GET TICKETS for KING BUFFALO w/ L.A. Witch | SAT 11/21
October 27, 2026
 
Woodward Theater Presents:

Event: KING BUFFALO
w/ L.A. Witch
Date: Saturday, November 21
Time: 7 doors, 8 show
Venue: The Woodward Theater | 1404 Main St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 | (513) 345-7981 | news@woodwardtheater.com
Ages 16+
(Under 16 are allowed w/ a paid ticket and accompanied by a legal guardian.)
Information / Tickets: https://www.woodwardtheater.com/shows/king-buffalo-w-la-witch

* $2 off any sandwich across the street at MOTR on day of show with proof of purchase *

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About KING BUFFALO:

King Buffalo is the trio of vocalist/guitarist Sean Roa, bassist Dan Reynolds, and drummer Scott Donaldson. Since forming in 2013, the self-proclaimed "heavy psych" band has made its name via 3 EPs, 6 Full-lengths, and tours with the likes of Clutch, All Them Witches, Uncle Acid & the deadbeats, The Sword and Elder.

Rochester, New York-based trio King Buffalo will issue their Seventh full-length, Doomsayer, on December 4th, as a self-release in North America and through Stickman Records in Europe. Preorders will be available on September 25th via http://kingbuffalo.bigcartel.com.

Noting that Doomsayer is the first new album from the progressive heavy psychedelic rockers since 2022 doesn’t quite tell the whole story. That year, when the three-piece of guitarist/vocalist Sean Roa, bassist Dan Reynolds and drummer Scott Donaldson released Regenerator, their sixth full-length also served as the final installment of what’s been unofficially dubbed their ‘pandemic trilogy.’ With 2021’s The Burden of Restlessness and the jammy, recorded-in-a-cave Acheron before it, Regenerator dared to look ahead to a future beyond its then-present in craft and circumstance.

It was a landmark moment, in no small part because of how the band set forth from there. Over the subsequent four years, they’ve toured hard internationally and built a reputation that stands in line with the achievements across those three records and the three before them. Doomsayer finds King Buffalo self-recording at a crossroads, reveling in the process with poise and clarity in defiance of turbulent times in songs like “The Slick and the Dead” and the closing title-track, and a defined sense of who they are that bleeds through the entirety.

They’re still reaching into the unknown sound-wise, still growing, still evolving, but where they’re coming from has changed, and the experience they’ve had on the road is relevant across the album, both in the poise of the material and the confidence of their delivery. Like the pandemic trilogy, Doomsayer was made at home, but it was made in a studio the band built themselves. Their own space. They continue to explore, and to find new ground as a result, but they do so in a place they’ve made for themselves, with a maturity they’ve earned one stage at a time. Their own sound.

Prefaced by the 2025 standalone single “Balrog” and live releases by the dozen if you count digitally-posted bootlegs from across their 13 years together – plus a couple on vinyl as well – Doomsayer finds that which is most essential in King Buffalo’s sound and pushes it to the forefront, whether that’s Roa’s expansive tone, vocal melodies and growing role as producer/engineer, Reynolds’ warm low end groove or the character in Donaldson’s fills and flows, in songs that capture the dynamic chemistry between the three of them at its most vibrant, breathtaking and viscerally heavy. – JJ Koczan, Sept. 2026

King Buffalo will be touring in support of Doomsayer this fall and winter across North America and in Europe in March of 2027.
 
CHECK OUT this official video for "Vagabond": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORTIgdqJthc
 
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About L.A. WITCH:
 
L.A. Witch have always exuded an aura of effortless cool, whether it manifested as the Americana noir and laconic back-to-basics rock n’ roll of their self-titled debut or the blistering austere adventurism of their sophomore album Play With Fire. The band—comprised of Sade Sanchez (guitar/vocals), Irita Pai (bass), and Ellie English (drums)—began as an informal affair, but the sultry and beguiling reverb-draped songs they created caught on with the public, moving the project beyond the insular space of the band’s friends and peers in Southern California into the broader world. On their latest album, DOGGOD, the trio push their craft beyond their previous creative and geographical confines, opting to craft the material in Paris, recording the tracks at Motorbass Studio on the Rue de Martyrs. DOGGOD explores broader swaths of sonic terrain, employs a greater arsenal of tones, and probes larger existential and cosmic themes, all while retaining the band’s signature sense of the forbidden, the forsaken, and the foreboding.
 
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