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Tonight: The Head and the Heart

March 2, 2017

Tonight Seattle indie folk rock darlings The Head and the Heart  are back in Western New York after a six years absence to play UB’s Center For The Arts along with the always excellent Springtime Carnivore. There’s been some water under the bridge in those intervening years, with the band is foraging ahead behind their third album and first for Warner Brothers, last year’s Signs Of Life. Based on what Nathan Wilson from Wavves had to say recently about his previous dealings with Warners, good luck to them, and one hopes their pleasing California folk rock remains undimmed by the experience. Opening the show will be the ever delightful Los Angeles musical polymath Springtime Carnivore, aka Greta Morgan, returning to the area for a third time in three years having opened sensationally for Father John Misty at the Town Ballroom in 2015 and La Sera last fall at the Mohawk. Fans of[...]

Tonight: La Sera w/ Springtime Carnivore

October 26, 2016

Earlier this year, Katy Goodman and Greta Morgan teamed up to release the whimsical covers album Take It, It’s Yours. The record is a breezy collection of reimagined punk tracks by the likes of the Replacements, Bad Brains, the Misfits, the Stooges, and more. Tonight, the pair of LA musicians will bring its respective bands – La Sera and Springtime Carnivores – to town for a performance at Mohawk Place. Formally of the Vivian Girls, Goodman has spent the last five years evolving her La Sera sound from lo-fi garage pop to twangy country. Her most recent album Music For Listening Music To was released this past March and was recorded by alt-country heart breaker Ryan Adams. As for Morgan, Springtime Carnivore returned this fall with the well-received sophomore album The Midnight Room. The front woman and crew nearly stole the show when opening for Father John Misty at Town Ballroom last summer[...]

Father John Misty at Town Ballroom (8/1/15)

August 2, 2015

Triumphantly returning to the Town Ballroom stage three years after a now legendary opening performance for Youth Lagoon, Father John Misty delivered a scorching, hot as molten lava headlining set that melted the minds and libidos of the assembled sold out crowd. The show, part of an international tour supporting his 2015 masterpiece I Love You, Honeybear and sandwiched between Lollapalooza and shows in NYC, was an unexpected late addition to an already fine summer of shows, and now stands as one of the finest of the year, and a near religious experience. The opening set from the enigmatic Springtime Carnivore was ideal, and got everything started right with a satisfying mix of Cardigans-esque 60’s pop and Southern moxy. Playing a selection of tunes from her eponymous debut, Springtime Carnivore (aka Greta Morgan) wowed the attentive crowd with expressive, breathless vocals and hazy, jangly guitar riffs that conjured bittersweet sensations[...]

Tonight: Father John Misty

August 1, 2015

In recent years, Buffalo experiences an uptick in shows around festival season due to our relative geographical proximity to Toronto’s North by Northeast and Chicago’s Lollapalooza. This is good news for us because it brings acts like Real Estate and now Father John Misty to soundtrack some of these balmy nights. And really, there is no one more fitting for the sultry height of summer than Father John Misty. This show is sold out so there is little to do to get you to go to the show if you don’t already have a ticket, so I am going to offer a warning. If any of you notice a distant look in your loved one’s eyes tonight, if suddenly they don’t seem to notice you even exist, I really wouldn’t take it personally. These people are under a powerful spell, the powerful spell of Father John Misty, a strange and[...]