Boston Rock Photos And Stuff
Dave Derby and Kevin March playing Dambuilders songs at Cuisine en Locale?* Sign me up. Just another great moment from the Pipeline! at 25 series of shows.
* With Fuzzy’s Hilken Mancini on backing vocals!
There’s a show I’d like to go to just about every night somewhere in this town. Some nights it can be tough to choose just one. Friday night is going to be impossible. Fourteen lovable Daykamp Music alumni will be taking the stage at five different area venues on October 17th. My brain is melting. What to do? Let’s see if we can figure this out together.
Let’s start at The Middle East Upstairs for a very good cause. Township, White Dynomite, The Field Effect and Triple Thick will be there for Crash Safely along with Animal Hospital. That’s alotta rock, with the money raised going to support The National MS Society. (FB Event)
Maybe you want to do good with your show-going dollars, but that show isn’t your thing? You could always head next door to TT’s for the latest installment of the Boston Does Boston benefit for the Animal Rescue League Of Boston. Cask Mouse, The Rationales, The Daily Pravda, Muy Cansado and The Fatal Flaw will be joined by Dave Crespo’s After Party at that one. (FB Event)
If you’re caught up in the Boston Music Awards buzz and want to check out New Artist Of The Year nominee The Color And The Sound, then Church is the place for you. Bonus time! Doom Lover are on that bill, too. Daykamp Music loves them, but we secretly worry they’re plotting our demise. At least they’ll write a creepy-cool song about it. (FB Event)
How about Answerman and Barricades at PA’s with Go Blank and Emergency Exit? Couldn’t fault you for that one, either. (FB Event)
If you can’t find something to like in one of those shows, there’s nothing I can do for you. Oh wait! Yes there is! You can go see Gondoliers at Cuisine en Locale with Shepherdess and Planet Of Adventure. This show is being filmed. I can’t even image what Gondoliers have up their sleeves. I can’t wait to see. (FB Event)
Nisi Period closed out a night of celebrating Pipeline! at 25 with a psychedelic set of percussive rock.
The Pipeline! at 25 celebration found 1981 Rock ‘n’ Roll Rumble winners Someone And The Somebodies at Cuisune en Local for a set that harked back to the early days of modern rock.
I didn’t remember Pods. In fact, I’m not sure I had ever heard of them before the Pipeline! at 25 shows were announced. Now I feel silly. Pods played some punchy, punky power pop at Cuisine en Locale that made me wonder how I had missed them during their first go-round. Outstanding.
The Pipeline! at 25 celebration brought Purple Ivy Shadows to Cuisine en Locale for a set of dreamy indie rock.
Mistle Thrush were dynamic, textured and slightly haunting at at Cuisine en Locale for the Pipeline! at 25 celebration. Just like I remember them.
The Pipeline! at 25 celebration rolled on at Cuisine en Locale with a set of dark, moody rock from Curious Ritual.
It would be hard for me to overstate how important Ultrabreakfast has been to my time in the Boston music scene. Their indie rock, janglefuzz tunes brought me out to the clubs. They taught me who Billy Ruane was. “Gonna go out tonight/Gonna get my hand stamped twice” became words to live by. Friendships and bands formed with and around this crew have impacted just about every aspect of my life. Needless to say, when Ultrabreakfast got together to play their first show in 15 years as part of WMBR’s Pipeline! at 25 celebration, I was there.
