Brothers and Sisters
- Tue, Sep 9th 2008, 8:00pm
- Located at : 47 E Mohawk Street, Buffalo NY
Austin Texas band Brothers and Sisters headlines tonight with Sonny Baker of A Hotel Nourishing and Rebecca Ryskalczyk.
Brothers and Sisters is a band out of time. Led by real-life siblings Will and Lily Courtney, their music entirely lacks the calculated cool of contemporary indie rock and seems totally oblivious to the cynical machinations of the music business. In an indie world currently hell-bent on exhuming the still-warm corpse of post-punk, Brothers and Sisters reach back to a sunnier age, when idioms as disparate as polished West Coast pop, rock and roll choogle, AM radio balladry and classic country could still rub up against each other at the same hazy Topanga canyon party. Live, the music called up by this stage-cluttering eight-piece alternately evokes classic-rock gods like the Band and Buffalo Springfield alongside songwriters such as Dennis Wilson, Jimmy Webb, and the Mamas and the Papas' John Phillips on his out-of-print classic John, the Wolf King of L.A.
Photo: Brothers and Sisters by Melissa Stone
September 9, 8PM; $7
Mohawk Place
47 E Mohawk Street
716.855.3931
