He Drank From A Puddle
Jim E. Brown takes the comedic turn at the 4th Wall on Friday, 12 July 2024.
Pew Pew and Rhode Island’s Scaffolding sandwiched the triplestack bill inside the Capitol Theatre.
Digital Awareness in the house.
The Jamaica Plain Music Festival is coming!
Also known as the JP Music Fest. That’s got more zing.
It will be the 12th edition, coming your way in September, and each year is organized with tender love and care by a neighborhood community that loves live music and knows how to have a good time. This is a bottom-up affair, by and for the people, and it needs your support.
If you missed the annual Smell The Love fundraiser, you can still donate below!
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Do your part to keep Jamaica Plain fresh AND funky.
Pew Pew
Local indie rockers with a touch of artcore Pew Pew are firm adherents of the Closed Quadrangle of Rock, turning at least one back to the audience to ensure that right level of vibrations bounce between band members like a Mega Millions lotto ball blasted into its translucent chamber of wonder and long odds. See also Gollylagging and Main Era.
‘Pew pew’ used to be a sound made by guns in video games and cheap sci-fi films, but now cheap technology is available to do all these things better.
The band broke their rear car window on the way to the gig. You can Venmo them at @stevealbini to help them replace it but you should double check that handle because it doesn’t sound right.
The 4th Wall could totally incorporate comedy into its nights of musical entertainment. Why not? Eugene Mirman opened up for Guided By Voices and Dinosaur Jr. a while back. Then again, do you lose a little bit of the artistic integrity of the evening by mixing the soup with the sandwiches?
Jim E. Brown
No worries, the UK’s Jim E. Brown isn’t a straight ahead comic. Not a straight ahead musician either. He crafts pre-recorded, synth-stained New Wave backing tracks, on top of which he delivers humorous bits and fondles an electric flute or guitar now and then.
Mostly though he’s just there to sell merch, which includes three volumes of his autobiography, a steamy romance about a fling with the elderly Mrs. Higgins, and a heart-wrenching tale about not being able to recover his son Tanner from the orphanage that he deposited the toddler at so he could go on vacation, or something like that.
Extra points for hits like “I Drank From a Puddle,” “I Texted You a Photo of the Sunset and You Never Responded,” and “I'm an Obese Alcoholic.” Shout out to the three or four fans that delivered beers, at the artist’s request, to the foot of the stage.
Scaffolding
Rock n rolling indie quartet out of Rhode Island. Possibly Providence. It’s Scaffolding.
There’s always the question about how to use the performance space provided by Theatre #2 at the Capitol Theatre. Because it is an unconventional space for musical performance. Not sure that any band has squared that circle yet, or whether there’s a one-size-fits-all approach.
But the fronter for Scaffolding made sure to make use of the aisle, running up and down the length of the seating area to give the yahoos in the back of the theatre a closer look.
What do you as an audience in the front of the room? Turn around to follow the action? Doable, but a bit awkward in seats designed to face forward. You can just do what I did: vibe on the Digital Awareness visuals and the rest of the band while the fronter does his thing in back.
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This is the kind of New Year’s Eve jam you want.