Four Questions with Pepper Bassist, Bret Bollinger
Pepper is a three piece rock band from Hawaii that specializes in reggae juxtaposed with stylistic comedic punk influences. They will play the Rapid’s Theater on Niagara Falls on Friday, November 28, their first appearance in the Western New York region. This week we had a quick chat with bassist Bret Bollinger.
[ROCK] There may not be any pregaming in the Darien Lake parking lot before this Dave show, but tribute band Big Eyed Phish is the closest you’ll come to a true Dave Matthews Band experience locally. They’ll dish out the Dave this Friday, November 28 at the Forvm.
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] It’s a little out of the ordinary for The Tralf Music Hall to hold a dance party, but DJ Hassan will be bringing just that on Friday, November 28 with a mix of new and classic house tunes. —cory perla
[JAM] Don’t worry, there won’t be any actual math involved in Fun = E3 x M3; just a bunch of far out musical performances. Fun = E3 x M3 (which stands for Fun = eccentric entheogenic energy x mind manifesting manifold) will features acts like fractaLights, who will provide mix of jazz fusion and rock before Rory McCormack steps in with original chip-tune productions.
You’ve purchased loaves of their bread at the co-op, swung by their take out window to pick up homemade granola, and even watched their Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Bagel go viral across the internet. BreadHive Cooperative Bakery is now sharing stories from their humble beginnings to collaborative growth as a wholesale supplier throughout the city.
If you’re thinking about checking out The Lubberland National Dance Company’s presentation of Bombing Instead of Negotiating tonight at 8pm at the Foundry but were unsure whether the show would still go on, don’t worry; the performance is going on as scheduled. The dance performance, a Bread & Puppet production, will act as a revolt against what they call “unbearable news of circumstance,” such as the latest assault on the middle east by the U.S. and Canada.
There are still tickets available for a once-in-a-lifetime event in Toronto, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro holding a master class on Ken Russell’s berserk masterpiece The Devils.
Cursive, a band that damn near invented emo music, will be coming through Mohawk Place on Sunday, March 15.
The band from Omaha, Nebraska popularized their brand of emotional post-hardcore with albums like 2000’s Domestica and 2003’s The Ugly Organ. Their last album was 2012’s I Am Gemini, but the band will be on tour this spring in support of the deluxe reissue of The Ugly Organ.
It’s not easy to get around Buffalo right now because of this ridiculous amount of snow (though The Public did deliver 35,000 copies of our paper to the streets this morning). Some areas are worse than others, but a few national bands are finding out that out the hard way.
Mickey Harmon is a local illustrator and graphic designer.
His work reflects the environment in which he lives, Buffalo, New York.
You can view all of his work at mickeyharmon.com and @groveycleves on Instagram.
There are two major thematic currents working their way through Arthur Miller’s landmark mid-twentieth-century play Death of a Salesman, the playwright’s most famous work. It works on at least two levels, or, perhaps comes at us from two directions. There are moments and scenes in which these two dynamics seem to coexist or interact awkwardly. The Irish Classical Theatre Company’s generally admirable current production of the play can feel as if it’s reflecting this uneasy balance.