more by Christopher John Treacy
[BLUES] Blues guitarist Walter Trout, 65, has spent time in incarnations of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat while also working with legendary blues icons like Joe Tex and John Lee Hooker along the way.
[POP] Vermont-based five piece Madaila makes uber-catchy electro-soul-pop that’s topped off by frontman Mark Daly’s falsetto, creating a sound that reminds of artists like Passion Pit, Jamie Lidell, !!, and Breakbot.
[ROCK] Counting Crows and Matchbox Twenty both encountered massive levels of commercial success in the mid-1990s with their respective debuts, thus defining the sound of a hit radio format that also included Dave Matthews Band and The Wallflowers.
[ROCK] The Lone Star State’s self-professed purveyors of “red dirt metal,” Texas Hippie Coalition dispense with the more melodic, southern-fried-friendly aspects of their sound in favor of a something more menacing on much of Dark Side of Black (Carved Records), ou
[INDIE] Brooklyn by way of Maryland indie-pop trio Prinze George’s debut full length, Illiterate Synth Pop sounds much like it’s satiny, pink-hued balloon cover art looks: warm, alluring, a bit dreamy.
[POP] Now well into the second year of touring 2015’s Glitterbug (which was initially intended for release on 2014), Liverpudlian dance-pop mavens The Wombats are finally making their way to Buffalo next Monday, August 8, for a gig at the...