more by Cory Perla
[REGGAE] The Wailers were reggae icon Bob Marley’s band for roughly 20 years until Marley’s death in 1981.
Album: Nevermeadow by Swagger Thief
Recommended if you like: Madlib, J Dilla, DJ Shadow
It’s always exciting when two singular artists come together to work on one project.
[PUNK] It’s hard to say where a band like ’68 fits in. They came to be at the end of an era dominated by bands like Chiodos, Norma Jean, and Underoath, for whom they toured with as support, but too late to take full advantage of the wave of popularity that those bands enjoyed....
[WORLD MUSIC] Two master percussionists, Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph combine together to form the band Karuna.
[NEW WAVE] Look at a promo photo of the Toronto punk band Teenager and it looks like they’re doing some nihilistic impression of the cast of Friends except they all look like they’ve been smoking too much weed, and that if it came down to it, they wouldn’t really be...
[FOLK] According to musician Robt Sarazin Blake, “Robt is simply an abbreviation of Robert. It is pronounced the same, but takes two less letters to spell.” This is a rare shortcut for Blake, however, as he doesn’t take many shortcuts in his music at all.
[FESTIVAL] The folks over at Music Is Art are spearheading this year’s music portion of the Buffalo Cherry Blossom Festival at the Buffalo History Museum, this Saturday, May 5.
[METAL] Outrageous haircuts and sleeveless black t-shirts aside, Bullet For My Valentine are a band that, like it or not, have helped define metalcore music in the early 2000s.
[CLASSICAL] We’re lucky here in Buffalo to have our very own Gamelan Club. For those who don’t know, gamelan is a style of traditional Indonesia music that’s made with a variety of instruments like xylophones, gongs, metallophones and other types of percussion instruments.