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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

Driving up to the Central Terminal to see—rather experience—Don Paul Swain’s “Ghost Train,” with the modern cars parked just outside the entrance, does not begin to suggest what is inside. Even milling about, waiting as the train is “repaired” as the conductor explains, does not prepare you for the “epic carnival of unlikely passions” as Swain calls it, on the other side of a very unassuming door. Inside the decaying Central Terminal, Swain and his collaborators have created another world, filled with films, video, robotics, a gigantic Ouijii board, and performance art that feel at home among the walls of the Terminal.

While the Terminal’s unfortunate appearance gives a lot to the atmosphere of the “Carnival of Souls”, the films, performances and gadgets throughout the space bring it to life. The ghosts that you are sure exist inside the crumbling c…