Band In Boston

It’s a little hard to describe these guys. I guess the best we can do is “glam with soul”. Which clearly isn’t right for a band that covers the VU so well. I can’t do it justice, so give it a listen and come up with your own inappropriate pigeonhole.

Song List:

* Violets

* Sludgeguff

* Remember the Alamo #4

* Black Cat 1000

* Starlet

* Solar Powered Bible

* Maybe I’ll See You

* Sister Ray (by The Velvet Underground)

Wow. That is such a bad idea.

This week brings some more excellent shows, and a total meltdown of our recording program. Featuring Peeping Tom, Windy Smiles, Paleo, These United States, Hammarsing, The Subjects, Wonderful Spells, Eee Adams from Rock City Crimewave, two songs from The Dead Trees, The Whiskey Giants, Mittens, Tulsa, and we would have played Jason Isbell and The Remote Islands, but, you know, our recording program kind of, well, melted down.

Ara Vora were a blast to have in – great tunes, great guys. They’re at Zuzu this Monday. Now that’s how you start a week right!

Song List:

* Dying to Sleep at Night

* Runway

* A Tobacco Sunburst Finish

* The Aether is in Short Supply

* Porn Distributor Cap

* No Exit

* Rockstar

* Dr. Song

* Dusty Buzz

* Whiskey Grin

Yoni (and his band, The Goods) is/are playing twice this week – Friday at the Cambridge Elks, and Sunday at The Abbey. He’s got a voice and style that’s a little tough to capture with the measley microphones that are currently known to man, so go see him live.

Song list:

* Long Black Veil (by Johnny Cash)

* The Runaway

* Buckets of Blood

* Up The Punks

* Buried in the Basement

* On All Night

* Lullabye of London (by The Pogues)

* Me and My Beautiful Electric Guitar

* I Dreamed I Saw Billy Bragg Last Night

* Polish Hill

* Body Count (by This Bike is a Pipe Bomb)

The Jaguar Club came up from Brooklyn last year and got screwed by playing the night of a Patriots playoff game. They lost, but you win when you go seem them at Great Scott this Wednesday!

Song List:

* Modern Ways

* World Gone By

* Beautiful House

* In Antarctica

* This Year

* The Sirens

Pretty much the only word we have yet to use… Yet.

Featuring Locksley, Scissors for Lefty, Age Rings, The Jaguar Club, The Self Righteous Brothers, Dangerously Janovitz, The Diamond Mines, Perennials, The Shrinking Islands, Youth Group, Aqueduct, The Texas Governor, Township, Eli “Paperboy” Reed and the True Loves, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Pants Yell!, Reports, and Ara Vora.

Boston’s own Scuba. They’re playing tonight at TT’s, so get goin’!

Song List:

* A Thousand Different Ways

* Drunken Recluse

* Clam Shack

* Gary Powers Spyplane

* Fish

* 82/99

* King of Infinite Space

Believe it or not, this is the best Jen has sounded this week. The BCN Rock n Roll Rumble starts this week, and it doesn’t suck! Featuring Scuba, Tom Thumb and the Latter-Day Saints, Tokyo Police Club, The Information, Mason Proper, Sebadoh, The Big Big Bucks, The Desert Sea, The Octave Museum, The Silver Lining, The Cassavettes, and Baker.

E.R. makes the first return engagement in the flophouse, this time with Greg there to fill things out a bit. Go see the full band this Friday at Tom Thumb and the Latter-Day Saints’ last show at PA’s Lounge.

* Opportunity Crisis

* Dealbreaker

* Vacation Crimes

* Lord Help Me

* The Shape I’m In (by Robby Cosenza)

* I Know I’m Unhappy/The Suicide Song (by Louden Wainwright III)

(Thanks to Seth for pointing out that I originally posted this at quaalude speed!)

Faces on Film stripped it down to 1, 2 and then 3 members, and really brought out the soul of 7 great songs. They are at TT’s TONIGHT! Go go go!!!

Song List:

* Indicator Indicator

* House of Seven Sisters (by The Spitzer Space Telescope)

* Natalie’s Numbers

* Winter’s Daughter

* Come Hither

* Famous Last Words

* Medical Mind