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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have hit many speed bumps in their 30-year career, but their music remains just as solid as ever. Their 1997 release, Let’s Face It, demonstrated their strong capacity for melodic punk, and was a huge success. Though, through the years, their brand of ska music has progressed from hard rock to a more reggae, pop-punk sound, which plays very nicely with their ska melodies. Their latest album, The Magic of Youth, is a jaunting collection filled with dynamic crescendos and unique, yet beautiful instrumentation.

Rusted Root New Year's Bash

[ROCK] What better way to ring in the New Year, than by getting down to Rusted Root’s highly instrumental grooves? The Rapids Theatre’s New Years Eve Bash will feature Rusted Root with fellow genre mixologists, Hypnotic Clambake. Rusted Root is living proof that different is awesome. The Pittsburgh based band tends to incorporate sounds and styles from all over the globe, most prominently Africa and the Middle East, into American folk.

Masquerade Ball

[PARTY] This is your all-out New Year’s Eve party. This is your top shelf liquor party; your gourmet Hors D’oeuvres party; your Champagne Toast at midnight party. This is the New Year’s Eve party you think of when you think of New Year’s Eve parties. After taking a year off, the Afterdark New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball is back, and this year it’s at the newly renovated Foundry Suites on Elmwood near Hertel. So bust out that new suit and shine up those fancy shoes because you’re going to want to be dressed to impress.  

The Christmas Party

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] The life expectancy of parties, not just in Buffalo, are tough to maintain. Mike Marshall of MNM Presents has been throwing The Christmas Party for 10 years. Throughout the years, the music has evolved. Faces, both familiar and new to the party, gather to dance, drink and laugh into the night. Join the festivities this year on Thursday, December 25 at Pearl Street Grill & Brewery.

Infringement Festivus

[PARTY] If you can picture your father screaming things like “I’ve got a lot of problems with you people!” or your boss remarking that he finds your holiday traditions “fascinating,” then you are in fact George Costanza.

Kurt & The Loders Ugly Xmas Sweater Show

[ROCK] The year is 1995 and three new albums sit under your Christmas tree: Definitely Maybe by Oasis, Weezer’s blue album, and Dookie by Greenday. Now I can’t guarantee that when Kurt and the Loders take the stage on Friday at Nietzsche’s for their Ugly Xmas Sweater Show: 1994 Edition they’ll play any songs by the three bands listed, but let’s just say it was a good year for music.

Horoscopes by Sheeba Incaviglia

SAGITTARIAN (Nov 22/Dec 21)—Look out for the highly-improbable today. Avoid purchasing both a tote bag and a product from a store and placing the product in the totebag. You will lose both before arriving home. Change your outfits often– put on a large, unwieldy hat and then spin it off your head unexpectedly in social situations. Be sure not to use your hands.
 

Basket Case: Gifts of Food & Drink

How many of us are faced, each December, with the tired and exasperating question of what to get for the proverbial person who has everything? If you’re anything like me, holiday giving is about gifting something that’s both practical and special: an item that can offer a moment of enjoyment apart from the banalities of the everyday. And nothing makes a moment unique quite like great food or drink. So here’s a gift guide for the things you can find locally that can bring pleasure to anyone on your shopping list—that is, unless they don’t eat or drink.

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