Saturday, January 19, 2008

Cheap Thrills: 1/18 to 1/25


Trust me. You would play a round of golf today instead of slaving over a hot keyboard if you were here. This is how the abridged West Coast vacation edition basically looked yesterday.

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FRI 1/18
* Deer Tick, Yoni Gordon & the Goods, Merganser, American Hornets
* Apple Betty, Classic Ruins, The In Out
* Benefit for Sadie + Exile / Green Scare
* Debo Band, Keys to the Streets of Fear, more
* Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles Homecoming Shows -- and SAT 1/19

SAT 1/19
* Lyres, The Prime Movers, The Time Beings, The Sprained Ankles
* Marah, Adam and Dave's Bloodline, AM Stereo
* Redivider Magazine Launch Party
* Find Your Voice 2008
* Jesse Kaminsky and Dirk Adams, "Anoxia"
* Cheap Thrills a Go-Go

SUN 1/20
* Music of Larry Bell
* Drew Hickum's Ministry of Folk, Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade

MON 1/21
* MLK Day Open House @ MFA
* A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales
* “Sleeper” w/ Brock Reeve
* Attention Deficit Mondays: “The Story of Ricky-Oh”
* Jazz and Tap: A Musical Conversation

TUES 1/22
* Bob Blumenthal w/ Branford Marsalis, “Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music”
* The Outfielders, Merganser, Ben Weiser

WED 1/23
* Sonho Meu
* “Teeth”: Free Sneak Preview

THUR 1/24
* Lisa Loeb: Free Performance
* “Boston's Best Bodies” Party
* Dennis Brennan & The Iodine Brothers

FRI 1/25
* Apollo Sunshine, Self Righteous Brothers, Wonderful Spells
* “Who Killed the Electric Car?” & “A Crude Awakening”

SAT 1/26
* 30th Annual Science Fiction Marathon

SUN 1/27
* “Titler’s Oddville”

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FRI 1/18

9pm
Deer Tick, Yoni Gordon & the Goods, Merganser, American Hornets
at PA's Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville (Union Sq)
$8 -- 21+ / $11 -- 18+

I recently said of Deer Tick: “I really like the gentle blend folk and indie-rock; there's a unique voice there that makes any music special and memorable.” Yoni Gordon is very good as well.

FRI 1/18

Apple Betty (11:30pm), Classic Ruins (10:30pm), The In Out (9:30pm)
at Castlebar, 575 Washington St, Brighton (Oak Sq)
$5 / 21+

Apple Betty and Classic Ruins rock. Show up early to play darts or something...

FRI 1/18

6pm to 9PM
Benefit for Sadie + Exile
Feat: Sway, Evan Greer, Bambuu, Puppet Show(?)
at Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Ave, Boston (South End)
$5 to $20 (pay what you like)

Radical entertainment! Sadie and Exile are also known as Joyanna Zacher and Nathan Block, a couple animal-loving, fire-starting kids who were jailed for arson. I read a couple articles, and it seems like they were also branded as "eco-terrorists".

Whatever your position, this is a defense fund/awareness-raiser with some good music, a puppet show, vegan baked goods, merch, and probably some speakers.

FRI 1/18

9:30pm
Debo Band, Keys to the Streets of Fear, more
at Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St, Jamaica Plain
$7 / 21+

Ethiopian (via JP) horn band and swingin' indie-rock join with a couple DJ's for good times for people with open ears and working tail-feather.

FRI 1/18 & SAT 1/19

9pm
Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles Homecoming Shows
at Lizard Lounge/Cambridge Common, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge (between Harvard Sq & Porter Sq)
$10 advance / $12 door / 21+

FRI: w/ Danielle Miraglia and Blueheels
SAT: w/ Blueheels and Teenage Prayers

I should have posted this last week... Sarah Borges is awesome. If you like music of any kind, you should gig her The advance tix for Saturday are sold out, but some will be available at the door. Both nights have good supporting acts, but I’m also a fan of Teenage Prayers.

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SAT 1/19

9:30pm
Lyres, The Prime Movers, The Time Beings, The Sprained Ankles
at Middle East - Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$9 / 18+

Release party for CD "He Put The Bomp In The Bomp", a tribute to Bomp Records founder Greg Shaw who was a champion of garage rock bands including many Boston bands like The Lyres.

