[ROCK] Chon tours with all of your favorite bands from the mid 2000s. The four-piece indie-prog band from San Diego just wrapped up tour dates with the Fall of Troy, and the Dear Hunter, and earlier this year Circa Survive. Maybe their type of mathy post-hardcore indie rock isn’t as trendy as it used to be, but the young band—who just released their debut full length album, Grow, in March—certainly has the chops to merit a spot next to their veteran tour mates.
[INDIE] To describe Mikal Cronin as exactly what he is—a singer/songwriter who makes pop-tinged garage rock—doesn’t do him justice. He’s much more than that—or perhaps he’s just so good at making music of that particular kind that he sticks out among his fellow garage rock revivalists.
[SCREENING] Bad weather forced the cancelation of Urban Drive In when it was scheduled for the second week of September. Now the make up date is this Saturday, when Squeaky Wheel partners with Silo City to bring you the outdoor movie event of your dreams.
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Long before a multitude of costumed cartoon characters, superheroes and topless, painted women descended on Times Square, the Naked Cowboy was already an institution in the neighborhood.
Is Biden a probable Democratic candidate? What’s going on with the Steve Pigeon investigation? How are local primaries and judicial races shaping up? WBEN’s Michael Caputo joins The Public’s Geoff Kelly and Alan Bedenko to talk about the local and national political scene in The Public and Trending Buffalo’s inaugural joint podcast.
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The iron and steel worker is an icon of American labor. As little as a century ago, working in iron and steel meant subsistence wages, long hours and few holidays, and—too frequently—gruesome injuries and death. It was only after unionization, in the late 1930s, that wages rose and working conditions improved.
DAVID PIERRO’s work is available for perusal and ordering on his webite. This screenprint, Mystery & Wonder, includes a quote from H. P. Lovecraft describing a cat.