LIVE: Pure Filth Fest Invades Liverpool
Metal fans aren’t often treated to a lineup like this in Central New York. The Pure Filth Fest made it happen at Sharkey’s in Liverpool Saturday night. Headlined by the band many see as the progenitors of thrash metal, Exodus, the rest of the lineup contained a whos-who of thrash legends and a surprise Metal […]
LIVE: Modest Mouse and The Cribs at Beak and Skiff
Review by Kelly Besaw Modest Mouse made a stop at Beak and Skiff Apple Orchards in Lafayette, NY on June 9. Modest Mouse is currently on tour in support of their 2021 release, The Golden Casket and brought along with them the Cribs who are originally all from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. I must start by […]
The Wallflowers Sell Out Night 2 at Center For The Arts in Homer
Photos by Chris Besaw Review by Kelly Besaw Editor’s note: This article was edited to change the names of the touring musicians. It is a Monday evening in Homer, New York. You are probably wondering what was going on that is notable to write about. One of folk-rock’s finest, The Wallflowers, were playing the second […]
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to Play Two Upstate Shows This Summer
Coming this June 1 to the Constellation Brands Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center for their extended second leg of their 2022 tour, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. The duo recently added a hefty 13 new dates to their tour, including two stops in Central New York, including the scenic CMAC in Canandaigua and Saratoga Performing […]
REVIEW: Tori Amos with Special Guests Gracie and Rachel Plays to a Sold Out Crowd at Kodak Center
Photos by Chris Besaw Review by Camille Tisdell Piano goddess, Tori Amos, gifted us with her presence and energy that made for a lively, nostalgic, and moving night of music. Stopping in at The Kodak Center in Rochester on May 18, stop twenty-one of her forty show Ocean to Ocean Tour. She also brought along […]
GALLERY: The Return of the California Takeover w/ Earth Crisis, Strife and Snapcase
The Return of the California Takeover Tour 2022 Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Strife The Town Ballroom – Buffalo, NY 5/13/22 Highlights from the show taken by Chris Besaw, house photographer for St. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview, 315 Music, and Syracuse Music Collective.
LIVE: Integrity, Vomit Forth, Soma Slumber and Deal With God at Photo City Music Hall
It was a dreary and dismal evening in the city of Rochester, the perfect setting for the return of one of the most incendiary and apocalyptic hardcore bands out there, Integrity. Integrity is currently on tour with special guests Vomit Forth, Soma Slumber, and Deal With God. Integrity was making its first stop in Upstate […]
LIVE: Ministry’s Industrial Strength 2022 Takes Over Buffalo’s Riverworks
Industrial metal titan, Al Jourgensen of Ministry brought the Industrial Strength Tour 2022 to downtown Buffalo’s River Works. Ministry, is on tour for their brand-new album, Moral Hygiene and is also celebrating the 30th Anniversary of their album, The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste, which had such hit singles as “Breathe” and “Thieves.” […]
LIVE: Midnight Headlines Rotting in Rot-Chester 2022!
Saturday night in the eclectic little city of Rochester NY, while most were getting ready for the big football game on Sunday and for Valentine’s Day the following day. The Photo City Music Hall was host to the second installment of Rotting IN Rot-Chester 2022! Photo City Music Hall which opened in 2016 and is […]
LIVE: Sideline at the Camillus Town Shop 1/15/22
Up and coming Syracuse punk trio Sideline returned to Camillus’s Town Shop on January 15th. Other guests on the bill were Flicker, Sike and The Shuvitz. Photos by Chris Besaw of Syracuse Music Collective and 315 Music.