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

(EDITOR’S NOTE — We’ve opined here once before that the Buffalo band Autoignition seems incapable of writing a bad song. And the group’s latest single, ‘Not for Nothing,’ lends further credence to our stance. The new track, which you can listen to HERE, is the lead single from Autoignition’s upcoming five-song EP, ‘Against the World,’ which drops on May 15. In a sense, the new record has been a longtime coming for the band, given that some of the EP’s songs were written three

War Bond, 'An Act of Treason' If 20 years from now debate swirls in local hardcore circles over what LPs are among the best debut albums recorded by a Buffalo hardcore band, we wouldn’t be surprised at all if War Bond’s ‘An Act of Treason’ is among those mentioned. It’s just that fucking good. From the very start of the album’s opening track, ‘March On,’ as Ricky Bertucca’s foreboding bass intro paves way to vocalist Ky Reynolds’ impassioned oration, you immediately get the s

Jenn Orr passed away in Nov. 2022 after a nearly two-decades-long battle with mental illness, yet still to this day, her presence is felt. She speaks through the original music of her brother, Buffalo musician Brendan Orr, whose bands include Canetis and deb. Meanwhile, the love she so fiercely radiated, and the good she brought to this world, have transcended her death and continues on a daily basis to impact the lives of those she touched while she was here. “Jenn’s passion

Allison Mitchell of Velvet Bethany (photo provided ) One of the very cool aspects of the Buffalo scene is the collaborative projects that often spring up seemingly out of nowhere, producing extraordinary music which then falls gift-wrapped into our collective laps from the musical heavens when we least expect it. And one the most recent ventures to grace our ears combines Aronia M., a project started by Broken Locker drummer Jeffrey Szatkowski, with Allison Mitchell from Ve

Buffalo’s Personal Style has dropped a new and ferociously raw four-track EP titled ‘Garbage Can.’ Described by the group on its Bandcamp page as “four rippin’ songs that we wrote along the way,” the EP stands as a master class in blistering garage rock and underscores, once again, why this band is so widely respected throughout Buffalo’s scene. Adding to the new record’s excellence is the appearance of Buffalo’s Jake King, who appears on guitar on the song ‘ Double Down

The young and too short-lived Buffalo punk band Standard Living — which has decided to go on “indefinite hiatus” as its members attend college across the country and Canada —always seemed to write beyond its years. Though its members were born this century, their music exuded the raw urgency of the 1980’s LA and DC punk scenes, not only in sound, but in spirit too. But what was equally interesting about Standard Living was that the band was impossible to pigeonhole. Just