[INDIE] At the age of 16, Declan McKenna wrote his hit “Brazil.” After the song went viral with millions of listens online, the now 18-year-old McKenna signed with Colombia records and released his debut album What Do You Think About the Car just last month. The young indie-pop singer/songwriter from Hertfordshire in the UK has recently played a string of festival dates and has garnered praise from critics as a quickly rising talent.
[BURLESQUE] The Buffalo Burlesque Studio aims “to release your inner bombshell,” according to Mistress J Kiss, a.k.a. Jamie Doktor of the Stripteasers, Buffalo’s longest tenured (since 2004!) and much honored burlesque troupe. Doktor has been teaching the art of burlesque—not just the dance but the aesthetic, the philosophy, the release—for a decade, but this endeavor, headquartered on North Street, is new. You can learn more at buffaloburlesquestudio.com.
[COMEDY] Gilbert Gottfried is probably one of the most recognizable living comedians—by voice at least. He’s voiced classic characters like the parrot Iago in Disney’s Aladdin opposite Robin Williams, and the Aflac Duck—a role he was dismissed from after making an ill-timed joke about the tsunami in Japan in 2011. Gottfried has never been afraid of taking his comedy to the edge—which has at times been a double edged sword.
[COUNTRY] Dwight Yoakam, the 60-year-old country singer from Pikeville Kentucky, has always been a man of many talents. He is, of course, a honky tonk musician first and foremost. He’s released almost two dozen records since 1986, his most productive years being the early 1990s when he released a string of platinum and gold selling records—If There Was a Way, This Time, and Gone. But he hasn’t really slowed down much at all either, having released his latest album, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… in late 2016.
[FUNK] No stranger to Buffalo, Savannah Georgia-based one-man-band, Zach Deputy, returns for a show at the Tralf Music Hall on Friday, August 11. The soulful multi-instrumentalist is known for his impressive live shows, which consist of intricate live-looped jams. His latest album, Wash it i the Water is a combination of Southern funk and Islandy stuff, so expect some humid sounds to heat up the crowd at the Tralf this weekend.
Summer, 1814: Jungle Bungles
Last weekend, the Niagara Falls water department released some sort of fetid, black effluent into the Niagara River near the Falls. The Buffalo News referred to it as a “Black Sewage Plume”, which sounds like it should be a character in a song.
Later today, Representative Chris Collins (NY-27) is expected to introduce something called the “Second Amendment Guarantee Act”, or “SAGA”. He intends for this legislation — if passed — to repeal key parts of the New York SAFE Act. According to a press release, SAGA would, “limit the authority of states to regulate conduct, or impose penalties or taxes in relation to rifles or shotguns.”
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Tobermory Story
I had a wonderful trip with my family to the Bruce Peninsula, Tobermory, and Georgain Bay in Ontario last week.
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Album: Finding the Old Text by Lady Lush and the Vinyls Recommended if you like: Erykah Badu, AlunaGeorge, D’Angelo |