Moondoggies do the indie rock and sweeten it by adding pop harmonies. Rose Windows make inventive trippy pop music and are also from Seattle. Both have recently released records, on Hardly Art and Sub Pop respectively. Hear them both as they share a bill @TTs 8:30pm 18+ $10 Thu Oct 17, 2013 Trusty explorers of the entirety of the EDM spectrum, The Brain Trust, present... Philly’s Space Jesus and his bass fueled, psychedelic hiphop flavored EDM jams @Mid East Down 10:30pm 18+ $10 One of Boston’s very best Queer parties has been and is Queeraoke @ Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $ome cost Montreal’s Sonic Avenues make the trek south to smash the lucky ones in the face with their poppy garage rock. Rhode Island garage pop fiends The Atlantic Thrills, The Legendary Rockin’ Prophets, and The Little Richards join them @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Tim Fain, who has collaborated with Phillip Glass and appeared in the film Black Swan, performs music by Philip Glass, Lev Zhurbin, Nico Muhly, Aaron Jay Kernis, William Bolcom, and Kevin Puts @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 7pm 7+ $12-$27 Leedz Edutainment and Crush Boston Present NYC’s Blockhead (Ninja Tune, Aesop Rock), Little People, 4LMNTZ (Elemental Productions), Uncle Bob, Eddy M @Middle East Down 9:30pm 18+ $15 Tipper Gore hates Minnesota’s Impaler and now you can find out why... live! The 80s heavy metal crew returns with Crypter, Venomizer, Season of the Dead, and Frost Rot @Roggies 8pm $8 All Ages Fri Oct 18, 2013 It’s Hippie Hour again w/ The Mystical Misfits, Uncle Johnny’s Band, and Friends playing music of The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan and More @Midway Cafe 6pm 21+ FREE The Sour Doo-Dahs Country tinged garage rockers The Sour Doo-Dahs release an EP tonight w/ Fur Purse, The Snakebites (from Seattle), and Thrust Club @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $8 Immigrants just released a great 7” and full length called Black Dada on La Parca. They front a night of indie hip hop w/ Porn Theater Ushers, Sarcasmo (NY), and Modern Lighting @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10 Sub Pop’s The Helio Sequence play some of that modern sounding pop rock and are joined by Monemena @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $18adv/$20dos WorldMusic/CRASHarts present… Terakaft come to us from Sarahan Africa singing in the Tamasheq tongue and playing a beautiful, droning take on guitar rock that comes across as the hybrid of West African guitar music and Western rock and related musics that it is. They’re @Johnny D’s 9:30pm 21+ $20 Brooklyn’s Joey Bada$$ head up a night of underground hip-hop sounds w/ his collaborators in Pro Era, Ab Soul, the Underachievers, Chevy Woods @ Paradise 7pm All Ages $22 New Jersey pop punks Dads, and the more abrasive weirder punk of Albany’s Drug Church top a bill with Lovechild, My Fictions @Democracy Ctr 8pm All Ages $ome cost Sat Oct 19, 2013Deep Heaven Now continues with it’s 8th iteration w/ Guillermo Sexo, Wisconsin’s Brief Candles, and NYC’s the Stargazer Lilies and many more @Precinct & @P.A.’s today and tomorrow 5pm 21+ $10 per day Halloween 2 features Fat Creeps, Guerilla Toss, Nice Guys, and Designer. Only 4 of the city’s best bands @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7pm $7 Donation Former Soul coughing singer Mike Doughty is @Paradise $20 ADV 8pm Reverse The Curse (OH), Mind Your Mother, and Sparhawks are @O’Brien’s 8pm21+ $8 There’s a blues and rock n roll bill over @Mid East Up w/ The Silks (PVD), Three Itchies (PVD), Thick Shakes 9pm 18 $8 Heavy instrumental explorers Pelican land on Comm. Ave. to rattle the building w/ King Destroy, and Boston doom scuzzers Phantom Glue @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $15 Open Sound presents Tim Tsang/ Jane Wang in a synthesizer/string bass duo, sound and video duo Hi-Speed Coeds, the quartet called HMQ, & Jesse Kenas Collins on solo cornet @Third Life Studio 7:30pm All Ages $8 Topshelf Records’ artists Caravels, Ken Burns, Old Gray, and Lyra are @Roggies 8pm All Ages $ome cost The Humane League’s Walk for the Animals begins @Democracy Center (in Harvard Square) at 11am. The walk serves to raise awareness of the Human League’s efforts to protect and advocate for animals through public education, campaigns, and rescue. Sun Oct 20, 2013 Deep Heaven Now 8 continues its ambient psych festivities @Pnct & P.A.’s Lounge 5pm 21+ $10 B.O.W. Shows and Boston Hassle present a 1 day camping show out in western MA: Guerilla Toss, Cave Bears, No Sound (Ted Lee solo), Designer, Cult & Leper, Cruise Whisp, Saga Genesis + many more are on board for what’s obviously going to be a