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Tonight: Gladshot

April 27, 2018

Tonight NYC indie rock folk band Gladshot pass through the sonic temple that is the 9th Ward at Babeville.  With the rock musical Barcode already in the rear view mirror and a sophomore album due this October with producer John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee), Gladshot has expanded beyond the core of Debb Andrews and Max Blaxill to include a full band, changing everything for this up and coming act. Opening the show will be a rare performance by the always enjoyable ambient electronica salwarts  Dotsun Moon and neo soul grooves of B.A.N.K. Noise. Doors open at 7pm and tickets are $10.

Tonight: Terror Pigeon

April 23, 2018

OK, your Monday probably sucks so far, but tonight is another story because Sugar City is hosting a show guaranteed to make it all worth while featuring life affirming art rockers Terror Pigeon and NYC  punks White Rope. Terror Pigeon, from Nashville Tennessee, put on an amazing and deeply affecting show at Dreamland (sigh) a few years back that was generous and uplifting in a humanist, inclusive way,  so that will be especially nice. Think a more hyper Dan Deacon and you’ll get the idea. White Rope will be joining the fray to play some skull crushing, modern punk for your liberating pleasure, while NYC media artist Eric Barry Drasin will be presenting/performing a Power Point opus on how to make it big in the speed metal game. Local evil hip hop artist Medusa and beloved rap malcontent Jack Topht will be rounding out the show with their nasty beats, which[...]

Tonight: The Eaves

April 21, 2018

Tonight Nietzsche’s hosts a crazy good lineup of local and regional favorites headlined by enigmatic American rockers and true tabula rasa The Eaves. Nihilistic Rochester art garage rock duo Buffalo Sex Change will also be on hand to kick jams off their hotly anticipated and just released yesterday sophomore rock out Searching Hands, while local psychedelic  punk locals Velvet Bethany will be introducing you to their serious riffs and beguiling harmonies. Rounding out the night are the raucous indie quartet, Passed Out. Doors open at 9pm and cover is $5.

Space Cubs –What Iff

April 16, 2018

From the start, the reborn band Space Cubs cultivated a much needed air of mystery, from their magical debut last summer somewhere in Allentown to a captivating show at the Mohawk before disappearing to record What Iff, their excellent debut EP and our Album of the Week, and praise be, that glorious mystery is very much intact. Dreamy yet precise and very much  fully realized, What Iff only hints at this band’s tremendous potential, offering a  tantalizing glimpse into a possible future for  Buffalo’s music scene that you can totally get down to, which is always welcome. Originally a one woman bedroom dream pop project from Suzanne Bonifacio, Space Cubs expanded, assimilating electronic artist and enfante terrible Shawn Lewis as well as scene mainstay Ken Culton and Adam Pressley to become something beautifully new, and “Gnaw” captures that metamorphosis  perfectly in sonic amber. Hazy loops and haunted vocals give way to a de-tuned, underwater piano, buffeted[...]

Tonight: Matthew Danger Lippman

April 8, 2018

Matthew Danger Lippman returns to his hometown with some swagger headlining a seriously tight lineup tonight at the Mohawk. The former Brimstone Blondes frontman, current New Yorker, and eternal art rock spaceman is passing through on his way home to an undisclosed location in the Five Boroughs and will be playing selections from his tripped out but supremely soulful Refresh 2 Death EP. Opening the show will be The Get Money Squad’s Quinton Brock featuring Feverbox, slowcore mind shredders Award Show, and up and coming local indie darlings Johnny and the Man Kids, all for the tidy sum of $8. Doors open at 7pm. REFRESH 2 DEATH [EP] by Matthew Danger Lippman

Tonight: Good In The Dark

March 30, 2018

Tonight Good In The Dark hits up Milkie’s on Elmwood with support from local grunge rock heroes Ugly Sun and Nylon Otters. Hailing from Harrisburg PA,  Good In The Dark specializes in a moody and sexy take on New Wave, with bassist lead vocalist Heather Perry occasionally channeling the legendary Francoise Hardy to tremendous effect. Getting it all going will be reliable local indie rockers Nylon Otters and the ever satisfying Ugly Sun, just back from bopping around the Rust Belt with their heavy yet deeply melodious jams. Doors for this “secret show” open at 9pm and cover is   $5. Rafters by Good In The Dark

Deadwolf Drop “Cold Reception” B-Side

March 27, 2018

Local heavy psych rockers Deadwolf just dropped a “b-side” from their excellent 2017 Heavy Heart full length, and “Cold Reception” is as archetypal of what a b-side represents as you can get. Experimental and utterly unbound by restraint or convention, “Cold Reception” is bonkers and verging on prog, with constant time changes and left turns that recall late 60’s Syd Barrett/post Syd pre Meddle Pink Floyd by way of modern psych heroes The Flaming Lips and their preternatural gift for making your ears feel funny. You can check “Cold Reception” out below, but avoid operating heavy machinery until you’ve come out the other side… for all our sakes. Cold Reception by Deadwolf

Space Cubs Reveals New Single “Quitting”

