Happy 10th!

Orange Peel Mystic celebrates the historic sixth day after July 4th at Silhouette Lounge on Wednesday, 10 July 2024.

Phantom Ocean, The Forest Room, and Scove Cone open the four-stack bill.

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

Nov 5

The Presidential Erection: Dance & Drag Party

Nov 13

Beautiful Was The Fight

Nov 13

The Modern Faces / Perfectly Lethal / Whyte Lipstick / Luddites

Nov 14

Linnea’s Garden / The Ghouls / Catwolf / Goodkarma

Nov 15

The 4th Wall 1-Year Anniversary w/ Trash Sun, Lady Pills, The Dreamtoday, and Petal Dance

Nov 22

Cortez / Worshipper / Curse The Son

Nov 30

WORM | Presidential Disgrace | Screw Cart | Neponset Monastary

Dec 14

Biribá Union

Dec 26

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

Dec 31

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along

Indie folk solo act Scove Cone brought the red plastic trumpet but didn’t storm out of the building to play it curbside like at the January show. You can’t have everything. Loads of acoustic-driven ditties. He seems to be an affectionate aficionado of difficult chord handlings, tying up his fingers like pretzels along the neck of the guitar. Played a new song or two. Extra points for difficulty factor.

Seems like there’s another act around town going by the moniker ‘Forest Romm.’ The Forest Room is not Forest Romm (who’s playing at Moon Over Salem in September). But you could be forgiven for an honest mistake. Typos happen. Both The Forest Room and Forest Romm are driven by stringed instruments, but the former adopts a more electric approach with added bells and whistles. And all types of effects. He was a one-man band sending up a hazy, humid cloud of layered jamz.

The first non-solo act of the night. Phantom Ocean is a guitar-and-drumkit two-piece. Possibly one or both of the musicians was a schoolteacher? Which lent the stage banter a certain kind of air, like we were being addressed as a loveable and wacky classroom. What kind of two-piece was it? What’s your pleasure? The pair flipped through different musical stylings, but the lofi, buzzy, bluesy numbers got the most crowd response.

Orange Peel Mystic operates just fine as a two-piece, trotting out keys and drumkit. The songs are synth-soaked, krautrock-tinged howlers that give the drummer plenty of room to roam. Something special got added, though, when a third wheel was added to the jalopy. A kind of Madchester-meets-Meatloaf vocalist joined the vocalist behind the keys for a bracing duet. A little cabaret, which fits in just fine with Orange Peel Mystic’s version of dayglo acid vamping. Good sounds at the Sil!