[HOLIDAY] Last weekend the Buffalo Gay Men’s Chorus opened their Christmas concert series, Our Grown Up Christmas List, with a bang, filling up Westminster Presbyterian Church for a holiday celebration that you don’t want to miss. And you don’t have to!
[HOLIDAY] Thin Man Brewery is throwing a huge holiday-themed outdoor street festival this weekend with a couple of bands and a lot of beer. They’ll close down a section of Elmwood Avenue for this one–their first Christmas themed street party. Music comes from The Allen Degenerates—featuring a bunch of local musicians you know and recognize, playing partying songs from the 1970s and 1980s. Expect everything from Bowie to Devo.
[DANCE] Western New York dance forces unite on Saturday at the Alt Theatre to perform five unique pieces using choreographer and dance talents from local companies and institutions like SUNY at Buffalo and SUNY at Brockport. Presented by Nancy Hughes and the Buffalo Contact Improvisation Community, the range of works in the program include modern dance styles and choreography, exploring themes of comedy, self-discover, and loss.
[PUNK] Whether or not bands that consider themselves to be punk should engage in making unplugged music is debatable. But since punk is as much attitude and viewpoint as it is a sound, albeit an increasingly splintered sound, then there’s something to be said for turning expectations upside down and doing something unconventional… like being a punk band and making an acoustic album.
[COUNTRY] The Sadies have maintained a steady presence through twenty-five years of alt-country shape-shifting, allowing to the genre to morph and gather moss around them.
[ROCK] The musical trajectory of Chicago’s Cave has taken on an increasing amount of groove over the years, and the latest chapter, Allways, out this October on Drag City, is no exception. After some musical chairs (keyboardist Rotten Milk was replaced by Rob Frye with the band’s previous release, Threace, in 2013, after which they welcomed additional guitarist Jeremy Freeze), Cave has become more adept than ever at locking down a groove and exploring its every possibility, buoyed by the lack of lyrics getting in the way.
[COUNTRY] Cody Jinks isn’t cut out for country’s mainstream… hopefully he’ll continue to avoid the production pitfalls that have come to characterize it over the last decade. A Texas-based artist now in his late 30’s, Jinks got started in music as the lead singer of a Fort Worth thrash metal outfit called Unchecked Aggression, and while his recent music doesn’t resemble his teeth-gritting, aggro beginnings, it does carry just enough outlaw spirit to separate him from the herd.
[PUNK] Boston-based ska-punk band Big D and the Kids Table are still rocking, led by founding member, vocalist and guitarist David McWane. The 42-year-old ska-punker leads his 11-piece band, which includes a trio of back up singers, during the band’s high energy live shows. Catch Big D and the Kids Table live at Mohawk Place this Thursday, November 29 with support from The Abruptors and the Barksdales.