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Sloan

[ALTERNATIVE] Last time they came to town, Canadian alt rock band, Sloan played their hit 1996 album One Chord to Another in its entirety. This time around, expect to hear cuts from across their entire discography, including their latest, this year’s 12, when the four-piece band comes to Buffalo Iron Works for a show on Saturday, June 16.

Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration

[TRIBUTE] At the age of 77, who knows how many birthdays folk music hero Bob Dylan has left, so we might as well go all out in celebration of each new one. Nietzsche’s annual Bob Dylan Birthday Celebration takes place a couple of weeks after Dylan’s actually birthday, but it’s still in the general ball park, this Thursday, June 14. Expect musical tributes to come from Sam Marabella, Zak Ward, The Complete Unknowns, Steam Donkeys, and more.

Bad Bad Hats

[POP] A Minneapolis-born trio, Bad Bad Hats makes indie pop that’s built around Kerry Alexander’s breathy warble, but the band has hinted at being capable of more than the generic sound of its debut, It Hurts, in the five years since it was released on the MN-based Afternoon label. Listening to “Write It On Your Heart,” the first single of the forthcoming Lightening Round, the band’s second full length due out in August, it’s clear that big strides have been made.

Bruce Hornsby and Wood Brothers

[AMERICANA] Multi-instrumentalist Bruce Hornsby may never have eclipsed the commercial success of his 1986 RCA debut, The Way It Is, but his career as a touring musician has remained quite fertile. Morphing between different bands and collaborations, including a well documented stint in the Grateful Dead, Hornsby is a musical chameleon that refuses to stop working, often juggling multiple projects at once.

Dead & Company

[TRIBUTE] When John Mayer joined forces with Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann to form Dead & Company (along with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti), many figured it wouldn’t last. The addition of Mayer, known mainly for his guitar-driven-but-breezy radio pop, struck older Dead enthusiasts as blasphemy (he essentially fills in for Jerry Garcia) and… hadn’t they just done a series of farewell shows in Chicago? Perhaps those shows were done with this in mind: a new era for what remains of the Grateful Dead.

Judah & the Lion

[INDIE] Folk-hop. That’s the genre-lane that’s been custom cut for Judah and the Lion, the Nashville-based band with the oh-so biblical sounding name that’s managed to cultivate quite a fan base over the last two years and is headlining Town Ballroom for a radio-sponsored acoustic gig on Friday, June 15.

Kerfuffle

[INDIE] Alternative Buffalo 107.7 has a pretty loaded line up of alt rock, indie rock, and emo arranged for their annual summer bash, Kerfuffle, which takes place this Saturday, June 16. With a bunch of highly recognizable names on the bill, it’s almost tough to tell who the biggest draw is, but the radio station has dubbed L.A.-based alt rock band AWOLNATION headliners, though emo band Taking Back Sunday is likely to garner a pretty big response from local fans too.

Fitz and the Tantrums

[INDIE] NPR-resident critic and all-around pop music voice of reason, Ann Powers, once said that Fitz and the Tantrums is a band that communicates best in concert. We’re gonna bet that’s true, although they come from that weird school of L.A. logic where bands form and get lucky breaks out of thin air rather than first honing their craft in sweaty basements for a few years.

Of Montreal

Of Montreal (stylized with a lowercase ‘o’ if we let the band have its way) evolved from being part of the Elephant 6 Collective (a Colorado-based family of bands formed in the 1990’s that shared a reverence for 1960’s influences).

Interview: Mick Foley

Pro wrestling fans like to debate over who the true “tough guys” of the business are, the ones who could beat anyone up in a legitimate contest or real life situation. The most common chart topper is Tongan powerhouse Meng, who according to legend has effortlessly popped out eyeballs and bit off noses in real life fights.

The Weimar Safari Guild

[ART OPENING] The Weimar Safari Guild is a creative collaborative comprising David Mitchell, Jon Eisenberg, and Joseph Stocker—the latter two being the founders of Bureau, the custom clothier on Elmwood Avenue, and Mitchell being a local art star of surpassing renown, whose day job is artistic director of CEPA Gallery. Their show, titled P.S. we still have to find our way off this island, includes video, sculpture, and photography, as well as a multi-channel audio installation.

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