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May 9th, 2023 by Eileen Breen
Nickel City Opera is back in full force with Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera ‘The Barber of Seville’ with full orchestra, costumes and sets returning for the second year to Nichols Flickinger Performing Arts…
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July 26th, 2019 by Jessica Brant
Did you know? Grand Rapids, Michigan's indie dream pop team are also husband and wife. Angela Gail (keyboard and vocals) and Jeffrey Jacob (guitar and vocals) are the fantastic deux (their touring drummer Josh Clair was not present…
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July 8th, 2019 by Jessica Brant
Buffalo got a nod (two if you count his line about Rick James) in Tech N9ne's surprise drop not long ago. His thirteenth studio album, N9NA, has technicians the world over stomping to his 21-track eargasm. What this album proves…
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October 11th, 2018 by Anthony
It was a show that felt undeniably like bit of end of summer fun—despite the fact that it's October. With energy and ease, amid a tour on the other side of the globe, New Zealand power pop group The Beths delighted a crowd…
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September 29th, 2018 by Anthony
If too many our of lives are consumed with political chaos, societal struggles, or base anger and negativity, then Neko Case’s performance in Buffalo was a welcome realignment – a night of simple, passionate…
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July 12th, 2018 by I'Jaz Eberhardt
Hop Hop is no rabbit in a hat. Jazmine Frazier, the woman behind the moniker, is more akin to a magician who pulls from the past to create the future, and this is evident in both her sound and in her personal philosophies. The…
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July 5th, 2018 by Tara Rae Hark
Sebastian Martin, 25, still recalls the early days of his career as a vocalist, performing elaborate musical productions for his mother on his living room couch. "All I ever really wanted was to be a performer," says Martin. His…
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June 24th, 2018 by I'Jaz Eberhardt
"Armstrong, just who the hell do you think you are?" "The Ambassador of Jazz." This excerpt from the monologue of Satchmo: A Tough Scuffle embodies the public persona of Satchmo, the jazz giant. However, Danny Mullen's one-man…
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June 23rd, 2018 by Joe Kirchmyer
Recognized as one of the top three festivals in Canada and, for the third consecutive year, a Songlines Magazine (UK) pick as one of the leading overseas music festivals, TD Sunfest ’18 celebrates 24 years of transfiguring…
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April 7th, 2018 by Jesse Mank
Here's the short version: I just paid $30 to see a man in a mask play a two-hour guitar solo against a pre-recorded backing track. And I did the exact same thing two days earlier, in Cleveland. Both shows were sold out. I'd do…
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April 3rd, 2018 by Joe Kirchmyer
Local entertainment will take center stage at the 2018 Elmwood Village Farmers Market, which will take place every Saturday from May 12 through Nov. 24 at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Bidwell Parkway in Buffalo’s historic…
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February 12th, 2018 by Jessica Brant
Ben Andress is a scene kid to his core. From his Neolithic shag beard and Soul Asylum band tees to his infectious and peculiar humor that reads like a dialogue from Beavis and Butthead, he represents all things good about the…
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December 21st, 2017 by Jesse Mank
A classically-trained multi-instrumentalist. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music. The lead singer of the award-winning hip-hop jazz-fusion group Radarada. A Buffalo Public School orchestra teacher. She’s Ana Vafai,…
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October 31st, 2017 by Jessica Brant
Who needs a king when the queen is just as boss? Exactly the point Buffalo MC Angelo Luciano makes in his autobiographical project, The King is Dead, Long Live the Queen, except that he's not talking about a person. He's talking…
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October 9th, 2017 by Jessica Brant
Ida Goeckel knows that life takes no pity on the souls of fools. When the musician and philanthropist was diagnosed with a form of breast cancer called Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) in 2003, and again, in 2012, she confronted…
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August 14th, 2017 by Jessica Brant
After some bands hit it big, or get close to hitting it big, they ditch their roots and lose the respect of the communities that watered them. For a brief period they are able to capitalize on a new flaky fan following,…
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August 2nd, 2017 by Kris Kielich
There are two sides to Trent Reznor. There's the ferocious and raw power of a man flaying away at his own demons and spitting with disgust on the world placed both within and without. And there's the contempletive, often melancholic…
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August 2nd, 2017 by Jesse Mank
I wear my Record Theatre T-shirt often, not just because I am a lifelong Record Theatre shopper, but because it proudly proclaims “Est. 1976.” That happens to be the year I was born. When I was a kid, my Dad used…
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July 23rd, 2017 by Jessica Brant
The Canadian pop-rock gang Mother Mother rocked the stage at The Rapids Theatre during their stop in Buffalo on their No Culture tour with a tasteful mix of fan favorites. Lead singer/guitarist Ryan Guldemond walked onto…
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July 12th, 2017 by Jessica Brant
The python of all indie Canadian synth-rock bands, the five-piece outfit known as Mother Mother, is striking The Rapids Theatre July 14 with their venomous riffs and some human intervention as part of…
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June 30th, 2017 by Kris Kielich
Troubadours are known for their musical talent, but also their constant travelling and wanderlust. Never content to settle in one place, the troubadour travels the land, singing from town to town. Perhaps their life is a lonely…
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June 30th, 2017 by Kris Kielich
Attempting to cover a record that may have flown under some radars this year, I went into Canadian darkwave/synth-metal-pop band The Birthday Massacre's new album, "Under Your Spell" with high hopes. The band has always struck…
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June 21st, 2017 by Jessica Brant
People need music more than they ever did before. That was the thought running through my mind two Friday nights ago during Karl Denson's Tiny Universe's show at Buffalo Iron Works. When the band played their second song…
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June 11th, 2017 by Kris Kielich
Having grown up and lived in East Aurora for my whole life, there's a certain closeness here that feels wholly unique to me, despite having traveled to many places around the country. It could just be the attachment from experiencing…
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June 7th, 2017 by Jessica Brant
Touring saxophonist for The Rollingstones and acclaimed jazz musician Karl Denson calls his jazz funk jamboree the "Tiny Universe," but exhibited in its live performance is a level of musicality that is larger…
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