Ruby Ridge: "Cuttlefish b/w Pets" (2011). Free download!

Ruby Ridge is a new electronic/synth pop project currently consisting of myself and Callan AviatriX. Enjoy!!!

RUBY RIDGE ON SOUNDCLOUD

A Document of How I Spent My Winter, 2010/2011

In which I, John Francis Bittrich, writer of this blog, musician, critic and man about town, interview myself for my own amusement (and maybe that of those who would know me).


HEY, FLAX! HOW WAS YOUR WINTER?

Well, Boston was even more of an arctic hellstorm than usual, for one. The night it reached its worst, a day that had seen a high of four degrees, I found myself incapable of continuing amicable relations with my family, with whom I had been staying in West Roxbury after a great fall spent subletting in Inman Square. So anyway, I was asked to leave and I left. This is not the first time such things have happened, though, and the fam and I both feel we get along better from a distance. I'm staying in Brookline with my deer, sweet, generous friends Andy and Sharde right now.

Other than THAT craziness, I'm not too bad! I've been working a day a week at the box office of The A.R.T., slowly chipping away at a record noone will ever hear and writing a lot for the Together Festival and the Weekly Dig... I also got in a couple great DJ sets at Rise, Enormous Room, Red Tail and Savant Project!

OH. SO UM... YOU MENTIONED WRITING FOR THE DIG AND THE TOGETHER FESTIVAL... WHICH PIECES WERE YOUR FAVORITE SO FAR?

It just keeps getting more and more fun for me honestly, but doing this 500-word piece on Eli Keszler's recent Cyclorama installation was a real treat for me. Ditto my writeup on the opening of Armageddon Shop Boston and my piece on Ray Kurzweil's recent talk and film screening at the Coolidge. It was great to do my piece on Arp Instruments' local history, too.



SEEN ANY GOOD MOVIES LATELY?

Ip Man is a super cool Kung Fu movie set in World War 2. Valhalla Rising was another rad period piece, brutal but meditative. Honestly, I've been on more on a TV kick than anything else... 4 NBC shows and Archer on Thursdays, SNL sometimes, Skins season 5 in the UK (NOT THE US REMAKE ABOMINATION)... Modern Family, of all damn things... The Walking Dead... oh, and a lot of late-night Ancient Aliens binges!

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN READING?

Classic Science Fiction! Before moving from Somerville back to West Roxbury I bought very liberally from Lorem Ipsum's sci-fi wall, which is a treasure-trove. I read collections by Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, Lin Carter and Algernon Blackwood. My dear friend Scott Taddei kindly lent me William S. Burroughs' "THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS" and gave me Burroughs and Ginsberg's "THE YAGE LETTERS REDUX" for my birthday, both of which I ravenously devoured. I bought a copy of Gilles Deleuze's "Nietzsche and Philosophy" from a homeless person, and have been slowly working my way through it. I've also plucked THE WASTELAND and THE COMPLETE ENOCHIAN DICTIONARY from Andy's rather wonderful little library here in Brookline...



Comics-wise, I've revisited THE ULTIMATES and ULTIMATE X-MEN in advance of the upcoming wave of Marvel films. I'm also halfway through SUPERGOD, and am excited about where KICK-ASS 2 is headed. target="_blank">The Modern Mythology blog has been consistently top-notch, too.

WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN LISTENING TO?

If you don't have the GATEKEEPER "Giza" EP yet you are missing out on some SERIOUS hot fire... Amazing this isn't a reissue of some 25 year old Wax Trax type band. Same goes for LONE's album and (especially) the "Pineapple Crush"/"Angel Brain" single. ALSO: listen to lots and lots of SHACKLETON. Every day. "International Fires" has been the track of choice for the past month or two... Been a number of very impressive rereleases yesterday by Cluster's HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS... Highly recommended... A lot of NICOLAS JAAR... The new EGYPTRIXX full-length "Bible Eyes" is making huge in-roads in my play count, and RAIME and DEMDIKE STARE, for those more on the dark ambient witchypoo tip, are KILLING IT!! Also, allow me to join in with the chorus on this one. No not KANYE (ok... him too) or ROBYN (ok, her too) but JAMES (MOTHERFUCKING) BLAKE! Come to New England soon, Jimmy!!! Speaking of New England, SOUL CLAP's SOCIAL EXPERIMENT 002 is a monster. They rep Boston hard even while residing in Miami. Get down with the get down.

