(photos courtesy of Sharyn at WNYMedia)

This was my second time seeing moe. and they blew me away. Art Park in Lewiston is by far my favorite venue for live shows in WNY.

moe. knows how to headline a show playing for a total of over 3 hours.This set includes a sick 27 minute Brent Black as well as a mind blowing Plane Crash at the end of the second set.

Get out and see these guys while you can. They are currently on tour and will be taking the winter off after moe. down here in a few weeks.

Many thanks to the Daniel at Upstate Tapers for getting this show up.

enjoy!

To grab the MP3’s click HERE.

For the full setlist and lossless files head over to The Archive.

Not Coming Down

Brent Black

Stranger Than Fiction

JJ Grey & Mofro opened for Jimmy Vaughn and played an excellent set. The band sounded great and and the crowd turned out early to support these blues greats.

These guys hail from Jacksonville, Florida and have been impressing fans across the nation at many of the major festivals.

Grey first coined his blend of rhythm and blues, soul and funky rock and roll as “Mofro Magic” in 1997, based on the continuous southern slang being thrown around at a lumberyard in Jacksonville, Florida (JJ’s hometown) where he worked. According to his bio on the band’s website, Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern storytellers, and his songs often use the loss of his natural surroundings and the marginalization of the Southern culture he grew up in as metaphors in his lyrics.

For the entire setlist and lossless file head over to The Archive.

To grab the MP3’s click HERE.

Ho Cake

By My Side

How Junior Got His Head Put Out

Little Mountain Band has been lighting up the greater Buffalo, NY music scene for a couple of years now with a true jam band sound that is as unique as it is contagious. The band consists of Aaron Ziolkowski, Taylor Locking, Donavan Cudmore, Adam Schmidt, Brian Seibel, and Rob Enderle.

Each member of the band brings an incredible amount of talent to the stage. They have great stage presence and band chemistry which is evident in their song writing and tight improvisational abilities that are an amazing blend of jam and bluegrass. Check out the sample below.

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Mother Culture

Cross Eyed & Painless

Miss Molly

Grassroots Festival returned for it’s 17 year as one of the longest running festivals in America.  John Brown’s Body put on an excellent show for it’s home crowd with some new song off their new CD. If your a fan of reggae/dub music you’ll love this mind blowing set. enjoy!

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For lossless files via ftp and full set list head over to The Archive.

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Push Some Air

Strugglin

Amplify

Ghost Notes

I’m going to keep this brief as I’m about to run out the door for the Blue Heron Festival but I wanted to get this up before I left as I’ll be coming back with a bunch more music to post and I don’t want to get behind.

Bottom line. Great show. Jakob Dylan has captured everything that is good about folk music. The crowd absolutely loved him. My dad grew up listening to Bob Dylan and it was surreal to see his son a generation later playing some incredible folk music for this Buffalo crowd.

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Here’s a few samples from the show.

enjoy!

Blind Melon is back in a big way.  Lead by new lead singer Warren Travis and featuring all of the other original members including guitarists Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens, bassist Brad Smith and drummer Glen Graham. Blind Melon was one of my favorite bands growing up in Florida as a teenager in the early 90’s. Seeing this re-incarnation of the band was a dream come true. We’ve covered a lot of shows in 2008 and this is the one of the (photo by dfrisi) best shows we’ve  seen this year  2nd only to Umphrey’s McGee at the Town Ballroom. For those of you who follow this site - that’s saying a lot!

The new lead singer is a perfect match for the band. While he does sound similar to Shannon Hoon he definitely has his own voice which is evident when the band breaks into some of their newer material. Read the rest of this entry »

(photos courtesy of aneurysm9)

Last year they predicted it, this year they delivered. YMSB became only the third band in the 22 year history of Thursday At The Square to do “an evening with” at Buffalo’s best outdoor venue. After playing the past two years in torrential downpours the sun finally shined for their 3rd appearance. YMSB put on an excellent show playing two sets for a total of over 2 and half hours of intense newgrass.

This is a must have set for any YMSB or newgrass/jamband fans. Jeff Austin and the rest of the guys love playing for this crowd in Buffalo. For those of you who have been to a show at Thursday At The Square you know why bands enjoy playing here so much.

Its one if the few outdoor venue’s that continues to offer free jam band concerts in a downtown setting week after week. The fans pack it right in after work and stay till 10pm. The crowd surfing is wild and the interaction between the bands and the crowd is simply amazing.

Make the jump to download this excellent SBD recording. Read the rest of this entry »

Last Friday night on the eve of the 51rst Annual Allentown Arts Festival The Ryan Montebleau band gave the Buffalo heads another night to remember. The band played to a packed house on their 5th trip to the famed Nieztche’s music club in the historical Allentown district of Buffalo.

This was my first time seeing the guys in concert and they played almost three hours of the best heartfelt foot stomping music we’re heard this year. The bands funky grooves mixed with amazing song writing had the place packed till the early morning with sweating ravenous dancers. Read the rest of this entry »

I was just turned on to these guys by one of our readers .

The band consists of Adam Nash (keys/piano), Jon Joffe (guitar), Greg Halbkram (bass), and Sal Galati (drums/percussion).

If you have yet to hear of these guys you’ve gotta check out their funky jams. These guys are from Philly and are currently on tour in the northeast.

“Codename’s songs are a fusion of tightly composed, high-energy progressive-rock arrangements, complimented by jazzy harmonies and funked out dance grooves. Their show is a true experience. The soulful connection is apparent between Adam Nash (keys/piano), Jon Joffe (guitar), Greg Halbkram (bass), and Sal Galati (drums/percussion), as their chemistry both on and off the stage combines unique energy, vision, and sense of adventure that all goes into the jazz-infused blast of funk rock that is Codename. Among their influences are The Grateful Dead and Phish, Herbie Hancock, John Scofield and Medeski Martin & Wood, Pink Floyd, Yes, Soulive and The Allman Brothers.”

Make the jump to check out a few samples from their show at The Brass Lantern in Reading, PA and download the entire show. They have a great presence on The Archive.

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Last night was sick. It was my 2nd time seeing Bisco and this is one of the best shows we’ve covered at The Square in downtown Buffalo. We got down there early and the guys from Philly opened at 6:30 with Kitchen Mittens. They moved through some of thier originals including a sick Jigsaw Earth jam. When they broke into a ruckus cover of Rage Against The Machines ‘Killing In The Name Of’ the Buffalo heads started moshing and jumping all over the place in pure elation.

The 2nd set opened with ‘Run Like Hell’ and closed with wicked cover of Nirvana’s Lithium just as the torrential downpour doused the bisco fans.

Below is the set list, and a few tracks from the show, and more pictures. Read the rest of this entry »