ridiculously fun night @a house (and outside a house) in Belchertown, MA 4-12pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale donate See Philly junk pop gang Man Man w/ Xenia Rubinos @Paradise 8pm 18+ $17.50 ADV Dutch orchestral psych pop mastermind Jacco Gardner graces us with his presence once again. He has a brand new 7” record out on Trouble In Mind. Anna from Quilt going solo as Dawn Fauna @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 UK electronic indie duo Fuck Buttons are @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $17adv/$20dos Mon Oct 21, 2013 Let the Series take you on an unexpected journey each Monday. Tonight they host Homeshopper @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 Donation Then catch the inimitable Night of a Living Deadhead for the murky psych fuzz of CreaturoS, Montreals dreamers the Leamers and Jam Jam (John Murphy and Fumika) @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Lovers, Kitschenettes, Shepherdess and Miss Geo @Mid East Down for 9pm 18+ $10 Tue Oct 22, 2013 Sunny melancholic jangle pop in Ezra Furman & the Harpoons (Bar/None Records) with much-loved moody locals Krill @Mid East Down 9pm 18+ $9 Catch Ed Vallance, Blue-eyed Son, Gregory McKillop & The Slightly and Smaller Band @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Wrap yourself in the dreampop gauze of Cults with SACCO and Mood Rings @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $18adv/$20dos Or get into that dark funk early with Boston Hassle’s Scanners electronic night featuring Providence demon synth princess Unicorn Hard-on and local techno brick layers Construction Gang @Middlesex Wed Oct 23, 2013 Kids of all ages can get wild tonight with sunny LA pop punks Fidlar and Chicago’s The Orwells @Sinclair 9pm All Ages $13adv/$15dos For some pure bred pop catch Oakland’s Steel Cranes with locals Today Junior, The Ghosts of Sailors At Sea, and Idiot Genes @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Carl Eisman and friends dish out reggae, soul and R&B @Midway 9pm 21+ $5 Thu Oct 24, 2013 The Brain Trust, local purveyors of the best in EDM, presents funky downtempo DJ collective Orchard Lounge and Drunken Doja Monkey as part of their ongoing residency @Middleast Downstairs 10pm 18+ $15 Get raw with this melodic hardcore ripper featuring Holyoke’s The Stereo State, No Trigger, Heartsounds, and Cleve (Japan) @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10 Fun times will surely be had @PA’s in Somerville with bizarro prog hogs Cult & Leper, sunglass glam Nicholas Burgess, Lady Pilot, Planet of Adventure 8:30pm 21+ 8pm Dilapidated Entreprises hosts an evening of dark, snarling metal with Florida’s Gigan, Phantom Glue, Odiusembowel, Living Void @Roggies 9pm 18+ $ome cost And Boston’s long running queer dance night Queeraoke gets festive @Midway 9pm 21+ $ome cost
Fri Oct 25, 2013 Catch a rare public talk with the prodigious Elvis Costello, receiving an honorary music degree @New England Conservatory (Jordan Hall) 2pm All Ages Free Ya know him, ya love him, he is the defender of free speech, ACLU Benefit. Catch this tribute to the amazing Noah Britton. Friends gather for What: A Tribute to Noah Britton @somehaus 9pm All Ages Donate Fans of the far out soundscapes should pay a visit to Somerville for a night of mind-bending experimental improv with Symptomatic (Vic and Steve), Chris Strunk, Matt Ingals, Lea Bertucci/Anthony Saunders (NYC) @WSAC 8pm All Ages $5 Get trippy @Midway in JP with The Mystical Misfits, Uncle Johnny’s Band, and friends playing the greats @ 6-8pm 21+ Free Then stay for brooding tunes of veteran Thalia Zedek Band with The Franklys, You People, Elephants @Midway 9pm 21+$8 Sat Oct 26, 2013 Mix some middle eastern bellydance rhythms with downtempo grooves with Beats Antique and Random Rab @Paradise 8pm 18+ $20 adv Boston best queer dance night Don’t Ask Don’t Tell rolls on @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $8 Purveyors of psych pop Of Montreal return to their roots with locals Surface to Air Missive @The Mid East Down 9pm 18+ $20 And look out as Boston basement darlings Saralee come home with Iowa’s Giving Up @TBD Sun Oct 27, 2013 We’re fast approaching that most unholy of holidays, so get in the fearful mood of crushing noise and psycho-twisted soundscapes courtesy of Humanbeast (Pvd), Rectal Hygienics, Jason Crumer, White Load, Corephallism @Radio Down 9pm 21+ $ome cost You could likewise get dark and stormy with metal lovers Dilapidated Enterprises present Wormed (Spain), Condemned (CA), Infernal Revulsion (Japan), Cognitive (NJ) & Parasitic Extirpation @Cambridge Elks Lodge 5pm All Ages $15 Those inclined to angular guitars will surely enjoy the grungy blues