Artist Spotlight: Josh Brown of Psuedo Slang
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Josh Brown of Psuedo Slang, now here's an artist you definitely don't want to miss at the upcoming Artist and Models event, a fundraiser to support Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. This group is as real as it gets!
Artist Spotlight is a series of interviews that take a closer look into the local music and art scene and the artists whom drive it.
Buffalo Rising sat down with Josh at Spot Coffee on Elmwood Avenue to get the lo down on this hip hop virtuoso, and (in his words) not to sound “bragadocious”, but ... it was dope! For more information on the Artist and Models e

To start off their 2008-2009 season, the Theatre of Youth is opening with a play that will captivate the children in the audience as their eyes follow the adventures of the well-known heroine Madeline in “Madeline’s Christmas.” With just a handful of performances before Christmas, be sure to get your tickets early so you don’t miss out on this holiday treat.
Opening night for the play is Friday, December 12th at 7 PM. There will also be performances on December 13th at 2 …
Amy Meza Luraschi is a Buffalo native who was not only born and raised here, but also educated here. She received her BFA from the University at Buffalo, she then left the city to go to Colombia College in Chicago to earn her MAT, but she has already returned to pursue her MFA in the Visual Studies Department at the University at Buffalo. She lives right in the city and as she works for her MFA, she works as a Lead Teaching Artist for CEPA Gallery’s Education Programs. Big Orbit …
With a new album hot off the press, this Buffalo folkie chats with Buffalo Rising about the traditional music of New York State, song collecting, and how quitting his day job was among the best things he’s ever done.
AZ: How did folk music, especially historic folk music, become the focus of your career?
DR: Gosh, good question. I wonder that myself sometimes. As I look back, it’s been a long, gradual, even logical progression to this point, but one that I could never hav …
By: Brandon Schlia
Perhaps you're familiar with public broadcasting and its noble intentions for communal enrichment through music. Or perhaps you just thought about Wayne's World and instead wondered why he wore such a devastatingly tight t-shirt. But if you look you'll see the wealth of opportunity provided for by a national airwave designated specifically for our local ambitions. Buffalo's favorite daughter, Ani DiFranco, is a prime example of broadcast worthy television with … 


