Band In Boston

The Motion Sick are playing at the Midway Cafe on Saturday. Do check them out.

Song List:

* Satellite

* Pre-Existing Condition

* Thirty Lives

* God Hates Kansas

* The Day After

* Grace Kelly

Wow, if you were disappointed by the shortage of songs last week, it’s your lucky day! Featuring The Autumn Defense, The Paper Chase, Yoni Gordon and the Goods, The Diamond Mines, The Boggs, Polarbaron, Truman Sparks, Universe Narrows, The Gulf, Heartless Bastards, The Motion Sick, Apollo Sunshine, Faces on Film, The Impossible Shapes, Kahoots, You Am I, and Hooray For Earth.

When do we get to Pancake’s house?

It’s SXSW time again. Jen just got back from Florida. We’re punchy and full of non-sequiturs. Try to cope.

Featuring The Brother Kite, The Octave Museum, Mad Man Films, Vio/Mire, Mittens, Choo Choo La Rouge, Baker, Mean Creek, and Drug Rug. If you get the reference in the photo above, you win a free subscription to Band In Boston.

Tulsa kicked some serious ass at PA’s Lounge on February 24th. Here’s a rough approximation of what it sounded like. Have fun at SXSW, guys!

From Rhode Island, John McCauley, AKA Deer Tick, is really one of the freshest voices we’ve heard in years. Hear him fight through a nasty cold and make some beautiful noise.

Song List:

* Baltimore Blues No. 1

* Dirty Dishes

* Art Isn’t Real (City of Sin)

* Diamond Rings

* What Kind of Fool Am I?

March is RIAA Boycott Month. Chances are, you’ve been inadvertantly boycotting it for years, since they largely put out utter crap, but make an extra effort this month. Buy some independent music. Support music that means something.

This week, we feature tunes by Eldridge Rodriguez (E.R.), The Seepeoples, Pants Yell!, The Faintest Ideas, Hands and Knees, The Nightingales, Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, The Stop Revolt, American Car, Deer Tick, The Double-Stops, Pop Levi, and The Horrors.

Sometimes we hold a session until a band comes back to town. Sometimes they break up before that happens. Damn shame, too, because Rescue (from Detroit) was a damn fine band. Let’s hope we get some more music out of at least some of these buys (and gal)!

Andy’s feeling fine again, thanks. Time to return to the important things, like capri pants and flip flops. Featuring Elvis Perkins, The Lemonheads, This is How Rumors Get Started, The Televangelist and the Architect, The Living Sea, The Dead Trees (solo), The Cyanide Valentine, The Essex Green, The Specific Heats, The Thermals, The Perennials, Badly Drawn Boy, Via Audio, The Pilot Light, and Drugs Delaney, FTW! Listen now, before you get pwned!

Yeah, Andy’s sick… So less talk, more RAWK! Featuring The Milling Gowns, Mean Creek, Drug Rug, The Mooney Suzuki, Emergency Music, Bad Jamie, Yoni Gordon, Shumai, Frank Smith, Viva Viva, Reverend Glasseye, Hallelujah the Hills, Tulsa, The Subjects, The Self Righteous Brothers, The Ludlow Lions, and The HalfNelsons.

Oh! And if you’d be so kind as to throw us a vote for “Best Local Podcast/vLog” in the Boston Phoenix Readers Poll, we’d be super-psyched. It’s under the City Life section.

Township starts this whole thing off. From the Middle East (Upstairs) on January 28. They opened up with a song they worked out during sound check, and it just kept getting better from there.

Set List:

* Baby Rock Me

* Give It To It

* Lady Ann

* The Major

* S.O.S.

* Cats in the Canopy

* The Summer of Dudes

* Home

* Gunnin’ Thru the Nite