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Amplify 2018

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] With the fifth iteration coming up, Amplify has officially become a tradition to look forward to each September, with its massive line up of underground electronic music artists.

Neko Case

[INDIE] “Just when you think the rage has cooled in your veins, there’s a brand new flavor that fucking beats your head against the wall every day,” Neko Case told Pitchfork’s Senior Editor, Jillian Mapes, in an interview earlier this year.

Said the Sky

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] A string of opening week shows at the new Chippewa night club, Rec Room, continues with a show from EDM DJ Said the Sky. The 25-year-old DJ and producer from Denver is fresh off the release of his debut album, Wide-Eyed, an emotional 15-track indie-tronic record, which was released in July after a series of remixes and collaborations with artists like Illenium, Seven Lions, and the Chainsmokers. Catch the young DJ at the Rec Room on Thursday, September 20, presented by MNM Presents. 

Mephiskapheles

[SKA] Self-styled “satanic ska” band, Mephiskapheles comes in from New York City for a show at Buffalo’s Mohawk Place on Thursday, September 20. The hardcore-inspired ska band formed in the early 1990s before breaking up in 2001. They reformed in 2012 and founding member Brian Martin returned to the band in 2013 and the band recorded a self-titled album in 2015. Support comes from The Abruptors and Buffalo Brass Machine.

Screening: Wanda at the North Park

[FILM] Barbara Loden’s independent drama about an ungrounded woman (played by herself) in a dreary coal-mining area of Pennsylvania was universally acclaimed by critics when it was first shown in 1970. But it wasn’t audience friendly for the times and disappeared after that first release. Loden died of cancer a few years later without ever making a second film, and Wanda was consigned to the scrapheap of history.

Art Shows to Mark on Your Calendar

Lots going on this fall in visual arts, starting this week. Eight openings this Friday, September 14, including one in two parts, at CEPA and WNYBAC, on a technological innovation affecting artistic production and distribution from the 1960s to the present, the copy machine. The CEPA show to feature more than 100 artists over six decades who explored use of the copy machine to create and produce and disseminate artworks quickly and inexpensively.

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