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[PUNK] The name of this event might be a bit unfortunate, but Buffalo Bitchfest (formerly known as Vaggiefest) should deliver some high quality underground music and celebrate women in music at the same time. A dozen bands from Buffalo and a few other rust-belt cities will converge on the Adam Mickiewicz Polish Library on Saturday, September 10 for Buffalo Bitchfest. Highlights include Space is Haunted, Facility Men, Gun Candy, Cloud Rat, and more.

[FESTIVAL] The 3rd annual Peace Justice Nonviolence Festival and Walk of Peace takes place on Sunday, September 11 at Canalside. Bringing together 115 organizations from Buffalo and surrounding suburbs, the festival’s mission is to promote the reduction of violence in local communities. “Violence includes poverty, racism, sexism, domestic abuse, environmental degradation, armed conflict, war, and assualts against our neighbors,” reads a press release from the PJNV Planning Committee.

[FOLK] Somewhere between folk, indie, and soul, lands Sean Hayes. The singer/songwriter and guitarist keeps his songs simple—usually his voice a some stripped back instrumentation. Hayes has spent time all over the country—right now he calls San Francisco home, but he was born in North Carolina and lived for a while in New York City, so it’s no wonder that his music is hard to pin down. The 47-year-old wanderer’s recent album, Low Light, is his eighth release since launching his career in 1999 with A Thousand Tiny Pieces.

[DISCUSSION] Burning Books, the radical book store on Buffalo’s West Side will celebrate their five-year anniversary by hosting a presentation by Daniel McGown. McGown is a former political activist who was imprisoned for seven years for his association with the Earth Liberation Front, a radical group of activists who carried out a series of “economic sabotage” operations against corporate entities that they viewed as highly destructive of the environment. Free birthday cake will be served.

[AMERICANA] Woody Pines takes an acoustic approach to jump blues that makes for some of the most contagious roots music you’ve ever heard. Earthy but energetic, sometimes forlorn but always fun, humid but usually well-humored, Pines turns the roots model on its head by keeping the tempo snappy and the mood light even when the subject occasionally dips into the classic country buffet of woe-is-me bummers.

[ROCK] You’re not alone if accepting Axl Rose as AC/DC’s front man proves difficult. Arguably the best of the metal-tinged classic rock bands still in the game, AC/DC always managed to avoid the hackneyed rock pitfalls of excess and deluded egomania that claimed GNR pretty much straight away—making the new arrangement almost unimaginable. Thing is, the reviews have been pretty good.