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Nothing plain about the Plain White T's
By JENNIFER HEIN | Apr. 26, 2006Move over Fall Out Boy, because the pop-punk genre has just added another up-and-coming band to its roster.
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A Starr of the Buffalo stage
By JENNIFER HEIN | Apr. 14, 2006Out of the local music scene, prominent acts such as the Goo Goo Dolls and Ani DiFranco have made significant strides in their genres.
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Motion City Soundtrack to bring on the punk
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 29, 2006The Town Ballroom will be the hot spot this Wednesday as upcoming power-punk band Motion City Soundtrack rolls into Buffalo on their "Commit This to Memory" tour.
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Fusion jazz makes a comeback
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 24, 2006Classic fusion jazz studio band Steely Dan is back, but this time it's under a different name. Steely Dan co-leader Donald Fagen released his self-produced third solo album "Morph the Cat" last week."Morph the Cat" is a sexy, soulful album that sounds almost exactly like a Steely Dan record.
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Raising hell with the rednecks
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 10, 2006Kid Rock may be the most hated musician to have survived the 1990s. His infamy runs parallel to that of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst.Unless you've been living in a hole, you know that Kid Rock has been glorifying the Middle America, blue-collar lifestyle with his undefined mix of white trash rock, country, metal and hip-hop for years.Kid Rock and his newly formed Twisted Brown Trucker Band released " 'Live' Trucker" this week with a surprising amount of raw entertainment.
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Raising hell with the rednecks
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 6, 2006Kid Rock may be the most hated musician to have survived the 1990s. His infamy runs parallel to that of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst.Unless you've been living in a hole, you know that Kid Rock has been glorifying the Middle America, blue-collar lifestyle with his undefined mix of white trash rock, country, metal and hip-hop for years.Kid Rock and his newly formed Twisted Brown Trucker Band released " 'Live' Trucker" this week with a surprising amount of raw entertainment.
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Pink Floyd show is 'Any Colour You Like'
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 3, 2006Pink Floyd is back. Sadly, their latest tour stop is not UB. However, their music, four lasers, and a visual show aptly named "Spectacular" will be bringing Pink Floyd from the record bin to the stage.Paramount's Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular will be performing at the Center for the Arts at 8 p.m.
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Raising hell with the rednecks
By JENNIFER HEIN | Mar. 3, 2006Kid Rock may be the most hated musician to have survived the 1990s. His infamy runs parallel to that of Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst.Unless you've been living in a hole, you know that Kid Rock has been glorifying the Middle America, blue-collar lifestyle with his undefined mix of white trash rock, country, metal and hip-hop for years.Kid Rock and his newly formed Twisted Brown Trucker Band released " 'Live' Trucker" this week with a surprising amount of raw entertainment.
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Lareau struggles to find a genre
By JENNIFER HEIN | Feb. 22, 2006Picture this: you are at a Dave Matthews Band concert and the band takes the stage and starts rocking out.
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A band geek's courage
By JENNIFER HEIN | Feb. 8, 2006It takes a lot of courage to enter the music industry as a solo artist. It also takes a lot of courage to do this in the struggling Buffalo music scene and still make an impression.The Highway Beautiful's debut album "The Things that Lights Can Hide" is a breath of fresh air in what is sometimes, by local standards, a stagnant musical atmosphere fouled by clich?
