side Eye III+ , Asbury Hall, September 29
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on September 30, 2026 at 6:05 pm
That’s a wrap on the 2026 summer concert season! Thank you for a real good time! On we go, with new concert announcements and a curated list of show picks!
- Goo Goo Dolls Announce Twin Benefit Shows in Buffaloby Jeff Miers on September 28, 2026 at 6:02 pm
The band will play the Town Ballroom on November 20 and 21, to benefit FeedMore WNY
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on September 17, 2026 at 8:32 pm
Borderland 2026, Misty City Music Festival, Spend “A Night with Janis,” BIG concert announcements and show picks
- Why Music Matters w/Jeff Miers: author and founder of renowned indie label Big Deal Records, Dean Brownroutby Jeff Miers on September 11, 2026 at 12:02 pm
EP 59: The acclaimed author of ‘No Big Deal’ dishes on the dying days of the record business
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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.
