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Lotus completed a two night run in Buffalo October 29-30 with a Space Disco Theme on Halloween, complete with the Town Ballroom's giant Disco Ball shining on a crowd who were dressed to impress. The room filled in shortly after Jimkata…

The lights and sounds will come alive next weekend as the busy festival season begins to hit the final stretch in the Western New York town of Sherman with Night Lights Music Festival. The August festival has become the go-to festival in…

Saratoga Performing Arts Center has been a staple for Dave Matthews Band for so many years and the band busted open the two night run with So Right, fitting perfectly and setting the tone for the weekend. The band is celebrating their 25th…

Michael Lang, best known as co-creator of the most famous music festival in history, is at it again with plans for a 50th anniversary Woodstock music festival. The original Woodstock took place in 1969 in Bethel and became one of the most…

Three bands from last years Buffalove Music Festival will get together on the night before Thanksgiving in Buffalo. Funktional Flow, Skyepilot and After Funk will be celebrating with CranJam at The Tralf Music Hall. The event will also be…

Dead and Company came to the First Niagara Center in Buffalo on Wednesday November 11, 2015. The band, which includes three of four founding members of The Grateful Dead and Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti and most notably John Mayer. Mickey…

I have always liked cheese, whether it's a nice Brie, Jarlsberg, smoked Gouda, or even NY Cheddar; after all who doesn't love cheese.  Only made sense I would like a band named String Cheese Incident.  Thought to myself, "wonder where that…

Magnaball, Phish’s tenth festival, which took place August 21-23, 2015 at Watkins Glen International Speedway. NYS Music photographer Thomas Sgroi (aka Big Tom) had his camera handy and took these shots from that epic weekend.

There has been a lot to be said about the Buffalo music scene these days, especially with bands like moe. and most recently Aqueous, making a splash in the music community. One band that has been around for the last few years is Buffalo's …

Funktional Flow and new members brought the funk to Nietzsche's on Saturday, April 25 with their release party for Let it Settle and not only did they put an album out they also welcomed guitarist Joey Lewis and keyboardist/saxophone…