by Cliff Parks | Feb 10, 2017 | Know Your Opener
Brooklyn shoegazers Psychic Twin will be getting tonight’s STRFKR show at the Waiting Room started perfectly with their ethereal yet emotionally charged electronica, and to miss them frankly, is to play yourself out. Psychic Twin is the brainchild of daughter of...
by Shauna Presto | May 3, 2016 | Know Your Opener
Savoir Adore is every bit as dreamy sounding as their name suggests. The Brooklyn duo’s last full length release, Our Nature, is a delicate mix of quite a few genres — picture a whimsical take on dream pop with a disco feel, the occasional fuzzy backing...
by Cliff Parks | Aug 3, 2015 | Know Your Opener
Many paragraphs have been written elsewhere about tonight’s Tedeschi Trucks Band show at Artpark so I’m not going to bother. Instead, some attention sorely needs to be payed to openers Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Doyle Bramhall II. The crown jewel...
by Steven Knapp | Jul 28, 2015 | Know Your Opener
Brooklyn duo Widowspeak have been creating a unique style of shoegaze folk since forming in 2010. Comprised of singer Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, their easygoing melodies and crawling rhythms make for an ambitious, elegant take on genres like...
by Ronald Walczyk | Jul 22, 2015 | Know Your Opener
Rare is the bill on which the opening band draws as much (or more, in even rarer cases) anticipation as the main act. Last year’s Band of Horses / Midlake show comes to mind (still sore for missing that), or perhaps the stacked My Morning Jacket / Wilco / Bob Dylan...
by Nick Sessanna | Jun 24, 2015 | Know Your Opener
If any of our readers are avid listeners of 102.1 or 107.7, you are probably familiar with Metric, a band that has evolved into a cornerstone of the alternative format. Having formed in Toronto, the Canadian alt-synth-poppers have been Buffalo favorites since their...
