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Higgins vs. Trump Republican 2018

Some Washington Democrats with whom we speak imagine that their internal struggle will be resolved soon, and that the Bernie Sanders “insurgents” will triumph over the Hillary Clinton “pragmatists.” Other Washington Democrats believe that the advent of socialists in the Democratic Party is either a distraction or a disaster, and that the explicitly identity-focused coalition of groups that was the Clinton coalition, funded by Hollywood and Wall Street, just narrowly missed national victory, and that it would be completely nuts to disassemble what almost worked.

Soul Night

[DANCE PARTY] Sugar City’s Soul Night is back and just in time for Valentine’s Day weekend. The regular fund raiser for Sugar City, the Buffalo DIY arts collective, happens once again on Saturday, February 11 at Milkie’s on Elmwood. Since moving to their location on Niagara Street three years ago, Sugar City has held nearly 400 events. If you want to help them keep doing what they’re doing, Soul Night is a great way to put some money in their pockets and have a great time dancing to some soul and funk classics.

Doyle Bramhall II

[ROCK] The last time Doyle Bramhall was in the Buffalo area, Mother Nature cheated him. For the summer 2015 Wheels of Soul Tour gig at Artpark, which featured the Tedeschi Trucks Band, concertgoers waited out torrential downpours under shelters scattered throughout the venue’s grounds before a cloud-clearing got the gates to finally open. The late Sharon Jones performed, but Bramhall’s early set got cut due to lost time.

Stephen Bishop

[POP] Stephen Bishop arrived on the scene at an odd time for singer-songwriters, as the genre’s reigning champs, James Taylor, Carole King, and Carly Simon (to name a few) struggled to keep paces with the increasing popularity of dance music and electronic instrumentation.

Granger Smith

[COUNTRY] “We’re back-to-back undefeated world war champs/So take a cup, raise it up for my Uncle Sam,” urges Granger Smith on his metal-tinged patriotic anthem, “Merica.” Smith’s star has been on the rise recently as the result of a major label push: After years of remaining an independent country artist, and with a fair bit of success doing so, he signed with the newly minted BBR Music Group imprint, Wheelhouse R

Beyond Boundaries: Dare to Be Diverse: 13TH

[SCREENING] On Thursday, February 9, the Burchfield Penney Art Center will screen the film 13TH by director Ava Duvernay. The screening is part of the art center’s series, Beyond Boundaries: Dare to Be Diverse. Duvernay is the first black female director to have a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for her 2014 film Selma, the historical drama about Martin Luther King’s march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama in a campaign for equal voting rights for African Americans.

Palberta

[PUNK] Indie punk band Palberta return to Buffalo for a show at Sugar City on Monday, February 13. The noise-rock band from Brooklyn are on tour in support of their forthcoming record Bye Bye Berta, slated for release on Brooklyn’s Wharf Cat Records.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

[ROCK] Maybe the most intriguing aspect of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ latest album, The Getaway, is that the band worked with both Danger Mouse and Radiohead’s long-time producer Nigel Godrich. Because of this, you can expect at the very least that the album is perfectly produced. Sonically it sounds great. The bass is deep, the guitars shine, and the drums punch. What you might not expect are the musical stylings on the record.

That 1 Guy

[FUNK] Magic pipes, musical boots, hairy mutton chops, psychedelic funk music—it may sound like a twisted acid trip, but it’s actually a That 1 Guy concert. The one-man band uses a variety of homemade instruments to concoct a strange yet funky musical experience that’s equally as sonically stimulating as it is visually intriguing. “How does he make these noises?” You’ll likely wonder to yourself, investigating at his universe of unique gadgets that crowd around him.

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