Fabolous Fest
By BRIAN JOSEPHS, ELVA AGUILAR, and NATHANIEL SMITH | Apr. 30, 2012It was an ugly prelude.
It was an ugly prelude.
Many of the performers who grace the Town Ballroom stage usually have an idea of what they would like to play during the course of their shows ahead of time; not EOTO. This group will return to Buffalo Thursday night with absolutely nothing concrete planned for their show.
JaYo LeGrand - Grand Slam Junior psychology major Jordan Little, who goes by the stage name JaYo LeGrand, held a listening party to celebrate the release of his first mixtape, Grand Slam.
TAO's Toned Performers Stir Up the CFA
Musicians, stepping out of their punk rock personas, are stripped away from large instrumental production sets and are handed acoustic guitars as part of a new folk revival.
Artist: Pentimento and Young English
Music aficionados gathered for the music of famous avant-garde composer John Cage - an icon whose most famous work, "4'33," consists of the audience's rumbling stomachs, rustling programs, and a loud sneeze.
Since the band's conception, Cursive has lacked a set-in-stone identity. Like its music, the outfit is ever evolving.
Fans intimately pressed their bodies against the stage, some forced to lie on it as the crowd pushed from behind. Sweat drenched every person and surface within reach while riskier fans bobbed in the black hole of the mosh pit, gasping for air.
Tom Warne, a senior business major, is flailing as he's pushed back and forth. Ten people are in the center, treating his body like a punching bag. As the sounds get louder, he's no longer able to stand. A blow to the ribs brings him down, and he disappears briefly in the nest of revelers.
As a siren wailed, Go Radio took the darkened stage to cheers, quickly sending the opening lines of "Lucky Street" blasting out of the speakers.
Fans pressed closer to the stage as Last Stand For Lucy made their appearance shortly after midnight, with the crowd coming more alive than it had been for any other set as the quartet lit into its first song.
Album: The Odd Future Tape Vol. 2
Last week, three Buffalo bands traded the blustery rust belt for the dry heat of Austin.