In 1955 Volkswagen produced its one-millionth Beetle. And you could buy yourself a new “Amazing Volkswagen” (for a bit under two-grand) at Kelly’s VW, located at 2360 Bailey Ave. in Buffalo, as seen in the accompanying ad from the Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1955 edition of the Buffalo Courier-Express. Just like the actual car, the ad [...]

On Wednesday (March 10), Foreign Born brings their tribal-tinged folk music to Soundlab. The band creates a simple sonic template that is ideal for sipping a drink in the sun, like a strange blend of Animal Collective, groovy Simon & Garfunkel, and hand-claps. A perfect example of the band’s beach house [...]

Neon Indian, one of the monikers held by 21 year-old Alan Palomo, made a dent in the psychedelic music scene this year with the release of his debut album Psychic Charms (Lefse Records). The album combines lo-fi recording techniques with electronic beats and samples to create a sound that flows like the score to a [...]

On Friday, four bands walked into the Tralf and four walked out, but only one took home a satchel of cold hard cash, and hundreds of dollars worth of recording equipment from Guitar Center. Over 400 people turned out to witness Photos of Wagons take the grand prize in the annual Artvoice Battle of Original Music. [...]

It was clearly the most emotional game of the season. And the most physical. With the season on the line, the Buffalo Bandits dug deep inside of themselves tonight at HSBC Arena, taking on the Orlando Titans, one of the league leading teams. When it was all over, the Bandits had themselves a 12-10 win, [...]

Few bands can make you dance and contemplate the nature of reality at the same time, but this is what Portland, Oregon based indie-pop duo YACHT forces you to do. Electronic composer Jona Bechtolt created the project in 2003 and released three albums before adding vocalist Claire Evans in 2009. The [...]

Cursive has been making music for well over a decade now, which almost seems unbelievable considering the shelf life of so many indie bands. But Cursive hasn’t experienced a creative drop off; in fact, they’re at their lyrical and musical best. Hats off to singer Tim Kasher, too, whose [...]

Several weeks have already come to pass since the tragic quake in Haiti, but that’s no reason to reduce efforts to the struggling country. The people of Archangel Entertainment are holding a benefit concert/party at Town Ballroom this Saturday (March 6). Voice Mail, a coming straight out of Kingston, [...]

Willie Nile, nee Robert Anthony Noonan, is one of the best songwriters ever to be born in Buffalo. Which is saying a lot, when one considers our town as the old stomping grounds of Harold Arlen. But Nile came up in the 1970s, and built an impressive reputation in Greenwich Village [...]

Headlining this jazzy hip/hop line up are last year’s B.O.O.M. winners Type: Relevant (pictured), with a show on the very same night (Friday, March 5). Type: Relevant will be rocking with the Trinidadian-born, preeminent Canadian jazz trumpet player Brownman Ali, and local hip-hop fusion group Catastrophic, for what doubles as the [...]

In A Different Light, a photography exhibit inspired by the visual and symbolic use of light in photography, opens Friday (March 5), with a reception from 7-10pm at Karpeles Manuscript Museum North Hall. Photographers Jill Greenberg and Chelsea Kedron developed the exhibit, curated by Rachel Good, to explore the extreme [...]

This is it, local music fans—the grand finale, the battle royale, the main event—where one band will win the whole enchilada. We’re talking about the culmination of months of online and live performance competition among some of the best original groups our area has to offer. It all boils down to [...]

A few weeks ago we featured the old Tinney Cadillac building on Main Street. Just down the road a piece, almost right next door, was Streng Olds, at 2365 Main. It’s currently home to Canisius College’s Demerly Hall. You can be forgiven if you think you’ve recently seen Streng Olds — the old sign which [...]

Mike Kuzma’s bid for the NYS Senate appears to be gaining global traction thanks to this piece provided by the Red and White Cheektowaga Brigade of the First Amendment Club.