Boston Band Crush archives

Hey look at that, we’re presenting this one! Aloud, sick and tired of all the rock ‘n roll love going to the weekend nights, will be setting up camp at O’Brien’s in Allston for a month-long Wednesday* residency in November. They’ve got quite an array of talent to help them out, most of it from Boston with a few exceptional out of town bands peppered in (we’ll post the full schedule below). Now, you might be thinking to yourself “I really like Aloud, and I like these bands that they’ve partnered up with, but all those cover charges are really going to add up.” To that, the unicorn says “Fear not, dear reader!” This residency features the amazing disappearing cover charge, meaning that each show you attend will be cheaper than the last. The first show you attend will be $10, the second drops down to $7, and the third and fourth shows will cost you a paltry $5 each; that’s your reward for supporting local rock.

For the first installment, the intrepid Aloud clan will be joined by the soulful and spirited Naked on Roller Skates, New York City’sDeadbeat Darling and indie grunge alchemists Slowdim. We can’t think of a better way to get things started.

Facebook event page 8:30pm / 21+ / $10

*There will be no show Thanksgiving week, as Henry has set aside that time to read the entire Encyclopedia Britanica

Future dates:

11/9 Aloud The New Collisions Ex-Norwegian OldJack

Facebook event page 8:30pm / 18+ / $7-$10

11/16 Mount Peru Aloud Jon Drake & The Shakes Rick Berlin with The Nickel and Dime Band

Facebook event page 8:30pm / 18+ / $5 – $10

11/30 Aloud Bearstronaut Good Kids Sprouting Horns The Acre

Facebook event page 8:30pm / 18+ / $5 – $10

Wow, it’s already October. I guess time flies when you’re having fun or something like that. On Friday I’m torn about the Dinosaur Jr show at the Middle East for a little Pioneer Valley rock or Jay Retard at Harpers or Jetset and Highland Moore at the Plough, too many choices. Saturday has another good night of music with Ra Ra Riot at the Paradise (I love their Rhumb Line cd but have never seen them live yet), a great local line up at TTs with Sidewalk Driver, The Motion Sick, Aloud and John Powhida’s International Airport and yet another chance to see Dinosaur Jr at the Milddle East. On Sunday you have a chance to catch local rock superstars Mission of Burma at MIT at 2p at the East Campus Courtyard and it’s free! Sunday night has a band at TTs that’s getting alot of buzz, Blk Jks and Stars of Track and Field are at the Middle East (gotta love a band named after a Belle and Sebastian song) and if you’re in the mood for a little Americana music, Johnny D’s has Kim Richey. On Monday, if you want to rock n roll all night and party every day, you’re in luck cause Kiss is at the Garden. Russian rock stars, Mumiy Troll are at the Middle East and the Japanoids are at Great Scotts. Tuesday looks good with the Brazilian Girls at the House of Blues or Thee Oh Sees at Great Scotts. Surprisingly Wednesday has many many great shows to choose from. There’s Bob Mould at the Paradise, the Twilight Sad, Brakes Brakes Brakes and We Were Promised Jetpacks at Great Scotts, Howard Jones at Scullers (where has he been all of these years?) and Mars Volta at the House of Blues.

What looks good to you?

Thursday, 10/1:

Why? at the ME

Bajofondo and the Phenominal Handclap Band at the Paradise

Zumix Event, Shrewsbury details here:http://createnow.eventbrite.com/

Friday, 10/2:

The Besnard Lakes and Thalia Zadek at TTs

Dear Leader at the Paradise

Jay Retard and Box Elders at Harpers Ferry

Jetset and Highland Moore at Plough

Graham Parker at Bull Run

Terry Sylvester and John Ford Coley at the Kowloon

Ben Folds at Symphony Hall

Dinosaur Jr and Lou Barlow at the ME (Soldout?)

Saturday, 10/3:

Dinosaur Jr and Lou Barlow at the ME (Soldout?)

Ra Ra Riot and Maps & Atlases at the Paradise

The Softpack at the ME

Sidewalk Driver, Motion Sick, Aloud and John Powhida International Airport at TTs

Sunday, 10/4:

Mission of Burma at MIT’s East Campus Courtyard at 2p (Free!)