March 21, 2018

Reborn Buffalo electronica band Space Cubs are getting ready to release What iff, their first EP as a quartet in a few weeks, and for an enigmatic and tantalizing teaser they’ve just released it’s lead single “Quitting.” Inscrutable like Amnesiac era Radiohead, “Quitting” floats in on a hazy cloud of Ken Culton’s hard to pin down poly-rhythms, eerie guitar riffs from Adam Pressley, the ambient Eno vibes of Shawn Lewis, and Suzanne Bonifacio’s otherworldly and hypnotic vocals, building to an off-kilter crescendo of chaos before succumbing to sweet entropy that sounds great in your inner ear. If the rest of What iff is as exquisitely crafted and affecting as “Quitting,” we will be in for a genuine treat when the EP drops April 7th, with a release party at the Mohawk that night featuring Jack, Sonny Baker, and Bold Folly. Pic by Jeanette Chwan

Tonight: Bethlehem Steel

March 20, 2018

Brooklyn by way of Buffalo garage rockers Bethlehem Steel are hitting up their old area on their way back home from Texas after SXSW tonight at Birdhaus with Gun Candy and Slowcooker. The gritty riffs and emotional heft you know and love from Bethlehem Steel, you know… “one of our own,” will be in full effect, so you’re probably going to want to hit this show. Opening the show will be punk troublemakers Gun Candy and gnarly surf punks Slowcooker. Doors open at 7pm and cover is $5-$10. Party Naked Forever by Bethlehem Steel

Tonight: Casey Abrams

March 17, 2018

Double bass wunderkind, vocalist and pride of Idyllwood, California’s Casey Abrams rolls through the Ninth Ward tonight to lay down some non St. Patrick’s Day grooves with local soul man Vin DeRosa. The 2012 American Idol contestant is on tour behind his recently released sophomore full length Put A Spell, recorded Arcade Fire style in an old abandoned church in Brooklyn for holy vibes to go with Abrams’ well crafted and very earnest roots rock. Buffalo soul classicist Vin DeRosa gets the show going at 8pm, and tickets are $17 at the door, which opens at 7pm.

Tonight: The Cordial Sins

March 8, 2018

Columbus, Ohio shoegazers The Cordial Sins pass through Mohawk Place tonight to rock indie jams that will tickle the fancies of fans of early Radiohead and Memoryhouse. Cordial Sins frontwoman/lyricist Liz Fisher is unmistakably the real deal, with a potent yet delicate voice  that’s got range and beguiling sweetness, while lead guitarist Corey Dickerson’s spirit animal is clearly Jonny Greenwood (a good thing). Opening the show will be local haze quartet Coral Collapse and psychedelic accordion rockers Church Key Social (think of Ian Anderson by way of the Doors). Doors open at 8pm and cover is $5.

Tonight: David Byrne

March 6, 2018

Tonight legendary singer songwriter, multi-media artist/curator, and ex Talking Heads frontman makes a welcome return to UB’s Center For The Arts after a ten year absence to kick jams from across his storied career. Hailing his just kicked off American Utopia World Tour as his “most ambitious show since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense, a very high bar indeed considering those Talking Heads shows, and the film that documented them, are unabashedly brilliant. David will be playing classics from his solo catalog, some well known classics, as well as new material from his upcoming 11th solo album American Utopia, out this Friday, part of his ongoing multi media Reasons To Be Cheerful project, a worthy endeavor during these turbulent and trying times. Comfy shoes good for dancing are encouraged because there will be butt shaking. Tonight’s sold out show starts at 7:30pm, with doors opening at 7pm. There’s[...]

Northern Nomads – “Phoenix”

March 3, 2018

“Phoenix,” the latest single from Seattle synthpop outfit Northern Nomads is neon drenched, epic, and it needs to get beamed into your ears right away. For his latest jam Northern Nomads mastermind Mario Sibaja trades the Nile Rodgers guitar work that made last year’s revelatory  Love Is All We Have EP obscenely irresistible for a pulsating riff that exudes sexy, apocalyptic power… with yet another exquisitely crafted and delivered chorus that makes you want to dance with your shoulders like you were in an 80’s music video. Check it out.

Tonight: Jack EP Release Party

March 1, 2018

Jack will be celebrating the release of their latest EP Alchemical Rounds with a shindig tonight at Mohawk Place with some help from Slinky X, dreambeaches, and Saturn V. The first two cuts from Alchemical Rounds, “Anxiety” and “A Kick A Knife” shows Jack expanding her punk/stoner rock into anthemic shoegaze territory, thrashing away beautifully with penetrating vocals and harmonies reminiscent of Jenny Lewis and Springtime Carnivore. Opening the show will be lo-fi punk skullcrushers Saturn V, the always wonderful dream pop of dreambeaches, and mysterious local punks Slinky X. Doors open at 8pm and cover is $10. Alchemical Rounds by JACK

Pendulum Girl Drops Mysterious heart demos

February 22, 2018

Leah Loefke, formerly of Love Scenes, is back like a phoenix out of the dark under the enigmatic nom de plume Pendulum Girl, and her recently released debut release heart demos, a magical lo-fi electronica dream pop gem that’s an instant triumph. Less an EP and more a collection of hymns to memory and getting through living, heart demos connects instantly with it’s hazy soundscapes, whispered, prayer like vocals, and delightful capacity for minimalist understatement and heavenly, out-sized emotional strokes, sometimes in the same song. Achingly heartbreaking from the very start, “magnet” sounds like a childhood dream about heaven, if it was directed by David Lynch and produced by Brian Eno, floating over a sweet metallic air conditioner drone. I’m definitely going to cue up the organ drenched and delicate “crying in the carwash” for my next trip through the Delta Sonic, and if I get overcome by the moment, I’ll be[...]