NewsOctober 4, 2023 12:33 PM ET6,057 views

Better Lovers announce first annual 'BLissmas' show ft It Dies Today, The Callous Daoboys, and more

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James Hartley

Official press release:

Better Lovers have announced their first annual holiday extravaganza, BLissmass, with the inaugural outing happening on Dec. 8 at Town Ballroom in Buffalo, N.Y.

Tickets for the special event, which also features openers It Dies Today, The Callous Daoboys, Greyhaven, and Spaced, are on-sale this Friday, Oct. 6, at 10 am eastern.

Better Lovers shared the following:

We are proud to announce BLissmass! Our 1st annual holiday show/festival! We couldn't be more excited to perform, host and welcome everyone to Buffalo in December once again. Being back on the road this year and talking to all of you, we realized how much this weekend means to everyone and it became a tradition that was dearly missed by many. This band had its first ever practice, songs written, and shows played, in Buffalo. This show is special to us, and it's special to the city.

We will host a toy drive for Toys For Tots, a non-profit public charity that distributes toys to less fortunate children. We encourage attendees to donate a new, unwrapped toy in exchange for a free gift at our merch table.

We thank It Dies Today, The Callous Daoboys, Greyhaven, and Spaced for being part of this inaugural show, and we can't wait to kick this off and watch it grow for years to come.

12/08 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom


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anonymous 10/4/2023 9:41:05 AM

47 year old vegan aspiring tattoo artists are stoked

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:42:21 AM

Hoping they play only ETID cover songs.

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:42:41 AM

Right wing qanon quacks are stoked too

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:43:03 AM

Will be leaving after The Callous Daoboys

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:45:51 AM

Really love this for callous daoboys. 2007 spazcore throwbacks that deserves zero recognition getting pushed to the top of every lineup and tier in music today just to fall off and be completely irrelevant in two years just makes my day. Webby is stoked for the clicks.

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:45:56 AM

They're still trying to make this dallous caoboys band a thing? Come on man (insert Charles Barkley voice)

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:48:49 AM

Give it a fu cking rest already with Spaced - they're garbage. LOL @ them trying to recreate TID The Season. You're not Every Time I Die. T-minus how many posts after this one until one from the Scott Vogel stalker who constantly rants about Scott is a Buffalo public school janitor when not on tour? I say four posts.

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:49:12 AM

Kat from Scowl here, If you are in the mood for Wings Beers and Sports, Buffalo Wild Wings has you covered. Just mention Andy Williams at any of our Buffalo locations and receive a coupon for 20% off. Up the punx

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:51:06 AM

kiethmas will be better

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:51:48 AM

Greg better keep his juiced out oven mitts off reba

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:54:37 AM

Only newsworthy because the almighty DAOBOYS are involved.

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:56:13 AM

How 'bout them Daoboys!

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:58:20 AM

I hope they play ebolarama

anonymous 10/4/2023 9:59:46 AM

Band is scared to play Buffalo

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:00:27 AM

This will cause confusion with my 1st annual BRissmas in Buffalo

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:00:32 AM

Look at these communists piece of shit celebrating christmas.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:00:51 AM

Whatever happened to Todd Jones? I would love to get his opinion on this. He stopped gracing us with his presence.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:03:07 AM

1500 capacity venue. Bet it sells out the first day

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:04:33 AM

Ben Weinman here. This band would be a lot better without Greg

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:05:47 AM

Buffalo is old news. Syracuse is now the best city to play

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:06:04 AM

Keith is not stoked

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:09:42 AM

1500 capacity venue. Bet it sells out the first day Bet you won't receive a penny simping for it & you'll have to pay to get in. Wait you're the fu cknutjob who constantly rambles on about Harm's Way, Scowl & Turnstile selling out all their shows & Scott Vogel being a janitor when not making 10K a show playing VFW halls right? Yep.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:11:32 AM

Buffalo is old news. Syracuse is now the best city to play ^^^ Same moron from the Madball comments who insists Syracuse is dead.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:12:39 AM

^lol at Vogel only getting $10K per gig. More like $110K, nerd.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:12:53 AM

Lame ass lineup. Better Lovers is good but their name is lame but they will be a big draw anyway

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:14:40 AM

Isn't Earth Crisis from Syracuse, NY? Karl broke vegan a long ass time ago. Which is understandable but is he still claiming?

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:15:45 AM

Callous Daoboys are the most overrated band of this decade. no one will care about them in 2025.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:16:09 AM

What's goin' on with that b dubs deal? 20% off for real? Thanks scat from kowl. Up the mf punx!

