Sharing the stage with them is local fuzzed-out emo heartthrobs Cooler, and the unassuming-yet-thrilling Nylon Otters. There will also be solo performances by Dave Allison and Bill Nehill.

Doors open at 8pm with a $7 cover. 

In the meantime, you can check out Orations’ “All The Honey” right here.

Written by Mike Rakiecki

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Tonight’s show is at Mohawk Place at 8pm. Bring at least $7 to adequately support the touring bands.

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At the core of Plain Brown Envelopes sits the enduring songwriting of Bill Nehill. The craft is juxtaposed nicely with elements of both stoicism and desperation, tonalities spread throughout the album like a hand of fanned-out playing cards. The strange thing about this album is the fact that it was recorded in a bedroom. Unabashedly donned ‘lo-fi’ on PBE’s bandcamp page, the production comes off as more than that—a leveled-up tier of low fidelity featuring backdrops of distant vocal tracks, understated percussion, and wonderfully appropriate instrumentation and effects not typically afforded in ‘bedroom folk’ projects. Plain Brown Envelopes is a new breed.

Album highlights? Try “First Cigarette Out Of The Hospital” for an affecting crawler with huge guitar chords, heavy as the title denotes. Western-tinged number “In This Place Of Design,” although a short two verses in length, listens like a sharp and chilling bandit proverb. “Lonely World In My Bedroom” really hit home, finding a perfect balance of hazy Pavement-esque detachment and an accessibility akin to The Magnetic Fields. The wide-ranging influence on this record is apparent, but not in a way that alienates the songs. Imagine that.

Love In A Plain Brown Envelope is available on a pay-what-you-can basis for digital downloads on PBE’s bandcamp page. Snag it while you can.

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Opening talent for Valentine’s stop at Mohawk place includes indie folk singer/songwriter Chase Huglin (Fort Wayne, IN), Scott Valkwitch / Bill Nehill duo (of Mohawk Place royalty), Steve Baczkowski / Ravi Padmanabha / Ringo Brill Trio, and Mom Said No. Five acts at Buffalo’s premier dive bar to whet your weekday appetite. Bon appetit. Music starts at 8pm with an $8 cover.

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Nehill has long been one of Buffalo’s musical gems and if you have yet to catch him live solo or with any of his ongoing projects, From Wilderness to Where? is a nice place to start. The full live EP can be listened to at Nehill’s bandcamp page. In the mean time, listen to the set opener, “Don’t Worry Darling,” below.

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He’s also a fantastic musician and songwriter. Whether performing solo or with Magi Chippie, or anyone else for that matter, Bill speaks truth through his music, evoking the very real sense that he’s been there and lived it.

Tonight, Bill would like you to join him for the release of Forward to Ministry Autumn, his new cassette tape. In his own words, Ministry is “six songs written in a hypomanic spree early in the summer and recorded on a September morning in a grey grain silo with one mic.”

This couldn’t take place anywhere BUT Mohawk (7pm) and features some other familiar faces in Matthew Smith, Scott Valkwitch, and Robin handling the DJ tasks. Stop down and appreciate one of our city’s most unique (and certainly greatest) talents.

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Earlier this fall, the band finally launched a facebook page, one that included the devastating track “Too Many Eyes in the Crowd.”

The song, which was actually released three months ago, recalls Automatic for the People era R.E.M. or maybe even early Counting Crows, and features the always captivating Nehill delivering the absolutely humbling chorus “It takes a long time for a man to realize his welcome is worn out.” Damn.

The tune appears to be a part of the band’s forthcoming release, recorded at Matt Smith’s Hi/Lo Studios, so keep an eye out. In the mean time, listen to “Too Many Eyes in the Crowd.”

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The new acoustic duo has yet to play a proper show or release any recorded material, and yet they still seem to be creating a buzz for themselves already. What would you expect from Mohawk Place legend Bill Nehill and former Mallwalkers and Sexist member, Jamie Rowitsch?

“Although we are very new, it has already exceeded my expectations tenfold,” Nehill says. “Also, I love the fact that we rehearse at Jamie’s kitchen table.”

If you have followed the projects of Nehill in the past (Poison Arrows, TMMC), it seems an acoustic duo would be right up his darkened alley, but according to him, he was attempting to shy away from another stripped down project.

“I was initially against it as I was really trying to get away from acoustic music,” he states, “however, I went for it and fell in love with it immediately. It was not planned to come together the way it did.”

This time around, it’s different for Nehill.

“The acoustic ‘folk’ songs I write for Bill & Jamie’s House are much different than what I was writing seven years ago,” he explains. “They have less narrative, less structure, and are more primal and, although some may not see it, they have more hope.”

Rowitsch chimes in, “In Bill and Jamie’s House, it feels very old fashioned. We sit down, have coffee/tea or whatever, talk about life, and make deliberate decisions about collaborating musically. It feels nice to put time into something I’m so compassionate about.”

On the horizon for Bill & Jamie’s House is their first “official” show on October 17th in the back room of Rust Belt Books on Allen Street. The band is also gearing up to record some of those songs, which were born and hashed out around Rowitsch’s table. Though the band is in its beginning stages, Nehill promises that the songs are “more than enough for an album.”

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