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[JAM] Featured as one of Relix Magazine’s “On The Verge” artists, Buffalo’s homegrown jam quartet, Aqueous, returns to Nickel City for a two-night stand at Buffalo Iron Works this Thursday and Friday, kicking off a run that goes straight through New Year’s Eve in Albany. Their new four-song EP, Best in Show, comes out Friday, making this somewhat of a CD release party, but as the soaring lead tune “Random Company” reveals, these guys don’t need a special occasion to put their best foot forward. It’s a tough balancing act, being progressive and accessible at the same time. Miraculously, Aqueous manages. Opening duo Natalie Cressman and Mike Bono are also releasing new music, their debut as a unit, Etchings in Amber. Cressman is most well known for her work as a trombonist in Phish-man Trey Anastasio’s touring band while Bono was the first guitarist in the Berklee College of Music’s history to be awarded a Presidential Scholarship. In the endless sea of jam-band projects, this will be a well above-average showcase.