Area 54 will play host on Saturday to a unique all-Fredonia show featuring a trio of bands on a genre-mashing bill. Hitting the stage will be New Venice (alt-metal), Ordinary Feeling (shoegaze and formerly known until just recently as Bone Machine), and Face First (Fredonia hardcore). Doors open at 7 p.m. and music starts at 8. 1120 Press caught up with a few of the musicians who’ll be playing Saturday for a quick conversation in advance of the show. We thank them for their t

‘I’ll let entropy decide … I’m terrified of people because they have guns and knives’ - Plank Over Constant Slaughter (from the EP, ‘Worship the Disease’ by Sleep Debt Ceiling ) We acknowledge it may be somewhat tactless to suggest, but the Buffalo music scene would be a lot worse off without James Stephenson’s angst and inner turmoil. Stephenson, for the uninitiated, is the artist behind the prolific folk-rock band, Sleep Debt Ceiling , which yesterday released its latest

When hardcore punk band Kill Uncle dropped its debut EP in 2023, it hit like an anvil, asserting the band’s arrival on the Buffalo scene. And since then, the group’s become a fixed presence, noted for its raw, cyclonic performances. While gigging regularly, Kill Uncle over the last several months also has been hard at work writing new material, and tomorrow the fruit of the band’s labor will be unveiled with the release of its first full-length album, ‘We Are the Wicked .’

Prairie Pavement ( Photo by Jare Curtis/inset edit by band ) If you’ve ever been to a Prairie Pavement show, you already know the group is arguably one of the best live bands on the Buffalo scene. With a palpable on-stage chemistry, the band has built a sizeable following through its animated, high-energy performances which generate a contagious positive vibe. The hype that surrounds the group is well-deserved; it’s earned every bit of it. Yet its reputation for fun and sho

Headbutt ( photo by Phu Trans ) Meet Headbutt , a new Buffalo band that despite emerging only a few short months ago already has some notable excitement swirling around it on the city’s indie rock scene, which in the past year has been thriving at an increasingly steady rate. The buzz comes with good reason. Made up of scene veterans, Headbutt is comprised of Wavy (vocals), Bran Schlia (bass), Kameron Plotner (drums) and Sam Share (guitar), each of whom brings to the group