[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] If his latest single, “Kuaga,” a multi-ingual electro house banger, is any indication of the amount of energy and bass young producer Pierce Fulton puts into his live show, then Buffalo is in for a treat. Don’t get me wrong, “Kuaga” is big room EDM, but it’s a powerful track, which he balances out with the more tech heavy b-side “Noon Gun.” The 20-year-old producer from New England comes to Lift Nightclub on Friday, November 21 with local support from SunGlasses Mike.
[ROCK] Coming off of a tour with Journey, the Steve Miller Band has no intentions of slowing down. The classic rock band, lead 71-year-old singer and guitarist Steve Miller, helped define 1970s music with hits like “Fly Like an Eagle,” and “The Joker.” The band comes to the Seneca Niagara Events Center on Friday, November 21.
[Poetry] Enjoy an evening of poetry with local poets, Peter Ramos & Noah Falck at Talking Leaves on Thursday, November 20. Ramos will read selections from his latest collection, Television Snow. Rich in vivid imagery, these poems submerge the Gen-Xer in nostalgia, and make the Millennial feel like an anachronism.
“That’s right, Buffalo: Nothing special, just records straight from Afrika Bambaataa’s personal collection,” said DJ Shadow, as he spun one of Afrika Bambaata’s 40,000 records. Shadow and Cut Chemist—known primarily as DJ for the late 1990s hip hop group Jurassic 5—stood in front of six turntables selecting records from hip hop’s past and turning them up for the crowd.
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The Buchfield Penney Art Center will open an exhibit on Friday, November 14 titled Alexander O. Levy: American Artist, Art Deco Painter, which will focus on Buffalo in the Art Deco Period through the lens of Levy’s quintessentially American work.
Considered a child prodigy, artist Alexander O. Levy won his first art prize at the age of 12, awarded by a local newspaper in Cincinnati. The eclectic illustrator, who was born in Germany in 1881—before moving to Cincinnati, and then Buffalo in 1909—was known for his trichromatic work, in which he expertly blended colors to create accented textures. By the 1920s, he was arguably Buffalo’s most well known artist—predating Charles Burchfield’s international fame by a few years.
It takes a name with a certain ring to it to really sound like a rock star. Unfortunately, not everyone is born with a name with cache (Hi, my name is Pat) so it’s not uncommon for celebrities to take on a stage name before making it big.
Watch this video from BuzzFeed and see if you can guess the real name of music stars like Drake, Iggy Azalea, Lady Gaga, and Miley Cyrus.
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Inspired by the November 16th broadcast of This Day in History, a daily WBFO feature spoken by Mark Wozniak, stating that the day marked the 118th anniversary of electricity reaching the city of Buffalo, I drove to Niagara Falls State Park to visit the seated bronze statue of Nikola Tesla on Goat Island.
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