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In over 30 years of live music at Nietzsche’s Buffalo, no band has ever been granted a residency, until Wednesday February 5th, 2014 when Aqueous secured a month long gig at Nietzsche’s where they will play themed shows every single…

Rock and roll trio and Saratoga Springs, NY natives Wild Adriatic have a new long player titled Big Suspicious. This current collection is hallmarked by a plethora of imposing guitar licks, resounding rhythms, and vintage vocal approaches.…

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be bringing their legendary show to Albany's Times Union Center on May 13.  This is part of the first leg of United States dates for Bruce since 2012.  Bruce is known for pushing the envelope at…

It would be easy to start (yet another) album review by saying how great The Satanist was, how influential Behemoth is in metal, and how the Satanist may easily be one of the best albums of 2014 -- already; but in truth, these claims can be…

Jay-Z has made a reputation as one of the greatest living rappers, and his Magna Carta tour continues to prove just that.  Opening with, “U Don’t Know”, Jay-Z started his performance at Buffalo’s First Niagara Center with an energy that…

The Saturday of Presidents’ Weekend should be a blast at Club Helsinki in “Upstate’s Downtown” Hudson, where Steve Earle will be belting out some of his signature rockabilly, alt-country, and anti-war tunes. Garnering inspiration from…

A genre is nothing more than an attempt to categorize and liken one band's sound to another. Regardless of what you want to label Jamestown's Smackdab, their music will certainly get you moving. The band is made up of Jon-Marc Johnson on…

It is not very often that Central New York is treated to Grammy Award winning artists, let alone two in one night at the same show.  On January 12th, the Palace Theatre in Syracuse, NY was honored to feature Paula Cole and Marc Cohn in…

Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar, two legendary slide guitarists, played an intimate concert in The Lewis A. Swyer Theatre at The Egg in Albany on Friday January 31st. The less than 450 person crowd was surprisingly loud as Sonny…

The legendary talented guitar virtuso Tim Reynolds will be bringing his band TR3 on stage Monday, February 10th at The Tralf Music Hall. Tim Reynolds, well known for his collaboration with Dave Matthews, will be joined on stage with Mick…