GAY GHOST are my favorite rock and roll band in the world as of late. I also like THE BATMEN and THE BOO JAYS. Get down, Portland! Of course I wouldn't be me if I wasn't constantly listening to Joy Division, The Swans, Crass, The Smiths, The Birthday Party and Psychic TV. Goes without saying. Oh, and where THE METAL is concerned I've been all about French black metal (see: HELL MILITIA) and technical brutal death metal. WOW, this is getting long-winded and I'm only cataloging one (long) winter! ...perhaps that's enough music for now?



PERHAPS. ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE LAST FEW MONTHS WORTH MENTIONING?

Just thanks to all my dearest: Sarah G, my cousin Nick Bittrich, Francesco Di Stefano, Katie and Mike, Anthony Buda, Mikey, Ann and Scott, the aforementioned Andy and Sharde, Dennis, Alexia, Marko, Marco, Damien, Matt Carroll, Blair, Danny O, The Holts, my little brothers, Logan, Chad, Stormy John etc etc etc. Solidarity with uprisings in wisconsin and worldwide. Big ups to Japan.

BIG UPS INDEED. SO WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS FOR SPRING?

PROTOKOLL reunion shows. The TOGETHER FESTIVAL. Plenty more for the DIG. More work on that record noone will ever hear... I'd like to get another rock band going... Regarding this blog, a lot more MP3 links/reviews and more "personal" style shit like this... Oh, and getting my health care back and getting a steady paycheck so that I can rent my own place somewhere and getting something cleared up in court... But I won't bother you with all that boring shit.

THANK YOU.

De nada.

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Calling Shenannigans...

For those who've missed my more frequent posting here, perhaps you'd be interested to check out the work I'm doing for The Weekly Dig! Since New Year's, I've covered everything from punk record store openings to Hercules and Love Affair DJ sets to cult film revivals, with more work coming every week. That doesn't mean this blog is dead, though. Far from it. Expect big things starting soon. In the meantime, let's catch up tomorrow night @ SAVANT PROJECT in Mission Hill, where I will be performing free of charge with DARK & STORMY and MR. MCNEILL from 10 to close!

12/27: Neptune, Major Stars, Bugs and Rats @ Charlie's Kitchen in Harvard Square

It is common knowledge among promoters that the time between Christmas and New Year's Eve is a dicey time to have an event planned. Students are snuggled back into the cozy suburban nowheres from whence they issued forth in September, biding time between all the "holiday" festivities that have just started to fizzle out and the overblown, overexpensive disappointment that is every New Year's Eve... Not to mention the fact that it is generally cold as a warlock's balls.

The show I am here to tell you about, however, is in one any local promoter will tell you is an absolute slam dunk, calendrical issues be damned!!!


NEPTUNE


You see, nobody ever forgets the first time they see Neptune in concert... and that's a LOT of nobodies. Throughout several stylistic changes over their rather long reign at the top of Boston's noise-rock heap, the group have managed to sway, slam and clamor with homemade industrial implements and tense, theatrical stage presense for thousands of rabid fans from Boston to Bordeaux.

Just a scant two days after Xmas, we find them joining forces with local celebrities Major Stars, whose trajectory from instrumental wall-of-noise psych to wailing rock n' roll badassery has been well-documented locally and led to a fruitful relationship with stalwart indie label Drag City.


MAJOR STARS

Opening will be my all-time favorite Quincy-based rock group (and one of the MA's longest-held "best kept secret" bands) Bugs and Rats, in all of their sludgy, grungy fury.


CHARLIE'S KITCHEN

The show would be filled to capacity at nearly any venue you could throw at it, from Great Scott to Mass Art to the Middle East... But what better place to book such a facemelter of a three-band showcase during the collegiate diaspora known as winter break than upstairs at CHARLIE'S KITCHEN, a sweltering, overcrowded cheeseburger-joint-cum-karaoke-haunt which functions as Harvard Square's last bastion of unrepentant townieism!? Other than in the basement which once housed the HOSS, I think we all know the answer is "nowhere".

This will be a VERY crowded show, so don't be late. The bands are absolutely the type that will envelop you in sound... just as surely as the atmosphere will envelop you in a wall of hirsute, flannel-clad gentlemen and their too-cute-for-them girlfriends, and as surely as a fine bouquet of sweat, cannabis indica, spilled PBR and double cheeseburgers will envelop your lungs and nasal passages. Yeah, it's pretty much my idea of heaven, too...

Saturday: VISIONS w./ DJ DONNA SUMMER (Jason Forrest!), DEV/NULL, CORALCOLA + DAVID DAY!

