Sunday, June 22
Silver Apples

Although they were criminally ignored during their brief existence in the late 1960s, New York City’s Silver Apples have had a far ranging influence on contemporary avant garde music. Inspiring acts as diverse as Suicide, Spacemen 3 and Stereolab, the band formed in 1967 as a duo led by an enigmatic frontman named Simeon, who in turn played an instrument dubbed “the Simeon” which, as originally described on the duo’s first album, is “nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual controls...The lead and rhythm oscillators are played with the hands, elbows and knees and the bass oscillators are played with the feet.” Not suprisingly, their brand of ambiant drone and pulsating electronic beats was rather out of place during the age of “flower power,” and Silver Apples soon disappeared. However, during the 1990s, copies of their two original albums were changing hands for extremely high prices, giving the band an exposure that eluded them the first time around. It was around this time that Simeon reformed the group with new collaborators and released the first new material in over 20 years. Now, a decade later, the band is active again and will be making their first ever stop in Buffalo. Opening are Silver Apples disciples Sleeping Kings Of Iona.

—eric boucher

8pm, Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. (855-3931/www.mohawkplace.com). $12