Filmstrip - buffaBLOG https://buffablog.com Buffalo's Local Music Blog Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:38:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://buffablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BUFFABLOG-ICON-L.png Filmstrip - buffaBLOG https://buffablog.com 32 32 Tonight: Filmstrip https://buffablog.com/tonight-filmstrip-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tonight-filmstrip-2 Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:26:44 +0000 http://www.buffablog.com/?p=22834 Filmstrip will be bringing their wholly pleasant brand of alt-Americana to Mohawk Place tonight. The Cleveland-based band evokes a laid-back vibe reminiscent of The Life and Times, Pedro the Lion, […]

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]]> Filmstrip will be bringing their wholly pleasant brand of alt-Americana to Mohawk Place tonight. The Cleveland-based band evokes a laid-back vibe reminiscent of The Life and Times, Pedro the Lion, and just the slightest touch of Father John Misty. My personal recommendation is the upbeat, guitar driven “Dollar Store.”

Support tonight comes from the ever-fuzzy Fredonians in Zealot and Buffalo’s answer to alt-Americana, American Stores. The show starts at 8pm for $5.

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]]> Tonight: Filmstrip https://buffablog.com/tonight-filmstrip/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tonight-filmstrip Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:00:49 +0000 http://www.buffablog.com/?p=18201 Cleveland’s Filmstrip is an interesting band to listen to because they sound like guys who could explode into cathartic-but-too-obvious fuzz at any moment, but who choose not to. It’s reductive […]

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]]> Cleveland’s Filmstrip is an interesting band to listen to because they sound like guys who could explode into cathartic-but-too-obvious fuzz at any moment, but who choose not to. It’s reductive to call a band “mature” just because they aren’t ear-splittingly loud, so let’s just call them patient.

Besides, “mature” indicates at best that they’ve totally figured themselves out, and at worst that they’re past their prime, and none of that is true. Their three most recent singles showcase the band tinkering with a few sounds: slower, melodic indie rock on “Stuck on Explode,” something like Neil Young & Crazy Horse on “Up on the Promenade,” and countrified punk a la The Men on “Waiting on a Train.” Hard to say where they’re headed, exactly, but I think the maturation is ongoing and that the best is yet to come.

So check ’em out tonight at Nietzsche’s with local psychedelic doomsurfers Aircraft and the sometimes dark and often beautiful folk strains of Helen. $5 at the door, 21 and up, starts at 9pm. Facebook event here.

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