Magically Gathering
Jade Dust confesses “It’s not easy being green” at Cambridge Community Center on Saturday, 12 April 2025.
Pushback, P.V., and Homeworld sandwich the quadruple stack bill at the end of the Cambridge Day Record Store Walk.
A gym full of Magic the Gathering players shut the door so they’re not disturbed by the punk rock during a nine-hour Gathering session.
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Big thank you to all the participants in the 2025 Cambridge Day Record Store Walk.
The walkers!
The record stores!
The bands that mopped up the action at the end of the night, piling on a fourstack punk bill in the basement of the Cambridge Community Center. Pushback, P.V., Homeworld, and Jade Dust, all the way from Portland, Oregon. How many local stages have bean bag seating available?
Thanks also to DIV_Series for booking assistance, Cambridge Day for promotional support, making it a special Hump Night.
Will there be more Record Store Walks (and Shows) in the future? Only time will tell.
Homeworld
Homeworld
A mad scientist lab’s worth of electronic equipment piled up on a table top. Maybe two mad scientists labs’ worth. Notice how the apostrophe alternates between the inside and the outside of the possessive ‘s’ according to whether ‘lab’ is mentioned in the singular or plural. That’s grammar, bay-beeeee!
Homeworld is one solo electro futz tone act with glitch ambiance. Shades of Animal Hospital, shades of Feardotcom. There’s a subspecies of electronic artist that takes paramount pleasure in the assembly of the instrument itself. All the cords, hooks, buttons, plugs, pedals, anodes, cathodes, lions, tigers, bears, oh my. Hidden within the rat’s nest of equipment is a magical constellation of musical accessories that the audience can’t even begin to guess at.
Music manifests without the performative spectacle of a guitar strum or drum strike. The opaque nature of the production is part of the allure for both artist and audience.
Jade Dust
Jade Dust
Punk? Post-hardcore? Portland? Other ‘p’ words? Proficient. Paciferous. Principled. Pelasgic. Peripatetic. Purative panacea. The five-piece produced no paucity of plangency. Jade Dust, people.
P.V.
P.V.
Noise punkers P.V. were a mashup of jazz pushed to its outer limit, rock noodling, folk doodling, and spoken word. Hump Day News has a writeup of their track “I’m A Man Dammit,” off American Land, due to be published May 3. Check back in later for that.
Pushback
Pushback
Pushback – or is it Push Back? I’ve seen it written both ways.
During a moment when the scene of local, national, and international politics is experiencing a stroke, heart attack, burst appendix and bad hair day all at once, there was surprisingly little topical banter on stage in the basement of the Cambridge Community Center.
But the fronter for Pushback brought a little monologue. One of those inspirational speeches about the saving grace of punk rock in a time when fear, conformity, and old-fashioned fascist bitchery is on the rise. One of those speeches that gets the crowd riled up and ready to throw themselves into the pit as the song starts up.
Except the band spent another minute or two debating between themselves which song was coming next, which was a momentum killer, but a sweet and darling band banter excursus in any event.
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Clean and squimmish, at a human tempo made for footwork.