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[INDIE] If you’re wondering why Seattle-based rock band The Head and The Heart are coming to Buffalo sans their front man, Josiah Johnson, it’s because his life has been in mortal danger due to a substance abuse problem.
[ROCK] Listening to their latest album, Grace Street, you might not guess that Canadian rock band Big Wreck formed in 1994.
She’s a proud single mother of five from Buffalo who makes a living solely as a musician and now she’s taking on the spirit of Nina Simone.
[ROCK] In their press release, hard rock band Pop Evil describe a dystopian (or maybe utopian?) present in which the music business is dismantled, large chain stores go bankrupt, music videos are nowhere to be found on cable TV, and “thick headedly bubblegum pop” has become...
[FUNK] Maceo Parker is the self-proclaimed “funkiest saxophonist on the planet” and he’s adopted that title, arguably, since James Brown discovered him.
[INDIE] Several years ago, NPR launched a series of live video performances by well known bands in intimate spaces that they called Tiny Desk Concerts (presumably because you’d likely be watching or listening to the concert while at your desk at work).
[DISCUSSION] Want to learn more about the internet’s most mysterious and mischievous factions, Anonymous?
[POP PUNK] You might not realize it based on their boyish appearances, but West Virginia-based pop-punk band Time and Distance having been touring consistently for a decade.