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Just Buffalo Writing Center Turns Three

In a loft overlooking downtown Buffalo, a group of young writers record a pre-apocalyptic summit set in the year 2666 to discuss solutions to the problem of the Earth’s inhabitability for an episode of their podcast, This Buffalonian Life. (Solutions include ejecting humanity into the sun, developing condos on the exclusive Luxury Planet X, and, in a last-ditch effort by a lone environmental scientist, saving our faltering planet.) 

A few weeks later, this same group of teenagers turns each other’s fears into comics and dreams into poems:

Queen City Music Lottery

[FUN] The Queen City Music Lottery is a pretty neat thing. Here’s how it works: a bunch of local musicians and even some non musicians meet at Sugar City each year—this year it’ll be Saturday, April 15—and sign up for the lottery. Their names are thrown into a hat or some other hat-like receptacle and drawn at random to form their new band. Then, each band has nine or 10 weeks to write 15 minutes worth of music, to be showcased at a concert featuring the rest of the lottery drawn bands.

SLIP

[PUNK] Feeling burnt out but still like your music loud and dirty? Low attention span? S.L.I.P. is for you! The Pittsburgh hardcore band’s latest release Slippy When Wet, out now on the Raleigh, North Carolina-based record label Sorry State Records, sounds like Black Flag fell ass backwards into a cup of coffee brewed by The Descendents, but like, with solos. Sometimes they get into some doomy riffage, but that’s usually vetoed pretty quickly by frantic punk drumage.

Queen City Live

[HIP HOP] Dubbed “the ultimate art show,” Queen City Live is a poetry, music, visual art and dance event curated by local artist dev11n, a hip hop MC and poet. She’ll be joined by artists The Noir, TLG, Lalalangue, and others for this event, which takes place at Sugar City this Saturday, April 15. 

Monsieur Periné

[JAZZ] Those interested in attending the Monsieur Periné show at the UB Center for the Arts will be happy to know that a second show has just been added. The Colombian gypsy jazz/Latin swing band will play two shows at the UBCFA, this Tuesday, April 18 at 7pm and now at 8:30pm as well. Attendees should also know that the set up for this show will be pretty unique, as the band and the audience will both be set up on the main stage to create a club-like setting.

Feverbox

[INDIE] Born from the ashes of former local trio Inlite, Feverbox sounds like a logical next step, featuring a wider scope of influences and a more pronounced musical personality. The band may have only gotten underway at the very end of 2015, but guitarist Griffin Smith, bassist Nick Kelly and drummer Josh Little knew each other through grade school and spent enough time touring as Inlite (behind some fairly big-name acts) to have honed some serious musical chemistry.

Tauk with Consider the Source

[FUNK] Self proclaimed “dirty funk” band Tauk comes to Buffalo Ironworks this Wednesday, April 19 with the equally popular world-funk band Consider the Source. Tauk’s latest album Sir Nebula is guided by their jazzy side as much as it is their hip hop vibes, this time working with Grammy winning producer Robert Carranza, known for his work with the Mars Volta among others. 

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