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Tonight: Benny The Butcher

October 26, 2019

Already legendary Buffalo MC Benny The Butcher plays a long awaited and very highly anticipated and sold out hometown show tonight at the resurrected Showplace Theater. It’s been a crazy few years for Benny, as he and his Grizelda Records label mates Westside Gunn and Conway The Machine can’t seem to stop levelling up of late, signing up with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation management outfit and Eminem’s Shady Records while representing for Buffalo on tracks with Anderson Paak, Pusha T and working with East Coast luminaries like Alchemist to keep the flame of 90’s hardcore hip hop alive. With big moves and two album out this year, his solo EP The Plugs I Met and the just released Statue Of Limitations with Pete Rock protege Smoke DZA, 2019 is shaping up to be a big year for Benny, and his hometown has been clamoring hard to celebrate his success so tonight’s going to[...]

Just Announced: Big Data

January 23, 2015

One of 2014’s major breakout acts was Big Data, the project of Brooklyn electronic musician, Alan Wilkes. We like to think that JOYWAVE’s Dan Armbruster taking lead vocals on the hit song, “Dangerous,” certainly didn’t hurt either. You couldn’t go through a single commercial break without hearing the track pop up on TV. The Rochester musician was featured on Big Data’s sneaky good first single, “The Stroke of Return,” as well (listen at the bottom of post). After making its Buffalo debut this past summer at Kerfuffle, Big Data will be returning to to town on Thursday, April 7th at the Showplace Theater. Raise your hand if you thought shows were still being held there. Exactly. The show is being presented by Alt Buffalo so if you happen to follow the radio station on social media, expect A LOT of reminders about this one. You have been warned. Tickets go[...]