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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v5n49 (12/07/2006) » Section: Calendar Spotlight


The Hush Sound

Music for all ears comes to the Buffalo Icon on Friday (Dec. 8) with two rock bands co-headlining a tour together, each in support of a recently released album. The Hush Sound (from Chicago, Illinois) is a pop group that features swing, groove, rock and classical influences woven in beneath boy-girl vocals. Their new album is entitled Like Vines (Fueled By Ramen/Decaydence). Featured band Murder By Death, on tour in support of their latest album, In Bocca Al Lupo (Tent Show Records), is alternative rock with a sound that’s been compared to Radiohead. Both bands will provide a little something for everyone as they rock stage at the Icon with support from This Providence and This is Me Smiling. Doors open at 6pm



Zebrahead

To celebrate this holiday season WBNY 91.3 FM is throwing an X-Mas Bash on Friday (Dec. 8th). Headlining the show is Zebrahead, a five man band with a punk/rap sound. The evening will also bring performances by the Toasters, Authority Zero, Tokyo Rose, Patent Pending and Kick Williams, who’ll be performing songs off their latest album Distance and Truth. The show starts at 9pm at Rock and Roll Heaven on Transit Rd.



Zombi

From the great city of Pittsburgh, PA, home of cult auteur George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead, comes Zombi—a synth-driven prog duo who lifted their name from the Italian translation of the title of that creepy film. Consisting of Steve Moore on bass guitar and synthesizers and A. E. Paterra on drums and percussion, the duo has been creating dense and dynamic cinematic soundscapes while attracting a growing legion of frighteningly unstoppable fans, rumored to include campy fright-meister Tim Burton. Zombi joins forces with Mazarati and DJs Dan O and Corpus Don for a what’s billed as a “Pagan Christmas Party,” Saturday (Dec. 9) at Soundlab, 9pm.



Vocalis Chamber Choir

Immaculata Academy hosts an evening of song and spirit with the Vocalis Chamber Choir on Saturday (Dec. 9) at 7:30pm. The 16 voices that make up this WNY choral group are presenting a holiday compilation entitled “On Christmas Night” in a most appropriate setting. Currently in its fifth season, the choir has performed all over Buffalo, and its membership consists of music educators, church musicians, and other talented professionals from the area. The choir recently released its first CD, New Day, and will celebrate with a dessert reception following the show. Another performance is scheduled for Sunday (Dec. 10) at the Amherst Community Church, 4pm. Presale tickets are available by calling 648-4307.



Above the City

Above the City headlines a bill at Chuggers in West Seneca on Wednesday (Dec. 13 with fellow post-punk rock groups Kill One to Warn a Hundred and London vs. New York. As the hard core holiday season really kicks in, get things started with a few of the newest and best hard core bands around. Music starts after 9pm.



Catfish Haven

The Chicago trio Catfish Haven is one of the great finds of 2006. They’ve put together a sound that is country-dipped, soul clapping revival with a rowdy rock heart. It’s all on display with the band’s debut, Tell Me (Secretly Canadian), a uniquely down home taste of austerely joyous American music. And what I can I tell you about The Hold Steady that you shouldn’t already know? After landing on ARTVOICE’s final cover of 2005 with their masterful Separation Sunday as our album of the year, the world seems to be catching on. Within a calendar year they’ve issued the follow up, Boys and Girls In America (Vagrant) that continues to triptych the plight of good-timers on the skids against an unabashed, pure rock & roll backdrop. The Hold Steady and Catfish Haven play the Showplace on Wednesday (Dec. 13), 8pm.





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