- Flash Ticket Giveway for “Push the Lil’ Daisies” Ween Tributeby Jeff Miers on July 11, 2025 at 3:27 pm
Special Friday night Music Matters Summer Concert Series show at Sully’s at Harbor Walk Tonight (Friday, July 11)
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on July 9, 2025 at 2:44 pm
Take your pick – amazing shows in a wide variety of genres hit WNY this month!
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on July 2, 2025 at 2:27 pm
Black Sabbath’s ‘Back to the Beginning’ to be live-streamed; New show announcements; This week’s picks
- Therapy by Proxy: ‘Is It Time to Break Up the Band?’by Jeff Miers on July 1, 2025 at 6:15 pm
‘Proxy with Yowei Shaw’ episode brings emotional investigative journalism to bear on band drama
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 24, 2025 at 10:00 pm
The return of Penny Lane! And some new show announcements, as well as picks for the coming weeks
- Why Music Matters with Jeff Miers: Rush super-fan Ray Wawrzyniak Reduxby Jeff Miers on June 20, 2025 at 6:06 pm
Ep. 39 – The musicologist, writer, historian and archivist returns fro another deep-dive on the music and influence of Rush
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 19, 2025 at 6:19 pm
Sick of funding Live Nation? Think local!; Rising jazz star Caity Gyorgy comes to Kleinhans; and a Curated List of Must-See Gigs.
- A Curated Concert Roundup: June 5-13by Jeff Miers on June 16, 2025 at 7:08 pm
Lazlo Holly Feld plays Radiohead, SZA & Kendrick Lamar in Toronto, Ricky Skaggs at Sportsmens Park, and Buddy Guy in Niagara Falls.
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 11, 2025 at 10:06 pm
David Byrne Announces new album and Shea’s Buffalo Show; Melvin Seals & JGB Will Play Asbury Hall in the Fall; and a Curated List of Must-See Gigs.
- Where the Bands Are: This Week in Live Music and Concert Newsby Jeff Miers on June 6, 2025 at 5:00 pm
New music alert! Robin Taylor Zander, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, and more; Some new concert announcements; and a curated list of this week’s must-see gigs.
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Friday I’m in Love: My Favorite New Music This Week
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Gila Monster; Mike Gordon, Flying Games; Yes, Mirror to the Sky; and Dave Matthews Band, Walk Around the Moon
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
We’re off to the races. Choose your concert companions wisely and get a good grip on your stamina, folks
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What’s in my headphones: This week’s musical obsession – The ecstasy of XTC
I’m prone to listening jags. Serious ones. The tend to last several weeks. They run deep. And the deeper they run, the more likely they are to recur.
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Where the Bands Are: This week’s must-see live music & concert news
At long last, here comes sunshine! And with it, for those of us who live this music-centric life, a deep desire for live shows – indoors, outdoors, anywhere at all.
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Friday I’m in Love: My favorite new music this week
Peter Gabriel, Four Kinds of Horses (Bright-Side Mix); The 3 Clubmen, Aviatrix and more
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Damone’s Tuesday Night Music Club
By the time he launched his band The Outcome 5 years back, Damone Jackson was already regarded as one of the most virtuosic and dynamic drummers in all of Western New York. Today, however, Jackson needs to be viewed through a wider lens.
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Friday I’m in Love: My favorite new music this week
The National, First Two Pages of Frankenstein; Pearl Jam, Give Way; Beach House and more
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Rest in peace, Harry Belafonte, singer, activist, humanitarian
The voice of Harry Belafonte, who died at age 96 on Tuesday, is one of those vehicles of emotional overload for me, and has been for most of my life.
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Metallica’s ’72 Seasons’: A symphony of sound, fury and… introspection?
With the release of “72 Seasons,” the band’s 11th studio album, it becomes apparent that even the mighty Metallica has had to face the morning after…
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Creating cultural infrastructure: How do we make Buffalo a real ‘Music City’?
We all enjoy it, but we don’t do much to ensure its survival, or to fully capitalize on what it has to offer. And yet, in other markets, music, when employed in a deliberate and intentional way, has been proven to deliver economic, social and cultural growth.
