Boys Go To Jupiter packs a lot of music into one band. The Brooklyn trio describes their own sound as “joyful indie-pop, dreamy soul, lush folk and sugary punk,” and based on what they’ve built live, that’s not overreach. They bring that catalog to Buffalo Iron Works on Tuesday, January 26, with Thesaurus Rex opening.
About the Show
Boys Go To Jupiter (Caleb Martin-Rosenthal, Jess Kantorowitz, and Luke Volkert) released their debut album Meet Me After Practice in February 2025. The record is a layered pop-rock project drawing inspiration from Paramore and Electric Light Orchestra, built around storytelling and threaded with handclaps and horn arrangements that earn their keep. Meet Me After Practice works through youth experiences — the kind of subject matter that sounds slight on paper and lands harder than expected when it’s playing. The band is currently working on what comes next, so this show falls in a good window: a catalog that’s still being discovered.
Live, they shift between a stripped-down three-piece and a full six-piece ensemble depending on the night. The Audiotree session describes it well: performances that balance “fireside intimacy with grand theatrical presentation,” with crowds that wind up dancing, singing, and crying before the night is over. They’ve been described as “one of the year’s brightest rising acts, garnering both viral and editorial attention.”
Opening is Thesaurus Rex, a Brooklyn-based conceptual indie rock band whose debut album Thesaurus Rex – Greatest Hits came out November 4, 2025. Calvin Rezen leads on vocals and guitar, with Varun Jhunjhunwalla on guitar, Ethan Marsh on bass, and Dan MacDonald on drums. Their signature: “witty yet sharp-edged lyrics” with social commentary underneath. They describe themselves as a band that plays “silly songs but also songs that are not silly,” which tracks with their tracklist. The album includes Dumpster Fire, Road Rage, and The Bachelor’s Wife. They’ve been tagged as the band for “over-educated and underpaid Zillenials,” which, given both acts on this bill, probably describes the room pretty accurately.
Venue & Logistics
Buffalo Iron Works is at 49 Illinois Street in western New York, a 500-cap club that’s the right size for this bill: big enough for a six-piece with horns to fill, tight enough that none of it gets lost on the way to the back. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. This is an 18+ event.
Tickets
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