The re-election campaign for Congressman Chris Collins (R-CNN) released this incoherently childish nonsense yesterday:
1. Former SCOTUS Justice Stevens is a Republican. President Gerald Ford nominated him to the Court in 1975.
Julie Molloy is a Buffalo-based designer who has been described as “nice enough” and “really quite pigeon-toed.” She makes paintings because it feels good. She lives on the internet at juliemolloy.com. This piece is called try me; check out Molloy’s new work at Peach Mag (peachmgzn.com), too.
Stay in the Loop with this week’s LGBT happenings in Western New York, brought to you by LOOP Magazine!
Trans Day of Visibility Open Mic Night at Pride Center of WNY
6pm — 9pm, 200 S. Elmwood Ave.
[DISCUSSION] For the final edition of Science & Art Cabaret for this season the theme will be “death.” Artists working different media, from music to literature, will examine the theme from different angles. The line up includes UB associate professor of English, Elizabeth Mazzolini; chair of UB’s Department of art, Joan Linder; UB professor of history, Erik Seeman; electronic musician Angie Conte; and former pastor Dave Persons.
[FORUM] Let’s face it: If an executive, elected or otherwise, isn’t telling you that they’re doing an awesome job during their annual address, they aren’t doing their jobs. But absent from local annual “State of the City” or “State of the State” is the real critical analysis of the holes, cracks, and shortcomings of government services writ large.
[COUNTRY] Signed to indie country label Broken Bow prior to its recent acquisition by BMG, Dustin Lynch is a Tennessee native who’s enjoyed a ton of country radio airplay over the course of eight massive hit singles (three platinum and three gold) and three albums, plus a handful of ACA and CMT award nominations. Touring behind last year’s album Current Mood, Lynch comes to Seneca Niagara Events Center for a gig on Saturday, March 31 that’s bound to be a hayride of a good time.
[HIP HOP] Buffalo-based hip hop artists Mad Dukez and Chuckie Campbell will be back in action in their home town after a 12-city tour. Cambell will bring along The Black Den as his backing band for this one. Expect additional sets by Short Moscato, Toneyboi, and GTW, as well as comedy between sets by Jesse Winterhalter, Sam Minney, Ryan Henry, and Spencer Carr. Check it out Wednesday, April 4 at the Gypsy Parlor.
[ROCK] NYS Music brings another weird and wonderful line up to Nietzsche’s this Saturday, March 31. Cleveland-based soul/funk band The Bees Trees will be joined by video game mashup band Glitch (have you ever imagined with the Mario Underground theme would sound like played by a full band? If yes, then this is for you), bluesy rock band Hyzerflight, and rock band Strange Standard.
[BOOK SALE] Since the sanctity of April Fool’s Day has been colonized this year by some other holiday, this year’s big blowout of books will take place on April Fool’s Eve, on Saturday, March 31 at Rust Belt Books. The Back Room Book Sale is back as are the low low prices of $5 per bag of books. Rare finds, long postponed reading list items, eclectic gems, and pedestrian pulp all mish-mashed and waiting for you to discover them, don’t disappoint!
[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] Bass DJ Basha will celebrate the release of a new LP titled Remember Tomorrow this Saturday, March 31 at Preservation Pub in Allentown. He’ll bring with him a whole bunch of friends including DJs K-Rog, JennaBeatz, Moumenon, Solos, and more. Expect some killer drink specials too.
[FOLK] Five-piece Americana band Little Mountain Band will bring special guest Meesh with them for a show at Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar this Saturday, March 31. The show comes as part of DBGB’s regular music series.
[ROCK] If you missed out on grabbing tickets to see over-the-top guitarist Buckethead at Buffalo Iron Works for his sold-out show scheduled for Monday, April 2, then here’s a chance to redeem yourself. Buckethead has added a second show, the next day, Tuesday, April 3. The mysterious, masked and bucketed guitarist is as prolific he is virtuosic. Since 2011 alone the 48-year-old guitarist, real name Brian Carroll, has released 274 albums. Let that sink in. 274. Albums. Of music.
[FUNK] Call them “new funk,” or a “jam band” it’s all just semantics. Maybe “new funk” is the better term (actually they prefer the term “lethal funk”) because Kung Fu is just so funky. Almost too funky, if that was a possibility, which it’s not *scoffs out loud to self.* All chortling and scoffing aside though, Kung Fu make a unique brand of electro-funk—equally as influenced by EDM as it is by Stevie Wonder—that their audience enjoys hearing almost as much as they enjoy performing.
[TRIBUTE] Covering Steely Dan is no joke. Fagen and Becker took the band off the road in 1975 because they felt the sound they were achieving in the studio wasn’t well enough represented by their stage show, and they didn’t emerge in a live format again until 1993. Technology eventually caught up with them, and by the early aughties, “The Dan” was capable of a mighty impressive live performance, complete with a trio of backup gals and full-on brass section. It has continued that way, more or less, since then and will likely live on despite the death of Water Becker last year.