Music Monday: week 2

June 8, 10:07 PMBuffalo Music ExaminerJillian Smolinski

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Anchor & Braille - Stephen Christian

Anchor & Braille

RIYL: Anberlin, Copeland

Recommended tracks: Sleep, When we die, Wedding/Funeral, Likes steps in a dance

Stephen Christian's (Anberlin) side project in collaboration with Aaron Marsh (Copeland). This project relys heavily on toned-down instruments (keyboards, painos, and acoustic guitars) and raw emotion. Stephen Christian will be supporting Copeland on the road this July. Anchor & Braille is due to release, Felt, on August 4th

Electric Six / Credit: Alicia Gbur

Electric Six

RIYL: Scissor Sisters, The Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem

Recommended tracks: Dance Pattern, Infected Girls, Danger! High Voltage

You may or may not be familiar with this band - particularly their song “Gay Bar.” This is a band that jumps from genre to genre - I guess they could best be classified as garage rock / indie / funk / comedy. It’s dancy, it’s catchy, it’s raunchy, it’s odd — and chances are you can’t stop listening. These guys put on a phenomenal live show.

No Country

RIYL: Kings Of Leon, Ryan Adams, The Wildbirds

Recommended tracks: Right Time, Faithful, Take It All

Based in Los Angeles, California. Four of the five members were in Test Your Reflex, a band that I had interviewed at WBNY a few years back. After months of silence from the TYR camp, came the recent announcement that they had started a new band -- No Country. I was nervous at first because I loved Test Your Reflex and often new projects are a let down. No Country was the exception. The music is leaps and bounds ahead of what these musicians were doing in their previous effort. So far the band has posted three demos on their Myspace. Do yourselves a favor and get acquainted now!

You Me At Six / Credit: Tom Barnes

You Me At Six

RIYL: The Audition, Tokyo Rose, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Recommended tracks: If You Run, The Rumour, Gossip

English pop punk band from Weybridge, Surrey. You Me At Six will release their new album Take Off Your Colours on Epitaph Records on July 21 - featuring five new tracks, three are U.S. exclusives. The band will be playing the last leg of the Vans Warped Tour in August.

The Goodluck Joes

RIYL: Coldplay, James Blunt, Matchbox 20

Recommended tracks: The Fugitive, The Middle, 48 Hours

Rock / Pop / Indie from Milwaukee, WI. The Good Luck Joes have placed songs on ABC, ABC Family, MTV, and The Weather Channel, in addition to enjoying moderate success on college radio across the country. Back when I was music director @ WBNY these guys randomly got in touch with me and said they were going on a radio tour and asked to stop into the station — so I took a listen, took a shot, and invited them down. Very nice guys, and quite talented. The Fugitive received heavy rotation at WBNY for quite some time after their visit.