more by Cory Perla
[NEW WAVE] The next edition of Cold Wave at the Cat Cave, the monthly synthpop, post-punk, and coldwave dance party, will take place at Mohawk Place on Saturday, September 16.
[EMO] Formed in 1995 in Kansas City, Missouri, The Get Up Kids are pioneers of emo music. The band, headed by Matt Pryor, has been cited by bands like Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, and The Early November as a creative influence.
[INDIE] At first hailed as maybe the new Bob Dylan, singer/songwriter Conor Oberst has always felt more to me like some kind of successor to Elliott Smith, in that, at least for me personally, Oberst’s music has always had a supremely cathartic effect.
[HOUSE] Born and raised in Detroit, Norm Talley has been an authority on house music since the beginning. He’ll give Buffalo a lesson on old school techno and house when he comes to the Gypsy Parlor on Saturday, September 16, presented by Rufus Gibson.
[ROCK] The Flaming Lips put out their first record in the year I was born, 1986. I became a fan around 2004, just after the band’s iconic record Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and before its sister album At War with the Mystics.
[EMO] A couple of out of town emo bands and a couple of local alt rock bands are set up for a show at Sugar City this Friday, September 8.
[FOLK] Magpie is a three-piece folk band with a pretty spiritual philosophy.
[FUNK] The final concert of the year in the Live at Larkin concert series happens this Wednesday, September 6. The free concert will feature funk/soul band Dive House Union and blues rockers the Jony James Band.
[POST-HARDCORE] I remember seeing the Fall of Troy perform at the Buffalo Icon years ago. I was really into the band and I remember guitarist Thomas Erak shredding a guitar solo with one hand while looking at his watch on his opposite wrist.