- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on July 24, 2024 at 9:38 pm
Some Cobblestoned Vibes and Borderland festival news, Robby Takac’s new bourbon, show announcements, and recommendations for the coming week (or so)
- Happiness Makes You Cry: A Review of the Flaming Lips at Artparkby Jeff Miers on July 23, 2024 at 11:06 pm
The band’s ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ anniversary tour melted faces and hearts in Lewiston
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on July 18, 2024 at 6:53 pm
At last – The Flaming Lips! Plus, Pappy Martin Legacy Masten Jazz Fest, Type Relevant, Talking Dead Heads, Gantzer/Spafford, and much more…
- Why Music Matters with Jeff Miers: Episode 22 – Live Music Curator and Lifelong Music Lover, Dave Wedekindtby Jeff Miers on July 15, 2024 at 9:06 pm
Welcome to Why Music Matters…the podcast where we examine the power and influence that music can wield in our lives. Today, I’m excited to welcome an old friend to the podcast. Dave Wedekindt has been working behind the scenes to enrich the lives of music fans throughout the Western New York region for several decades.
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on July 3, 2024 at 4:53 pm
New show announcements, a handful of postponements, and a curated list of essential summer concerts in the coming weeks
- Music is Art Festival moves to Outer Harborby Jeff Miers on July 2, 2024 at 3:43 pm
Organizers cite ‘too many challenges’ at proposed AKG Art Museum location
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 26, 2024 at 8:15 pm
M’Dou Moctar melts faces & hearts at Asbury Hall, Chuckie Campbell, Stress Dolls, Dellwood & the Nightshades, & more
- BEAT Goes On!by Jeff Miers on June 25, 2024 at 2:51 pm
‘Belew/Vai/Levin/Carey Play 80s King Crimson’ will perform at UB’s Center for the Arts on December 2nd
- Why Music Matters with Jeff Miers: Episode 21 – the talented and soulful David Michael Millerby Jeff Miers on June 22, 2024 at 12:02 pm
A conversation with the Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, Producer and Bandleader
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 20, 2024 at 12:02 pm
Hello summer! Great live shows abound – inside and out
- Farewell to the dark and beautiful heart of the true ‘Alternative Buffalo’by Jeff Miers on June 19, 2024 at 6:04 pm
Like so many others, I found my tribe at the Old Pink.
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 5, 2024 at 8:54 pm
A WTBA double edition: So many gigs, so little time…
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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.