Live Music Log

A running list of bands I’ve seen… (photos collected here and here)

2025

Ted Leo
Wishy

2024

April 3: The Crane Wives, Rachel Bobbitt
May 5: Flock of Dimes
Sept 3: The Beths w/ Princess Chelsea
Sept 29: Neko Case
Oct 18: Bendigo Fletcher

2023

May 30: Lovejoy, Good Kid, Crywank
June 5: Thrice, Holy Fawn
August 20: Sunny Day Real Estate / The Sleeping
August 25: Manchester Orchestra, Jimmy Eat World, Middle Kids
August 28: Modest Mouse, Pixies, Cat Power
September 1: Alvvays and Alex G
September 20: Digable Planets, Kassa Overall
September 30: Broken Social Scene
December 30: Integrity, Despair, Union

2022

February 15: Waxahatchee / Madi Diaz
March 13: Manchester Orchestra / Foxing / Michigander
March 22: Cavetown
April 22: Jawbreaker, The Get Up Kids, Worriers (Philly)
May 13: Snapcase, Earth Crisis, Strife, Be Well,
May 19: Iceage / Wiki
June 7: Bon Iver / Bonny Light Horseman
July 25: Run the Jewels / Rage Against the Machine
August 20: Los Campesinos!, proper. (Toronto)
October 10: oso oso, Anxious, MAGS
October 19: Quicksand, Spotlights

–November 4: Soccer Mommy, Lightning Bug– Didn’t make due to hockey tournament3 –November 17: Turnstile, Snail Mail, Sheer Mag– Canceled due to snowstorm

2021

August 3: Japanese Breakfast / Mannequin Pussy (Rochester)
August 26: Wilco / Sleater-Kinney
September 16: Hop Along
November 21: Beach Bunny (Cleveland)

2020

Uh, just a global pandemic.

2019

April 30: Vampire Weekend
July 26: Snail Mail / Sasami (Cleveland)
August 6: Interpol / Surfbort
August 13: Iron Maiden / The Raven Age
November 1: Johnny Revolting

2018

April 24: Afghan Whigs / Built to Spill
June 3: Kendrick Lamar / Schoolboy Q / Jay Rock / etc.
August 3: Descendents / A Wilhelm Scream / Pavers
August 8: Band of Horses / Bonny Doon
September 21: Bully / JEFF the Brotherhood / Made Violent
September 25: J. Cole / Young Thug / Earthgang

2017

Dec 29: Buried Alive / Chokehold / Jesus Piece / Trail of Lies / Clear Focus
Sep 15: Beach Slang
April 21: Sebadoh
Quicksand / No Joy
The New Pornographers / Cloud Nothings
Saintseneca
May 29: Frightened Rabbit / Torres
May 19: Wavves
Minus the Bear / Beach Slang

2016

Nov 19: Ted Leo / Ian Sweet
Longest War
Dave Smalley / Against All Hope
May 11: Rogue Wave
Failures’ Union
Snapcase / Endpoint / Grade
Judge / World Be Free / Black X
Neko Case / Jennifer O’Connor

2015

Desaparecidos / The So So Glos
Knapsack
Sept 26: Bully
Waxahatchee / Girlpool
Kool AD
St. Vincent (Mar 5)
Jun 6: Blonde Redhead
Quicksand
Apr 21: Neutral Milk Hotel
Sleater-Kinney / Waxahatchee
Saintseneca / The Sidekicks / Yowler (Oct 14)

2014

Dec 19: Every Time I Die, Hundredth
Longest War / Grade
Pinback / Tera Melos
Field Trip (TO): Broken Social Scene / Constantines / CHVRCHES / Washed Out / Gord Downie & The Sadies / Hydra / Fucked Up / Do Make Say Think / BadBadNotGood / Lowell

2013

Mar 31: Frightened Rabbit / Wintersleep (PhoenixConcert Hall, Toronto)
Frightened Rabbit / (Rochester, Oct 19)
Broken Social Scene
Sept 28: Stars
Jan 9: Quicksand / Single Mothers (Toronto)

2012

Rev25 NYC (Oct 11, 12, 13): Chain of Strength / Bold / Into Another / Texas is the Reason / Sick of it All / Shades Apart / Supertouch / Battery / Damnation AD / Underdog / Gameface / Mouthpiece / Youth of Today

2011

Sept 23: Samiam / Garret Klahn / Failure’s Union

2010

2009

2008

The Most Serene Republic / Miracle Fortress

2006

Pretty Girls Make Graves (Rochester, NY)
Jul 13: Lifetime / The Bronx / The Thermals (July 13)
Oct 27: Death Cab for Cutie / Ted Leo (Rochester)
Sept 30: Built to Spill (Buffalo)

2005

Mar 18: Slint (NYC)
May 14: Ryan Adams

2004 – 2011 (Back in Buffalo)

