By Kenny Macdonald and Alison Zero
Buffalo, New York – Last Saturday the Tralf downtown hosted Artvoice first Battle of Original Music Finals. The BOOM competition was the culmination of a year and a half of weekly Internet and live music show popularity duels between hundreds of area bands.
Buck Quigley, associate editor at AV, says the idea sprouted from a column in the weekly newspaper
The winners were chosen strictly through popular vote. Buck says without any official judges to weigh in, the competition is as close to straight-line democracy as possible.
