In conjunction with CITY’s Guide to Sex, Love, & Relationships, we asked you to tell us which local music you think best exemplifies feelings of Love — as well as songs that evoke its heartbreaking cousin Despair — and you didn’t disappoint.
Buffalo Sex Change
The F Word: Rockin’ with the remnants
Classic
bands like Journey, Cheap Trick, The Stones, and The Who are missing original
members due to death, retirement or irreconcilable differences, but I can still
rock with the remnants.
Dadstache cares
JT Fitzgerald was tired of seeing bands come and go in Rochester. A band would make the scene, make a little noise, and then vanish, never to be heard from again. “There were a lot of bands we were seeing that would pop up for a few shows and then kinda disappear,” Fitzgerald says. “And […]
Album review: ‘Searching Hands’
Buffalo Sex Change “Searching Hands” Admirable Trait Records buffalosexchange.bandcamp.com Buffalo Sex Change is back with a new set of songs, following up a self-titled, full-length debut album that more closely replicated the duo’s high energy performances. On “Searching Hands,” all the elements that make BSXC potent are still there: Phil Pierce’s jangly, surf-tossed guitar work; […]
The two-man advantage of Buffalo Sex Change
Buffalo Sex Change is a sonic tantrum, a Rochester-based twosome that seeks the under-played, under-heard notes and riffs and re-works them into a garage-rock frenzy. The guitar-and-drums duo’s minimal approach leaves room for maximum energy in the space it leaves open. This is pure, unadulterated, chaotic rock n roll. Emerging from the ashes of Brooklyn’s […]






