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 Downer .’  ...

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 when you thought...

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 time. 1120 PRESS:...