For years and years now, DJ DONNA SUMMER aka JASON FORREST has been a transcontinental household name in more styles and subgenres of electronic music than it is worth listing. Whether it was his 2005 block-rocker "War Photography", the truly dizzying "My 36 Favorite Punk Songs" novelty track, or the more recent electro club bangers he's been producing on the NIGHTSHIFTERS label, you've probably heard the COCK ROCK DISCO founder tear up the laptop at some point or another. This Saturday, don't miss the opportunity to see him reunited with Boston's own CRD alum (and producer of my favorite local 12" of 2010), DEV/NULL!!!



DJ DONNA SUMMER

Local institutions CORALCOLA (whose soon-to-be-released new record will probably give Dev/Null's a run for its money) and DAVID DAY will top off an amazing evening at GOOD LIFE, 28 Kingston Street in tundra-esque Downtown Boston. ALL FOR A MEASLY FIVE BONES!!!

The Great Pumpkin Came Early This Year!

Ectocooler - ecto scares the neighbors by ectocooler

a 47-minute podcast's worth of spooky synth patches, "stalked thru a dark alley" tunes and some truly satanic gangsta shit, curated by yours truly. Much love and happy haunting!

TRACK LIST:

skeletal system - in a fog
brain machine - eternal night
oOoOO - sedsumting
mika vaino - midnight mutant
big l - zone of danger
model man - shouldn't
kupa - bloody tears
wolverine (NES 8bit) - the first trial
ixtlan - his name is raiko and he killed the clown
wu lyf - concrete gold
babe, terror - summertime our league
duncan scott and william j - dayman (fighter of the nightman)

BUFFYFEST 2010 (and so much more!) at NEW ENGLAND COMIC CON!

The yearly takeover of Hynes Convention Center by New England Comic Con is going to be drawing far more than just us comic geeks this year. The three-day nerdapalooza, which starts this Friday, is hosting several generations' worth of TV's most-beloved heroes and villains, including SEVEN MEMBERS of the cast of Joss Whedon's masterful BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER! My inner fanboy is beyond elated at the thought of being in the same room as XANDER, SPIKE, CORDELIA, HARMONY, TARA, THE MASTER and GLORY all at once, SMG and Boreanaz be damned.


Nicholas (Xander Harris) Brennan and James (Spike) Marsters


If you are a Buffyphobe or just need more convincing, I have five words for you: Adam West and Burt Ward. BATMAN AND ROBIN! They of the anti-shark-repellant-spray! THE MAYOR OF FUCKING QUAHOG AND HIS BOY WARD!!!


Adam (Batman) West and Burt (Robin) Ward


There. I'm sure by now you're already purchasing tickets. And in case it's too expensive, maybe you can ask STEVE AUSTIN, aka THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN, aka LEE MAJORS, if he still has access to the kinda cash necessary to float you... That or ask that BARACK OBAMA guy for one of those loans he's always handing out, since he's appearing at a rally in the same building as all of these people on Saturday.... I know, wtf, right?

Tuesday, October 19th: Matthew Dear, Andre Obin, Coralcola and Volvox!

During that all that luxurious and plentiful free time I'm sure MATTHEW DEAR has at his disposal (that is, when he's not running two record labels, crafting epic sets for all your favorite podcasts and  remixing all your favorite bands), the GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL and SPECTRE SOUND honcho has somehow managed to eke out four increasingly-singular albums of deep, minimal electronic dance music. Apparently bored with all that slacking off, he's decided to embark on an exhaustive tour, which will be stopping off in Allston towne to perform with a trio of Boston's freshest electronic tastemakers.

MATTHEW DEAR 

Endless Wave frontman ANDRE OBIN has a textured, shoegaze-influenced take on laid-back technopop which will be the perfect segue into Matthew Dear after CORALCOLA sets us all adrift on a sea of his glitchy, ambient dreamtunage. If one were to read this blog end to end, there is no doubt that it is Mikey "Coralcola" Lee whose events come up most disturbingly often. Mikey opened for Mount Kimbie last week and played a set of almost-entirely-brand-new jammy jams that got me all tingly in ways that assure my practice of over-covering his appearances will continue unabated well into 2011! One of those tracks is available now on the internets, so I'll just let y'all listen for yourselves...

