A little while ago, a friend sent AV some poems by a freshman at SUNY Frewdonia named Zachariah Braunscheidel. And we haven’t had room for poetry in the weekly print paper for a while, so we thought we’d publish one of his poems online:
FRIDAY NIGHT, IN THE ARMS OF TUESDAY
We came as two figures in [...]

An Horse will undoubtedly rock some ratty Converse off when they play Soundlab this Monday (March 29). The Australian duo of Kate Cooper (vocals, guitar) and Damon Cox (drums) writes the most darling indie-pop songs, with a golden ear for melody and undeniable songcrafting skills. Their songs are anthems for [...]

Sounding like 16th century seer and History Channel superstar Nostradamus (right), UB President John B. Simpson (left) announced some apocalyptic visions for our region at a press conference today at UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
Then, when asked about UB’s plan to purchase 15 acres of land right outside [...]

Electric indie-pop band Passion Pit has taken a ride through the blogosphere. Their debut EP Chunk of Change (French Kiss) spread infectiously through a web of indie blogs in 2008, eventually being noticed by hip-hop authority Kanye West, who praised the fat beats on their track “Cuddle Fuddle.” Passion Pit will [...]

Spray the Talking Heads or Tears For Fears with a little bit of laughing gas, dress them up like flower children, tack on about 20 more years of new wave music for inspiration and you’ve got Suckers. Formed all of two years ago in Brooklyn, Suckers have already planted their feet [...]

This Saturday (March 27) marks the return of the fourth annual Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, bringing booksellers, authors, bookmakers, zinesters, small presses, artists, poets, DIY crafters, regional cultural workers, and everyone in between together in Buffalo’s Karpeles Manuscript Library to share ideas, promote their trade, and sell their work.
With [...]

Following a bleak Buffalo winter, it’s appropriate that one of the Queen City’s finest bands is celebrating spring with a sonic rebirth. The Stay Lows’ third release Signature Bridge is being unveiled and proves their most ambitious and realized work to date. It’s a breath-taking mix of ethereal and dreamy [...]

Sunday, March 28: Women’s Recognition Day at El Buen Amigo
Prior to 1970s, women and their successes were not typical topics of conversation. It was not until 1978 that the Education Task Force for the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women in California started a National Women’s week. The week was to coincide [...]

Only yesterday I was praising Facebook for connecting me to Dan the iPhone repair guy who replaced my cracked iPhone glass for 1/3 the cost of what the Apple Store wanted. Dan had ‘friended” Artvoice with the moniker IPhonerepair Buffalony.
Then today I read about an Indiana woman, Keri McMullen, whose Facebook photos included cool [...]

So the Federal Emergency Management Agency wants $4 million back from the city because they “didn’t comply with procurement standards when contracting for debris removal and other services” related to the 2006 October snowstorm.
Really?
Huh.
Who’d a thunk it?
Remember how Arborturf, the subcontractor hired by Cheektowaga’s Dreamco, came in, cut down 7,000 trees in the city, then [...]

Back in 1964,  81 Young St. @ Delaware in the City of Tonawanda N.Y. was home to Wolf Motor Sales Corp., a Studebaker/Mercedes-Benz/International-Harvester truck dealer. Not really that unusual of a mix, considering that Studebaker was the North American distributor for the German luxury make back in the 1960s. It’s pretty obvious from some of [...]

Cheap Girls rock like your favorite 1990’s band. Think Counting Crows meets Smoking Popes. Funny thing is they are totally a 21st century band. The power-pop trio, from Lansing Michigan, released their debut album Find Me A Drink Home (Bermuda Mohawk) in 2008 and released their follow up, My Roaring 20’s, [...]

On Thursday (March 25), Magik Markers will bring their sonic weirdness to the Soundlab. Sometimes sounding like a church choir on acid in the Sixties, sometimes like the Velvet Underground, weaving dense musical patterns that invoke lava lamps and modern art on a projection screen. Their website (themagikmarkers.com) urges visitors to [...]

What do you get when you cross a musician with a cartoon artist and throw in a dash of comedy? You get Hamell on Trial. Hamell on Trial is comprised of Ed Hamell, a one-man punk band known for his self-proclaimed “loud, fast music informed by politics, passion, energy and intelligence, [...]