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Tonight: Tigers Jaw

April 6, 2015

If you love punk or emo music and you haven’t indulged in the Tigers Jaw discography yet, shame on you. Their latest album, the very intimate sounding Charmer, made a slew of best-of-2014 lists (including my own).T he Scranton-based band self-describes as what would happen if Fleetwood Mac and Brand New had an angsty little child (with great pop sensibility). If you’d like to know more, fellow buffaBLOGGER Ronald Walczyk conducted an excellent interview with frontman Ben Walsh that you can access here. Tonight’s openers include the buzzing melodipunks in Somos and Buffalo indie-rock royalty, Lemuria. Doors are at 7pm, $15 at the door.

Tonight: Modern Baseball

November 12, 2014

The clever dudes in Modern Baseball seem to be riding high on a wave of interest in their awkward anti-pop musings about post-adolescence blues. It’s nothing short of endearing and relatable – see the startlingly frank acoustic musings about Twitter on “@chl03k” or the (somehow) nerdier version of Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin on tracks “Fine, Great.” Instagram and Twitter references aside, Modern Baseball songs are smart, relatable, and inherently infectious. RIYL The Front Bottoms, Tigers Jaw, or The Weakerthans. Opening this show is a veritable treasure trove of great underground emo. Knuckle Puck is classic pop-punk, but Somos, Foxing, and Crying each bring their own, excellent take on emo to the stage in different ways. Expect some sad, awkward, and conversely delightful chiptune from Crying, who we happened to catch up with earlier this week. Local support comes from Head North. Tickets for tonight are $15. Doors are at[...]