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Buffalo Music: Nickel City Soundtrack – Florida Trash (Thommy Browne & Matt Brown of the Enkindels)

On the latest episode of the Nickel City Soundtrack, Chris & Mark were joined by Thommy Browne and Matt Brown On this episode we interviewed Thommy and Matt from the Enkindels. The Enkindels were a band from Louisville, Ky., back in the ’90s that seemed to play Buffalo/Rochester a lot back in the day.

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Video: Celebrating the Sportsmen’s 40th

The Sportsmen’s Tavern celebrated its 40th anniversary of ownership by Dwane and Denise Hall and their family on Saturday. Here is an assemblage of performances from both Sportsmen’s Park and the Tavern. Featured are: Wilcox Mansion The Informers The Steam Donkeys The Shadows The Morvels (with Gretchen Schulz) Rex Hobart & the Wrecks Joe Baudo Jazz (with DeeAnn DiMeo) John & Mary & the Valkyries The Twang Gang (with Dee Adams and John Culliton Mahoney). It exits, as it should, with Dwane Hall doing a guitar solo.

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Buffalo Music: Nickel City Soundtrack – Core Talk with Ryan Ross, Mike Jeffers

On the latest episode of the Nickel City Soundtrack, Derek (filling in for Chris) & Mark were joined by Ryan Ross and Mike Jeffers to talk about a variety of subjects. We talked about a recent list posted by the YouTube channel Watchmojo of their 20 greatest “Emo” bands of all time. We talked about the upcoming Dead Hearts reunion show coming up here in Buffalo this fall and we talked about a whole lot more. Enjoy!

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A Top 10 — and more — ‘must sees’ for Borderland

The Borderland Festival is one of the most extensive music events in Western New York every year, sprawling across multiple stages at Knox Farm State Park. The Buffalo Hive asked Bob McLennan to offer a guide to his “must see” events for the festival on Sept. 12-14). This is the first of several stories we’ll be running on Borderland.