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Thursday

[POST HARDCORE] To some, Thursday is the quintessential post-hardcore screamo band. There’s a never-ending debate for those of us who spent our early teen years going to shows at Town Ballroom wearing band tees and too much eyeliner, comparing the stylistically similar Taking Back Sunday to Thursday—and maybe even to Brand New and Senses Fail and the rest of them—on who encapsualtes the sound the best. Thursday kind of started it all in some ways, forming in 1997 with Joy Division—the late 1970s English post-punk band—as one of their main influences.

Twin Peaks

[INDIE] There’s been a lot of buzz about Twin Peaks recently. Fortunately for the faux-vintage garage rock band from Chicago, it’s not only about the reboot of the classic David Lynch TV series. The band, Twin Peaks, is also having a moment. Their latest record, Down in Heaven, released in May of last year, has been their strongest yet—full of low-key, expertly crafted garage rock tracks.

Interview: Blackberry Smoke

[ROCK] As bands go, Blackberry Smoke isn’t much interested in chart numbers and sales figures. But the Georgia-born, Southern-fried quintet, who play Town Ballroom on Saturday, June 24, make for an excellent study of how chart success and sales figures don’t equate like they once did. Having a Billboard #1 record used to mean big numbers, not to mention the cumulative sales of having a record consistently selling (relatively speaking) as it moved up and down the chart.

Spotlight: Intrepid Travelers

Carved out of the woods next to a creek there’s a hidden field in Alden where for the last few years an underground music festival has gone on. At first, the festival featured several bands, all paying tribute to the Grateful Dead. It was appropriately titled Dead Fest. But in recent years the festival has morphed into something else. The focus has shifted to another band, not quite as well known as the Grateful Dead, but deservedly gaining a higher profile in Western New York.

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