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Tonight: Face to Face

May 26, 2015

Full disclosure: I’m not a Face to Face fanboy. I’m actually only familiar with one album by the Victorville, California foursome. I don’t even think I have an original copy of that album either, just a burned one. And I can’t tell you where or when I heard it for the first time. I can tell you one thing though, I listened to the fuck out of it. The album I’m speaking of is, of course, the band’s self-titled masterpiece. It’s just so good. It really is. A fun, straight up punk rock album start to finish. No shit ballads. No filler interludes. Just moderately fast punk music. It’s one of those albums that you eventually know all the words to and end up singing random songs from it at work. You end up listening to it five times in a row and don’t notice, and don’t even care because[...]

Tonight: Man Man

July 8, 2014

If you haven’t heard, Man Man is coming to Buffalo tonight. Since forming in 2003, it’s been easy to classify the Philadelphia-based group as an indie-rock band but they have many influences, touching on all genres of music. To add to the variety, they use an interesting blend of keyboards, synthesizers, percussion, and horns as well as typical drums, guitar, and bass. The band first caught my attention while listening to an internet streaming radio playlist for Gogol Bordello. Man Man’s earlier works definitely has that Eastern European feel to them, like Gogol, but have evolved with their last couple of albums, achieving a sound that is uniquely their own. Their latest album, On Oni Pond, came out in September of 2013 and has been received favorably. Honus Honus, the band’s frontman and lyricist, has a recognizeable, deep, raspy voice along with lyrics that produce cartoon-like imagery. The music they[...]