[INDIE] There’s been a lot of buzz about Twin Peaks recently. Fortunately for the faux-vintage garage rock band from Chicago, it’s not only about the reboot of the classic David Lynch TV series. The band, Twin Peaks, is also having a moment. Their latest record, Down in Heaven, released in May of last year, has been their strongest yet—full of low-key, expertly crafted garage rock tracks.
[ROCK] As bands go, Blackberry Smoke isn’t much interested in chart numbers and sales figures. But the Georgia-born, Southern-fried quintet, who play Town Ballroom on Saturday, June 24, make for an excellent study of how chart success and sales figures don’t equate like they once did. Having a Billboard #1 record used to mean big numbers, not to mention the cumulative sales of having a record consistently selling (relatively speaking) as it moved up and down the chart.
GreenWatch Sunday Science
Summer Almanac
The Summer Solstice occurs in Earth’s Northern Hemisphere on Wednesday June 21 at 12:24 am. This first day of Summer is the longest day of daylight in the entire year.
[ROCK] Taking advantage of Western New York’s proximity to the longest undefended border in the world, Artpark features another Canadian Hall of Fame show this week in its Tuesdays at the Park series.
The newspaper account of trumpet player Lee Morgan’s death in February 1972 features two photos. One is of him, smiling for a photographer in a posed shot. The other is the mug shot of the woman who killed him, looking haggard and forlorn, identified as “Mrs. Lee Morgan.”
Carved out of the woods next to a creek there’s a hidden field in Alden where for the last few years an underground music festival has gone on. At first, the festival featured several bands, all paying tribute to the Grateful Dead. It was appropriately titled Dead Fest. But in recent years the festival has morphed into something else. The focus has shifted to another band, not quite as well known as the Grateful Dead, but deservedly gaining a higher profile in Western New York.