Post Office Begins the End in Buffalo
The Post Office’s Buffalo operations begin to shut down.
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Lindsey Stirling
[POP] As one of Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30 In Music: The Class of 2015,” 28-year-old violin prodigy, Lindsey Stirling’s got it going on.
On the Ninth Day of Preetsmas
Nine Pigeons Flying
Beauty Pill
[INDIE] Ongoing personnel changes marked the pair of EPs and singular full length from DC’s Beauty Pill during their initial push in the early-mid 2000s, but nothing derailed things quite like focal point Chad Clark’s bout with viral cardiomyopathy.
Willowbank Jazz Festival
[JAZZ] The 12th annual Willowbank Jazz Festival will take place on Sunday, June 14 at the Riverbend Inn & Vineyard at Niagara On The Lake with headliner Guido Basso. Basso, the well-known Canadian jazz trumpeter will be joined by a full band. Set to kick off the festival are the Bourbon Street Buskers, followed by pianist and singer/songwriter Tyler Yarema with his band His Rhythm, and traditional jazzists Climax Jazz Band.
SonReal
[HIP HOP] Vancouver rapper, SonReal, performs at the Studio at the Waiting Room with Buffalo hip-hop collective Evident Truth, and more this Saturday.
Men Without Hats
[NEW WAVE] Your eyes are not deceiving you—Men Without Hats are, in fact, still relevant, in that the 1980s-era, synth pop collective will play at the Bear’s Den on Friday, June 12. Best known for creating “The Safety Dance” and “Pop Goes The World”—two of the most familiar songs of the 1980s – MWH built on the new wave sound, bridging the gap between punk and disco with electro-popping, synth-laden cuts.
Zomboy
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Dubstep mavens and dance-a-holics alike in for a special treat this Friday, when Zomboy hits the stage at Town Ballroom.
Blonde Redhead
[INDIE] Listening to Blonde Redhead’s latest album Barragán, one can’t help but feel compelled to sit up straight, cook a fine meal, and unwind. Sparse guitar lines and hard-panned flutes are sandwiched between natural sound recordings of wind and flowing water. The dichotomy provokes imageries of paradox: an acrophobic clenching their wind blown umbrella, a well dressed man strapped to the top of a horse.
The Scajaquada's Underlying Problem
You can’t fix the expressway without fixing the creek.
Story: Whitney Museum, Artful Space
With 50,000 square feet of new art exhibition space designed by renowned architect Renzo Piano alongside the elevated-train-turned-Highline, Whitney Museum of American Art officially opened to the public on May 1. The museum has experienced just over one month of record-breaking attendance, lines forming in the welcoming public space daily (except Tuesday, their day of rest).
Paladino Opines on "Damn Asians"
At long last, you can put a fork in the Palinist wing of the WNY Tea Party.
But before we get to the reason why, it bears mentioning that, as much as we can ask where Frank Sedita is when it comes to Preetsmas:
Where’s Frank Sedita? #preetsmas @MarkSachaEsq pic.twitter.com/qPfUb3YHkI
GreenWatch: June Babies
Summer is almost here and we have baby birds, birds nests, turtles on logs, and so much more.
On the Eighth Day of Preetsmas
My true love gave to me: eight songbirds singing.
On the Seventh Day of Preetsmas
On the seventh day of Preetsmas, my true love gave to me, seven spinners spinning
Tyler, The Creator
[HIP HOP] The outrageous and controversial Tyler, The Creator returns to Buffalo on Sunday to Town Ballroom.
Arkells
[ROCK] Hailing from just around the corner in Hamilton, Ontario, alt rock band Arkells are steadily becoming a household name in this city, returning to larger and larger crowds for each performance. In 2011 the five-piece band signed to Universal Music Canada to release their second full length album, Michigan Left, marking their emergence into the mainstream Canadian music scene.
Conservation Efforts for Region are Moving Forward
GreenWatch: Stella Niagara, Times Beach Nature Preserve, and the New York State Great Lakes Action Agenda
Several events and announcements have taken place in Western New York during the past week that champion the environment and help connect conservation, stewardship of critical shorelines, and the Great Lakes and the Niagara River strait.
Stella Niagara
Mike Gordon
[ROCK] At six years old, Mike Gordon kept a filing cabinet. Suffering from an insatiable urge to organize, he tucked in it hundreds of self-typed documents. He couldn’t help it. This compulsion followed him to adulthood even after his band, Phish, had grown into one of America’s highest-grossing touring acts. Today, things are different—at least a little.