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Farm to Pint

[BEER] The Buffalo Niagara Brewers Association and Hamburg Brewing Company present their third annual Farm to Pint (F2P) celebration of beer created exclusively from locally sourced ingredients.

Chain & The Gang

[ROCK] Sugar City will host a solid line up of rock and roll this Sunday, May 8. Headliners Chain & the Gain will come in from Washington D.C. to rock your face along with Buffalo’s JOHNS, Mallwalkers, Much Band, and Nicky Reynolds & his Pushers. $7, or if you’re under 17 it’s free.

Pyramid Presents: Pete Bones

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Pyramid continues their underground house and techno series with another edition this Saturday, May 7 at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. This time around they’ll bring in Pete Bones, the UK-based veteran DJ and Red Ant records label head. Buffalo’s Nate Howell and Kyle Moody, will present opening sets.

Horse Lords

[EXPERIMENTAL] Baltimore based-band Horse Lords will definitely make you feel a certain way. It might take a few moments to get past the discombobulation of their hypnotic math rock, but once you break through, you’ll find the glory in their repetitive rhythms on textures. It’s tough to put the four-piece band into a box. The repetitiveness of their music echoes techno and electronic music, but the texture, timbre and sound of the music is unmistakable made by a full band—drums, guitar, bass, and the occasional keyboard tone.

JEFF The Brotherhood with Diarrhea Planet

[INDIE] A stacked line up of jamming psych-rock and garage punk awaits you this weekend. Two recently hyped bands, JEFF the Brotherhood and Diarrhea Planet will make a stop at the Studio at the Waiting Room this Saturday, May 7 for what should be a couple of epic, fun sets. Both bands are known for their jam-punk styles—JEFF The Brotherhood landing more on the psych/garage side, while Diarrhea Planet comes from the high-five school of bro-jam punk music.

Musicology: A Tribute to Prince

[TRIBUTE] By now you’ve likely seen all of Prince’s brilliant lyrics and quotes posted all over the internet. You’ve probably revisited his records one by one starting with his debut, For Now, on which he played every single instrument. You’ve seen the video clips of his epic live performances on SNL and at the Super Bowl. But now that he’s gone, that’s it. All we have left are these clips, and bits. As close as you’ll ever get to seeing Prince live again will have to come from the many live tribute shows that have been popping up since the genius artist’s death a few weeks ago.

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet & Buffalo PlusTet

[JAZZ] Musician Taylor Ho Bynum is a cornet player by trade, but composer in his soul. The 41-year-old musician leads his band, the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet, which features Jim Hobbs (alto sax), Bill Lowe (tuba), Mary Halvorson (guitar), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), and Ken Filiano (bass).  As a player, he’s collaborated with the likes of Anthony Braxton. As a composer he’s written, most recently, a four-set album titled Naviation in 2013, and plans to debut a recording with a 15-piece ensemble this year.

John Hiatt

[ROCK] Any artist that can boast songs recorded by artists like Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, and Iggy Pop should naturally grab your attention. John Hiatt’s songs have been covered by these bands and many more. The 63-year-old artist has released more than 20 records in his 40 year-long career, including his latest, 2014’s Terms of My Surrender, which carries on his lyrical legacy of passion, wit, and at times, desperation often linked together by irony and poetic justice.

Snarky Puppy

[FUNK] For their first studio offering in eight years, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Texas fusion funksters Snarky Puppy have hunkered down to produce something surprisingly moody. Which isn’t to say the rebellious, jazzy spirit at the band’s core isn’t present for Culcha Vulcha, out last Friday on the Ground Up label. The 14-ish member collective is still very much rooted in the marriage of complex melodies with ever-shifting rhythms, borrowing styles and sensibilities from the world over to create a singular, rather anarchic sound.

Tedeschi Trucks Band

[ROCK] Chemistry is what continues to work about the Tedeschi Trucks Band, now three studio albums along with Let Me Get By, which dropped earlier this year and brings the 12-piece blues-rocking machine to the UB Center for the Arts for two shows this weekend, Saturday, May 7 and Sunday, May 8 with Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers (tickets for Sunday are still available). Produced by Derek Trucks himself and written cohesively as a band, Let Me Get By marries the raw energy of 2011’s celebrated debut Revelator

Zomboy

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Another product of Never Say Die Records, the label home to acts like Skrillex, Flux Pavilion, Datsik, and Excision, bass music purveyor Zomboy delivers a set just as heavy and hard hitting as his label mates. The 26-year-old electronic dance music producer released his latest record, the Neon Grave EP, in March. The follow up to Resurrected, his 2015 debut full length, Neon Grave is just as aggressive with a touch of pop.

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