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Here’s another Buffalo show if you’re up for the drive: Bad Religion will perform tonight at 8pm at the Town Ballroom.  They were another band that I loved growing up, and it would be so much fun to see them live after all these years. They were such a major part of the Socal punk/hardcore […]

San Diego-based indie pop band Pinback will perform at Buffalo’s Tralf Music Hall tonight at 8pm.
I’ve liked Pinback since its inception in 1998 (they’re from San Diego, just like me!), and some of my fondest memories are set to a Pinback soundtrack: Ditching class to “Concrete Seconds”; figuring out the piano part to “Rosseau”; watching […]

(Photo by Wonge Bergmann)
If you’re up for the drive, contemporary classical composer Steve Reich will be featured in a number of performances in the upstate area this week.
The program includes Cello Counterpoint for amplified cello and multichannel tape (2003); Piano/Video Phase for Electronic Drum Pads with Video Projection; and Sextet (1985).
The performing musicians include Real […]

You heard me right — Yo La Tengo will play with Broken Social Scene at Cornell on Sunday, November 11. Cornell Concert Commission hasn’t accounced it officially yet, so we’re happy to bring you this news first! We figured it out here, and then we assumed it’s a CCC concert because it’s on a Sunday […]

If you’re looking for something nice to do on Thursday, especially if it’s —ahem— a special day of sorts, then perhaps this is the thing for you. Pangea’s food is excellent, and the live music is lovely too (we saw Nuages play on Bastille Day). And with this unseasonably warm weather, we’re hoping that the […]

Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo will perform at the State Theatre tonight at 7:30pm. The concert is in celebration of the Dalai Lama’s visit to Ithaca on Oct. 9-10. We recently spoke with her via email, and you can read the full story in our interviews section. This photo below has nothing to do with her […]

Hamilton College’s Independent Music Fund will open their semester with a Grizzly Bear and Man Man show this Saturday, Oct. 6. We’ve seen some fun shows there in the past, including Jamie Lidell and Ted Leo (on seperate occasions), and missed some others (Wooden Wand, The Unicorns, Mates of State) that we still regret. If […]