Mar
5
Justin Townes Earle
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At Great Scott last night. I don’t know him particularly but I really like his daddy.
Video courtesy of Clara.
Jan
28
The Fenway Recordings Sessions bring The Constellations, We Are Wolves and Bodega Girls to Great Scott Feb. 4
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Head on over to Great Scott on Thursday, Feb. 4th to see Atlanta supergroup The Constellations hit the stage with Montreal’s We Are Wolves and our own hometown hedonistic heroes, Bodega Girls. Tix are $8, available online and at Great Scott. Or, you can try your luck at winning a pair of tickets thru Melophobe.com. See you there!
Jan
18
Haiti Earthquake Relief Benefit tonight
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@Great Scott. Tickets $10, The New Collisions, KeyBook, Southern Belle, E-603, DJ Die Young. Proceeds to benefit the excellent Partners in Health. For other similar options check out Rock For Haiti.
Dec
10
Winter’pop
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I don’t know what this is but I like winter and I like pop.
The first-ever Winter’pop Festival hits Great Scott on Jan. 23, featuring Connecticut garage rock upstarts Twin Berlin, New York City electro-rock mavens BM LINX and a special guest headliner to be announced over the weekend.
Nov
29
Via Audio
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I spent the last four days eating or asleep or both, and assume the same of all the rest of you. But it’s just about time to return to a state of wakefulness and non-thankfulness. Here’s Via Audio doing a fun little lofi thing on Great Scott’s deck.
Via Audio song 2 from Devin P on Vimeo.
Nov
12
Welcome to the neighborhood!
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The new Urban Outfitters behind Great Scott (from zacxwolf via @wellington_lee).
Relatedly in less overt judgmentalism, from the last GS spam mail.
Not to be outdone in the pill-OGness, Emergency Music will cap off our 2009 live calendar with a comeback performance destined for the ages on Dec. 11. The next day, they help open the new Urban Outfitters that’s just behind us, and you can draw your own conclusions on all that…
Nov
10
Mystery Roar at Great Scott
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I’m a fan of any and all bands who have someone in them named Nathanael spelled the right way. Mystery Roar, tonight at Great Scott, opening for Deastro and Max Tundra. $10, 9pm.
Also, a great rambling stream-of-consciousness interview with them from tea party boston. On what mostly non-defunct bands they currently like.
N: We’re from this collective of artists called Compound 440, originally—we’re no longer there—but you’ve got artists like UV Protection, well they’re defunct, they’ve got a new band Secret Sea.
P: Paul Foley was spinning the other night. Big Digits are great. Bodega Girls are great. They’re kind of what we’re doing.
N: I was psyched to see Bodega Girls. Mac is awesome (from Bodega Girls), and he did a remix of one of our tracks. Those guys are awesome. They vacillate between the electronic stuff and kind of garage rock which is amazing. Like, they’ll have a song with backing tracks and then the next song is just tambourines and guitar and it was like my favorite song.
P: I’m a big fan of Drug Rug.
Oct
9
Licensing crackdown
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I love me some Big Buck Hunter*, almost as much as I love arbitrary law enforcement of licensing violations in the middle of what feels like (slipping into fearmongering hyperbole) a veritable stabbing spree. Thus some folks end up with adversarial feelings towards the BPD when a community partnership should be the end goal. But if things really are getting better and they feel like there’s no other crime most foul to address I guess this busywork is what comes next.
· At Bravo Pizza, 160 Brighton Ave., police found there a “Big Buck Hunter” arcade game to be in operation, but there was no entertainment license filed for the game.
· At Harpers Ferry, 155 Brighton Ave., police found that its entertainment, health, billiards and inspection certificates had all expired in September 2009.
· At Great Scott, 1222 Commonwealth Ave. in Allston, police found that the inspectional services certificate had expired in January 2009, and was issued a licensed premise violation.
My premise here conveniently ignores what sounds like some legitimately illegal fun going on at the 379 Club, ostensibly a barber shop.
The 379 Club barber shop, 379 Cambridge St. in Allston, was the business with the larger number of violations.
Police said they entered the building around 12:45 a.m. on Oct. 4 and found 60 to 80 people watching big-screen TVs, playing pool and playing cards at round tables. There was also a bar with bartenders serving drinks and a massage table upstairs.
*Big Buck Safari is clearly a superior playing experience. Anyone who would preferentially kill domestic animals over exotics is too boring to tolerate.
**Were I running Bravo I’d look into the “dollar bill loophole” as only coin operated video games are subject to helpful civic oversight.
Sep
13
Sunday pose-off
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Time for something different, more agreeable. Second Sunday again? A good time for more art makin’ of the burlesque type. $8, 2:30 at Great Scott. Details, such as they are, over here. Actually better details on truthserum, the model this go-round is kitty fox.
Aside from the standard structure of short poses to warm you up and then longer ones to give you more time to concentrate, this is definitely not your typical life drawing class. The model wears gorgeous burlesque outfits and slowly strips out of them! The model talks! You’ll clap for them and hoot and holler! You’ll tip them! You’ll chat with your neighbor! There is no teacher to embarrass you when you don’t produce enough! You get to drink and draw without getting in trouble! Now is the time to heal those art school wounds. Dr. Sketchy’s will guide you.
Reminder courtesy of NTKOG.
Aug
4
Most Bitteryest of Tuesdays
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From Breeze -
How’s this for last minute notice? … Sunday morning I woke up before my friends in Maine and checked my email. Someone asked me about playing a show later this month, and I remembered that my pals in Antiques had asked me about playing a show with them about a month ago. They never sent me anything after I expressed my initial interest, so I went back to double check. It turns out they had confirmed me without remembering to tell me. And the show in question? Well, that’s tonight.
Most Bitter – me solo – is going to be headlining the show. Huh? Since it is a Tuesday night, I am at MIT hosting Pipeline! until 10 pm. Tonight we’re even got a live performance by Drug Rug on the radio as a teaser for their CD release this weekend. As soon as we finish the interview and I hit play on the last song of the set, I am out the door to zoom over to Allston to load in at Great Scott and play around 11pm. I should get to see some of Antiques, but opening act Brontosaur is probably done before I stop talking to everyone in Radioland.
To assess your affinity prior to a Tuesday out you can download Most Bitter’s The Denatonium Benzoate EP (2007) for free or $5 or what have you.