Blk Jks at TTs

Forgetters at Great Scotts

Stars of Track and Field at ME

Os Mutantes at Somerville Theatre

Kim Richey at Johnny D’s

Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson at Sanders Theater

Monday, 10/5:

Japandroids and The Coathangers at Great Scotts

Dearly Beloved and Wild Light at Landsdowne Pub (RSVP athttp://www.WFNX.com for free tix)

Mumiy Troll at the ME

KISS at the Boston Garden

Tuesday, 10/6:

Thee Oh Sees at Great Scotts

Owl City at Landsdowne Pub (RSVP at http://www.WFNX.comfor free tix)

Brazilian Girls at the House of Blues

Wednesday, 10/7:

The Twilight Sad, Brakes Brakes Brakes and We Were Promised Jetpacks at Great Scotts (triple bill from the UK!)

Bob Mould at the Paradise

Howard Jones at Scullers

Matt & Kim at Landsdowne Pub (RSVP athttp://www.WFNX.com for free tix)

Steve Martin at the Citi Performing Arts Center

The Mars Volta at the House of Blues

Lucinda Williams at Lupo’s

If you have any additions for the list, please send them to me [email protected] before Wednesday to be included in the weekend’s postings.

And Looking Forward… 10/8 Grizzly Bear and Beach House at the Orpheum 10/8 Black Joe Lewis and White Rabbits at Landsdowne Pub (RSVP at http://www.WFNX.com for free tix) 10/8 Howard Jones at Scullers 10/8 Barrence Whitfield at Precinct 10/8 Lars Vegas at the Alchemist 10/8 Anti-Pop Consortium at Great Scotts 10/8 Manic Street Preachers at the Paradise 10/9 Honk Festival, Maverick Square (4-6p) with Zumix 10/9 The Upper Crust at Harpers Ferry (Let Them Eat Rock!) 10/9 Muck & the Mires at the ME 10/9 The Bravery at the House of Blues 10/9 Nick Lowe at the Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH 10/9 Built to Spill at the ME 10/9 Mirah, Norfolk, and Western at the Somerville Theatre 10/10 Built to Spill at the ME 10/10 The Psychedelic Furs and Happy Mondays at the House of Blues 10/10 Boston Derby Dames with The Downbeat 5 at the Shriner’s Auditorium, Wilmington 10/10 Polkafest at Watch City Brewery, Waltham Cancelled 10/10 The Most Serene Republic and Grand Archives at Great Scotts 10/10 Sara Borges at Precinct 10/10 Marshall Crenshaw at Natick Center for the Arts 10/11 Honk Festival, Davis Square, Somerville (12-3p) with Zumix 10/11 Built to Spill at the ME 10/11 Them Crooked Vultures at the House of Blues 10/11 Drummer at the ME 10/11 The Gossip at the Paradise 10/11 The Bags at Church 10/13 Sea Wolf at the Paradise 10/13 Le Loup at TTs 10/13 Ukulele Noir at Johnny D’s 10/13 The Airborne Toxic Event at the House of Blues 10/14 Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers and Carbon Leaf at the Somerville Theatre 10/14 Lonely Dear and Asobi Seksu at Great Scotts 10/14 Dead Man’s Bones at the Brattle 10/15 The DoDos and the Ruby Suns at the ME 10/15 Al Green at the House of Blues 10/15 Barrence Whitfield at Precinct 10/15 Nick Lowe at the Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River 10/15 Daniel Johnston at the Paradise 10/15 Mika at the Orpheum 10/16 Art Brut at the ME 10/16 The Spendid Nobodies at Toad 10/16 The Airborne Toxic Event at the House of Blues 10/17 School of Seven Bells at the Paradise 10/17 Electric Six at the ME 10/17 Butterfly and Doodlebug at Great Scotts 10/17 Gaslight Anthem at House of Blues 10/17 Aretha Franklin at the Citi Performing Arts Center 10/18 The Avett Brothers at the House of Blues 10/18 Lucero at the ME 10/18 Echo & the Bunnymen at Great Scotts SOLDOUT 10/19 The Revival Tour at the ME 10/19 Vertical Horizon at the Paradise 10/19 The Postmarks at the ME 10/19 Sian Alice Group at the ME 10/20 The Ravonettes and the Black Angels at the Paradise 10/20 David Bazan and Say Hi at TTs 10/21 Mum at the Somerville Theatre 10/21 The Disciplines (w/Ken Stringfellow of the Posies) at TTs 10/21 The Shakey Hands, Headlights and Pomegranates at Great Scotts 10/21 Roseanne Cash at the Museum of Science 10/21 Sister Hazel at the Paradise 10/22 Spinto Band at TTs 10/22 Barrence Whitfield at Precinct 10/22 Broadcast and Atlas Sound at the Paradise 10/22 Susan Cowsill at the Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River 10/22 Bill Maher at the Wilbur Theater 10/22 Rain Machine at the ME 10/22 Far at Harpers 10/22 Califone at the Brattle Theater 10/23 Bill Maher at the Wilbur Theater 10/23 Keb Mo at the Somerville Theatre 10/24 Asa Brebner at Pa’s Lounge 10/25 Vic Chestnut at Somerville Theatre 10/26 Neon Indians at Middlesex Lounge 10/26 Coffin Lids, The Egos and The Acrobrats at Charlie’s Kitchen 10/27 La Roux at the Paradise 10/27 Bishop