Record The Release
Lane releases Receiver at Lilypad on Saturday, 11 May 2024.
Animal Hospital and The Keira Knightleys join the party in the opening slots.
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!
If you missed the fundraiser show in March at the American Legion Hall with Rick Berlin, Colonel Broccoli and the Legion Basement Band, and Fantastic Trees, you can still donate below!
And if you won’t or didn’t make it out to Midway Cafe on June 4 in time to catch the annual classic fundraiser John Casey’s JP Bar Wars, you can still donate below!
Do your part to keep Jamaica Plain fresh AND funky.
The Keira Knightleys
The four-piece (with a saxophone guest spot) Keira Knightleys brings the usual indie rock trio of guitar, bass, and drums, but it’s the piano that gives the Boston-based outfit its spicy tang.
It’s a choice, building an ensemble sound that carves out a space for a two-ton behemoth of ebony and ivory.
And it’s a choice that you can’t always make at house gigs. Synth keyboards are second best. At the Lilypad, though, you let it shine on the Kawai. The band has fun. Extra points for a supremely lazy band name.
Animal Hospital
Animal Hospital is a one-man band – two if you count the near-human presence of what looked to be a homemade soundboard built by the man behind the moniker Kevin Micka. He made sweet love to that rig, with droning electro sequences that relied heavily on layering and delay effects to summon the symphony of sound. The standout song, though, used a guitar to provide the basic stimulus for a far out response once the signal was sent through the soundboard.
Shades of ancient aliens. Who really built the pyramids?
Lane
Locals Lane took their new album Receiver for a walk. The full length album digs through a guitar-driven terrain with a post punk buffet fit for sampling. It’s late 70s, early 80s inspired stuff, with hints of further flung influences like the six-string Sahel sound. You know, a kind of pattern repetition funk. The outfit performed as a fourpiece, though the heavy lifting of the studio version of the new release is credited to guitarist Wes Kaplan and drummer Julian Fader.
And does Ben Potrykus get Bandcamp liner note credit for elements of the single “Everybody’s Finding Out”? Damn, that’s a blast from the past.
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