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Rusko

[DUBSTEP] CANCELLED DUE TO ARTIST MEDICAL EMERGENCY. It’s been a few years since Denver by way of U.K. dubstep master Rusko came through Buffalo.

Kinky Friedman

[COUNTRY] Kinky Friedman may have only scraped together 12.6% of the vote when he ran as one of two independent candidates for Governor of Texas in 2006, but he’s still a popular humorist/storyteller and songwriter—perhaps everywhere except here in Buffalo, where a purported dust-up with some irritated feminists in the early 1970’s that took issue with his tune, “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in t

Screaming Females

[PUNK] Known for their DIY ambition and unapologetic punk sound, New Jersey trio Screaming Females have created their own brand of energetic indie underground music. Performing at Mohawk Place on Sunday, April 30, the band has an impressive resume of performing over 700 shows all over the globe. With several albums under their belt and a feature on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” their following has grown extensively.

The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band

[ROCK] It doesn’t get much rootsier than a band playing a mix of homemade instruments and depression-era guitars. The joke’s on us, though, since the “big damn band” is only sizable in the sound it makes – Rev Peyton and company are a trio. A trio that, as it turns out, almost never happened. After playing a party following his high school graduation, The Reverend – a happily grinning beardo usually in overalls named Josh Peyton – was told he’d permanently injured his fretting hand and would never be able to play guitar again.

Cloud Nothings

[PUNK] It hasn’t been unusual for Cleveland-based no wave band Cloud Nothings to reimagine their sound from album to album—in fact it has kind of been their modus operandi. The sense of urgency on records like Attack on Memory is still apparent on their new album, Life Without Sound, but it’s been polished up and re-purposed.

The Coathangers

[INDIE] Nosebleed Weekend, the fifth and latest release from Atlanta’s The Coathangers — out this time last year on Suicide Squeeze Records— finds the fem-trio sounding taut as can be.

The Ragbirds

[INDIE] Fusing rock, pop and folk, Missouri natives The Ragbirds perform at Buffalo Iron Works this Thursday, April 27. The dynamic quintet combines lead vocalist Erin Zindle’s Celtic fiddling and brother TJ Zindle’s acoustic melodizing with the three-piece rhythm section—drummer Jon Brown, percussionist Randall Moore, and bassist Dan Jones—to create a progressive folk sound as diverse as their audience.

Eileen Myles

[POEMS] Author of 19 books that often don’t care to discern the lines between fiction, memoir, essays, and poetry, Myles is nothing less than a national treasure.

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