Gusto Sessions with Jeff Miers
Gusto Sessions with Jeff Miers
Your front-row seat to the music and culture of Western New York, hosted by Buffalo News Music Critic Jeff Miers. A collaboration with Music is Art and GCR Audio Recording Studios, Gusto Sessions explores and celebrates the transformative power of local music and the arts—featuring live in-studio performances and sit-down conversations with a host of diverse music artists from Buffalo and beyond.Follow the podcast:
'Home for the Holidays' special
Freshly returned from a successful tour with the Goo Goo Dolls in support of their new album “Chaos in Bloom,” Robby Takac reminisces with Jeff Miers about the holiday music he loved in his youth, waxes rhapsodic about newer additions to the canon of holiday music, and even mentions a seasonal movi…
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Farrow
Michael Farrow and the band – bassist and co-founder André Pilette, drummer Tim Webb, percussionist Michael Ruopoli, guitarist Cory Clancy, keyboardist Rufus “Breezy” Cole Jr. and backing vocalist Danielle Johnson – recently stopped by GCR Audio Recording Studios for a live performance and chat tha…
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Vin DeRosa
Whatever the size of the crowd, one thing has remained constant: Vin DeRosa's musicianship is always presented through a lens of love and light. DeRosa’s main vehicle, the soul/funk/R&B/pop/indie-rock supergroup Vitamin D, has evolved into a meeting ground for some of the finest and most adventuro…
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Marcus Lolo
Marcus Lolo is a pianist, composer, producer and educator who now proudly calls Buffalo home. His intensive training in classical music, coupled with a deep love for jazz and the rhythmic, harmonic and folk traditions of Haiti combine to make him a musician with a unique ability to fuse styles and …
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Perilous
The delightfully decadent garage rock/power-pop outfit Perilous, a quartet with a penchant for brutal guitar riffs and infectious chorus hooks, recently performed at GCR Audio Recording Studios. Included in the setlist was the band’s debut single, “Rock ’n’ Roll Kiss,” which made it into heavy rot…
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Tokyo Monsters
Tokyo Monsters brought the full strength and scope of their live sound to GCR Audio Recording Studios for a set showcasing the band’s ability to bring classic rock chops to bear on present-day indie rock. Vocalist/guitarist Joseph Baldwin, guitarist Steven Rybarczyk, bassist Chris Baldwin and dru…
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tuesday nite
A sound both deep and textured, imbued with sonic experimentation, and bolstered by elegiac vocal harmonies is what indie/alternative duo tuesday nite brought to GCR Audio Recording Studios for a live performance. Sara Elizabeth and Courtney Ann, veterans of the Buffalo independent music scene, al…
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O'Mega Red
O'Mega Red brings his "hip-rock" to GCR Audio Recording Studios for a live performance. He describes rock and hip-hop as "sister genres" and points to the fact "rock originated from Black culture" as proof music evolves in a circular fashion, and that all of these genre subdivisions are in fact con…
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Rod Bonner
Rod Bonner and his striking mélange of funk, soul, R&B and jazz-fusion takes over GCR Studio with a live in-studio performance, featuring drummer Carl "Flute" Johnson, and a candid chat with Buffalo News Music Critic Jeff Miers. “I’ve been blessed to be able to get into as many different musical s…
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Fernway
Live in-studio performance and a behind-the-scenes chat with Fernway, who played a sold-out Town Ballroom in June. The band's take on modern indie, alternative and emo is showcased in this year's full-length tour de force, “Autocrave,” a record conceived, composed and recorded during the pandemic. …
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