Nebraska's Brimstone Howl brings their brittle garage-blues to Buffalo tonight as part of their US tour. Opening the show is The Found and The Thermidors.

Buffalo's own Dali's Ghost headlines tonight with Severe Severe (Albany) and local band Needle Up.

Photo: Dali's Ghost

Peanut Brittle Satellite celebrates the release of their new cd with the help of Armcannon, Ramforinkus and Shapes of States.

PBS's sound is nearly all instrumental, with influences ranging from head-banging metal to jazz fusion to classical contemporaries. The band also owes a supreme amount of inspiration to the local group Gamalon, whose members have been closely entwined with PBS's musical education for years.

Johnny Nobody brings their rock 'n roll along with Prabir and The Substitutes (Richmond, VA).

Johnny Nobody's power lies in their shifting back and forth from barroom blues rock riffage, gritty psychedelia, fuzzed up power pop and unbridled punk energetics. The foundation of White's relentless pounding and crashing and Roberts' throbbing bass lines is covered over with Vaeth's blistering, distorted guitar and deceptively sweet choirboy gone wrong tenor. The result is unfettered, uncompromised rock and roll as it should be. Like a mix of AC/DC, Queens of The Stone Age, Sloan and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Johnny Nobody effortlessly craft a rock and roll in thick, highly melodic slabs that belie the compactness of a trio. The band's trade is superbly crafted songs, usually of the three minute variety, like the kind that used to play on the radio.