Allen at the ME 10/28 The Whigs at the ME 10/28 Simian Mobile Disco at the Paradise 10/28 Har Mar Superstar at Great Scotts 10/28 Mount Eerie, Tara Jane O’Neil and No Kids at Mass Art 10/29 The Temper Trap at Great Scotts 10/29 Barrence Whitfield at Precinct 10/29 King Khan and BBQ Show at the ME 10/29 The Misfits at Showcase Live 10/30 A Place to Bury Strangers at the ME 10/31 Big Halloween Bash! with The Luxury as Duran Duran, Gene Dante as the Runaways, The Lights Out as Phil Collins and Sidewalk Driver as Ziggy Stardust at Church 10/31 Guster at the Orpheum 10/31 Halloween with the Boston Derby Dames at the Milky Way 10/31 Pinback at the Paradise 11/1 Future of the Left at TTs 11/1 Hidden Cameras and Gentleman Reg at the Brattle Theater 11/1 An Evening with Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop (from Travis) at the Arts at the Armory, Somerville 11/1 Liam Finn at the ME 11/1 Snoop Dog at the House of Blues 11/2 A Fine Frenzy at the Paradise 11/2 Girl Talk at the House of Blues 11/2 Junior Boys at the ME 11/3 Thao with the Get Down Stay Down at the ME 11/3 The Mary Onettes at TTs 11/3 Black Heart Procession at the Paradise 11/3 Monsters of Folk (Connor Oberst, M Ward, Yim Yames & Mike Mogis) at the Orpheum 11/4 Amy Millan (from Stars) at the ME 11/4 Islands and Jemina Pearl at the ME 11/4 Ray Lamontagne at the Citi Performing Arts Center 11/5 Heavy at Great Scotts 11/5 Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints at Precinct 11/6 Blue October and Cracker at House of Blues 11/6 The Swell Season at Berklee 11/6 Lyle Lovett at the Orpheum 11/6 Suzanne Vega at Sanders Theater 11/6 Herman Dune at TTs 11/7 Muck & the Mires, The Swinedells and The Marvels at Church 11/7 Wolfmother and Heartless Bastards at House of Blues 11/7 Real Estate and With Girls at Great Scotts 11/8 Dan Deacon at Mass Art 11/8 Brother Ali at the Paradise 11/8 Roger Daltrey at the House of Blues 11/8 Deertick at Church 11/9 Dan Auerbach at the Paradise 11/10 Neko Case at the Wilbur 11/10 Deastro and Max Tundra at Great Scotts 11/11 The Rakes at Great Scotts 11/11 White Denim at TTs 11/12 Gordon Gano & the Ryans at the ME 11/12 Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints at Precinct 11/12 Brian Wilson at Lowell Memorial Auditorium 11/12 Neko Case at the Music Hall, Portsmouth, NH 11/13 Mike Doughty at Regatta Bar 11/13 The Cranberries at the Orpheum 11/14 The Jesus Lizard at the Paradise 11/14 Amanda Palmer & the Nervous Cabaret at the House of Blues CANCELLED 11/15 Shonen Knife at Great Scotts (charming off kilter pop music from Japan, can’t wait) 11/15 Dryin’ N’ Cryin’ at TTs 11/16 Grant Lee Phillips at Passims 11/16 Laura Viers at the ME 11/17 Dirty Projectors at the Paradise 11/17 Grant Lee Phillips at Passims 11/17 Ray Davies at Berklee 11/18 Cub Country at the ME 11/18 Elliot Brood at TTs 11/19 Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints at Precinct 11/20 Metric at the House of Blues 11/21 Times New Viking at Great Scotts 11/21 Jetset, The TimeBinz and The Balls at Ralph’s, Worcester 11/21 Baroness and Earthless at the ME 11/22 Sonic Youth at the Wilbur Theater 11/23 Sonic Youth and The Feelies at the Wilbur Theater 11/23 Echo and the Bunnymen at the House of Blues 11/23 Julian Plenti at the Paradise 11/24 Melt Banana, Melt Banana Lite at the ME 11/25 Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints at Precinct 11/27 Pixies at the Citi Performing Arts Center 11/27 Do Make Say Think at the ME 11/27 Charles Spearin at the ME 11/27 Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears and The Black Hollies at TTs  11/29 The Mountain Goats and Final Fantasy at the Wilbur Theater 11/30 Elvis Perkins in Deerland and the Bowerbirds at the Paradise 12/1 Big Pink at the Paradise 12/2 They Might Be Giants at the Borders Bookstore, Braintree 12/2 Russian Circles at the ME 12/3 Pelican at Harpers Ferry 12/3 Nitzer Ebb at the Paradise 12/4 Friendly Fires at the Paradise 12/5 Hooray for Earth at Great Scotts 12/5 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at the ME 12/5 Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles at Johnny D’s 12/6 El Vez and Los Straitjackets at the Paradise (Viva Christmas Extravaganza!) 12/12 Bang Camaro at the Paradise 12/18 Girl Howdy and Roy Sludge & Friends at Johnny D’s 1/12 Eddie Izzard at the Garden 1/23 Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Somerville Theatre 2/26 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillets at Scullers 5/4 Mark Kopfler at the Orpheum

