[AUTO] Automobiles, particularly cutting edge or luxury automobiles, are intimidating, expensive and often the spotlit focus of auto shows. There’s a sticker shock and culture shock to the realization that next year’s model is comparable to your mortgage. What’s left for the rest of us, the non-expensive car buying car enthusiast?
After years of practicing and learning about Indonesian gamelan music at Fredonia State University, in the city of Chicago, and on the island of Java in Indonesia, musician Matt Dunning found himself in a predicament. Gamelan is a percussive style of music that is played with an ensemble of players on a wide range of instruments, such as gongs and wooden xylophone-type instruments called gambangs. Dunning aquired a fairly large set of instruments while learning under the tutulege of a gamelan master in Java.
[DYNGUS] Buffalo is now known as the Dyngus Day capital of the world. For those who don’t know, Dyngus Day is the annual Polish-pride celebration that falls on the day after Easter. In Buffalo, thousands of people gather in the Polonia District on the East Side, home of iconic locations such as the Broadway Market to celebrate the holiday.
[ROCK] Slugs is an L.A. by-way-of Rochester mutation of folk duo Dave Berger & Marissa Longstreet and the related dream-pop outfit High Drags. The newly minted four-piece recalls the psychedelic garage-pop of early Bangles in spots (“High in Love”) and something a bit darker elsewhere (“Anything’s Impossible”). Stopping just short of slick production, the band’s debut EP is professional sounding enough to potentially get them signed in a jiffy.
[TRIBUTE] Dear gahd! As the real Black Sabbath chugs on into the latter half of its final tour (scheduled through July), the Tralf welcomes Mac Sabbath on Sunday night, March 27. We’re not even sure Weird Al could’ve come up with this, but he’d definitely give his blessing. The Mac ensemble serves up its tasty Sabbath tribute without much pretense of metal badassery, instead going for hearty laughs.