pop of Slothrust (NYC) with local tempo-swinging rockers Kal Marks, Crinkle Face, and Goddard @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Amherst post punk scroungers Longings and garage poppers Fleabite + others take over @Democracy Center 8pm All Ages Donate And in JP get your disco house fill with Plastique’s Brian Halligan and James Derek Dwyer @Midway 9pm 21+ $5 Mon Oct 28, 2013 Dave Gross’ October curation of The Series @Weirdo concludes with the man himself performing avant jazz with James Coleman, along with Wes Hazard hosting comedy 8:30pm All Ages $5 Donation Down Mass Ave. @Zuzu Night of the Living Deadhead lives up to its name with local exuberant folk band Hallelujah the Hills play tribute to Monster Mash 10pm 21+ Free Sprightly pop punk Sport come to us from Lyon, France, joined by Tyler Daniel Bean, and Hit Home @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Tue Oct 29, 2013 One of the great figures in dub, the twisted Mad Professor will twist reggae into narcotic bass rhythms in this rare live performance @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12 Toronto natives King Khan and the Shrines know how to put on a show, so shake loose with them an local dionysian garage punks The Monsieurs and Hellshovel @Brighton Music Hall 9pm 18+ $15 Traverse the astral plane with the psychedelic legend Nik Turner’s Space Ritual (ex Hawkwind) and German krautrock groovers Hedersleben, nicely paired with local mind-benders Ghost Box Orchestra, Moontowers @Mid East Up 8pm 21+ $10adv/$12dos Get heavy with The Proselyte, Bridesmaid (OH), Rozamov, and Olde Growth @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Wed Oct 30, 2013 Seminal German industrial group KMFDM descend upon Boston with Chant @Paradise 9pm 18+ $23 Silky fresh synth pop duo Holy Ghost! work up a quite the dance party tonight with Midnight Magic @Sinclair 8:30pm 18+ $18adv/$20dos Get over to JP for this steaming mess of a harcore show: Old Gray, Lovechild, and beach bum punks Acidosis @JP Drive In 9pm All Ages $5-$10 sliding scale donation For some local hip-hop thats both experimental and on point, catch STL Gold (Moe Pope & Arcitype, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth, Esh the Monolith, Dagha @Middle East Up 9pm 18+ $10 ($5 w/ costume) Get into a mellow vibe with your ghoulish sweetheart with the Authentic Lounge @Midway 9pm 21+ $5 One of the more idiosyncratic pop acts to find success in the 70s Sparks are the brainchild of the Maels brothers who first scored in the midst of the UK’s glam rock craze, and later (with the help of Giorgio Moroder) in the disco era. Find yourself a copy of Kimono My House. @Brighton Music Hall 9pm 18+ $26 Thu Oct 31, 2013 It’s Halloween, so wear your weirdest outfit and watch out for vampires as you traverse this night bursting with strange music. Tonight the Brain Trust has Thriftworks and local favs Supersillyus unleashing monstrous bass beats @Mid East Down 9pm 18+ $10adv/$15dos Eye Design always know how to throw a party, and tonights no different @Great Scott for Trick or Treat Yo Self! Lineup TBA 9pm $8 ◆Listen to the harrowing, spine-tinglingly intense compositions of Callithumpian Consort performing music by Chaya Czernowin, Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, Morton Feldman, & Giacinto Scelsi @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 7pm All Ages $27/$12 students Sissy-bounce sensation Big Freedia backs it up hard with those frenetic rhythms that drive the kids crazy @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $16adv/$18dos You’re in for fiendish sonic feast as Existence Establishment hosts Autumn Dirges, Sprettro Family, locals Theologian, Compactor, Teloahqaal and Swollen Organs @Radio Its Odd Thursdays Halloween @Lilypad in Inman with stoned rock queens Sleep Crimes, pop miesters Elephants, & Yellabird 9pm All Ages $5 Rockabilly punks The Sprained Ankles keep the undead bop blues rolling with Squallie and The Chaotix, The Radicals, and The Pity Whores and Loser’s Circle @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: BostonCCC@Gmail.com Submit art and support materials by the 20th of each month. 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October Concerts at the MFA mfa.org/music
Use the promo code “CONCERT” when purchasing tickets online, over the phone, or in person to receive discounted $13 tickets for Angel Olsen and $16 tickets for the Blow
Friday October 4, 7:30pm Angel Olsen, Pillars and Tongues $13, 16 The first price is discounted for members, seniors, and students; the second is full price.
Friday October 11, 7:30pm The Blow, Love Inks $16, 20 “The Blow have returned.” -Pitchfork
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