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buffaBLOG Road Trip: Joywave EP Listening Party



Looking for the perfect track to play 10 times in a row while getting ready to go out with your friends? Joywave's new single, "In Clover," is it. Super saturated in electronica, major lazer tag vibes, and drums that are probably made out of giant Diet Coke cans, it's a hype-y, dance-y, shake ya ass (but watch yourself) track that I cannot stop listening to.

Before the Rochester-based band head west for SXSW, you should head to Bug Jar tonight for their last pre-tour show. Featuring KOPPS, FOWLS, and Hawker M. James, the $10/12 at the door show is worth every cent. Doors are at 8/music at 9 (BJT aka Bug Jar Time). Stay late as the band will be previewing "In Clover" as well as the rest of their new EP, How Do You Feel, following the night's performances

 Buffalo friends and fans, make the short drive to the 585 and catch this show.




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Tonight: Fowls, Bryan Johnson and Family, Brother Keep


Rochester-based, soothing group Fowls will headline tonight at DGBG's, with their math-rock infused edges and extended riffs remnant of acts like Built To Spill and Maps and Atlases. Their latest LP, Into The Wild, released this past October is a pleasant division of soft sounds, of course, as the title suggests, exploring the lone feeling of being immersed in nature.

In addition to Fowls, local acts Bryan Johnson and Family and Brother Keep (replacing Marine Biologist on the bill) will open. Bryan Johnson and Family brings a more gritty sound to their surf-pop edge, with rolling riffs. Brother Keep, based out of Buffalo, NY lends a more haunting, reverberating mesh of rock, slightly melancholic, but on par with the likes of Thursday and Death Cab for Cutie. DJ Loren MarcPro will be spinning in between sets. Music starts at 9 p.m., $5!






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Album of the Week: Fowls - Into the Wild


In honor of their upcoming show this Friday with Buffalonians Bryan Johnson & Family and Brother Keep, we have chosen Rochester-based Fowls' debut album, Into the Wild, as this week's Album of the Week.

Fowls' music falls somewhere in between indie pop and math rock, what they affectionately call "math pop."  That's actually a fairly accurate description of the band - their blistering indie rock is catchy and jagged, reminiscent of Tokyo Police Club with an eclectic vocal section that brings Bombay Bicycle Club to mind.  In fact, I really got excited when I noticed the inclusion of Pretty Girls Make Graves in their section of influences... But the closest comparison would be to the riffy math-rock of Maps and Atlases or the laid-back loop-heavy indie rock of Minus the Bear.

Album opener "Honey" is a full five minutes of jagged guitar lines and polyrhythms. Fowls doesn't always recreate the energy of "Honey" (that is not a bad thing by any means), but they also never disappoint.  Take for example, the opposite end of the album, "Honeycomb," which takes a constant wavering bass line and builds a solid, smooth groove over it.

 Bands like Fowls are always so intriguing to me - they take organic instruments and lock in with each other so tightly.  They inevitably create tightly spun songs that pulse with some sort of energy that seems bound to unravel at any moment...  But that's the magic of any genre that you tag with the word "math."  It's supposed to sound precise and calculated.  Especially coming from the perspective of a fellow musician, I can't help but catch myself thinking, "how did they do that?"

 I must reiterate - you can catch Fowls this Friday at DBGBs.  Doors are at 9, music starts at 10pm with a totally affordable $5 cover.
 
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