[BLUEGRASS] A jam juggernaut, Cabinet’s brand of rock-tinged bluegrass materializes into a unique slamgrass sound. With honeyed harmonies and moving melodies, their high-energy, high-volume live show is amplified thanks to the impeccable instrumental chops of all six Pennsylvanian members.
[AMERICANA] Mayfield’s truly a triple threat of musical dexterity, songwriting chops, and offbeat humor like you’ve never quite experienced before. As a member of Cadillac Sky with ties to the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons, Mayfield comes from neo-bluegrass stock. His latest, Strangers, out last year on Compass Records, finds him stretching further into edgy, rocking territory, but thankfully nothing seems lost in translation.
[PUNK] Look no further for proof of punk’s endurance than to New Hampshire’s the Queers. Nearly 35 years on and the trio (sometimes a quartet) continues touring tirelessly with their brand of Bowery-inspired, uncomplicated rock in the Ramones tradition.
[ROCK] Creating set lists based on vintage Jerry Garcia Band shows, Garcia Project takes Grateful devotion up a notch with a meticulous eye for detail. Plus, there’s nothing like getting a nod of approval from the mothership: 15-year JGB keyboardist Melvin Seals has let Garcia Project’s Mik Bondy sit in recently with his still-touring version of the Jerry Garcia Band, and Seals will return the favor at festival dates with Garcia Project this summer.
[POP] Although both headliners experienced airwave-inspired success in the previous decade, we’re not 100 percent convinced that musical offerings from Ryan Cabrera or Secondhand Serenade could inspire a true “radio revival.” But what’s in a name? Here’s a unique opportunity to see Cabrera, a bona fide pop star, in a super intimate room.
[DANCE] ModDance Company is bringing the glitz and glamour with their “All That Jazz” Broadway Revue on Friday, April 3 at The Gypsy Parlor. The dance troupe will dance to a bunch of Broadway tunes, including “All That Jazz,” “Cell Block Tango,” “Steam Heat,” “Mein Herr” and many more. Throughout the night there will be live music and guest singers performing as well.
In 2004, Massachusetts was the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. It wasn’t done legislatively, but by the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, which ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny homosexual couples the right to marry.
Head in any direction away from the epicenter of the city of Buffalo and roughly 20 minutes into the drive you arrive in agrarian territory—one of the many joyful bonuses of living in Western New York. And the renaissance of urban farming means that this farm-searching journey could be shortened to twenty blocks or so.
It’s been a very good year for horror movies, a genre that seemed to be in terminal disrepute after a decade of torture porn. The micro-released The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night showed that independent filmmakers pursuing their own visions are still capable of getting under our skin.
Schardt’s, a saloon operated by John Schardt at 2095 Main Street at the southwest corner of Humboldt Parkway, was a landmark of the so-called “Buffalo Plains” from 1879 to 1911. In 1910, roughly when this photograph was taken, Buffalo was America’s 10th largest city with a population of 423,715. 1,425 saloons were in operation, or one for every 297 residents.