Captain Vampire drinks deep at Silhouette Lounge on Monday, 13 May 2024.

Solvent C and Cats On Film sandwich the triplestack 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!

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 indie rock duo opened Hump Nights. Shoegaze? Alt folk? Slow core? Cats On Film are solid, but Kittens On Film would probably draw even more.

Captain Vampire rocked out as a three-piece, crafting folk rock tunes profoundly inspired by pigeons. Extra points for the recorder, a criminally underrated and underrepresented instrument. Not just for “Hot Cross Buns” (or “Three Blind Mice”) anymore!

The three-piece indie rockers Solvent C played musical chairs, trading vocal and instrumental duties throughout the set. Roll the dice, spin the wheel, shock the monkey. You never know what you’re going to get…

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