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Tonight: Nausea

February 20, 2015

Tonight, Blanque Check, a local record label, is presenting a night of “music with a darker tinge” at Dreamland (8pm, $5), which seems appropriate given the week of mostly sub-zero temperatures we all just lived through. Nauseau, the solo project of Melbourne based musician, Andrew Dalziell, is headlining. This project takes brooding Bauhaus-esque vocals, slightly discordant and moody guitars and surrounds them with minimal tinny synths. Opening for Nauseau are 3 diverse Buffalo based acts. Space is Haunted is a raucous two piece with churning guitars and strident vocals. Bill and Jamie’s house is another two piece, providing the evening with gut wrenching folk songs. Finally, Brain Drain is spacey slowcore at times reminiscent of Galaxy 500. These 3 acts should further anchor an already solid night of music to warm your frozen souls. If not, standing in a crowd of people should at least help warm up your frozen[...]

Lesionread Releases NSFW Nail Polish Commercial

February 9, 2015

Local troublemaker and art polymath Lesionread released a hilariously NSFW nail polish commercial teasing his album release party next month at Dreamland (rescheduled due to arctic weather) with the recently added Brimstone Blondes, Planet Three, and Joe Bap. This clip is assuredly uncool for viewing at your desk, in church, or at the day care center, but if you get off on flaunting societal convention or can lock the stall door, go for it. As far as the much anticipated show at Dreamland, word on the street has it that not only is there a secret installation is in the works, the long running “feud” between Lesionread and Sleepy Hahas’ Pat Butler will finally be settled by a rap battle. The show starts at 8pm and cover is $5. Meanwhile…. Lesionread Merchandise 2015 (NSFW) from Shawn Lewis on Vimeo.

Tonight: Beatmakers Showcase

January 30, 2015

As music production software has become so easily accessible, artists have accordingly taken advantage of the opportunity to create texturally complex sounds and percussion-based tracks known loosely as “beats.” Taking an atmospheric approach, the often instrumental music is hard to define, but borrows much from jazz with its’ varied instrumentation and idiosyncratic structure. Events such as Los Angeles’ Low End Theory club night have helped break through many artists like Flying Lotus, The Gaslamp Killer, Daedelus, and Nosaj Thing and bring the genre to a wider audience. Tonight, Buffalo’s Dreamland multi-purpose gallery will host a showcase of local beatmaking talent including sets from Chauncey Tails, whose fresh tracks feature pitch-shifted vocals and a warped hip hop feel, and Melissa Hasagun, with her ethereal, reflective style that blends low-key rhythms with textured soundscapes. Other producers performing include Denzel and Brother Bless. The event starts at 7:30 and donations will be accepted at[...]

Tonight: Class Acts w/ Tiny Rhymes, Cadaver Country, and more

December 12, 2014

Dreamland will truly be the land of dreams tonight, if you’re of the indie folk predilection. Local class acts, including Tiny Rhymes and Cadaver Country, are teaming up to offer a night of heartfelt songwriting and emotive and lyrical wisdom. Tiny Rhymes’ full ensemble is assembling for tonight’s performance, which means audience members can look forward to experiencing the band’s three-part vocal harmonies. We can only hope to also catch Cadaver Country’s notorious tambourine of certain doom. The show begins at 7:00 PM at Dreamland, 387 Franklin Street. You can show up for free if you’d like, but it would be cool to heed the event’s $5 suggested donation.

Tonight: Red Show

December 6, 2014

Dreamland, the new gallery/arts cooperative on Franklin near Edward, is taking Buffalo by storm. Located in an classic Buffalo building on the border of Allentown and downtown, it’s daring but welcoming ethos and welcome sense of mischief has made it a hub of avant-garde activity, and it’s glorious front room doubles as gallery and performance space that’s one of the most fun in Buffalo. The Terror Pigeon/Rich Aucoin/Lesionread show at Dreamland a few weeks back was an exuberant adventure in communal joy, and tonight, the good times continue with Sqajacuada Creeps, Lesionread, and Bryan Johnson & Family taking the front room over and painting it red. OK, not really, but they’ve swapped all the light bulbs for red ones, and everybody’s dressing in red (golden gold is also OK), including the audience, and those white walls are going to drink it up. Doors open at 7, bands start at 8,[...]

