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Just Announced: Heavy Rotation – Lonely Hearts Dance

Michael Moretti — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:01:40 +0000

We must admit, we love a good dance party. Luckily the fine folks over at Hardware are giving us the opportunity to throw our own next month. On Friday, February 13th, buffaBLOG will be curating the front and back room of the Allentown bar supplying Buffalo with all the hits and hot jams your after 40 hour work week has been craving. The lineup consists of local hip-hop producer, Cove, mashup extraordinaire Teenwolf, electronic visual artist, Projex, and front room regular, Camaican Sensation. All in all, this is a great opportunity to show off all those dance moves you’ve been practicing while snowed in this winter. Get there around 10pm and the doors are $5.

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Tonight: Heavy Rotation – Back to School Dance

Mac McGuire — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:35:24 +0000

After a successful first run for our Herd Fest this past June, we wanted to lay low for a bit. As fun as Herd was, it was an exhausting few months of planning and we wanted to take a little breather from parties and recharge our batteries. So much for that. For our next show, we thought we would resurrect our Heavy Rotation dance party series and ring in the start of the fall semester with a back to school dance throw down.

Tonight at Hardware, the front and back rooms will be taken over by some of the blog’s favorite local DJs. If you missed any of the spotlights during the week, take a moment to catch up:

Music will kick off this evening at 11pm with Jameson, aka Spooky Sean of Spooky Business, while the back room will jump off soon after and run all night long. So ditch the books for a few hours and worry about midterms whenever you happen to wake up tomorrow. Doors open at 10pm. $5 cover.

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Heavy Rotation: Chauncey Tails

Matt Moretti — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:55:03 +0000

Monday was Rick Jameson, Tuesday was DJ Pizza Pizza, yesterday was TEENWOLF, and today’s Heavy Rotation artist is Chauncey Tails. Hailing from Gowanda, the bedroom producer is well versed in producing and chopping up tracks. He has masterful remakes of songs by artists including Danny Brown and Chief Keef to his name, completely reimagining the tracks. When he sticks to instrumentals, Tails can hit you with bouncy tracks like “Tropical Topical,” knocks like “summer trap,” or hit you with a Paul McCartney sample.

Closing out the night with a 2am set, Chauncey is bringing all of his vibes to Allen Street Hardware at the second edition of our Heavy Rotation. An artist with a wide array of sounds, Chauncey has a history with buffaBLOG. He was the resident DJ at our 4th Birthday Party event earlier in the year. Fluidly combining elements of trip-hop, trap, and anything that will sound good. Chauncey is the perfect artist to dance your face off to as you end your night and your summer.

Again, catch him at 2am Friday night at Allen Street Hardware, $5 cover, 21 plus, and get familiar below.

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Heavy Rotation: TEENWOLF

Michael Moretti — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:23:29 +0000

Look at that advert to the right. This is what this post is going to be hyping. This Friday evening, buffaBLOG will be curating a showcase of some of the very best up-and-coming DJs in Buffalo. On Monday, we featured a write up Spooky Business’ Rick Jameson. Yesterday we spotlighted DJ Pizza Pizza (and today a little bit too). Wednesday is DJ TEENWOLF’s turn.

DJ TEENWOLF might be on a lot of radars due to his past collaborations with Allentown’s favorite alternative emcee, Jack Topht. Prior to this, the well-versed DJ resided in New York City, producing indie hits for popular hipster rap group (PRE-DAS RACIST), Ninjasonik. Upon TEENWOLF’s arrival back west, he teamed up with some of the minds behind Toats Orig, playing some of their parties. Without a doubt, the WOLF will deliver a bumping set this Friday. Doors are at 10pm with a $5 cover.

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Heavy Rotation: DJ Pizza Pizza

Steven Knapp — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 21:10:30 +0000

Buffalo producer Pizza Pizza first caught our attention earlier this year when he started posting a series of tracks or “slices,” as the artist refers them, to his soundcloud account. Despite the whimsical name, many of Pizza Pizza’s beats are a sinister blend of trap and bass with hard-hitting drums and sparse, chopped-up vocals.

Tracks like “Slice 30” and “Slice 21” display a more idiosyncratic take on the Chicago-born juke style brought to international acclaim by the late DJ Rashad and show the artist’s grasp of several high-energy dancefloor styles. Balancing ethereal vibes with effective, straightforward trap inspired percussion “Slice 25,” released as a free download and featured here at buffaBLOG is perhaps the best example of the vibe the DJ will bring this Friday when he spins at our second installment of Heavy Rotation at Allen Street Hardware.

The event will also feature local artists Chauncey Tails, Teenwolf, and Rick Jameson with music in both the front and back rooms starting at 11pm, Zza himself starting the back room off around 11:30pm. Admission is $5, 21+.

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Heavy Rotation: Rick Jameson

Vanessa Lynne — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:53:27 +0000

Artists love to have alter egos, and in this case, Spooky Business DJ Rick Jameson has many. If you want to call him by his government name, address him as Sean ‘Seabass’ Heidinger, who by day is the Classified Advertising Director for Artvoice, a cover not unlike Clark Kent or Peter Parker. At night, however, he is saving people…from boring nights and bad music.

As one half of “World-Class DJ Supergroup” Spooky Business, Spooky Sean got his start at a Buffalo mainstay of nights that are unforgettable yet you can’t remember them, the Pink. Like the DJ, the bar also goes by other names, including it’s the actual one, Allen Street Bar and Grill, inexplicably nicknamed The Old Pink. From here, business only got bigger and better, and now the duo plays bars and clubs all over the 716.

This Friday, the blog’s second installment of our Heavy Rotation series takes place at Allen Street Hardware, doors down from the Pink where it all began for Sean/Rick. Voted 2014’s “Best Place to Dance” in Buffalo by Artvoice, the venue is the perfect spot for a back-to-school dance party.

The 21+ event costs $5 to get in, and Rick will be in the front room to kick it off and warm things up at 11pm.

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Just Announced: Heavy Rotation – Back To School Dance

Mac McGuire — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:15:08 +0000

The fall semester is quickly approaching, which means to many of us (not me, I am sadly 30), summer is nearing its inevitable end. We thought we could help ease the pain of returning to the books by finally having our second go-around of our Heavy Rotation dance party series. We debuted our first installment last fall as part of the Elmwood Village’s annual Mass Appeal event at the Pierce Arrow, and for this time around, we are taking over the back room of Hardware to showcase some of our favorite area DJs with our very own back-to-school dance.

On Friday, September 12th, join us as Chauncey Tails, DJ Pizza Pizza, and Teenwolf will man the back while Rick Jameson (Spooky Sean of Spooky Business) will loosen everyone up as he gets things going in the front room.

Heavy Rotation: Back To School Dance is a 21+ event. Music kicks off at 11pm, with a cover of $5.

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