It's that time of year again. The Adam Mickiewicz Polish Library and Dramatic Circle, otherwise known as the Polish Library (612 Fillmore Ave.), will be hosting the fourth Annual Buffalo Decency Rally, showcasing the best in local punk rock, hardcore and indie, on two separate floors. The absolute cream of the crop in terms of creativity, power, heart, and attitude will be on display and I am way psyched. If the past few years are any indication, this will be one memorable and wild night. Plus it's cheap ($5) so you have no reason not to go.

Heres a list of the bands and the set times. Get there at 5:30 sharp to catch all the acts.

SPERM..............................6:00 (Up)

REAL PEOPLE.....................6:30 (Down)

CROSS STITCH...............7:00 (Up)

CAGES...............................7:30 (Down)

V.O.C.................................8:00 (Up)

ACHILLEA...........................8:30 (Down)

RESIST CONTROL................9:00 (Up)

MALLWALKERS....................9:30 (Down)

UTAH JAZZ..........................10:00 (Up)

JOHNS.................................10:30 (Down)

ABLE DANGER......................11:00 (Up)

MAYDAY!.............................11:30 (Down)

DREAM JOURNAL....................12:00 (Up)

SUN BLACK SMOKE...............12:30 (Down)

FLOOD DRINKER...................1:00 (Up)

ANCIENTS OF EARTH.............1:30 (Down)

If you're looking to kick back with a pint after amassing your Record Store Day booty, Sugar City is presenting a free event down at Essex St. Pub that's worth checking out. A plethora of Buffalo based bands, including Failure's Union, UVB-76, Jack Toft, Handsome Jack, Cages, A Relative Term, and more will be showcasing their music videos with a special screening. The screening will also feature music video premieres from JOHNS and Mallwalkers. The event goes from 9-11, so whether you're still reeling from the fisticuffs you got in with someone over that last Space Wolves cassette, or you've smoked enough weed to realize that you just want to drink without talking to people, make this your stop.

While the door may be shutting for Buffalo’s beloved Mohawk Place tonight, a window appears to be opening on Allen St. Live music is nothing new to the Hardware Cafe, but tonight there's a promise of a unique performance being held in the larger back-room area by Buffalo’s own CAGES.

For those who are unfamiliar, CAGES primarily consists of guitarist David Bailey and vocalist Nola Ranallo. Since 2004, David and Nola have been uncompromisingly pushing their deepest creative impulses and CAGES’s starkly haunting music is a direct result.

Dave’s guitar work sculpts impossibly huge sonic realms out of shockingly fragile elements (a shimmering dissonance here, a lonely guitar strumming melodic cords there) thus providing all the space necessary for Nola to command her palette of vocalizations (scorned vibratos, wondrous coos, cathartic wails), delivering each with devastating passion.

It’s the the type of music that never plays it safe and has an other-worldly, almost transportive effect that must be experienced to be fully understood. This performance is an excellent chance to witness CAGES in a properly honed environment, and I highly urge you to take advantage.

Saturday’s performance will consist of two sets. The first featuring additional percussion by Jerid Nowacki and the second featuring woodwind accompaniment by Steve Baczkowski.

Hardware (Backroom) - 245 Allen St.
Doors at 8pm, Music at 9pm
$5