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Tonight: Bad Waitress

April 20, 2019

Tonight Sugar City hosts a night of serious 21st century punk rock when Toronto’s Bad Waitress rolls through town with Thick and Tina Panic Noise. Bad Waitress is rowdy, insurgent, and not playing around with your feeleings or your hangups, while Brooklyn’s Thick is all DIY punk, soaring melodies, and kicking the status quo in it’s dude-centric junk (we have it coming); and Buffalo’s Tina Panic Noise is punk rock stomping on the fingers of the dying CIS-heteronormative world unfortunately holding on for dear life well after it’s sell by date. Tickets are $12 and doors are at 7pm. Please note this is an all ages show and that Sugar City is a drug and alcohol free space. Party Bangers Volume: 1 by Bad Waitress

I’m Broke, I Hate You, I Quit

August 10, 2015

Other than being randomly selected to win year-round access to a zoo at your own desire, I can not imagine anything more exciting and overly-optimistic than day one with your new band. You’re going to take over the world and you know it. Banality aside, the band is undoubtedly your oyster to which you have every opportunity to create and brand. Hell, you can even pet it if you really want to. But creative obstacles linger, eager to snatch your prize. Yes, our area has been spoiled with unparalleled national acts including the Goo Goo Dolls & Every Time I Die, groups whose impact is not only absorbed right here at home but also on an immense international level. But what about those armfuls of bands who had every opportunity to do the same but rather opted out based on the inevitable sense of vexation that comes with being in a band — the erosion of personal funds,[...]