I’ve been learning so much from just asking bands about where their name comes from, I’ve had a discourse on Fabio from The Motion Sick, a lesson on Andy Warhol from The Future Everybody, a comprehensive overview on the Space Program from Ho-Ag, I got embroiled in a  philosophical debate with Ketman, and I learned all about Dynasty fromMEandJOANCOLLINS. Today I learned all about sidewalk driving from Sidewalk Driver.

Tad tells it how it is and how it came to be:  “When we formed the band we had a few long discussions about what we should call ourselves. I remember we were eating buffalo balls at this place in Inman square with a pad and paper and really just brain-storming. I recall the name “Trapper Keeper” was definitely in the running, as was “The Small Boys”, “MeatWolf” and “Handsome Transom”. The name, however, came to me a few days later, whilst I was driving to work.

At this point in the story, I am sure that if I left the reader to fill in the blank, they would come up with something far more interesting than the truth. “Sidewalk Driver” is the name of a shift at the place where A.J., Kate and I worked. That’s it. At the time we were all employed by a certain chapionship-team-toting, amphibious tour company. Every day they schedule an extra driver just in case someone gets sick, or a vehicle breaks-down. This “driver” is to help out on the “sidewalk” where people board and exit the vehicles. The reality is though, that this “driver”, usually hangs out in the break room, naps or reads periodicals. Of course it was our shift of choice given our hard-core, rock and roll lifestyle and our seemingly endless reserves of laziness. So I figured “why the hell not?”.

I often like to do a Google image search of “Sidewalk Driver”. Far more interesting things come up. A collage of some of these images will, no doubt, someday be an album cover.”    I went ahead and did this google image search and here is the tawdriness that showed up:  

Tune in to Last Call with Carson Daly tonight to see Wild Light make their national TV debut! The show airs on NBC at some hour I don’t usually see on weekdays, so I’ll be setting the ol’ DVR.