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:17:00 AM

You know I'm only doing this for ya cause I heard that Buffalo Bob guy shoved a road flare up your bunghole

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:18:41 AM

anonymous 27 minutes ago Kat from Scowl here, If you are in the mood for Wings Beers and Sports, Buffalo Wild Wings has you covered. Just mention Andy Williams at any of our Buffalo locations and receive a coupon for 20% off. Up the punx Karl from xEarth Crisisx here. I LOVE chicken wings, especially from BWW. Thanks for the tip, Kat. You are sexy and talented but also a very kind person

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:19:40 AM

Isn't Earth Crisis from Syracuse, NY? Karl broke vegan a long ass time ago. Which is understandable but is he still claiming? Since when did Karl "break vegan"? He looks like he has a lot of starch, salt & sodium from all the fake meat he eats.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:21:10 AM

Go Bills!

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:22:18 AM

The Scott Vogel Is A Buffalo Public School Janitor Weirdo Stalker Nerd is scared to post 😂

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:23:49 AM

Buffalo gal won't you come out tonight

VottScogel 10/4/2023 10:26:53 AM

anonymous 2 minutes ago The Scott Vogel Is A Buffalo Public School Janitor Weirdo Stalker Nerd is scared to post 😂 Can confirm. However I'm not just a janitor. I'm also a phullonrapist.

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:41:41 AM

Vogel has christmas break off from ben franklin middle school

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:49:12 AM

Vogel would never play this place. He can sell out 3 nights at a VFW in Billings

Bortslob 10/4/2023 10:51:46 AM

Better lovers should be opening for daoboys and Zulu

anonymous 10/4/2023 10:53:11 AM

The Callus Gayboys

anonymous 10/4/2023 11:01:26 AM

Daoboys guitarist is my queen

anonymous 10/4/2023 11:14:55 AM

Whatever happened to Todd Jones? He became one of us and hopefully was i.p. banned.

anonymous 10/4/2023 11:19:10 AM

"anonymous 1 hour ago This will cause confusion with my 1st annual BRissmas in Buffalo" A celebration of circumcisions?

anonymous 10/4/2023 11:22:20 AM

How else could Scott Vogel afford his expensive downtown Buffalo apartment?

easyhateoven 10/4/2023 11:23:30 AM

chris ring or bust

anonymous 10/4/2023 11:48:32 AM

Gayer Lovers

VodkaVeins 10/4/2023 11:49:49 AM

I forget...what band did Better Lovers used to be?

easyhateoven 10/4/2023 11:53:01 AM

modern lovers

anonymous 10/4/2023 11:59:01 AM

will sandra and her scar be coming

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:16:32 PM

Anyone want to start a band called the GOO York Niants?

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:18:21 PM

Todd Jones broke edge.

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:28:48 PM

Who is this Cat from Scroll everyone is talking about on here?

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:44:43 PM

Todd Jones here. Long story short but right in that sweet spot between when the boyos Triscuit and Jigglez holographically left NAILS and when Jeff Buckley left TAD, your mans traded that missing Ford-class A1B Nuclear Carrier Reactor I had tucked away in the mineshafts of the NAILS Abandoned Cadmium Mine Facility Near Hines Peak for a sesh with The Magellan Device. I immediately transported my frost perihelion-kissed frame to the parallel Universe wherein this blood-soaked alpha champion assumes control of BL. To ensure my success, my first move in the new reality was to pay a visit to Guy Picciotto's residence. Whoever finds him will see what it is like when someone's consciousness is put into a 1-second repeating loop for eternity while their body survives as normal, and that 1-second moment is the sacred ceremonial dimensional blade, BLOODWHIP, doused in soul-penetrating poison, being mercilessly plunged into their solar plexus. HIDE. VISIONS. LATERED. He will never be one of us.

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:47:44 PM

The king returns!!!!!

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:48:24 PM

We need more Todd Jones appearances and less of that severely ocd guy who won't shut up about scott vogel, turnstile, scowl, buffalo, Syracuse, etc. That guy is an autistic retard and should stop posting forever

anonymous 10/4/2023 12:52:35 PM

Greg is literally 5'2"

anonymous 10/4/2023 1:08:26 PM

Bravo Todd Jones

Bortslob 10/4/2023 1:19:32 PM

Yes! Todd Jones is back

anonymous 10/4/2023 1:33:44 PM

"We need more Todd Jones appearances and less of that severely ocd guy who won't shut up about scott vogel, turnstile, scowl, buffalo, Syracuse, etc. That guy is an autistic retard and should stop posting forever" ^ That's you, dipshit

anonymous 10/4/2023 1:37:05 PM

I'm really worried about serj tankian. Let us know you're okay bro

Inkongudunk 10/4/2023 1:52:48 PM

Really bad band. Vocals are terrible.

