Tar Bucket at Area 54 ( Photo by Brandon Finnegan ) Tar Bucket’s Anthony Tanevski said he didn’t go about fixing any theme to the band’s first full-length album. But as he listened to it, he realized each song talked about “struggle, self-destruction and people being terrible to each other.”   “It just immediately clicked in my head,” Tanevski said. “This is ‘Human Nature.’”   Tar Bucket is a two-piece band comprised of drummer Tony P. Worrell and Tanevski on vocals and guitar. For a short...

Rachelle Toarmino ( Photo provided ) (EDITOR’S NOTE — Rachelle Toarmino is an award-winning poet from Niagara Falls whose latest book, ‘Hell Yeah’ — (which you can order HERE ) — is a collection of poems published by Third Man Books. She is also the author of ‘That Ex’ (2020), as well as several chapbooks including ‘My Science,’ for which she won the 2024 Sixth Finch Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Literary Hub, Poets.org , The...

Dallas Taylor ( Photo by Yves-Richard Blanc ) The poet Dallas Taylor doesn’t like snow. While he’s lived in Buffalo all his life, he’s...