Then on 10/5 you can catch them live for free as part of the WFNX DisOrientation showcase. They’ll be at the Landsdowne Pub, the venue formerly known as Jake Ivory’s.

A wise man once said something like “nothing endures but change,” or perhaps it was “the only constant is change,” or even more dramatically, “change alone is unchanging” (hmm, I like that one the best.) Anyhow, you get the idea. When talking about bands and band members, things are always changing – priorities, commitments, focus, dedication and interest. Especially in Boston, a land of constant change, few things involving bands stay the same for very long. In the case of the band Ho-Ag, it’s been pointed out that there have been more ex-members (5) than current members (4) over the course of their years (7) and various releases (7.5-ish?). However, each iteration of the band has managed to refine what’s at the core of itself even further while avoiding setbacks when adding, losing or reconfiguring roles. Still at the heart of the music is a nearly out-of-control breakneck freneticism that pumps hot blood into every song, and it’s been exciting to watch every Ho-Ag-Er, past and present, try to keep up with the pace set by the band’s catalog of songs.

YES. Jay Reatard! I’d write more, but the New York Times did an excellent write-up last month, so mozy on over to that link and check it out. And when you’re done, see him this Friday at Harpers Ferry in Allston Rock City.

In addition to the three sets from Morphine variations that I already posted, there were a bunch of great opening acts for the day too. I got some video from each.

Mean Creek http://www.youtube.com/p/6C37E10763F33FC7&hl=en&fs=1

Zili Misik http://www.youtube.com/v/JphnbYeAmAA&hl=en&fs=1

Mariachi Internationale http://www.youtube.com/p/8BE370AE3B5240FB&hl=en&fs=1

Faces on Film http://www.youtube.com/v/xGyoq-Su1kM&hl=en&fs=1

Listen. I was excited about this show. It’d probably been six years since I’d seen some ska. I was ready for it, folks. I really was. And to see some punk greats like Sean Wheeler from Throw Rag playing with Zander Schloss from the Circle Jerks as well as some locals I’d never heard – seemed like the perfect show, right?

(Note: Yes. I missed The Forthrights featuring trombone legend Mr. T-Bone. I’m sorry. Grad school started back up and, while studying how to use a hyphen and when to spell out a numeral for my copyediting class, I lost track of time. No excuse, Forthrights. Really. I’m sure you were great, though. Really do. Balls to the wall, keep up the good work.)

Show Going Friend Joe and I entered Middle East Downstairs (hey! Awesome, ME Down! Your stairs don’t smell awful anymore!) whileSean Wheeler and Zander Schloss had just started their set. I’m about to complain. I really am. I don’t know what I was expecting from these guys or expecting them to be like, but what’s with older punk rockers suddenly turning to honky-tonk folk? I mean, really. I complained about this, too, when Steve Soto and the Twisted Hearts opened for X. I’m not saying I want a current version of bands past but… Honky tonk. Really. Their set was maybe saved by the sarcastic banter from Sean Wheeler between songs and maybe the DIY spirit of the CDs at their merch booth. I guess, though, if you’re into this kind of thing – watching what you expected to be some bad-ass punk rockers suddenly turned into wannabe Tom Waits’s… Then, hey. You might’ve liked this.

In between sets was DJ Generoso of Bovine Ska radio spinning some vinyl. DJ Generoso owns my heart for not using Serato. I like you, sir. I do. And when The Alrighters starting set up their stuff on stage, I was excited – a stand-up bass, eh? No guitar? Some sax with those drums? This could be cool, this could be cool. But it wasn’t. Not for me. Hey, the crowd really seemed to dig them and bounce around and get into it, but all I could think of this swing-ska fusion was that the music they were playing was simply too fast for their singer – he was literally gasping for breath by the third song of a forty minute set in which each song seemed about a minute to a minute and a half long. And the singer seemed to make up for his lack of breath by growling into the mic as the intro and outro of just about every song – badly. Not good. And his witty between-song-banter wasn’t really all that witty, with even the saxophone player of his own band saying, “Too much talking.” And every song seemed to sound a lot like The Coasters’ “Yakety Yak,” (you know it – “Yakety yak! Don’t talk back.” – that song). So, despite that stand-up bass player spinning his bass up and around and to the side and those pretty cool sax solos… God, I really, really didn’t like this. This was not all right (har har, get it?) and I really didn’t like it. The songs were all ruined by the singer’s complete lack of tempo and pitch.

