The Love Shamans strum solo at Silhouette Lounge on Monday, 15 July 2024.

Fantastic Trees and Gimmick close out a sultry start to a sultry week. Goddamn sultry.

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!

If you missed the annual classic fundraiser John Casey’s JP Bar Wars at Midway Cafe, you can still donate below!

Do your part to keep Jamaica Plain fresh AND funky.

Hump Nights

Dec 31

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

Jan 5

The 4th Wall: Pulsr, Grief Mop, Community College, Alexander

Jan 8

Fully Celebrated Orchestra and Guests

Jan 29

Born Innocent: the Redd Kross Story

Jan 30

1-800-ON-HER-OWN

Feb 1

ONCE Presents: The Womps and The Chops

Feb 6

The Fuzztones vs The World

Feb 21

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: An A/V Celebration

Sometimes you gotta go solo. The Love Shamans sometimes perform as a trio, sometimes as a duo, but on Monday night one was the magic number. Leo Shaman strapped on an acoustic guitar and belted out some rock n roll new classics. Is ‘Shaman’ the real last name or is it a Ramones-type situation?

By the way, when the Sil staff turn off the lights in the back room for ambience, the fans stop too. And only one of them was working to begin with! Not great during a heatwave. You got fans without fans, get it?

The backroom at the Sil is not often home to crunch-adjacent jam music. That’s more of a Hippie Night at the Midway Cafe kind of thing. But who would say no to Gimmick, a power noodling quartet with a strong percussive grind to platform the spirit questing? Give it a listen with your spirit animal of choice. Mine’s Fad Albert.

Last time Hump Day News reported on Fantastic Trees they were delivering a cover of Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You in the End.” What a song! It was at the annual Smell The Love show at Midway Cafe, a fundraiser for the JP Music Fest. See above, and pony up some money if you can spare it.