“There’s no brown in the rainbow.” Really, Bitch?
I’m not impressed with the thinking on this latest hubbub from our deeply soul-searching, inclusive community. Our resisting community. Our big-picture community, our brothers and sisters in arms. We’re really just so full of shit. Yes we are.
This photograph by Adi Nes is part of the show opening this Friday at CEPA: Pl
As day four of the Carl Paladino hearings began in Albany today, a group of protestors gathered outside of the State Education Department Building. See video of the protest below.
[TRIBUTE] For those that need a miracle, Dead and Company truly delivers. Granted, it may not be every day, and it also may not be the Grateful Dead… not exactly, anyhow. But for folks that don’t mind the personnel differences, Dead and Company are doing a stellar job of carrying on an American music tradition that many fans would prefer to keep alive – provided that the talent and passion is genuine. Enter John Mayer, a perpetually misunderstood guy with guitar chops to spare and a gift for making things swing.
Music Video: “Day Job” by Mason-Jar
Recommended if you like: Blink-182, MxPx New Found Glory
Formed by former members of Cute is What We Aim For—drummer Tom Falcone and guitarist/vocalist Fred Cimato—and Steve Gardner, formerly of Crush the Everlasting, is pop-punk band Mason-Jar. Their first single, “Day Job” comes with a Blink-182-inspired lead guitar riff and straight on pop-punk stylings. The video features the members of the band playing the track, the band in full pop-punk mode—sporting Fender guitars, dickies slacks, Puma shoes, and arm tattoos.
[INDIE] On the heels of the release of their latest album, The Last Living Man Alive Ever in the History of the World, Buffalo-based indie-pop band Head North are on the final leg of a tour with the New Jersey based indie-pop band Gates. The new album from Gates, a five piece band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, is titled Parallel Lives and features 11 tracks of electronics-tinged, emotional indie rock music.
[ROCK] Musician Dustin Hill and the rest of his garage rock band have chosen their hill to die on: they’ve called their band Black Pussy. Despite all of its cringeworthyness, the band refuses to change the name—in fact, it’s likely they see the whole controversy as great PR. If that whole thing isn’t a turn off for you, then you can see the band at Mohawk Place this Thursday, June 29 with some great local bands like SMUG (formerly The Naturalists) and Keys to the Spaceship.
[PUNK] Moved from The Woods at Bear Creek due to geographical complications, Reel Big Fish will perform at the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls on Friday, June 30. The California-based band, are ska-punk legends, leading the third wave ska revolution in the 1990s alongside bands like the Aquabats, and Less Than Jake.
[BLUEGRASS] The Yonder Mountain String Band is a six piece, you guessed it, string band from Colorado. The self-proclaimed “progressive bluegrass outfit” are prolific as far as progressive bluegrass outfits go; releasing more than a dozen albums since forming in 1998—most of them released on their own independent record label, Frog Pad Records. Their seminal album is perhaps 2001’s Mountain Tracks Vol. 1 (which has spurred five additional volumes), a live release, which features songs like “Snow on the Pines,” a sometimes 14-minute-long banjo jam.
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Dubbed as a “return of the beats” to Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar, Frosty Tone brings U.K. junglist Fracture to the Allentown venue. “Duke’s/Allen St [is] where it all started for us. At Staples, between those times and our DBGB era, [this is] a highlight of where we laid our foundation together and for the bass music era that followed,” says Frosty Tone leader Robert Matthews a.k.a. Basha.
[JAM] Buffalo-based jam band Intrepid Travelers will celebrate the release of their latest EP, Everyday is Your Birthday, and kick off their next tour, with a show at Buffalo Iron Works on Thursday, June 29. In a recent interview with The Public, the explained that the songs for Everyday, like the driving funk jam “Funnel” and the jazz odyssey “Woolify” matured in their live set before they decided to record them.
[ROCK] It is, I would surmise that every day, or most days, tribute band Strictly Hip plays the songs of the Tragically Hip. But it’s not every day that the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of the Tragically Hip. So it’ll be a special thing when these two forces combine this Thursday, June 29 for the next entry in the $5 (formerly free) Canalside Live concert series.