There’s a lot to take away from the new LP, ‘Wildfires,’ by the prolific musician and recent SUNY Fredonia grad, Logan McGranaghan.Most importantly, the 12-song, 61-minute album — McGranaghan’s third full-length solo release since 2024 — is as intriguing as it is good. Second, while McGranaghan’s music is often beyond his years, this particular LP stands out as, perhaps, his most mature work yet. And lastly, though self-categorized as “electronic,” placing ‘Wildfires’ in

Chris Fritton is many things: printer, artist, poet, publisher just to name a few. The former studio director of the Western New York Book Arts Center, Chris co-founded the celebrated Buffalo Small Press Book Fair. He is also known for his long-running project — The Itinerant Printer — in which he logged more than 150,000 miles traveling across the United States and Canada, visiting letterpress shops and creating exclusive prints. Chris Fritton is also prolific. And these

Blissen (All Photos by Andy Buscemi) There’s many reasons these days to be optimistic about the city’s music scene: a new generation of kids packing shows at Area 54, the tremendous job by groups such as the Lavender Room and Get A Grip Studios in putting together must-see bills while simultaneously working to build community, thriving hardcore and indie scenes, and a crop of talented new bands forming and releasing excellent debuts. Now, meet Blissen, a young Buffalo grunge

(EDITOR’S NOTES — You may know the very talented Lex Squier as the bassist for the Buffalo indie band Romcom Victims, the recently formed punk trio The Jake King Band and/or the art-folk duo The New Dionysians. But in recent months, Lex also has been making waves with an excellent solo synth project called ‘Radio Calisthenics,’ for which she recently dropped its debut LP. The album spans a fascinating range of emotion and artistic exploration with a retro feel that’s weaved i

ARCANA (photo provided) The new album ‘Absence’ by Buffalo alternative metal band ARCANA is a fascinating and powerful work of art, fusing together vision with technical skill and raw emotion. Heavy, haunting and atmospheric, the nearly 40-minute LP both exudes passion and hits like an anvil. The album’s songs are not only to be heard but felt. There’s a hypnotic element to ARCANA’s music, which, at first, seeps into your brain before ultimately hitting you in the gut. Y

(Editor’s Note — Dawn Cochran does stuff… a lot of stuff. She’s an actor, a photographer, a writer, and podcast host of the Buffalo Struggling Artist Series, which can be heard on Spotify HERE, and on YouTube HERE, under the appropriately named heading, ‘Dawn Does Stuff.’ Recently, 1120 Press caught up with Dawn, who was nice enough to take time from her busy schedule to talk to us about the Buffalo Struggling Artist (BSA) Series, the inspiration behind it, her formative year

(EDITOR’S NOTES — Justin Von Strasburg has been omnipresent on the Buffalo scene for years, playing drums in an array of bands which traipse across a plethora of musical styles from punk to indie to experimental to noise rock and everything in between. Widely known for his minimalist kits, Justin these days is a member of the indie bands Peak Fun and The Step Down, the avant-garde noise rock trio Arrangements, and the experimental duo Regional Headbutting Techniques just to n

'Nap' album cover. There’s always something comforting about a Wylie Something record. Dreamlike and sonically gallivanting, oftentimes to a daring extent, there is an eternal sense of wonderment and escape embedded within the music. And let’s be honest: who doesn’t need an escape right about now? Thankfully, as we navigate this dark and twisted Trumpian nightmare, escape is at hand, as a new Wylie Something record drops today. And what better way to escape than hiding undern

The prolific and unpredictable Buffalo indie artist Jacob King continues to build onto his impressive and extensive catalogue with the upcoming release of his new EP, ‘Rock and Roll,’ which drops on Friday. Jake — who will be playing Area 54 on Wednesday night with Age of Peace from Cincinnati and Buffalo’s Plant Water (details HERE) — returns to his guitar-driven neo-psych sound in spectacular fashion on this record. Chock full of unrestrained sonic distortion, low-fi vocals