Band In Boston

Take Headband, swap them around, add Marc from Township and Tulsa, and you’ve got Appletown Gun Shop. Bittersweet, introspective songs about… well, I’m not totally sure. But it’s good.

For some reason, we felt like beating up on each other today. It’s all in good fun. And that’s exactly what you’ll tell the nice men in blue when they ask you. Featuring Takka Takka, Asteroid #4, The Sky Drops, The Self Righteous Brothers, Mittens, Buttercup, The Silver Lining, Girls Guns and Glory, The Teenage Prayers, The Diamond Mines, The Lyres, The Dogmatics, The Jaguar Club, and Theories Revisited.

Damn these guys are awesome. Their CD release party is this thursday, the 18th. DO IT!

Song List:

* (let’s just say “Intro”)

* Alan Watts

* Lee Torsee

* Diana

* ‘Taint Misbehazin’

* Sidecar Jesus

* Floyd

The Family Township features members of Runner and the Thermodynamics, SPiTZZ, The Cancer Conspiracy, Radar Eyes, and Tulsa. Tell me how you can go wrong with that. They’re at Harper’s Ferry this Thursday. You will NOT be disapointed. It’s too much band for one living room to contain, but we did our best.

Song List:

* Lady Ann

* The Major

* Gunnin’ Thru The Nite

* Days of Neverending Sadness

* House In The Sky

* Love Will Lead Us Home

OK, so now it looks like it’s going to get cold… I guess we had it coming. Luckily, there’s plenty of great music to warm you up this week. Featuring The Pwrfl Power, Faces on Film, Tiny Whales, Sam Bigelow, Dave Godowsky, Muy Cansado, The Triple Dids, Township, The Dead Trees, Georgie James, and Milo Jones.

Wow, wow, wow. Sort of a Black Keys with more members, or Kings of Leon with more ideas. They’re taking a 4 month hiatus, so this should help tide you over.

Song list:

* Home Home  Home

* Nobody’s Lonesome for Me (by Hank Williams)

* Math

* Po Mo Lo (Post Modern Love)

* (they haven’t named this one yet, so we have dubbed it…) You A Dancer?

* What a Ripoff

* Vaccine

* Take Off

* Flash

* Little Dyke

Boston’s This Car Up – They’re part of our Pick of the Week this week. Please to listen.

Song List:

* Expect

* Emma

* Blindly

* Underground

* Til You Try

* Roxanne

One of our favorite bands – last performance for a while.

Dave goes from Hammond organ to acoustic guitar to Speak N Spell to electric, and in the meantime, they record the longest-ever Flophouse Session.

Song List:

* Flying Pizza

* This Flag Signals Goodbye

* Room Full of You

* This Is Not How Forever Begins

* Slave To The Kettle

* Waterloo Crescent

* (Speak N Spell intro)

* Maybe Zorro

* Talking Pictures

* Losing Mine

* Just What I Needed (by The Cars)

* Thin Man From North Main

* Northern Line

Here’s to a great year. We’ll ease you into it slowly, since, well, we’re just as hungover as you. Featuring Jake Brennan, States and Capitols, Tigersaw, Seekonk, This Car Up, Frank Smith, The Broken River Prophet, Vox Humana, and Drop Earrings.

Beautiful male/female harmonies with a, well, punk aesthetic. They’re at TT’s this Thursday.

We should have crappier bands in so that we don’t have to say this so often: They are awesome.

Song List:

* The Day I Was a Horse (by The Vaselines)

* Do You Look At Everybody That Way

* Simple Other

* Are We Full Of It

* Do You Really Need a Drummer

* Charlie Rose

* Doctor

* Into the Cold Lake