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The Brian Lebel Orchestra

[ROCK] If there’s one thing Western New Yorkers could use after a brutal onslaught of snow, it’s the fiery guitar stylings of Bobby Lebel. A local legend who is also a Buffalo Music Hall of Fame inductee is bringing The Brian Lebel Orchestra to the Sportsman’s Tavern to close out the month on Sunday, November 30. Throughout his many incarnations, Lebel has stayed true to the spirit of quality guitar playing. His current outfit runs circles through rockabilly and swing a la Brian Setzer Orchestra.

Public School

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Allentown’s newest monthly dance party is here and it’s hosted by The Public. We’re calling it Public School and we’ll be featuring a your favorite regional DJs and plenty of emerging talent each month. We’ll kick the party off this Friday, November 28 at Allenstreet Hardware Café with Rick Jameson in the front room and Dovey and Maxy NY in the back room spinning some banging hip hop tracks and grooving R&B all night long.

Peelander Z

[PUNK] Just to be clear, Peelander Z is not a Zoolander reference. The self described “Japanese Action Comic Punk” band formed in 1998, three years before the hilarious Ben Stiller movie with the strangely similar name. Anyways, Peelander Z is made up of a few characters: Peelander Yellow, Peelander Purple, Peelander Pink, Peelander Green, and Peelander Black. The band’s line up seems to change pretty regularly; though Yellow is an original member, the rest of the colors seem to rotate.

Trancegiving: Super8 & Tab

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] If you’re looking to burn off some of those Thanksgiving calories and you can manage to roll off of your couch on Thanksgiving night—then get your butt down to Lift Nightclub for a night of dancing  and bass music that they’re calling Trancegiving. Trance music allstars Super8 & Tab will drop some fresh tunes from their newest album, Unified, as well as a mix of their latest favorites from the bass music world. Unified, released just a few weeks ago, was four years in the making.

Gos Gozah: Black Friday Edition

[DANCE] Billed as “the antithesis of over-commercialized holiday shopping,” Gos Gozah: Black Friday Edition is a dance party for everybody. This is a queer friendly event, and allies are always welcome. DJ Bootyhammer will take the decks with a mix of African dancehall music and a genre of Cuban dance music called Soukous, while ABC Crew packs in some grime-house club beats. It happens this Friday, November 28 at Milkie’s on Elmwood.

Take A Number, Buffalo

We all know Einstein’s thoughts about insanity – dating inevitably is one in the same. We go from bar to bar, look for the one sporting a beanie and a great smile, and still expect different results. Insanity, meet our city of Buffalo.

Let’s take the beer goggles off for a bit. Imagine shots and pints weren’t the factors leading up to talking to that guy or girl. Do you know what or whom you’re looking for now? In the daylight, do you realize that she’s probably your sister’s best friend?

The Word Alive

[ROCK] Lead by former Greeley Estates singer, Tyler Smith, Florida band, The Word Alive are making a dent in the post-hardcore scene with their newest record, Real, released by Fearless records this summer. The record, produced alt rock heavyweight John Feldmann, is the band’s heaviest and most ambitious to date. Check them out at the Waiting Room on Tuesday, December 2 with The Color Morale, Our Last Night and more.

Single Mothers

[ROCK] In an interview with Pitchfork, Single Mothers frontman Drew Thomson lets you know why he abstains from writing overt love songs, “Screaming into a microphone about negative shit is way more fun to me than saying, ‘Sarah, I love your kneecaps and your shoulder’ ” he admits frankly. ”I can do that on a different channel, but Single Mothers is my outlet and I’m going to use it to its full potential as long as I can.” The dark humor and terrifically unbridled abrasiveness is characteristic of the London, Ontario based punk outfit, and paired with systematic

Our Path Appears: A Conversation with Nicholas Kristof

[LITERARY] Girls Education Collaborative, a local non-profit founded in 2012 with the aim of improving education for women in developing countries, is hosting a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist Nicholas Kristof at Kleinhans on Tuesday, December 2. Girls Education Collaborative works to support “education-centered, community-driven initiatives in developing countries to improve opportunities for girls.” As part of this mission

Some Kindsa Love

[LITERARY] Have you ever written a secret sex-infested love note for someone four times your age? Perhaps you’ve been carrying around feelings of unholy animal lust and aren’t sure who to tell. The kinky public readings set to go down at Hallwalls Some Kindsa Love event won’t all be sexual, but they all involve the sharing of thoughts and feelings probably better left buried beneath the dirty sock drawer.

Spotlight: Pam Swarts

Pam Swarts loves Buffalo… most of the time. But when we talked last week, she’d just endured the drive back from Batavia, where she teaches Digital Arts to the masses at Genesse Community College. The commute took place during what will undoubtedly go down in the record books as a crippling blizzard. Her eye-catching Scion is decorated blue with bolts of white lightening, and to know her is to be in on the joke: there’s definitely a creative storm brewing in that car.

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