CORALCOLA - Moistests Weathers


VOLVOX

I'm sure you will all show up to Great Scott promptly and READY TO DANCE, because this will be packed early and VOLVOX is spinning. I'm sure you've seen her at MAKE IT NEW, or HARUM SCARUM, or VISIONS, or NO TOMORROW, or in so-and-so's basement, or opening for DEADMAU5, or probably somewhere right now... So you're familiar with the way those little inflections of darker ebm and industrial beat can peak out of that minimal house and techno sheen... and you know that you can't deny them...



Tuesday, October 19th at GREAT SCOTT in Allston, MA...
MATTHEW DEAR
ANDRE OBIN
CORALCOLA
VOLVOX
18+
$10 advance/$12 day of show
Doors @ 9pm
See the GREAT SCOTT WEBSITE for more info.

October 5th: Chapterhouse, Ulrich Schnauss, 28 Degrees Taurus

The gods of UK rock have been smiling on New England as of late, bringing us in recent months a visit by CHAMELEONS UK, and now by personal faves CHAPTERHOUSE, in short succession.

Chapterhouse

There are few greater achievements in the canon of shoegazer rock than Chapterhouse's aptly-titled 1991 debut "Whirlpool". From the pop jangle of "Breather" to the ecstatic, enveloping warmth of "Treasure" to the propulsive and sinister guitar thrust of "Autosleeper"; the Reading, UK group managed in nine songs to mine a far wider range of sonic materials than even their more-hyped counterparts (such as Ride and My Bloody Valentine) could ever fit into one record, all while retaining a distinct sound throughout.



28 Degrees Taurus

Chapterhouse alone would be reason to leave the house, but luckily for you and I they are paired with an amazing pair of quite distinct talents. Germany's Ulrich Schnauss, who is touring with the group, is a purveyor of the kind of dreamy chillout electronica that pulls you in and won't let go, managing to sound somehow upbeat and sunny without ever being chirpy or saccharine. Local post-punk/psych favorites 28 Degrees Taurus will round out the bill with their dreamily eastern melodies and hard-partying boy/girl lyrical delivery.

CHAPTERHOUSE (UK)
ULRICH SCHNAUSS (GERMANY)
28 DEGREES TAURUS
@The Middle East (Downstairs)
18+, 8pm doors
$15
480 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA
The Middle East Website

October 1st: An Evening with Graham Hancock

GRAHAM HANCOCK

Leading counter-cultural figure and fucker of minds Graham Hancock, best known for his 1995 investigation into the roots of civilization, "Fingerprints of the Gods", will be making a stop in Massachusetts to promote his new book, "Entangled", on October 1st. Although Entangled is Hancock's first fictional novel, you can bet that topics discussed at the reading will range from prehistorical civilizations to extraterrestrial contact to psychedelics to the approaching 2012 event and back. Anyone with a curiosity regarding the more esoteric and mysterious aspects of human existence would do well to attend.

The Emergence Project presents...
GRAHAM HANCOCK
Friday, October 1st from 7:30 to 9:30
@ The Arlington Center, 369 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA
$10/$5 for students
for tickets and information, click here.

TONIGHT: The Middle East and End of an Empire present FENNESZ, BURNING STAR CORE, NOVELLER

FENNESZ



Christian Fennesz, for those unaware, has been one of the most important purveyors of ambient experimental music to emerge in the past 20 years. His work with Ryuichi Sakamoto is already the stuff of legends, and his solo masterpiece "Endless Summer" is, to these ears, an absolute essential for anybody with an interest in more left-field, "out" sounds.

Make sure to show up in time for BURNING STAR CORE, as well. C. Spenser Yeh has spent a number of years now perfecting his noise/drone compositions for violin, electronics and vocals and may well prove to give the headliner a run for his money in the "intensity" department.

Opening act NOVELLER is less familiar to me, but an overview of her myspace page belies a sensibility which fits this bill perfectly. Her eddying currents of bowed and treated double-neck guitar and various effects are sure to pull plenty of early-birds up from their barstools to the front of the room.


NOVELLER

End of an Empire presents...
FENNESZ (Vienna, Austria)
BURNING STAR CORE (Cincinatti, OH)
NOVELLER (Brooklyn, NY)

@The Middle East (Downstairs)
18+, 8pm doors
$15 adv./$17 at door
480 Mass. Ave, Cambridge, MA
The Middle East Website

You killed my beta fish! Just threw it out the window!

Yours truly was comped a ticket for tonight's Of Montreal/Janelle Monae gig at House of Blues. Couldn't be more excited, because the pix from the tour kickoff make it pretty clear that the "False Priest" tour is gonna be a TRIP!


