Wilco’s Solid Sound 2026 at MASS MoCA | June 26, 2026
Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA is sold out for 2026 — but the story of why it keeps selling out says everything about what makes it the Northeast’s best indie festival.
Noah Richardson at Rec Room | August 5, 2026
Noah Richardson brings his indie-pop sound to Rec Room in Albany on August 5 at 8 PM. This is the kind of intimate show you catch before the rest of the world catches on.
Laurie Berkner Solo – The Greatest Hits Tour at Buffalo State PAC | October 4, 2026
Laurie Berkner brings her Greatest Hits Tour solo to Buffalo State PAC on October 4 — “We Are the Dinosaurs,” “Buzz Buzz,” and all the favorites, live. A must for families across Western New York.
Bad Suns at Higher Ground | April 7, 2026
Bad Suns are playing Higher Ground in South Burlington TONIGHT at 8 PM — tickets are still available and this is exactly the kind of Tuesday you’ll be glad you didn’t skip.
Mercury Rev
Mercury Rev emerged from the University at Buffalo in 1989 as something between a student film project and a sonic experiment. Co-founded by Jonathan Donahue, Sean “Grasshopper” Mackowiak, David Baker, Dave Fridmann, Suzanne Thorpe, and Jimy Chambers, the band drew inspiration from drone-music pioneer Tony Conrad, who was teaching at UB at the time. What […]
Ra Ra Riot
Ra Ra Riot emerged from Syracuse University in 2006 as one of the most distinctive indie rock bands of their generation — a group that fused soaring strings, urgent vocals, and infectious melodies into a sound that put Syracuse on the national indie map. Their story is one of creative ambition, devastating loss, and a […]
Joywave
Joywave is Rochester’s most successful musical export of the 2010s — a synth-rock band that turned the Flower City’s post-industrial grit into a launching pad for a sound that splits the difference between new wave, electropop, and art-rock. Led by vocalist Daniel Armbruster, the band has spent over a decade proving that a world-class act […]
Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon was born on April 28, 1953, in Rochester, New York. Though her family relocated when she was young — her father was a UCLA professor — Rochester holds the distinction of being the birthplace of one of alternative rock’s most consequential figures. From Art to No Wave Gordon grew up in Los Angeles, […]
Ani DiFranco
Before the term “independent music” became an industry buzzword, Ani DiFranco was living it. Born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23, 1970, in Buffalo, New York, she built one of the most remarkable careers in modern music entirely on her own terms — without a major label, without radio play, and without compromise. In doing […]
Mike Doughty at Anthology | April 3, 2026
The former Soul Coughing frontman and author of The Book of Drugs played Anthology in Rochester — an intimate room that suited every word of his particular, rhythmic, impossible-to-categorize catalog.