So Show Going Friend Joe humored me by joining me outside for a cigarette and commented that, “This is more like Suckfest than Slackfest.” And I was becoming disappointed. I wanted some ska, god dammit, some good ska, some good live ska, please, thank you, help me, anyone.

The Slackers to the rescue, loves. From the very first song, every rude kid in the crowd was skanking in time and singing along, all those boys and girls in suits and pencil skirts. The bass player played his electric bass balanced on a stool, seeming to mimic a stand-up bass. The trombone player / back-up singer looked a little like a gameshow host offering me a chance at Plinko as he emoted to the crowd with his vocals, but it actually all worked and only added to their stage presence. I mean, these boys played for a good hour, and they never let up, never seemed tired, and there were some kids in that crowd that skanked the whole time. I loved this sax, loved that guitarist jumping around in the background, and the lead singer looked like that guy Brooklyn from Newsies but with facial hair.

This week’s update of what local music shows in the Boston area are playing:

Commercial Radio

Bay State Rock on WAAF 97.7/107.3 fm Hosted by Carmelita. Sundays 10 pm – 12 am

Artist – Song Morphine – Candy The Vogon Poets – Time Lord Bleu – Get Up Upper Crust – We’re Finished with Finishing School Radio Taxi – Living Long Enough To Say Goodbye St. Helena – Oh Jan Electric Laser People – The Makeout Song The Fools – Big Tim Blane – Tennessee Dear Leader – My Life as a Wrestler Rick Berlin – Michicko Jessica Prouty – Nothing V – 1926 Wack Ass Egyptians – Rub Your Legs Like a Cricket The Blue Heaven – Quicksandglass

New England Product on WFNX 101.7 fm Hosted by Dave Duncan. Sundays 11 pm – 12 am

Dear Leader – Napoleon Complex Dinosaur Jr – Over It The Beatings – Youth Crimes Cassavettes – Ordinary Girls Yoni Gordon and the Goods – Waiting for the World To End Hallelujah the Hills – Classic Tapes The Lights Out – Red Letter Day Wheat – Changes Is Hooray for Earth – Form Dead Cats Dead Rats- Shipwreck Sun Lee Sunbeam – O Rly? Mean Creek – Faces of the Earth Super Time Pilot – Comedy Song Gravel Pit – Get Tangled! Bodega Girls – She’s Into Black Guys Math The Band – Why Didn’t You Get A Haircut?

Boston Emissions on WZLX 100.7 fm Hosted by Anngelle Wood Sundays 10 pm – 12 am

guest: Sidewalk Driver Willie Alexander – Mass Ave Dennis Brennan – Red Mark Sandman – Tomorrow Dear Leader – Napolean Complex Mean Creek – It’s Good To Be Back Again Sidewalk Driver LIVE – Wake Up, John Sidewalk Driver – Marianne Sidewalk Driver – She Goes Out Dancin’ The Elevator Drops – Catastrophy Aloud – Fan the Fury Cassavettes – Lights On The Acrobrats – HFO Cliffs of Dooneen – Hold On Hey Now Morris Fader – Airport Song (Gozu’s extra special Picks of the Week intro) Dead Friends – On the Run The Rudds – Older Girls Sarah RabDAU and the Self Employed Assassins – Queen of the Castle Dinosaur Jr – Never Bought It

College Radio

MIT – WMBR – Pipeline! – Tuesdays 8 to 10 pm. Hosted by Jeff Breeze, Mike Reed, John Hecker