Of Montreal

The opener is possessed of some crazy dance talent and a penchant for retro Sci-Fi dystopia, as evinced in this video featuring Outkast's Big Boi...

Dubstep's seasoned vet and upstart rookies take the Hub by storm!

On September 24th, Bassic will be playing host to one of the true originators of Dubstep and one of its most consistently-gamechanging recording artists, Hotflush records honcho SCUBA!


SCUBA

His "Triangulation" LP was undoubtedly one of the year's masterpieces. In fact, one of the only better releases of 2010 was "Crooks & Lovers", by Hotflush signees Mount Kimbie... and wouldn't you know it, the fine folks over at Music Ecology have Kimbie stopping over for a gig with Coralcola at Wonderbar in Allston a mere four days later!


Mount Kimbie

This will be a week to remember for years, and if I were you I'd make it my business to miss neither of these events. Show up early, kiddos!

Monday, August 2nd: THE CHAMELEONS (UK) and ENDLESS WAVE at Hennessey's

CHAMELEONS UK

Now, Faneuil Hall has never exactly been one of our city's cultural hot spots unless your idea of a good time is something akin to hanging out in the Irish-American version of the Jersey Shore, but when I found out that postpunk/protogaze legends CHAMELEONS UK would be coming through to play a $10 gig with Andre Obin's ENDLESS WAVE tomorrow I almost spat Magic Hat all over my monitor. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW! Small venue, important band, enragingly good local talent. Seeya there.

The Chameleons UK - Perfume Garden

2010 is half-over, so here's half a top 10 list!

1. Mount Kimbie "Crooks & Lovers" (Hotflush) 
On the most ambient fringes of the trendiest genre to emerge in years, there is a non-existent mountain of raw talent. This is Mount Kimbie; a duo based in Peckham, UK whose stellar early single "Maybes" gave indication to those in the know that they were not fucking around. Laced with field recordings and found sounds, their take on dubstep has a nuance that most of their competitors (and most of dance music in general) lack. Finally released to the public (without those pesky hotflush watermarks) in all its head-scratching glory!
Mount Kimbie - Carbonated



2. Flying Lotus "Cosmogramma" (Warp)
Enough words have been said about the bizarre brilliance that is COSMOGRAMMA at this point to fill an entire warehouse of servers. Just listen, already.
Flying Lotus - Satelllliiiiiteee



3. Eminem "Recovery" (Shady/Aftermath)
If Marshall Mathers had a nickel for every time his music and persona were misunderstood, he'd be a slightly richer man. He'll be the first to tell you that of course, which is part of what causes his critics to misunderstand him in the first place. He's not just another celebrity whining about the pitfalls of success, any more than he's just a misogynist or a homophobe. At his best (and RECOVERY is his best work since THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP) he is the greatest rapper of all time; layers of honesty and myth deftly weaving in and out of each other almost as sublimely as the layers of pun, rhyme and metaphor that he wraps them in.
Eminem - Untitled



4. The Liars "Sisterworld" (Mute)
Perhaps due to their lead singer's noticeable gangly Australian-ness, I have always viewed the Liars (rather unfairly) in the long, black shadow cast by Nick Cave. The influence was readily evident in the band's debut album, and less-so with each passing release. I was thrilled with the generally-poorly-received industrial racket of THEY WERE WRONG SO WE DROWNED, but bored to tears by DRUM'S NOT DEAD at a time when it was one of the most-played records on ZBC. I was ready to write the band off for good when SISTERWORLD came along and knocked me flat on my ass. This is a group that needs fear no man's shadow, and an album that casts quite a few of its own.
The Liars - Goodnight Everything



5. Actress "Splazsh" (Honest Jon's)
Intriguing doesn't even begin to cover it. This album is a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a quartet of black hexagons. If Actress (nee Darren Cunningham) has any peers at all, it's beyond me to name them. His commitment to making the uncomfortable and unpredictable seem desirable is a gift that keeps on giving, and one that a lot of other artists should consider.
Actress - Hubble

Tuesday, July 27th: SSSLLLOOOWWW... featuring a live set by WHITE RING!!!

If you aren't aware of my love for this wonderful little drag/chopped/screwed monthly, you aren't paying very close attention. Comfortable couches, sinister BPMs and all the DRANK you can DRANK! Last month brought a fantastic DJ set by sxsw pariahs SALEM, and this month the witch house takes over as WHITE RING drop by, not to DJ, but to actually perform a full live set!



WHITE RING


Resident aliases DIE SLOW and CORALSLOWLA are sure to put in appearances, as well. Tip that sexy bartender.

