Singer-songwriter Joe Cocker passed away today at the age of 70. It is believed he succumbed to Lung Cancer in his Colorado residence.
Joe Cocker’s distinct voice will be forever missed and his influence will live on through the countless singers of our generation. Cocker’s rendition of The Beatles’ song “With a Little Help From My Friends” will forever be remembered as one the greatest moments in rock history.
Southern Jammers Widespread Panic have confirmed a two night stop in Brooklyn at Kings Theatre within their first leg of Spring Tour 2015.
The band who do not usually play the Northeast much let alone New York State, is starting to make it up north more frequently. Playing Lewiston’s Artpark this past Summer and Syracuse in November 2013, the band continues to play more frequently which all at certainly welcome. The two night show in Brooklyn will be on April 24-25 at the newly refurbished Kings Theatre. Tickets will go on sale January 30 at 10am
Spring Tour 2015
03/13 Boise, ID -Morrison Center
03/14 Spokane, WA -Martin Woldson Theater
03/15 Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre
03/17 Portland, OR – Schnitzer Concert Hall
03/19 – 03/21 Oakland, CA – Fox Theater
03/24 – 03/25 Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre
03/27 – 03/28 Las Vegas, NV – The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
04/24 – 04/25 Brooklyn, NY – Kings Theatre
The biggest party night of the year turned out to be a special night at Nietzche’s on Wednesday, November 26. Opening the show was Tropidelic from Cleveland, Ohio. The group brought a big sound and packed every inch of the stage with some very solid musicians. The night however, belonged to local Funk Jammers Funktional Flow.
The night was supposed to be a farewell to former guitarist Michael Szczepanik; Unfortunately, Szczepanik failed to show, but you wouldn’t have known it as the group didn’t miss a beat. Matthew Lester joined on stage, playing keyboard and really making up where a void may have been felt. The highlight of the night had to be when Aqueous‘ Mike Gantzer joined the threesome to close out the night. It was one of the finer moments in Flow history and the band looked to have been hitting their stride with great enthusiasm and vigor. It’s Setting up to be one New Year’s Eve that people will be talking about as Funktional Flow and Aqueous will be ringing in the New Year together in their next collaboration at Buffalo Iron Works.
Tropidelic
Funktional Flow w/ Matthew Lester and Mike Gantzer
Sometimes winter can be very grueling in the country, especially throughout the Western New York area. One thing that tends to take the sting out of a very doom and gloomy time of year, is music fans coming together and taking their minds off the weather. Buffalo Iron Works and Spun Out Fire Productions are trying to accomplish that with a new set of events that will take place twice a month on Wednesday nights.
Spun Out Fire Productions is no stranger to the music scene as they can be seen every summer at music festivals. They have been part of the Great Blue Heron Music Festival as well as Night Lights Music Festival in the Western NY area,as well as many festivals throughout the country. The outfit produces some great visuals through fire dancing and light dancing through various props and equipment keeping a lot of people entertained throughout the night. Adding this to a music venue seems like the perfect marriage and will make things very interesting on Wednesday nights for this ongoing event. The new event being called, Spun Out-Jam Out parties, will team up Spun Out Fire Productions with some live music, bands and/or DJ’s. The event will bring people of all ages a safe place to dance and share ideas with each other.
The first SO-JO party will take place on Wednesday, December 10 at 5pm. There is a $6.00 donation at the door for the artists and if you bring a prop your donation will cut in half.
December 10 2014:
5pm-7pm happy hours 2 hrs of specials on FOOD N DRINK
530-7 – The Fortunate Hobos
7-730 – SPUN OUT-JAM OUT FLOWSHOP
730-9 – Dead Alliance of Buffalo
9-915 – SPUN OUT-JAM OUT FLOWSHOP
915-1015 – DJ Chucks
1030-1230 – DJ Ƨtonez
1230-1am – closing SPUN OUT-JAM OUT FLOWSHOP
Upstate bluegrass rockers Floodwood will be making a stop in Buffalo on Saturday December 6 with an intimate show at the Sportsmen’s Tavern.
The band has been playing throughout the country at some of the biggest festivals as well as the Buffalo area in more than a few occasions. The band includes two musicians who in their normal work day consist of being pivotal roles with progressive rockers and Upstate’s moe. Al Schnier (guitar) and Vinnie Amico (drums) are no stranger to the area and since forming moe. in Buffalo so many years ago always love to give it their all when back in town. Floodwood, while is very far from what moe. puts onstage still brings the same energy to the stage. As good as Schnier and Amico are, the band has some extraordinary talent in Nick Piccininni (fiddle), Jason Barady (mandolin) and Zachary Fleitz (bass).
The show will also be pretty special as special guests John and Mary of 10,000 Maniacs. This will definitly be a show you will want to see and checkout. Tickets can be purchased through the venues website. Show starts at 9pm with tickets $17 in advance and $20 day of show.
The hype was surrounding Town Ballroom on November 12 as Dark Star Orchestra was set to open up the tour in Buffalo, NY. Fans from all over the state drove in to get their Grateful Dead fix and with DSO giving them the closest experience a band could. DSO is known for playing an entire show from what the original Dead played and seemed to pick the perfect show for this night.
