Events

[FESTIVAL] The 16th edition of Buffalo’s Music is Art Festival will take place on Saturday, September 9 at a new location this year, Buffalo River Works, and the line up is just as extensive as ever. The main upshot of this move is that River Works offers some indoor and outdoor spaces in case of bad weather, which has plagued this late summer/early fall festival in the past. As of the time of this writing, however, the forecast for this weekend looks sunny. As usual the festival will feature several stages—the main stages, which will be split into an indoor and an outdoor area at River Works; The Rail Barn Stage, which is dedicated to Americana and blues; the Pyramid at The Ruins, Balcony, the Bunker, Reggae Dub, Silent Disco, Vinyl, and Front stages are where you’ll find DJs of just about any kind you can think of; the Gateway stage, which appears to be dedicated to hip hop; the Riverfront Jazz stage; and finally two kids stages. On top of that, there are five Cinema areas which will be screening horror movies, short films, and music documentaries. As you might imagine, it’s actually impossible to see everything at Music is Art, so if there are specific acts you’d like to see, look at a schedule and plan ahead. Some recommendations as far as main stage acts go: on Saturday be sure to check out indie rock band The Tins at 9:45pm, industrial electronic duo Night Slaves at  12:15am, and rapper Chae Hawk at 12:45am. There will also be a few acts playing on Friday and Sunday, most notably alternative rock band Dirty Smile at 7:30pm and emo band Darling Harbor at 9pm on Friday and indie rock band Ponder the Giraffe at 4pm, and ska-punk band Reggie Childs at 4:30pm on Sunday. Or if you’re like me, you’ll just wander in and see where the festival takes you.