[JAM] Philadelphia’s electronic jam band Lotus will come to the Town Ballroom on Friday, October 28 and Saturday, October 29 to showcase their latest album, Eat the Light. This album is electric. With 10 bubbly songs and contagious dance beats for them all, Eat the Light moves in a new direction and its success is guaranteed. The vocals are catchy and the album has appearances from an awesome range of guests including Johnny Fissinger, Oriel Poole and Steve Yutzy-Burkey.
[SCREENING] To coincide with Halloween weekend, the folks behind Thursday Night Terrors—the monthly horror movie series that has already presented two films, Dead Alive in August and Demons September—will present the 1985 film Fright Night as their latest instillation. “Fright Night is the ideal movie for the Halloween season,” says organizer Peter Vullo.
[EMO] Fresh off of their latest reunion, Buffalo emo band Cute is What We Aim For are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their debut album The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch—the Matt Squire produced record released by Fueled by Ramen Records in 2006. With most of the original line up in order, Cute has recently travelled to Australia, where they did a stint of shows before returning to the states for an extensive cross country tour that ends in their hometown of Buffalo.
[ROCK] After trying out some other musical styles in his youth to distance himself from being the son of Gregg Allman (who he didn’t meet until his teen years), guitarist Devon Allman finally gave in to the pull of blues-inflected, southern rock and roll. Having bounced between fronting his band Honeytribe and intermittently playing in the “supergroup” Royal Southern Brotherhood with Cyril Neville, Mike Zito, Yonrico Scott and Charlie Wooton, Allman has been focusing on a solo career as he moves into his 40s.
[TRIBUTE] While there are a number of bands touring the material spawned from Peter Gabriel’s tenure with Genesis, there seem to be far fewer focused on his solo work. The Security Project takes that distinction one step further and sticks to Gabriel’s early solo work—presumably the first three ‘untitled’ albums. That may be changing however, since the band is welcoming singer-songwriter Happy Rhodes into its roster.
[JAZZ] The Albright-Knox Art of Jazz series returns this Saturday, October 29. Under the direction of UB music professor and trumpeter Jon Nelson, the series—which was re-established last fall—has taken on a currency that befits a gallery dedicated to the modern, and which seems hell-bent on reasserting its national and international reputation.
[FUNDRAISER] Perhaps you’ve finally let go of summer and begun to steel yourself for the long winter months. That’s smart. But the organizing cooperative that puts on the Buffalo Infringement Festival at the end of each July can never let go of summer; they can think of little else, if they are to continue the 13-year tradition of the 11-day cultural free-for-all. And they can’t do it alone: They need participating artists, of course, but they also need money to cover the festival’s numerous costs.
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