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Many readers of this blog have written regarding my post on Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's performance at HSBC Arena on Sunday. The blog entry headed "Greetings From Buffalo, N.Y." shared information announced via Backstreets.com that Springsteen and the band would be playing their first record, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J." in its entirety during Sunday's show. I mentioned that this fact feeds "rampant speculation" that the tour-ending Buffalo gig might be the final performance by the E Street band as we've known it all these years. Speculation is not fact, obviously. It's merely specualtion, and you don't...

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Dvendra Banhart just released an ambitious new album that I quite like. It's called "What Will We Be," and it's pretty much a freak-show of a record, though it manages to remain solidly song-based, no matter how far out it gets. Banhart is an interesting and exotic artist, and he has some interesting thoughts on a wide variety of topics. This month, he is guest editor for alternative music magazine Magnet. Banhart compiled an illustrated list of his favorite things, and it is well worth checking out. Oh, and if you've no idea who Banhart is... well, here ya go...

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Japanese alt-pop-punk trio Shonen Knife arrives in town for a performance inside Mohawk Place this evening, beginning at 8 p.m. We need to make the band feel particularly welcome for a number of reasons. First, they're great. Second, they are the first international signing to local record label Good Charamel Records. Third, the ladies will be recording and filming the Mohawk gig for a forthcoming DVD release. Check it out:

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Mike Keneally, Scambot (Exowax) 4 stars There really aren’t too many geniuses operating within the framework of what we might loosely consider “pop” music, but Mike Keneally is clearly one of them. You might know him as former guitarist with Frank Zappa, or as the guy who transcribed some of Steve Vai’s most ambitious compositions for piano, then performed them all on that instrument, or maybe even as the guy currently touring as guitarist for the Adult Swim cartoon band Dethklok. All of these guises reveal a little bit of just who Keneally is, but to get the whole picture...

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Backstreets.com broke the news today - Sunday's tour-ending Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band performance inside HSBC Arena will feature a performance of the band's entire debut album, "Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. " This announcement sure does feed the rampant speculation that Sunday's show will be the final curtain for the E Street Band. Look for my Springsteen/E Street feature on Sunday, the morning of the show, in The News' Spotlight section. And share your thoughts here - think this is gonna be it?

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I'm liking what Beck is doing. He's acting as a catalyst to bring together some disparate musicians who seem to share only a deep, abiding love for the music that helped shape them along the way. Beck is pulling these people together, choosing a favored "classic" album, and urging the assembled to interpret the whole thing in one day of recording. Here's how the man himself describes the endeavor, as posted on his web site: "Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as...

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OK. Looks like Steven Tyler isn't quitting Aerosmith after all. On Tuesday, the singer shocked everyone in attendance - including his band mate, Joe Perry - when he showed up at a Joe Perry Project gig eager to hop on stage. After picking his jaw up off of the floor, Perry welcomed his estranged compadre onto the boards, and a reportedly blistering "Walk This Way" ensued. According to the Associated Press, Tyler told the crowd he was not leaving Aerosmith, which was news to Perry. Still, the future of the band sees less than clear. Here's what Perry told the...

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Metallica tore it up inside HSBC Arena last night. The band played well past the normal 11 p.m. curfew — and also, unfortunately, well past my own deadline. Here's the set list, up to the point I had to split and file my review. Please fill in the gaps, and share your thoughts on an amazing show. That Was Just Your Life The End of The Line Creeping Death No Remorse One Broken, Beat and Scarred Cyanide Sad But True Turn the Page The Judas Kiss The Day That Never Comes Master o Puppets Fight Fire With Fire Nothing Else...

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Well, it doesn't look like they're going to get the key to the city, and it's doubly doubtful that the mayor will be declaring today "Metallica Day" in Buffalo. Still, for the area's contingent of Heavy Metal Nation, tonight''s Metallica show inside HSBC Arena is a holy event. Hockey arenas may make lousy houses of worship, and Metallica's dark, dense and endlessly aggressive music might not strike the uninitiated listener as particularly spiritual in intent, but if you're into it, you're way into it. Metallica represents something to its fan-base - they've endured wityh dignity, and have made no concessions...

Jeff Miers http://blogs.buffalonews.com/miers/2009/11/well-it-doesnt-look-like-theyre-going-to-get-the-key-to-the-city-and-its-doubly-doubtful-that-the-mayor-will-be-declarin.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451b85a69e20128756746ab970c 2009-11-09T13:24:46-05:00 2009-11-09T18:24:46Z

It was pretty tough to miss the massive tour bus parked in front of The Mansion on Delaware Avenue right around lunchtime on a beautiful day last August. The thing was huge, and in case passersby were unsure of the magnitude of star power requiring such a mode of transportation, the name of the owner was emblazoned across the vehicle's side, right next to a comic book-like caricature depicting said owner in full-on rocker pose. Yup, this bus belonged to none other than Joe Perry, guitarist and founding member of Azimuth, and the coolest six-string outlaw this side of Keith...

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