Yes Giantess – We Were Young the Living Sea – Black Spot Joe Pernice – Black Smoke (No Pope) Turtle Ambulance – Swirlyslide New Haven Improvisers Collective – Schrodinger’s Wolverine Easyboy – Chest Swimmers Esoteric – Modern Love in Boston Lou Barlow – Too Much Freedom Streight Angular – Open Your Eyes/Take a Picture Alec K Redfearn and the Seizures – Rise Uke of Spaces Corners – Arugula AT – Three Three Three the Bynars – Rhyme Song Tony the Bookie Orchestra – True Love Hallelujah the Hills LIVE

Tufts – WMFO 91.5 fm – On the Town with Mikey Dee – Saturday from 9 pm to 12 am. Hosted by Joel Simches, JoEllen Yannis, Steve Harnish, Brian Young, and Shilo McDonald

The Montgomerys – Why’d You Have To Bring Me Down Speakermute – In My Morning The Rationales – Gaurdrail LUNICLOVETHIEF – The Dark House The New Collisions – In A Shadow Pawnshop Diamonds – The Kiss Jake and The Jakes – Nowhere Adrien and The Fine Print – Future Perfect Moller – A Mistake Jetset – Beach Lovewhip – Sitting And Watching The Blizzard of 78 – God Eat God Shakyfoot – Goodbye Mrs. Rose Secret Saucer – Night Encounter Topheavy – Bangin’ Camaro The Vital Might – Phantom Spaceman Atlantics – Pop Shivers The Tin Thistles – Not Today The Luxury – Take It Back 66 Breakout “LIVE SET”  Blackbutton – Babygirl Max G and The Spots – The Rent Song 66 Breakout – Sam 66 Breakout – Going Down Slow The Montgomerys – Caitlin Hot Molasses – Blank Verse The New Frustrations – Way Out The Acrobrats – Beat My Guest The New Alibis – Dragged

Tufts – WMFO 91.5 fm – The Dweezil Show – Saturday from 7 pm to 9 pm. Hosted by Phil.

I’ve been thoroughly enjoying The Bynars‘ Party All Nitefor a couple of weeks now and I think you would too. Find out on Wednesday when they celebrate its official release with help fromYoni Gordon & the Goods and The Young Leaves.

Wed 9/30

The Bynars (CD Release + Music Video Premiere)

Yoni Gordon & The Goods

The Young Leaves

@ Great Scott Allston, MA

presented by WTBU + Quarter Productions

The third and final post of Morphine-related projects at The Mark Sandman Memorial Concert.  A final post with videos of opening acts will complete the series soon.

From http://www.hi-n-dry.com/orchestra_morphine/ Orchestra Morphine is a living celebration of the music of Mark Sandman and Morphine, played with heart and commitment by a big band of Mark’s friends. The group includes his Morphine bandmates Dana Colley, Billy Conway and Jerome Deupree, Either/Orchestra leader Russ Gershon, Club d’Elf bassist Mike Rivard, horn player Tom Halter, keyboardist Evan Harriman and vocalists Christian McNeill and Laurie Sargent. Morphine Orchestra formed to play the first Mark Sandman Memorial Concert on July 25, 1999, outdoors at an intersection of Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts – a bastion of clubs and Mark’s musical stomping grounds – that was named Mark Sandman Square in his honor. Since then the Orchestra has toured America and abroad, recording several live albums as testimonials to their travels and, of course, to Mark himself.

From their Myspace page:

Dana Colley, Jerome Deupree and Jeremy Lyons together are “Members of Morphine: the Elastic Waste Band.” They perform songs by the late Morphine-frontman Mark Sandman, as well as their own brand of “psycho-delta blues.”

The trio include Dana on baritone sax and Jerome on drums, two-thirds of the original line-up of the seminal Boston-based progressive rock band, the two who backed Sandman up their debut record Good and the band’s break-out follow-up, Cure for Pain. Jeremy Lyons is a slide guitarist and singer from New Orleans who met Dana and Jerome after relocating to Cambridge, MA following Hurricane Katrina. Jeremy plays electric guitar and a version Sandman’s own 2-string slide bass.

In July of 2009, Jeremy, Dana and Jerome performed at Nel Nome Del Rock Festival in Palestrina, Italy, ten years to the day after Mark passed away on that very same stage.

http://www.youtube.com/p/F652158EBC893773&hl=en&fs=1