Reaching deep into the catalog, the group chose a show from August 18, 1970 which took place in San Francisco. “Truckin’” opened things up and why wouldn’t it have, with Buffalo being cemented in the lyrics since the beginning; it was the perfect song to be played in any show in Buffalo. There were a lot of great classics as well as some songs that were not in every show, making the show an all around delight, especially with an all acoustic second set. If DSO comes to your area make sure to dust off your tie dyes and make it out, it will take you back to a simpler time and place and lets you leave your troubles at the door.
Set One: Truckin’, Dire Wolf, Friend Of The Devil, Dark Hollow, Ripple > Brokedown Palace, Operator, Rosalie McFall, New Speedway Boogie, Cold Jordan > Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Set Two: Dancing In The Street, Next Time You See Me, Mama Tried, Cryptical Envelopment > Drums > The Other One > Cryptical Envelopment > Sugar Magnolia, Attics Of My Life, It’s A Man’s World, > Not Fade Away, Casey Jones > Uncle John’s Band
Filler: Alligator > Death Don’t Have No Mercy > New Orleans
* Show originally played by The Grateful Dead on 8/18/1970 San Francisco, CA
Buffalive Productions and Buffalo Iron Works put together quite an evening with some rising talent as well as one big name in the livetronica music scene. Allen Aucoin from The Disco Biscuits closed out a great night of music with his solo project pseudonym DrFameus.
DrFameus just manned with a computer and his kit, drummed out beat after beat with ease. It was also a very special night for local band, Sonder, as they released their newest CD, Cymatics. Opening the show was local product Space Junk who continues to spread their space rock in the area.
With the cold looming in the air, Buffalo music fans flocked to Buffalo Iron Works to catch Particle with special guests and Buffalo’s own Space Junk. The crowd had funneled in early to catch the opening band which continues to produce some real solid jams and kept everyone moving right until Particle took the stage. Particle took it to the next level with inspiring jams and spaced out rock. The lighting kicked it up yet another notch creating the ultimate concert experience and no wonder why the group is all the late night rage.
Particle has also announced their winter tour dates today and for fans of the Buffalo show have a chance to check them out again with a date in Syracuse which is not too far away from a good amount of the state of New York on January 11. The tour will cover a lot of ground throughout the country and it was good to see that NY will get to see them again in a few months. Â For tickets and more info, you can visit the band’s webpage here.
Particle 2015 Winter Tour
Jan 9th – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
Jan 10th – Higher Ground, South Burlington – Burlington. VT
Jan 11th – The Westcott Theater – Syracuse, NY
Jan 13th – The Rex Theater – Pittsburgh, PA
Jan 14th – Woodlands Tavern – Columbus, OH
Jan 15th – The Southgate House Revival – Newport, KY
Jan 16th – 1st Ward Events – Chicago, IL
Jan 17th – The Cabooze – Minneapolis, MN
Jan 18th – The Aquarium – Fargo, ND
Jan 20th – Icon Event Hall + Lounge – Sioux Falls, SD
Jan 21st – Wooly’s – Des Moines, IA
Jan 23rd – The Bourbon Theater – Lincoln, NE
Jan 24th – The Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
Jan 25th – Fox Theater – Boulder, CO
Jan 27th – The State Room – Salt Lake City, UT
Jan 29th – Aladdin Theater – Portland, OR
Jan 30th – The WOW Hall – Eugene, OR
Jan 31st – Tractor Tavern – Seattle, WA
Feb 3rd- Humboldt Brews – Arcata, CA
Feb 5th – Harlows Restaurant & Night Club – Sacramento, CA
Feb 6th – Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
Marco Benevento announced his Swift US tour with stops in Brooklyn and Albany, NY. Marco will be in Brooklyn December 19 at the Brooklyn Bowl and Albany the following night on December 20 at The Parish House.
Marco will spend quite some time out west with shows all along the Pacific coast. Benevento has been busy with his solo work over the past few years as well as collaborating with Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. The tour is in support of his brand new album Swift which is available now in multiple formats on Marco’s website.
2015 Marco Benevento Swift US Tour
December 12-13 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
December 19 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl
December 20 – Albany, NY – Parish Public House
January 29 – Northampton, MA – The Parlor Room
January 30-31 – Portsmouth, NH – The Press Room
February 26 – New Orleans, LA – Blue Nile
February 27 – Houston, TX – Warehouse Live
February 28 – Austin, TX – The Parish
March 4 – Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room
March 5 – San Diego, CA – Winston’s
March 6 – Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theatre
March 7 – San Francisco, CA – Independent
March 10 – Napa, CA – City Winery
March 11 – Arcata, CA – HumBrews
March 12 – Cottage Grove, OR – Axe & Fiddle
March 13 – Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
March 14 – Seattle, WA – Nectar
Rick Rosas who had a long career playing with the likes of Crosby Stills, Nash and Young, Joe Walsh, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ron Wood and most notable being part of Neil Young’s long time career, passed away today at the age of 65. The cause of death is uncertain at the time.
Rosas most recently was on the Crazy Horse tour last summer after Billy Talbot had suffered a Stroke where Rosas assumed duty.
Rick Rosas, nicknamed “Rick The Bass Player” worked on several of Neil Young’s albums which included Prairie Wind, Freedom and Living with War and was also part of the controversail music video, “This Note’s For You” which was banned on MTV.