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Goo Goo Dolls perform "Stay With You"

Based on reports from reliable sources, Buffalo’s only genuine rock stars—the Goo Goo Dolls—are packing it in. Packing in the crowds that is, on their big summer tour in support of their latest release Let Love In. The band—pictured here playing the Pittsburgh Post Gazette Pavilion last Friday—really needs no introduction in these parts, and that’s increasingly becoming the case not only in the rest of the country but in the UK as well, where they’ll return this fall to sell out a dozen or so venues. At a point of maturity that few bands ever attain, it seems the Goos are now running like a well-oiled machine. They’ve been playing a great assortment of old and new songs this time around, sharing a bill with ‘90s faves Counting Crows. Both roll in to Darien Lake Performing Arts Center this Saturday. Later that night the Goo Goo Dolls’ Afterparty will take place at Club Infinity featuring music by Good Charamel recording artists Last Conservative and The Juliet Dagger at 11 o’clock. These two bands have been getting a lot of exposure as these bashes have been staged at venues all over the country. They’ve also been playing pre-show sets, as they will at Darien Lake at 6pm. Prediction: traffic will back up on the I-90 west at the Clarence exit right about 10:30 Saturday night as fans make their way to Main near Transit road.

Saturday, July 22 at 7pm. Darien Lake Performing Arts Center. 11pm.

Club Infinity, 8166 Main St. Williamsville.