SAT 1/19

10pm
Marah, Adam and Dave’s Bloodline, AM Stereo
at Middle East - Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$10 advance / $12 day of show / 18+

Great straight-ahead rock.

SAT 1/19

7pm
Redivider Magazine Launch Party
at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline (Coolidge Corner)
FREE

This is Emerson College’s litererary magazine. Enjoy some complimentary refreshments amid poetry and prose. Those expected to read are Dan Pribble, Debra Liese, Sue Standing, and Peter Jay Shippy who has written a novel written entirely in verse.

SAT 1/19

1pm
Find Your Voice 2008
at Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston (Copley Sq)
FREE

It’s no coincidence that this program with high school debate teams and community leaders is happening on Martin Luther King Jr weekend.

Topics include:
* Members of the US armed services should be allowed to fulfill part of their obligated service in the Peace Corps.
* United States foreign aid for HIV prevention should not prioritize abstinence-until-marriage programs.
* The US federal government should mandate that public schools in the US teach Spanish as a foreign language.
* The Supreme Court should reverse its decision and allow school districts to make race-based school assignments for the purpose of desegregation.
* The United States should boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

SAT 1/19

6PM to late
Jesse Kaminsky and Dirk Adams, "Anoxia"
at Ark Studios, 17 Edinboro St #3, Boston (Chinatown)
FREE

The sculptural installation, Anoxia, is a one-room environment made of cardboard, balloons, string, LEDs and a three channel sound collage. The visual elements interact with each other sonically, and activate the space similarly to a live performance. As a temporary installation, the sculptures will live for only one night. Envisioned by Jesse Kaminsky and Dirk Adams, Anoxia, meaning "without oxygen", refers to a condition of oxygen deprivation that affects both humans and bodies of water alike.

The exhibition will be followed by music and sound by Gang Clan Mafia (Mobius Artists Group members Vela Phelan and Dirk Adams) and other acts to be announced.

Sponsored by Grolsch.
(free/cheap beer?)

Thanks, Max!

SAT 1/19

10:30 PM
Cheap Thrills a Go-Go! 1-year anniversary party w/ Thru the Keyhole Go-Go Girls and DJ Leah
at Common Ground, 85 Harvard Ave, Allston
$5

Cheap Thrills a Go-Go! is Boston’s delirious Sexadelic Sixties Dance Party for the “Now” Generation. Join us for a wild evening of hipshakin’ records, vintage 16mm film and psychedelic light projections, good vibrations, and low down rump shakin’ galore.
We're not associated except for our love of cheap thrills.

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SUN 1/20

3pm
Music of Larry Bell
at Williams Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston (NEC / Fens)
FREE

If you don’t like football, New England Conservatory professor Larry Bell with other musicians & singers will perform 8 of his compositions including 3 premieres to celebrate the release of his inventively titled CD, “Larry Bell: Music for Strings”.

SUN 1/20

Drew Hickum's Ministry of Folk (8pm), Miss Tess & The Bon Ton Parade (10pm)
at Toad, 1912 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Porter Sq)
FREE

Either group might make for a laid-back post-Patriots victory / pre-MLK Day evening.

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MON 1/21

10am to 4:45pm
MLK Jr Day -- Open House
at Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
FREE

Music, art, film, guided tours, and "family fun".

Also, free admission to "Symbols of Power: Napoleon and the Art of the Empire Style, 1800–1815" (tickets available at all ticket desks, first-come, first-served).


MON 1/21

8pm
A Fire in My Heart: Kurdish Tales
at Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge (Harvard Sq)
$10

This is a chance to learn more about one of the few groups in the Middle East that likes the U.S. Local author and storyteller Diane Edgecomb has compiled a book of myths, legends, and other aspects of Kurdish culture. She’ll be accompanied by a couple musicians tonight.

MON 1/21

10pm
Attention Deficit Mondays: “The Story of Ricky-Oh
at The Squealing Pig, 134 Smith St, Boston (Mission Hill)
FREE

Subtitled “Kung-Fu & Heavy Metal Night”, this is considered one of the goriest films ever. For those who want to get aggressive on a Monday night with kung fu fighting over loud metal music. There’s a kung fu movie every Monday night at The Squealing Pig (good solid bar and varied beer selection).

