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Allentown Art Festival

[FESTIVAL] Memorial Day might be the kickoff to summer, but the Allentown Art Festival is the official kickoff for the summer’s frenetic festival schedule. An elder statesman on the local outdoor festival circuit, the art festival is celebrating its 59th year, long enough to have grown old along with the neighborhoods lovely Victorians and establishments.

Allentown Art Festival

[FESTIVAL] Memorial Day might be the kickoff to summer, but the Allentown Art Festival is the official kickoff for the summer’s frenetic festival schedule. An elder statesman on the local outdoor festival circuit, the art festival is celebrating its 59th year, long enough to have grown old along with the neighborhoods lovely Victorians and establishments.

Tommie Sunshine

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Don’t let the long hair and poofy grey beard, or even the hippie-sounding name fool you, Tommie Sunshine is not in your dad’s favorite hard rock band. No, he’s the guy that’s probably behind some of your favorite remixes. The producer and DJ is known for his remixes of popular rock songs by bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and others but he’s also made a name for himself through big-room-house DJ sets. Tommie Sunshine comes to Sky Bar on Friday, June 10.

Canalside Afterparty: The Tins

[ROCK] The official after parties for the free Canalside summer concert series will happen at Lockhouse Distillery right down the street on Colombia Street. The distillery will host a weekly after party to begin each Thursday at 9pm immediately following Canalside’s concert. They’ll kick off the after party series this Thursday, June 9 with a live performance from Buffalo indie rock band The Tins. Presented by Sunbeam Entertainment.

Blitzen Trapper

[INDIE] Portland alt-folkies Blitzen Trapper’s All Across This Land ditches the chemistry experiment that permeated 2013’s VII in favor of a straightforward rocking feel that has classic FM revival stamped all over it.

Secret Pizza

[INDIE] Call it shoegaze or noise-pop, but Rochester’s Secret Pizza sound more like themselves than anything else. Recently chosen as BuffaBLOG’s Album of the Week, the quartet’s new Nothing Needs to Happen somehow manages a balance between heady, swirling melodies and punishing instrumental clang.

Barenaked Ladies, OMD, and Howard Jones

[POP] Long an essential summertime experience in Western New York, the Artpark “Tuesday in the Park” outdoor concert series kicks off this Tuesday, June 14 with an embarrassment of riches. Opener Howard Jones was a major force in the British synthpop movement of the early 1980s, with songs like “What is Love?” and “Like to Get to Know You Well.” Headliners Barenaked Ladies were beloved in Buffalo well ahead of the rest of the country’s discovery of “One Week”, thanks to early exposure on Toronto’s CFNY-FM.

Tia Brazda

[POP] Tia Brazda has been referred to as many things, including sassy, saucy, and sophisticated, but there’s no doubting that she’s unbelievably talented. The multi-talented singer/songwriter has established herself as a sparkling presence in Toronto’s jazz scene, and with her debut album Bandshell featuring Brazda’s stunning voice, as well as a diverse range of instrumentals, it’s not hard to see why.

TRACES: A Pop Up Installation and Tribute to Jack Drummer

[ARTS] The Body of Trade & Commerce Gallery, in collaboration with the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and Silo City, present a temporary installation as tribute to the late Jack Drummer. Described as “prolific, yet reclusive,” Drummer was a visual artist who made a name for himself in 1950s and early 1960s New York City—being featured in the 1965 edition of the Young America exhibition series at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Boy & Bear

[ROCK] Described by multiple live reviews as being “sincere, sophisticated, and seductively impressive” and having “flawless execution”, Australia’s Boy & Bear are quickly making waves in the American music scene with their folk-rock sound. Having already been featured on Conan, VH1, NPR, and more, their most recent album, 2015’s Limit of Love, went number one in Australia with lead single “Walk the Wire” spending multiple weeks in the United States’ Triple A Top 30 charts.

The Neighbourhood

[ROCK] The Neighbourhood exploded onto the indie rock scene in 2013 with their smash hit, “Sweater Weather” from their major label debut, I Love You. Anchored by expressive lyricism and rich layers of textured sounds, the collection of songs echoed the warm and sunny vibes that the title suggests. Their recent sophomore effort, Wiped Out! finds the SoCal outfit’s arrangements more buoyant with an icy chill, but no less enjoyable.

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