May - 2023

On the Scene with Buffalo Music Journalist Benjamin Joe

(EDITOR’S NOTE — Benjamin Joe, founder of the website Buffalo Music Players, has been writing about the Buffalo music scene for six...

The Desert Comes to Buffalo — Meet Desert Crystal

(EDITOR’S NOTE — Hailing from the desert of Southern California, Desert Crystal is new to the Buffalo music scene. On Monday, June 5,...

The Punk Rock Prom! Hey Ho, Let's Go ... and Don't Forget to Donate

(EDITOR’S NOTE — 1120 Press spoke with Carina DeFabbio of Good Things Events about this year’s Punk Rock Prom, which will be held this...

Poet Laureate Jillian Hanesworth on an Anniversary We Never Wanted but Can’t Ignore

(EDITOR’S NOTE — To mark the one-year anniversary of last year’s May 14 racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops supermarket on...

Good Acoustics: A Talk with On The Cinder

(EDITOR’S NOTE — Fresh off their Spring tour which took them through 10 states in the south and Midwest, On The Cinder’s guitarist Jason...

Inspired by Hardcore, Energized by Punk and Ready to Tear Things Up

(Meet the Coffin Dodgers: Flip Hastings, Bass; Ian Michalski, Vocals; Patrick Conley, Guitar, and a man named Tony on the drums.— Images...

ESSAY: Another Day, Another Shooting

I propose America change its emblem from an eagle to the little girl captured in the powerful and heartbreaking photo (on this page)taken...

ESSAY: The Crankshaft

(Editor's Note — Writer Gerry Dempsey was born and raised in Buffalo, NY and now lives in North Carolina. Gerry also has far more...