[ART] Everybody knows what the Allentown Art Festival is: It’s a city wide tradition; a marker that good weather has finally arrived; a chance to refresh your art collection with new pieces from paintings to ceramics; and a good excuse to explore the neighborhood you think you know. The 58th annual Allentown Art Festival will take place this Saturday, June 13 and Sunday June 14.
[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.
[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.
[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.
[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.
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).
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
Summer is almost here and we have baby birds, birds nests, turtles on logs, and so much more.
[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.
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