Infringment festival Spotlight

while the infringment festival is usually full of one-off "experimental" bands, occasionally a few decent left-of-left-of-center bands crop up and make an appearance under the festival banner.

knife Crazy makes just such an appearance August 4th at Nietzsche's. The band's prog-art-funk continues to evolve with the latest shows being evidence that the band has reached its most complex and technically-masterful state yet.

kC is planning on finishing another full length to be recorded in drummer Fen Ikner's studio. The band looks to release the new record in early 2008.

Knife Crazy w. Sonourous Gale, Severly Departed, & Pocket Gallow
Nietzsche's
248 Allen St.

Silo3 top 5 songs for July

we put some heads together to come up with the top five songs for July. So here they are in no particular order:

Give Way - Failures Union

Don't Forget - Love Parade

Bomb Parts - la cacahouette

Tehran - London vs. New York

Ain't So Cruel- Roger Bryan

Lemuria at the Adam Mickiewicz Library - July 13th

lemuria's simple and short pop songs serve as a pastel-colored backdrops for the band's darker lyrical imagery. A tour warm-up show in the old east-side library is seemingly apropos for lines like:

oh fuck just this once can i root for the hometeam
i'm always the bee to kamikaze to save the precious queen
and i watch the sympathy turn to pity
from my sympathetic friends

recent reviews draw comparisons to indie-pop icons Jawbreaker and Discount, which suggests the band is on the right track. With countless 90's faithful (and revivalists) generating similar sounds, Lemuria's biggest hook lies in the group's vocal interplay and obvious chemistry. Each member brings a piece to the puzzle and makes the band greater than the sum of its parts.

the band is scheduled to play festivals this summer and goes to Europe in September with Ringers from Boston. Catch them for their only local show this summer. Openers Bridge and Tunnel just released a 7" on the highly prestigious No Idea Records.

LEMURIA
BRIDGE AND TUNNEL
YO MAN, GO!
SAM WEIR

JULY 13th at:
Adam Mickiewicz Library & Dramatic Circle
aka The Polish Library
612 Filmore Ave. (near Broadway)
Buffalo, NY 14212

8 pm . $6