SSLLOOWW presents...
WHITE RING
JULY 27†h 9PM-1AM
21+ $5 COVER
@ ENORMOUS ROOM
567 MASS AVE
CAMBRIDGE, MA
SPONSORED BY DRANK

Saturday, July 17th: FRESH PRODUCE's 4th anniversary w./ PRINCE PAUL

The creative force behind De La Soul, Handsome Boy Modeling School and THE ALMIGHTY GRAVEDIGGAZ is stopping by the Good Life to help DJs Knife and Tommee inaugurate the 5th year of their FRESH PRODUCE hip-hop parties. I myself may be in NYC over the weekend, but hip-hop heads with any sense in them will be lining up EARLY on Kingston St. for this one. Don't miss out!


PRINCE PAUL

Brand new NEW COLLISIONS track DYING ALONE...

THE NEW COLLISIONS

Ascending to greater and greater heights on the new wave reunion circuit while somehow remaining fresh and credible is difficult at best for a young, pop-friendly outfit, but luckily THE NEW COLLISIONS seem more than up to the task. No moreso than on this new jam from their upcoming second record, the first (I believe) to feature the clever and catchy-as-hell guitar-work of Alex "The Sterns" Stern. Show Boston some love, people!

Civilization's Dying (ACE Zero Boys cover) by The Hives

THE HIVES

Perennially underrated punk legends THE ZERO BOYS get the deluxe treatment here by Pelle and company. Just listen, and then go download Killed By Death #4. You'll be glad you did.

Civilization's Dying by The Hives

6/4: BASSIC 3-Year Anniversary w./ MARTYN, C-Dubz, Jay-K, Damien Paul

From his embryonic DnB rumblings in Rotterdam to his more recent DC-area dub techno offerings, MARTYN has always been a high-profile and hotly-tipped name in electronic music. It makes sense then to see him tapped as the headliner for the three-year anniversary of BASSIC, Boston's premier night for all things low-end.

There is no better opportunity on the horizon to experience the bowel-shattering bass bins of the Good Life's basement lounge. Get there early for C-Dubz, and check out the upstairs room for my man Damien Paul and Jay K. Don't forget to say happy birthday to Sarah!!!

MARTYN

5/22: THE NEEDY VISIONS (LP Release) w./ TULSA, MMOSS, LIFE PARTNERS, MAINE COONS

the needy visions

THE NEEDY VISIONS' debut album, released tomorrow through Bodies of Water Arts and Crafts, is a buoyant and quirky collection of retro-psych-pop-punk, handily ensconcing Dan Shea's inimitably loveable Weymouth mumble within full singalong harmonies, ragged guitar fuzz and a propulsive, bouncy rhythm section.



This shit is sure to be great summer BBQ fuel, so don't miss your chance to grab the vinyl tomorrow night @ the Temple in Jamaica Plain, where the band will be celebrating the record's release with MMOSS (whose new full-length is my other favorite psych jam outta New England this spring), TULSA, LIFE PARTNERS and THE MAINE COONS.


MMOSS

Saturday, May 22nd 2010 @ 8pm:

THE NEEDY VISIONS
TULSA
MMOSS
LIFE PARTNERS
THE MAINE COONS

@ the Temple, 670 Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, MA.
This is an all-ages event!!!

5/27 - "A Boston Tribute To Guru" @ The Middle East Downstairs

GURU


Big Shug, Akro, Termanology and about a dozen more of Boston's heaviest-hitting MCs unite to pay tribute to Roxbury, MA's all-time greatest, Keith "Guru" Elam of Gang Starr.

Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Middle East Downstairs
Leedz Edutainment presents "A Boston Tribute To Guru"



featuring:
Big Shug
Krumbsnatcha
Reks
Termanology
Akrobatik
Blak Madeen
Blackargo & Raw Spillage
Singapore Kane
JDO & Speak
plus special invited guests
and more
Music by Statik Selektah
Hosted by D-Tension

18+ $12adv/$15dos
8PM Doors

the middle east online

3/15: Asha and I remake the Plough as the black clinic!!!

the black clinic on facebook

Why George Romero’s "The Crazies" is Still Relevant and a Damn Fine Film to Boot

...a fine piece of film crit I read over at All Things Horror. CHECK IT!

SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW




DJ DIE SLOW
CORALSLOWLA
+
SLOWEOKE
SING SLOW

BRING CODEINE
NO COVER
21+
9PM
ENORMOUS ROOM
569 MASS AVE
SLOWBRIDGE