Bright Eyes
Against Me!
Belle & Sebastian
Built to Spill
Cursive
Dillinger Escape Plan
The Evens
Every Time I Die / Hundredth
The Failure’s Union
Conor Oberst / Feist / The Magic Numbers
Fuck You Pay Me
Hoover / Medications
New Pornographers
Pissing Match
Pixies
Rob Crow
Superchunk
Death Cab for Cutie / Ted Leo & Pharmascists
Lifetime / The Thermals / The Bronx
The Walkmen
The War on Drugs
Wreckage

1999 – 2004 (Seattle era)

The Anniversary Aveo At the Drive-in / Jealous Sound / No Knife The Album Leaf Ben Folds The Black Crowes Black Eyes Blonde Redhead The Blood Brothers Bob Mould Botch Bright Eyes Built to Spill Champion Caribou Carissa’s Wierd Cave In Cursive Damien Jurado David Bazan Death Cab for Cutie Denali The Dismemberment Plan Engine Down Enon The Faint Frank Black Gang of Four The Get Up Kids Grandaddy Hot Hot Heat Hot Rod Circuit Hot Snakes Ida Idlewild International Noise Conspiracy The Jealous Sound Jen Wood Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter Jimmy Eat World John Vanderslice June of 44 Juno Karate Kinski Les Savy Fav The Long Winters Low Lungfish Maceo Parker The Magnetic Fields Maktub Milemarker Minus the Bear Modest Mouse Mogwai Murder City Devils Pedro the Lion Pretty Girls Make Graves Q and Not U Quasi Rainer Maria Radio 4 Red Stars Theory REM Rival Schools S Saves the Day The Sea and Cake The Shins The Six Parts Seven Sleater-Kinney Sonic Youth Stephen Malkmus Stereolab Sunny Day Real Estate Tenacious D Terror These Arms Are Snakes Tristeza Ugly Casanova Unwound Weezer Wilco 764-Hero

2004

April 14: Grandaddy, Saves the Day, The Fire Theft, Hey Mercedes (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
April 2: Stereolab, Tortoise (Showbox, Seattle, WA)

2003

December 14: Sleater-Kinney, Cat Power (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
November 1: John Vanderslice, Jen Wood (Graceland, Seattle)
October 17: Cursive, Blood Brothers (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
September 27: The Fire Theft (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
September 1: Bumbershoot (REM, Wilco, The Shins, Modest Mouse)
August 25: Hot Water Music (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
June 14: The Blood Brothers (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
May 15: Lungfish, Juno (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
April 5: Bright Eyes (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
March 28: Idlewild, French Kicks, The Natural History (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
February 21: Minus the Bear, These Arms are Snakes, Cobra High (Chop Suey, Seattle, WA)
February 7: Pretty Girls Make Graves (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
January 24: Hot Hot Heat, Hint Hint (Graceland, Seattle, WA)

2002

Pretty Girls Make Graves
September 1: Bumbershoot: Modest Mouse, The Shins, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie
July 23: Hey Mercedes, Piebald, Koufax (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
February 22: Death Cab for Cutie, Dismemberment Plan (EMP, Seattle, WA)

2001

December 14: Sleater-Kinney, Pretty Girls Make Graves (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
December 7: The Hives, International Noise Conspriracy, Milemarker (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
November 17: Ugly Casanova (Graceland, Seattle, WA, US)
November 16: Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Anniversary, The Mars Volta (Graceland, Seattle, WA, US)
November 15: Weezer, Tenacious D, Jimmy Eat World (Key Arena, Seattle, WA)
November 6: Cave In (Paradox, Seattle, WA)
October 26: Stereolab (Showbox, Seattle)
October 5: Death Cab for Cutie, The Prom (Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA)
September 19: Rival Schools, Burning Airlines, Action Slacks (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
September 1: Bumbershoot (Black Crowes, Built to Spill, Low, Old 97s,
August 25: Superchunk (Mural Ampitheater, Seattle, WA)
June 30: Built to Spill, The Delusions, Suffocation Keep (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
June 16: Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
June 5: Mogwai (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
May 10: Frank Black and the Catholics (Showbox, Seattle)
May 2: J Mascis & the Fog, Love as Laughter, Watery Graves (Crocodile Cafe)
April 27: Modest Mouse (Paramount Theatre, Seattle)
April 4: Hot Water Music, Leatherface, Small Brown Bike (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
February 3: Death Cab for Cutie, Jealous Sound, The And/Ors (Showbox, Seattle)

2000

November 14: At the Drive-in, Murder City Devils (Showbox, Seattle, WA, US)
November 12: Built to Spill (EMP, Seattle, WA)
November 10: Juno, Karate, Padre (Paradox Theatre, Seattle)
November 2: Juno, Dismemberment Plan, Radio 4 (Crocodile Cafe, Seattle)
September 23: Jets to Brazil, Pedro the Lion, J Majesty (Graceland, Seattle)
September 12: Get Up Kids, The Anniversary, Koufax (Graceland, Seattle)
September 4: Bumbershoot (Modest Mouse, Death Cab, Murder City Devils, The Magnetic Fields, Maktub, Pedro the Lion)
August 15: Avail, Leatherface, Dillinger 4 (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
June 23: Bob Mould (EMP Opening)
June 20: Sunny Day Real Estate, No Knife, The Jealous Sound (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
June 16: Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter (Showbox, Seattle)
June 1: Medeski, Martin and Wood (Moore Theatre, Seattle)

