[REGGAE] Earlier this year, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad released a new album entitled Bright Days. A swampy bluegrass-Americana blend, it continues in the same vein as their 2012 release, Country, and further proves that GPGDS’s genre identity is as obscure and awesome as their name. Hailing from Rochester, GPGDS has gained a considerable East Coast following since their 2004 inception by way of nonstop touring.
[PARTY] MNM Presents will take over Pearl Street Grill and Brewery once again this Halloween weekend for the second annual Murder in the Disco on Friday, October 30. All three floors of the Buffalo establishment will be filled with live music and techno from 9pm until 2:30am. The mood will be set in typical Halloween fashion with art installations by Jeremiah DECO, decor, special lighting, custom sound by Dan Neveau, and a costume contest to keep things spooky.
Google recently launched a Halloween themed feature called Frightgeist. The web tool allows users to search the most popular Halloween costumes by city. To predict which costumes will be most popular, it analyzes Google searchs with the word “costume” in them. It’s pretty simple, but fun to search through.
Naturally, the first thing we did was click on the pale green dot that hovers over Western New York. Here are the results:
[HALLOWEEN] The Studio at the Waiting Room is hosting a Freaky Friday Costume Party on Friday, October 30 to benefit the Teens Living with Cancer Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. There will be live music, silent auctions, a 50/50 raffle, and a costume contest, so come dressed to impress. You must be 16 an older to enter this event without a parent or guardian. Tickets are available online at the Waiting Room website.
Notes on a few things I noticed while putting together the movie listings for this week:
Editor’s Note: Each week, Buffalo lifestyle blog and brand Rise Collaborative scour Instagram for their favorite locally sourced images and include them in their Feature Friday project. Each Friday, we share Rise’s top six selections and once a month, the best of the best will make it into our print edition.
Very sad news today for fans of classic rock: Cory Wells, born on the East Side of Buffalo and one of the founders and lead singers of Three Dog Night, died last night in Dunkirk.
A statement from the band did not give a cause of death, noting only that Wells, who still performed regularly with Three Dog Night, had developed severe back pains in September. He was 74.
Of the three lead singers in the band, Wells had the comparatively gruff voice: he was in front on “Mama Told Me Not To Come,” “Eli’s Coming,” “Never Been To Spain,” and “Shambala.”
Earlier this week, the Federal Appeals Court for the 2nd Circuit upheld most of New York’s and Connecticut’s firearms statutes passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. Anti-gun control groups brought suit challenging them, and they now plan to appeal this partial defeat to the Supreme Court.
One might ask, what part of “shall not be infringed” does the 2nd Circuit not understand?