Live Music Log

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

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

2017

• Buried Alive / Chokehold / Jesus Piece / Trail of Lies / Clear Focus
• Beach Slang
• Sebadoh
• Quicksand / No Joy
• The New Pornographers / Cloud Nothings
• Saintseneca
• Frightened Rabbit / Torres
• Wavves
• Minus the Bear / Beach Slang

2016

• Ted Leo / Ian Sweet
• Longest War
• Dave Smalley / Against All Hope
• 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
• Waxahatchee / Girlpool
• Kool AD
• St. Vincent (Mar 5)
• Blonde Redhead
• Quicksand
• Neutral Milk Hotel (Apr 21)
• Sleater-Kinney / Waxahatchee
• Saintseneca / The Sidekicks (Oct 14)

2014

• 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

• Frightened Rabbit / Wintersleep (TO)
• Frightened Rabbit / (Rochester, Oct 19)
• Broken Social Scene

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

• Samiam

2008

• The Most Serene Republic / Miracle Fortress

2006

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

2005

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

2004 - 2011 (Back in Buffalo)

• Bright Eyes
• Against Me!
• Belle & Sebastian
• Built to Spill
• The Bronx
• 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

• Rogue Wave

• Superchunk

• Ted Leo / Pharmascists

• The Thermals

• 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

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)
• June 14: The Blood Brothers (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
• May 15: Lungfish, Juno (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
• March 28: Idlewild, French Kicks, The Natural History (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
• January 24: Hot Hot Heat, Hint Hint (Graceland, Seattle, WA)

2002

• Pretty Girls Make Graves

2001

• December 7: The Hives, International Noise Conspriracy, Milemarker (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
• November 16: Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Anniversary, The Mars Volta (Graceland, Seattle, WA, US)
• November 17: Ugly Casanova (Graceland, Seattle, WA, US)
• September 19: Rival Schools, Burning Airlines, Action Slacks (Graceland, Seattle, WA)
• June 16: Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes (Showbox, Seattle, WA)
• June 5: Mogwai (Showbox, Seattle, WA)

2000

• November 14: At the Drive-in (Showbox, Seattle, WA, US)
• June 20: Sunny Day Real Estate, No Knife, The Jealous Sound (Showbox, Seattle, WA)

1999

• November 19: Modest Mouse (Hub Ballroom, Seattle, WA, US)

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

1997

• Michigan Fest: Despair, Mineral, Jimmy Eat World, Chisel, The Van Pelt, Thursday, Ink and Dagger, Guilt, By the Grace of God, Boys Life

• April 26: Slugfest, Cast Iron Hike, Brothers Keeper

• July 23: Snapcase, Despair, Envy, Union, No Reason, Lockjaw, Pride, Counterstrike

1995

• July 23: Mouthpiece, Cornerstone, Envy, Halfmast, Plagued with Rage