Hawthorne Heights at Town Ballroom in Buffalo on October 21 is going to feel like 2006 in the best possible way. “Ohio Is for Lovers” was the kind of song that defined a generation’s emotional vocabulary — if you screamed along to it in your bedroom or in a car with your friends, this show is going to hit somewhere between joy and catharsis. The Dayton emo band has continued touring and releasing music through every phase of the genre’s cultural cycle, and their live shows carry the conviction of artists who mean every word as much now as they did twenty years ago.
Town Ballroom in Western New York is one of Buffalo’s best mid-size rooms, and the energy of an emo nostalgia show in a packed venue is a specific kind of magic.
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