Fake Species

December 5, 2014

Its been a minute since we had a new Wonk Sesh installment on our hands. The co-presented series from the blog and abstract performer Lesionread held its latest filming back at the end of October at Dreamland with Cleveland’s tribal rockers, Fake Species. The show was a blast. You can watch the bonkers video, the 4th in the still young series, below if you couldn’t make it. If you missed any of our past seshes, then check out the archives featuring performances former fellow left-of-the-dial acts like Lord Nathaniel and Couples Counseling here.

Tonight: Terror Pigeon

November 12, 2014

Tonight, Buffalo’s newest arts space, Dreamland, is going to be pulsating with weirdness and wildness when local art electronica giant Lesionread and ambient rockers Humble Braggers collide with Nashville’s Terror Pigeon and Halifax Nova Scotia’s Rich Aucion. The pushing of limits will be the order of the night, with all acts on the bill being noted for their sonic adventurousness, and with Dreamland being a space with no rules. It could truly be a night to remember, especially with regards to an unfettered Lesionread (aka Sean Louis), currently in a social media “beef” with Sleepy Hahas’ Pat Butler, who will be in the Dreamland audience. Will he be more than an audience member? Will this critique of the War On Drugs vs Mark Kozalek feud boil over? We’ll find out tonight. There’s a $5 cover and the show starts at 8pm. And here’s a salvo from Lesionread at Sleepy Hahas.[...]

Tonight: Home Body

November 9, 2014

According to the Facebook event page,  this will be good. Not exactly the ringing-est of endorsements, but modesty is always appreciated in the music world. With sets from five different acts, it’s not a stretch to assume there will be something for everybody, and the guarantee of sugar highs for your ears, brain, and eyes make this show a sweet stop on your Sunday night of debauchery before the work week begins. Dreamland opens its doors at 7pm for this all ages (I think) show, and while there isn’t a specified amount of scratch you need to get in, when an event tells you to bring “$ and all yr buds,” it’s safe to assume some sort of green will cover the ticket cost. The lineup boasts electropop weirdos Home Body, along with sets from Providence acts Player 2 and Invisible Robot Hands. Rounding things off are Buffalo faves Little[...]

Tonight: Fake Species

October 29, 2014

This evening, the fourth installment of Wonksesh will be happening at the Allen town, multi-purpose venue, Dreamland. Hailing from Cleveland, sultry electronic pop-outfit Fake Species will be the featured act for this episode. The dynamic, four member group pairs samples and electronic/acoustic drums with sleek synth sounds and a rap-vocalist to create edgy and stripped down pop-tronic. Fans of Santifold or Peaches will not want to miss this. Furthermore, as a multimedia series, the group will be accompanied with live, kaleidoscopic visuals from local video stalwart, Chris Svoboda.  Buffalo electronic experimenters UVB76 and Crux will be opening for support. The audio-visual spectacle is happening at Dreamland and it begins at 8pm.  Five bucks will secure your entrance.

Tonight: Overhand Sam

October 11, 2014

Tonight Allentown will be treated to a pretty eclectic mix at Dreamland (387 Franklin St. Set to perform is Rochester-based OHS (Overhand Sam), aka Sam Snyder who might look familiar from his other gig in Maybird. OHS’sound is full-bodied, sounding like a mix between a Jack White project and college radio hit. Also on the bill is fairly new to our radar, Different Planets, which sounds like if Casiotone for the Painfully Alone took hallucinogens accidentally after his wife left him and subbed in  an industrial band.  Certainly not to be left out is Iowa’s best atmospheric rock troubadour, Bob Bucko Jr. and sludgy weirdo outfit, Pappy Stardust and & the Eclectic Moon Sandwich. Doors are at 7pm with kickoff at 8pm. $5 donation goes to Bob Bucko Jr., because he traveled 13 hours to get to Buffalo. Trust me, that drive sucks. I’ve done it way too many times.

