more by Christopher John Treacy
[INDIE] Sixties Future’s debut four song EP (all ‘s-word’ song titles) is a mighty impressive affair, though the Americana moniker that’s attached to it isn’t wholly accurate.
[ROCK] Three 7” four-song EPs into their barely two-year time together and Philly quartet Sheer Mag is playing Coachella this year and was been written up in Rolling Stone as one of 2015’s “10 New Artists You Need to Know.” There’s good reason for this: Sheer Mag is the ans
[RECORDS] Record Theatre godfather Leonard Silver recently told Buffalo News that vinyl currently accounts for about 40 percent of sales at his two remaining stores.
[ROCK] Slugs is an L.A. by-way-of Rochester mutation of folk duo Dave Berger & Marissa Longstreet and the related dream-pop outfit High Drags.
[TRIBUTE] Dear gahd! As the real Black Sabbath chugs on into the latter half of its final tour (scheduled through July), the Tralf welcomes Mac Sabbath on Sunday night, March 27.
[POP] Those of us that dismissed Duran Duran in the late 1980s as they tried to shake their teen-idol image in favor of something more serious are being made to eat crow. 14 albums in (and 70 million units sold), the band has never completely gone away.
[INDIE] It’s a birthday bash for Buffalo’s most popular indie music blog, celebrating six years of successfully hovering in cyberspace… no small feat, since the Buffablog site is basically a labor of love.