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In This Moment

[METAL] In This Moment cobble together a mishmash of mythology, literary references, and occult esotericism to trace out the origin of their particular brand of heavy metal music—from Shakespeare references to characterizing lead singer Maria Brink as a “mother goddess.” But practically speaking, what you really need to known about the Los Angeles based five-piece band is that they bring loud, heavy, intense music with them to their live gigs, as well as a spectacular theatrical stage set up that invites comparisions to Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie.

Disco Hospital

[DISCO] If you need some healing, then Disco Hospital is the place for you. Expect to be prescribed plenty of post-punk and new wave by DJ (Doctor?) Bill Nehill, this Friday, February 9 for this disco happy hour at Mohawk Place.

Steve Trevino

[COMEDY] Comedian Steve Treviño is becoming a household name after two comedy specials—one for Showtime and the other for Netflix. Treviño, though a talented stand up comic, is a writer first and foremost, having worked on comedy shows such as Mind of Mencia with Carlos Mencia. He’s billed as “the new voice for the 21st century Mexican American,” and he brings that voice to Helium Comedy Club for five shows, this Thursday, February 8 through Saturday, February 10.

Sugar City Soul Night

[SOUL] Sugar City’s regular soul music dance party, Soul Night, returns to Milkie’s on Elmwood this Friday, February 9. DJs Handsome Dan,  DJ Haüsfly, DJ Reazon, and Steve Soulson will be on hand with a bunch of dusty record crates, digging through their extensive collections of soul soul classics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Donna the Buffalo

[AMERICANA] Great Blue Heron regulars, Donna The Buffalo, return to Buffalo for a show at the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, February 9. The Ithaca-based band is coming up on three decades as a group and continue to deliver a blend of folk, Americana, and roots rock.

The Science of Attraction

[SCIENCE TALK] The Buffalo Museum of Science’s first in a new series of events featuring knowledge, science, and drinks takes place this Thursday in a run-up to Valentine’s Day next week, with a talk on the science of attraction. UP professor Dr. Lance Rintamaki will break down the science of sex communication and the dynamics of social attraction, including birds of paradise and the jumping spider courtship dance. And there’ll also be live animal heart dissections to really set the mood.

Atomic

[JAZZ] Five-piece Scandinavian jazz band, Atomic, makes cosed-eye jazz music designed to transport you to another place in innerspace. Chaotic, unpredictable, and at times overwhelming, Atomic’s music, as the band likes to point out, is far from the romanticized piano jazz that the term “Scandanavian jazz” might evoke. There is plenty of beauty that emerges from the chaos however, usually in the form of Fredrik Ljungkvist’s wandering clarinet solos or pianist Håvard Wiik’s calculated stream of consciousness crescendos.

"The Precision Jack-Hammer Attack": A Hunter S. Thompson Super Bowl Reader

Thanks to the wonder of modern technology, you can learn more about Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup between widely loathed New England and the scrappy underdogs from Philadelphia whom the Patriots will disembowel Sunday night in Minneapolis.

(NOTE: Since a prediction is required of every media type even mentioning the contest, We Want Marangi’s analytics department has crunched the numbers and come up with New England 41, Philadelphia 23. And not just because we have squares one and three in a pool.)

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