1999

Dec 7: Built to Spill (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
November 19: Modest Mouse (Hub Ballroom, Seattle, WA, US)
June 14: Burning Airlines, The Pavers (Kingsnake Lounge, Buffalo)
May 26: Snapcase and Avail
April 13: Jets to Brazil, Euphone, Counterclockwise, They Live (Discovery Records, Tonawanda NY)

Pre 1999

108 Against All Hope Ani DiFranco Avail Bad Religion Battery Beastie Boys Beta Minus Mechanic Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Black Train Jack Blonde Redhead Bluetip Boredoms Boysetsfire Braid Buried Alive Burning Airlines Chamberlain/Split Lip Channel Chokehold Chisel Coalesce Converge Copper Damnation AD Deadguy The Deftones Descendents Despair The Dismemberment Plan (put on show) DRI (put on show) / TSOL Dropkick Murphys Earth Crisis Elliott Endpoint Engine Kid Envy Euphone Face to Face Fadeaway Falling Forward Faraquet Farside Floorpunch Fugazi Gameface George Clinton & Parliment/Funkadelic The Get Up Kids Girls Against Boys Grade Green Day Guilt Hatebreed Hey Mercedes Hot Water Music Iceburn Ignite Integrity Into Another The Jazz June Jets to Brazil Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Juno (put on show) Kerosene 454 Kite Eating Tree Lifetime Luscious Jackson The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Morrissey Most Secret Method Mouthpiece Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds NOFX Orange 9mm Outspoken The Promise Ring Public Enemy Quicksand Refused Ricochet Rocket from the Crypt Rollins Band Samuel Seaweed Sensefield Shades Apart Shelter Shift Shudder to Think Sick of it All Slugfest Smashing Pumpkins Snapcase Social Distortion Soul Coughing Sparkmarker Strife Sunny Day Real Estate Superchunk Ten Yard Fight Texas is the Reason Thursday A Tribe Called Quest Turmoil Unbroken Undertow Union Velocity Girl Violent Femmes V.O.D. Ween Weston Whirlpool Yo La Tengo

1998

April 11: Superchunk, the Disappointments, shark quest, counter clockwise, Grey in between (UB, Buffalo NY)
November 3: Braid, jejune, situation at 1200, angels in the architecture (Buffalo N.Y.)

1997

Michigan Fest: Despair, Mineral, Jimmy Eat World, Chisel, The Van Pelt, Thursday, Ink and Dagger, Guilt, By the Grace of God, Boys Life
January 2: Despair, Brothers Keeper, Harvest, Lockjaw, earthmover, sons of Abraham (Mercury Theatre, Buffalo) - - April 26: Slugfest, Cast Iron Hike, Brothers Keeper
May 7: Snapcase, Elliott, ink & dagger, nine ironspitfire (Showplace Theatre, Buffalo NY)
July 23: Snapcase, Despair, Envy, Union, No Reason, Lockjaw, Pride, Counterstrike (Mercury Theatre, Tonawanda NY)
November 9: Union, Grade, all Out War, Libertine (Buffalo Ny)

1996

January 1: Snapcase, Turmoil, Endeavor, Despair, Deadguy, Beta Minus Mechanic, Six Feet Deep, One King Down, Hourglass (Syracuse, NY)
February 17: Turmoil, VOD, Despair, Union, Pillar (Showplace Theatre, Buffalo NY)
April 20, 1996: Texas is the Reason (Showplace Theatre, Buffalo NY)
June 21: Mouthpiece, envy, digression, daybreak (main/transit firehall, Williamsville NY)
July 7: Despair, Brothers Keeper, Harvest (Showplace Theatre, Buffalo NY)
December 31: Despair, Turmoil, Battery, Brothers Keeper, Enkindel, Union, Cast Iron Hike, Elliott

1995

March 26: Sick of it All, Orange 9mm
June 26: 108, Bloodlet, Envy, hourglass (Niagara Hotel, Lockport)
July 23: Mouthpiece, Cornerstone, Envy, Halfmast, Plagued with Rage (Lockport)
September 8: VOD, half mast, drought, hourglass, daybreak
November 19: Rocket from the Crypt (buff state)

1994

April 6: Sensefield, Snapcase, blend, Jasta 14, campfire (the Icon, Buffalo NY)
Jul 29: Green Day, Pansy Division
May 1994 - Earth Crisis, Jasta 14, Copper
June 5: Endpoint, Shift, Falling Forward, Empathy
June 17, 1994 - Outspoken, Chokehold, Moment of Truth
July 29: Green Day, Pansy Division
September 18, 1994 - Turmoil, IND, Redline, Envy
Also: Fadeaway, Into Another