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Rufus Gibson Presents: Punisher

[ELECTRONIC/DANCE] If you’re into techno and house music, you may have noticed Punisher pop up on the bill of some after parties for one of the country’s most prominent techno and house music festivals, Movement, which happens each year in Detroit. The Detroit native will share a bill with house music heavyweights like Andres and Rick Wilhite, as well as Buffalo native and promoter Rufus Gibson, who’ll bring the veteran DJ to Buffalo for a show at the Gypsy Parlor on Saturday, March 17.

Senses Fail with Reggie and the Full Effect

[PUNK] Formed in New Jersey in 2002, Senses Fail were your classic Vagrant Records/Drive Thru Records band—aggressive but not too aggressive, loud, and fun. In 2004, the band released their debut record, Let it Enfold You, which featured sing-along screamo hits like “Lady in a Blue Dress,” and begged for comparisons to scene leaders like Taking Back Sunday and Brand New. At the time of the release, frontman Buddy Nielsen was only 20 years old.

12 Things to Do St. Patrick's Day Weekend

[CELEBRATION] Most people here in Buffalo know about the two major parades; the “real” parade A.K.A. the Old Neighborhood parade in South Buffalo, and the OG parade down Delaware Avenue, which is now in its 78th year. Many don’t know that there’s another parade, in Lackawanna, which has taken place for almost as long—since 1946. Maybe the reason it’s not as popular is because it’s only 98 steps long, from Our Lady of Victory Basilica, (767 Ridge Road) to Lackawanna City Hall, (714 Ridge Road). If you’re looking to expand passed the 700 block of Ridge Road for your St.

Doug Tallamy

[LECTURE] Doug Tallamy, naturalist, educator, and author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in our Gardens (Timber Press, 2007), is returning to this area with a new lecture courtesy of the Western New York Land Conservancy. The book is the seminal and extremely influential work about why and how to use native plants as gardening and conservation tools. The event will be held on Friday March 16, 7-8pm at the Niagara Power Vista, 5777 Lewiston Road, Lewiston, N.Y.

Shovels & Rope

[ROCK] Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent, a.k.a. Shovels & Rope, needed a respite from the intensely personal tunes they wrote for 2016’s Little Seeds—an album that dealt with tragedy, uncertainty and difficult circumstances, albeit with revelatory musical tones. The South Carolina-based husband and wife duo are known for their earnest Americana that’s that’d oft-spiked with elements of garage-y rock and always features their gift for harmonizing.

An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett & Shawn Colvin

[FOLK] Shawn Colvin is proud. And she’s got every right, every reason to be. At 62, her career has taken some unexpected twists, not the least of which was scoring a #1 single and a pair of 1998 Grammy Awards for “Sunny Came Home,” a murder ballad about a gal that’s not content to simply grab the kids and flee her situation for greener pastures—so she burns the house down, with him in it.   

Bill Bellamy

[COMEDY] Some people live their lives hoping one day to coin a phrase that becomes ubiquitous. Comedian Bill Bellamy, if nothing else, has achieved that as coiner of the phrase “booty call.” The now 52-year-old comedian coined the phrase on HBO’s Def Comedy Jam back in 1993 and really what else can you ask for as a comedian? Since then he’s appeared on MTV, has hosted Last Comic Standing, and even appeared on a couple episodes of the Nickelodeon show Kenan and Kel.

Richie Ramone

[PUNK] There aren’t many Ramones left these days. Johnny, Dee Dee, Joey, and Tommy—all of the original members of iconic New York City punk band have all left this planet since the turn of the century. Richie Ramone, the third drummer of the band (from 1983 to 1987) is still alive and kicking, though.

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