[BLUES] Bishop Gunn, hailing from Natchez, Mississippi is a blues-rock band on the rise. The four-piece band released their debut full length album, named after their hometown, this spring, which was produced by Casey Wasner and Mark Neill at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Catch Bishop Gunn at Babeville’s 9th Ward this Sunday, August 5 with support from Bruce Wojick.
[METAL] Classic thrash metal band, Slayer, will perform this Friday, August 3 at Darien Lake. The four-piece metal band responsible for some of the most worshipped heavy metal albums of all time, such as 1986’s Reign in Blood and 1990’s Seasons in the Abyss. Their latest is 2015’s Repentless, their first record with guitarist Gary Holt, who replaced founding member Jeff Hanneman after his death in 2013.
[ROCK] The next edition of the free Live at Larkin concert series happens this Wednesday, August 1. The night’s theme is South Buffalo Night featuring Brian Higgins & the Exchange Street Band and Crikwater.
[INFRINGEMENT] The third annual Prince vs David Bowie Dance Party happens this Thursday, August 2 at Mohawk Place. The Infringement Festival event will feature DJs Bill Page and Xotex spinning classic David Bowie and Prince songs along with live performances by local performers. Proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood.
[FUN] The penultimate concert in the Elmwood Village Association’s Summer Concert series happens this Tuesday, August 7. The concert will feature six-piece western swing dance and the Skiffle Minstrels, who will deliver an upbeat mix of country jazz and blues to the crowd assembled at the corner of Elmwood and Bidwell Parkway. Pack up the kids, a couple of folding chairs, and head over to the free outdoor concert on Tuesday.
[INFRINGEMENT] As of the publication of this paper, there are five days left of the 2018 Infringement Festival. It’s not too late to cram in all of the weird, fun, whacky, and thought provoking art that this festival has too offer. Here will provide you with a little bit of guidance by picking out our favorite events that the Buffalo Infringement Festival has to offer for its second half. The Infringement festival runs until Sunday, August 5, so we’ll pick a few events to do each day for the next five days. The rest is up to you. Get out there and explore.
[ROCK] REO Speedwagon began making music in the mid-1960’s, and their initial output had a harder edge than the sound casual listeners would normally associate with the name. It wasn’t until they took a tempered, soft-rock approach that they scored big, in 1980 with Hi Fidelity, which began a string of radio hits that kept them in the Top 40 through most of the decade. Hi Fidelity has sold a staggering 10 million copies.
[ROCK] Though sometimes affectionately referred to as “stoner metal,” The Sword’s sound is something that continues to eschew categorization. It’s definitely metal with all the classic underpinnings, borrowing heavily from the Sabbath template. The band’s latest, Used Future, out this past March on Razor & Tie, is a groove-driven affair that merges killer riffs with a clear penchant for trippy psychedelia. In the end, it’s the most accessible album the Austin-based quartet has made thus far, which has The Sword’s fan base divided.
[ROCK] Ann Wilson built her career belting out tunes that have become etched on our collective consciousness thanks, in large part, to Classic Rock Radio. As the mighty-voiced front woman of Heart, tunes like “Barracuda” and “Magic Man” are now in their fifth decade of regular airplay. But for the last two years, Wilson has been experimenting with a solo career—something she’d been reluctant to do in prior times.
[VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS] If you’re one of those who thinks the Allentown Art Festival should be renamed the Allentown Craft and Fried Dough Festival, or if you openly loathe the slow transformation of Allentown from a Bohemian-friendly neighborhood to one that now markets $2000 apartments in a “cultural” neighborhood, it’s time to infringe that shit this Friday because the Allentown-centered open studio event known as First Friday is running in confluence with an explosion of Infringement Festival events.
There is a lot going on these days.
If it is not clear to you by now, maybe reading this will help. The endgame that is epitomized by the acendency of the current Trump strategery (as we know it) is on a full upswing.
The clarity of the global political climate is erupting in a stunning “moment to moment” fashion just a year and a half into the Trump Era.
It would seem that in a normal world the end would be near, and it may be.
Over the last few months, we’ve done a bunch of coverage of artists who will be performing at the Cobblestone Live music festival this weekend, so we thought we’d round up all of that coverage in one place. The 2nd annual edition of Cobblestone Live happens this Friday, July 27 and Saturday, July 28, and if you’re wondering where to dive into the line up of this two day festival, this is a good place to start.