It all starts tonight with The Saw Doctors at the Buffalo Icon… an impressive line-up of live music at venues throughout the city. Bands like Gov’t Mule, Russian Circles, Fruit Bats, Pretty Girls Make Graves and Tea Leaf Green, will be playing shows at the Town Ballroom, the Buffalo Icon, the Lafayette Tap Room, Mohawk Place, and the Showplace Theatre. I didn’t even get a chance to check out the line-up at Nietzsche’s, Hardware, Sportsmen’s and Union… and there are other venues that host even more live acts like Diablo and Shadow. Plus the upcoming outdoor shows which have not even been announced.
The point is that there is live music every night in the city at a variety of clubs. I spoke to a someone the other day who just moved here from Toronto who didn’t realize that so much was going on. So I hopped online to show her a sampling of some shows that are coming up in the near future. The following line-up (see continue) was the most extensive list I could immediately find. Like I said, there’s a lot more than the following list. Look for Built to Spill (one of my all time favorite bands) to hit the Town Ballroom April 29th. Also, Rick Z. would like to point out The English Beat at The Icon March 26th.
03.13.2006 The Saw Doctors The Buffalo Icon
03.17.2006 Dierks Bentley Statler Golden Ballroom
03.17.2006 Jamey Johnson Statler Golden Ballroom
03.17.2006 Queen HSBC Arena
03.18.2006 Albert Cummings Lafayette Tap Room
03.18.2006 Lorene Drive Xtreme Wheels
03.18.2006 Madball Showplace Theatre
03.18.2006 Remembering Never Showplace Theatre
03.18.2006 Scarlet Showplace Theatre
03.18.2006 The Banner Showplace Theatre
03.18.2006 Valencia Xtreme Wheels
03.18.2006 Zao Showplace Theatre
03.20.2006 Common Denominator The Buffalo Icon
03.20.2006 Fluxuation The Buffalo Icon
03.20.2006 MxPx Town Ballroom
03.20.2006 Reggie & the Full Effect The Buffalo Icon
03.21.2006 One Dead Three Wounded Showplace Theatre
03.21.2006 The Cult Town Ballroom
03.23.2006 Chimaira The Buffalo Icon
03.23.2006 Genghis Tron Kitchen Distribution
03.23.2006 Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 Mohawk Place
03.23.2006 Steve Wynn (Singer) Mohawk Place
3/24/06 The Skiffle Minstrels Central Park Grill
03.24.2006 Ronnie Baker Brooks Lafayette Tap Room
03.25.2006 Haram Kitchen Distribution
03.25.2006 Tea Leaf Green Town Ballroom
03.25.2006 The Music of Led Zeppelin (Tribute to Led Zeppelin) Kleinhans Music Hall
03.26.2006 30 Seconds To Mars Town Ballroom
03.26.2006 Aiden Town Ballroom
03.26.2006 Emanuel Town Ballroom
3/26/06 The Skiffle Minstrels Mixers on Niagara
03.26.2006 The English Beat The Buffalo Icon
03.27.2006 Melissa Ferrick Town Ballroom
03.29.2006 Evans Blue The Buffalo Icon
03.29.2006 Johnny A Lafayette Tap Room
03.29.2006 MOTIONcitySOUNDTRACK / Motion City Soundtrack Town Ballroom
03.29.2006 Men, Women & Children Town Ballroom
03.29.2006 Taproot The Buffalo Icon
03.29.2006 The Format Town Ballroom
3/29/06 Skiffle Minstrels Mohawk
03.30.2006 Junction Five Merlin’s
03.30.2006 Roger Miret & the Disasters The Buffalo Icon
03.31.2006 Dan’ / Danu Buffalo State – Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall
3/31/06 Skiffle Minstrels Nietzscheis
04.02.2006 Teddy Geiger Evolution
04.02.2006 The Legendary Shack Shakers Mohawk Place
04.03.2006 Against All Authority The Buffalo Icon
04.03.2006 Brain Failure The Buffalo Icon
04.03.2006 Crime in Stereo The Buffalo Icon
04.03.2006 The Code The Buffalo Icon
04.04.2006 Tower of Power Town Ballroom
04.05.2006 Mushroomhead The Buffalo Icon
04.06.2006 Centro-Matic The Buffalo Icon