anonymous 10/4/2023 2:13:27 PM

Enjoy it while it lasts. Greg will be cancelled before next Christmas, and there will be no coming back from it

anonymous 10/4/2023 2:18:25 PM

Do any of these guys have a sandwich named after them?

anonymous 10/4/2023 2:18:46 PM

They think they're ETID 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

anonymous 10/4/2023 2:51:03 PM

Biden Lovers.

anonymous 10/4/2023 3:08:25 PM

Bettah Lovahs are better. Saugus knows what's up

anonymous 10/4/2023 3:15:30 PM

^^^^^^^^ Biden Lovers. Perfect!

anonymous 10/4/2023 3:49:13 PM

This makes me sad

anonymous 10/4/2023 3:59:14 PM

Its all heroin and dunks bomb north east u.s

anonymous 10/4/2023 4:51:10 PM

We want the funny Todd Jones back, not the 'crack is wack' Todd Jones

anonymous 10/4/2023 4:55:41 PM

☝️ 💯

anonymous 10/4/2023 5:29:52 PM

Thanks for taking those weirdos showing that dogs undercarriage off the front page. Sickos.

7billiondead 10/4/2023 6:05:12 PM

Band sucks ass

anonymous 10/4/2023 6:33:51 PM

Guys, it is Srj tmkn! Please forgive me I'm late but I'm here now. I ❤ dick Lol! 🔥

anonymous 10/4/2023 6:44:21 PM

Everything these days is no fun. You put out an album and nobody pays for it, you have to resort to making a bogus gofundme to pay the bills. You do drugs or have a reputation for it and the cops are on your ass. You bang some groupies and a few of them will get together, concoct a story, and say you r*ped them or if they're being nice only claim it was a sexual assault. Nobody at concerts pays attention to the show because they are too busy filming it for Instagram and would rather watch it on hate5six even though literally 5000 other people are as well and a good chunk of those will be on YouTube the next day. Take me back to summer 2004 when everyone was enjoying a perfect murder without a cell phone in sight and podcasts wern't buying tickets in disguise as organic fans.

anonymous 10/4/2023 6:46:33 PM

^truth

anonymous 10/4/2023 7:58:27 PM

^^ This. Make music great again!

anonymous 10/4/2023 8:30:12 PM

Take me back to summer 2004 when everyone was enjoying a perfect murder without a cell phone in sight and podcasts wern't buying tickets in disguise as organic fans. >>> So you're saying Hardlore (who else?) bought x amount of tickets to the Harm's Way show at Metro in Chicago to push it to a sellout? You're right. None of you numbnuts find it strange that that show is the ONLY sold out HW show? As for 2004, ok, well why not ban cellphones from shows? Make people check in their phones like coats. As for podcasts, they're good if they're more people getting things off their chest than having their asses kissed by the host/s. EVERY podcast is one big stroke fest. Interview Joe Hardcore & ask him what drugs he was on to say people deserved to die in a fire? He'd hang up & look like an ass & a coward. Interview Taylor Young & ask him why he a grown man is begging people for money to pay for a new place to live & record. Challenge these fu cks.

anonymous 10/4/2023 8:34:48 PM

Interview Sunny Singh & ask him when is he gonna compensate the bands he films from the money he makes off of them. Interview any NYHC band who formed before 2000 & ask them what are they still doing around in 2023. Interview Scowl & ask them why are they using hardcore as a stepping stone. Challenge these fu cks.

anonymous 10/5/2023 12:06:59 AM

Sick, spaced is donny from liferuiner and cute is what we aim fors new band

anonymous 10/5/2023 4:03:35 AM

Spaced blows. Buffalo is so far up it's own ass it's laughable.

anonymous 10/5/2023 5:44:44 AM

Buffalo is so far up its own ass it's laughable. ^^^ We collectively have an inferiority complex and like taking care of our own. Eat shit pussy! Stay out!

anonymous 10/5/2023 8:24:08 AM

Buffalo is so far up its own ass it's laughable. ^^^ We collectively have an inferiority complex and like taking care of our own. Eat shit pussy! Stay out! You most definitely have an inferiority complex. You're losers who flock to an annual show but show up in double digits for everything else that's real hardcore. Stay out? I already do dipsh it.

anonymous 10/5/2023 9:00:12 AM

I'll be online waiting for 10 am tomorrow to get my ticket. This will sell out in the first day just like Harms Way show at the Metro did

anonymous 10/5/2023 10:18:31 AM

Buffalo is so far up its own ass it's laughable. ^^^ We collectively have an inferiority complex and like taking care of our own. Eat shit pussy! Stay out! You most definitely have an inferiority complex. You're losers who flock to an annual show but show up in double digits for everything else that's real hardcore. Stay out? I already do dipsh it. ^^^ Good…now go eat shit pussy!




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