Tonight: Michael Parallax

September 30, 2014

Feeling Wreckless? Catch one of the scene’s favorite superhuman spellbinding pizza pal weirdos, the haplessly hopeful and spiritually (for)giving artist Michael Parallax ( frequent tour mate of Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt) tonight in support of his latest album, Wilderness Year. Released on on Spirit Cat Tapes, the ten track album is exactly what you would want/expect to hear at a space like Dreamland. He is supported by local honeys Jack Topht and Little Cake, as well as Strawberry Boys. Doors are at 8? There is no set ticket price;  a suggested donation of $5 (or whatever you can swing) is accepted. Michael Parallax – TRSH MTN from Michael Parallax on Vimeo.

Tonight: Schwarz & Kilbourne

July 16, 2014

Get your body moving EARLY tonight over at Dreamland as the venue/gallery will be hosting the Health Club “Do or Die” Tour, a combined tour between East Coast DJs Schwarz(Baltimore) and Kilbourne (NJ). Listen to the audio below to give you an idea of what to expect because it can explain much better than I ever could. Local support will include the ever busy electro, space traveling duo UVB-76 and the hypnotic Ay-Fast. If you can’t make it to Dreamland, then you can catch the Health Club tour over at the Shit Mansion (yep) later tonight along with tag-team duo Jack Toft and Chauncey Tails, Toft tour-mate Frank Hurricane, and many more. Music kicks off at Dreamland at 7pm. $5 to get sweaty.

Tonight: Caddywhompus, Aircraft, and Zealot

June 26, 2014

Tonight will be a glorious night. A night full of experimental indie pop, psychedelica, and walls of sound. Caddywhompus will be blessing us Buffalonians with their presence after traveling all the way from New Orleans. I couldn’t describe their sound better myself: “With a daunting assortment of amplifiers and effects-pedal tweakery, the duo executes its incredibly loud and at times nearly overwhelming sets with an impeccable musicianship and live presence. Song structures alternate between sweet psychedelic indie ballads to the most intense, ear-splitting of noise-driven crescendos” Tonight’s support comes from the one and only Aircraft, known for their fine psychedelic-indie rock. Rounding out the pack will be one of buffaBLOG’s favorite younger bands, Zealot, and their fuzzed out lo-fi. The entrance fee to Dreamland (on Franklin) is only $5, and make sure you bring your own beer.

Aneides

RESCHEDULED: Aneides, Pine Fever, & The Pharaoh Moans

May 23, 2014

UPDATE 5:00 pm, 5/23/14: This show has been cancelled due to some “scheduling shenanigans.” Will hopefully be rescheduled for tomorrow night, venue TBA. We’ll update ya when we know more! Keeping the preview intact below, to be updated when the venue is announced. Why have good dreams when you could have twisted ones? Make it happen tonight at Dreamland with some folk, freaky and non. You’ve got Asheville’s Aneides, who sings piano ballads that make you can make you feel uneasy, and then suddenly touched. You’ve got The Pharaoh Moans, who, judging from the tunes on their ReverbNation page, play ripping folk from a darker place designed to get your body’s chemicals a-pumpin’. And you’ve got Pine Fever, bringing some toe-tapping, rough-around-the-edges Americana to the table. Good deal. Doors at 8, Facebook event here. Suggested $3-$5 donation. Check out Aneides below.

Tonight: The Moon

May 20, 2014

Gotta love impossible-to-Google jazz ensembles. And you gotta love idiosyncratic, downtown art spaces that bring them to you, live, so you can leave all the Googling at home or in your pocket and just enjoy the show. The Moon is the NYC-based, free-form team of Adam Caine and Federico Ughi, whose guitar/drum duets are at once reminiscent of the deep psych of Brainticket, the soothing melodiousness of Cluster, and the off-kilter math of Ponytail, and they are performing at the new(ish) art-show space Dreamland tonight at 7pm. I’m not sure exactly what local composer/performers T.J. Borden and Kevin Cain have in store for their support sets (though the former has already warned attendees to bring earplugs for his set with Zane Merritt, Steve Baczkowski, and Jim Abramson, which will probably be noisy as fuck, and the latter is no stranger to strange acoustic experiments [as an aside, check out his upcoming[...]