Buffalo rapper Lil Lappy released his debut EP, “The Death Tape,” nearly a year ago. The underground artist uses this full-length project to outline his personal struggles as a young man who feels helplessly alone. His own admission of schizophrenia …
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“Cotton Candy Skies” by Seth Fonda is an album of great spectacle that covers the scattershot purging that follows one’s first real entanglement with heartbreak. This is an album with a clear ambition of being universal, the production style is …
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Kathryn Koch is no stranger to the Buffalo music scene. She’s perhaps best known from the band Redheaded Stepchild, which was active in the ’90s and ’00s. She also played sax with Zydeco band Black Rock Zydeco from 2012 to …
Read MoreIt’s rare to listen to a record that’s ahead of its time, yet still so severely dated. This is the dichotomy of “Eating on the First Date” by Teased to a Beatdown. It’s an album that is trapped in purgatory. …
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There is little that compares to a live concert. The jostling of ticket holders packing the venue, the roar of the crowd as the band first takes the stage, and the sheer communal energy of it all make for an …
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Recurrent and horrifically inevitable — this is the thread connecting suffering and death. Stress Dolls’ “Pain Is a Season” confronts this connection through different vignettes of living under the specter of chronic illness. But don’t be put off by …
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In February, my band went on a mini tour of Pennsylvania and New York, and the third and final date of our tour brought us to the City of Buffalo on an unseasonably warm day at a little hidden gem …
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