By Elmer Ploetz JAM Editor Basic truth of life: everybody can use some live music in their life. It was almost as if I had to be reminded of it…
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By Elmer Ploetz JAM Editor The self-titled new album by The Bear & the Bison may seem like it’s coming out of nowhere for Buffalo audiences, but it’s actually a…
Uncle Ben’s Remedy played its butt off (don’t they always?) for an album-release show on Saturday, March 4, at the Versailles Community Hall, just across the road from the roaring…
Tadaaki Naganuma was the Paul McCartney in the Silver Beats, Japan’s premier Beatles tribute band. In more recent years, he’s found a welcoming stage on Amherst Street. In fact, Tadaaki’s…
By Elmer Ploetz JAM Editor When people think about traditional music in America, they usually think of Appalachian mountain ballads or country blues from the south. But through the years…
By Elmer Ploetz Editor For Greg Hennessey, his Rockabilly Greg podcast is a labor of love … specifically a love of Western New York music. Since March, Hennessey has done…
By Buck Quigley When Gram Parsons decided to outfit the Flying Burrito Brothers in stage clothes designed by Nudie Cohn, he was following what had become a country music tradition….
By Lucy Bell “Bottom line: I’m a performer first, and for me nothing can replace an audience,” says Geno McManus. Well, types. Like so many things during the pandemic, the…
By Elmer Ploetz JAM editor What would happen if you were to take two of the biggest party days in Buffalo — Mardi Gras and Dyngus Day — and combine…
By ANNA GAGLIANO Contributing writer As a very famous woman once said in perhaps an even more famous song: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. And fun they shall have. On…