MON 1/21

7pm
Jazz and Tap: A Musical Conversation
at The Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge (Inman Sq)
$10

Put a bunch of tap dancers and jazz musicians in the same room for some improve, and it’s probably going to be something special.

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TUES 1/22

7pm (Doors open 6:30pm)
Bob Blumenthal w/ Branford Marsalis, “Jazz: An Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music
at Regattabar, Charles Hotel, One Bennett St, Cambridge (Harvard Sq)
FREE

Bob Blumenthal, former jazz critic for various Boston publications, has written a great volume for the fans and neophytes alike. He is now ‘permanent creative consultant’ at Branford Marsalis’s record label. Listen in on what should be a lively discussion or join in with a question.

Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

TUES 1/22

9:30pm
The Outfielders, Merganser, Ben Weiser
at Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
FREE

Two indie singer-songwriter types (one being Ben W. of excellent band The Diamond Mines) will open for the jazzy weirdness of The Outfielders who have played with other groups such as Reverend Glasseye, Morphine, etc.

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WED 1/23

9:30pm to 12:30am
Sonho Meu
at Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge (Inman Sq)
$10

Named after a beautiful samba, Sonho Meu play a variety of Brazilian styles.

WED 1/23

7:30pm
Teeth
at Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Sq, Cambridge
FREE w/ RSVP

I’ve been reading the LA Times this week, and I liked the first paragraph of their review:

You could never accuse Mitchell Lichtenstein (son of artist Roy) of pandering to market expectations. His first feature, "Teeth," is a dark, gory and hilarious sendup of contemporary prudery, teen horror films, Christian abstinence programs, rampant cultural misogyny and latent gynophobia in ancient mythology that plays serial castration by vagina dentata for laughs. The movie re-imagines the ancient myth as the mortifying personal problem of a sweet, unsullied American teen who is having a hard time remaining unsullied...


Even though it’s sponsored by ‘Campus Circle’, I didn’t see any mention of a students-only restriction.

RSVP here.

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THUR 1/24

6pm
Lisa Loeb - Performance Only
at Newbury Comics, 332 Newbury St, Boston (Back Bay)
FREE

She’ll probably play for 20-30 minutes.

THUR 1/24

6:30pm to 9pm
Boston's Best Bodies” Party
at Revolution Fitness, 209 Columbus Ave, Boston (South End)
FREE w/ RSVP

Stuff@Night is throwing a party associated with its current “Boston's Best Bodies” issue. You don’t need to have a good body to go and enjoy free cocktails and (I assume) free sushi. How do I know about it? Besides my rock-hard abs, I’m on the Stuff@Night mailing list.

RSVP to this email.

THUR 1/24

10pm
Dennis Brennan & The Iodine Brothers
at Atwoods Tavern, 877 Cambridge St, Cambridge (between Inman and Lechmere)
FREE

Dennis Brennan is a musical treasure. The Iodine Brothers shows his acoustic/country side.

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FRI 1/25

9:30pm
Apollo Sunshine, Self Righteous Brothers, Wonderful Spells
at Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St, Jamaica Plain
$10

FRI 1/25

8pm to 11pm
Who Killed the Electric Car?” & “A Crude Awakening
at Stata Center, Room 144, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge (MIT campus)
FREE

A double feature at the Environmental Film Festival. There was free pizza last year...

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SAT 1/26

7pm to 7am
30th Annual Science Fiction Marathon
At Bldg 26, Room 100, 60 Vassar St, Cambridge (MIT campus)
$7 / $4 after midnight

The marathon features five full length films and several short features.
7:00pm - Galaxy Quest
9:30pm - Sunshine
11:30pm - pizza break, SURPRISE sci-fi episode
12:00am - The Host
3:00am - Gattaca
5:00am - Starship Troopers

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SUN 1/27

10pm to Midnight
Titler’s Oddville
at The Beehive, 541 Tremont Street, Boston (South End)
$10 online / $15 door

This will likely be a bizarre, offensive “nu-vaudeville” performance featuring Red Peters, Shane Mauss, the Yo-Yo Couple, and more. I bet it’s going to be filmed. So there you go.

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Link of the Week:

Very similar to another word game with lettered tiles. Play before it gets closed down.

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Quote of the Week:

"Judas was a traitor to his God, Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country, a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."

-- Jack London

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th-th-that's all, folks.

~r

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