04.06.2006 Centromatic The Buffalo Icon
04.06.2006 Great Lake Swimmers The Buffalo Icon
04.08.2006 Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s / Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s Showplace Theatre
04.08.2006 Something For Rockets Showplace Theatre
04.08.2006 South Showplace Theatre
04.10.2006 Eric Johnson UB Center for the Arts
04.10.2006 Joe Satriani UB Center for the Arts
04.11.2006 Catch 22 The Buffalo Icon
04.11.2006 The Appleseed Cast Mohawk Place
04.11.2006 The Flatliners The Buffalo Icon
04.11.2006 The Tossers The Buffalo Icon
04.12.2006 Anberlin The Buffalo Icon
04.12.2006 Day At the Fair Showplace Theatre
04.12.2006 Emery The Buffalo Icon
04.12.2006 Jonezetta The Buffalo Icon
04.12.2006 The Classic Crime The Buffalo Icon
04.12.2006 The Fold The Buffalo Icon
04.12.2006 Tooth & Nail Tour ft. Emery, Anberlin, Far-Less, The Classic Crime, Jonezetta The Buffalo Icon
04.13.2006 Attractive The Buffalo Icon
04.13.2006 Da’ T.R.U.T.H. Kleinhans Music Hall
04.13.2006 Kirk Franklin Kleinhans Music Hall
04.13.2006 MaryMary / Mary Mary Kleinhans Music Hall
04.13.2006 Powerman 5000 Evolution
04.13.2006 Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers Town Ballroom
04.14.2006 Kill Hannah Showplace Theatre
4/14/06 Skiffle Minstrels Central Park Grill
04.14.2006 Tinsley Ellis Nietzsche’s
04.15.2006 Hopewell Mohawk Place
04.15.2006 Lucero Mohawk Place
4/15/06 Skiffle Minstrels nTudor lounge
04.19.2006 Great Big Sea Center for the Arts – University at Buffalo
04.21.2006 All-American Rejects / All American Rejects HSBC Arena
04.21.2006 Fall Out Boy HSBC Arena
04.21.2006 From First To Last HSBC Arena
04.21.2006 Hawthorne Heights HSBC Arena
04.21.2006 October Fall HSBC Arena
04.25.2006 Goatwhore The Buffalo Icon
04.25.2006 High On Fire The Buffalo Icon
04.25.2006 Thrill Me The Buffalo Icon
04.25.2006 Watch Them Die The Buffalo Icon
04.27.2006 Gov’t Mule Town Ballroom
04.28.2006 Matchbook Romance The Buffalo Icon
04.28.2006 Steve Tyrell Buffalo State – Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall
04.28.2006 The Early November The Buffalo Icon
04.29.2006 Built To Spill Town Ballroom
04.29.2006 Dalek / d 0/00lek Showplace Theatre
04.29.2006 Helvetia Town Ballroom
04.29.2006 Isis Showplace Theatre
04.29.2006 Russian Circles Showplace Theatre
04.29.2006 Zombi Showplace Theatre
4/30/06 Skiffle Minstrels Central Park Grill
05.01.2006 The Books Sound Lab
05.02.2006 Amandine Mohawk Place
05.02.2006 Fruit Bats Mohawk Place
05.02.2006 Sam Jayne Mohawk Place
05.03.2006 Little Charlie & The Nightcats Lafayette Tap Room
05.03.2006 Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) Town Ballroom
5/3/06 Skiffle Minstrels Sportsmenis Tavern
05.05.2006 House of Heroes The Buffalo Icon
05.05.2006 Silverstein The Buffalo Icon
05.07.2006 New Atlantic The Buffalo Icon
05.08.2006 Still Remains The Buffalo Icon
05.09.2006 Giant Drag The Buffalo Icon
05.09.2006 Pretty Girls Make Graves The Buffalo Icon
05.11.2006 Say Anything The Buffalo Icon
05.12.2006 Faith Hill HSBC Arena
05.12.2006 Soul 2 Soul II featuring Tim McGraw and Faith Hill HSBC Arena
05.12.2006 Tim McGraw HSBC Arena
05.16.2006 Disfear Polish Library
05.30.2006 Mark Kozelek Mohawk Place
06.03.2006 Forgive Durden The Buffalo Icon
06.03.2006 Gatsby’s American Dream The Buffalo Icon
06.03.2006 HORSE the band The Buffalo Icon
06.03.2006 Melissa Ferrick Pride Buffalo
06.03.2006 Portugal The Man The Buffalo Icon
06.04.2006 Melissa Ferrick Pride Buffalo
06.11.2006 Bobby Vinton Polish Festival
06.17.2006 Helmut Lotti Shea’s Performing Arts Center