Square Loop completes the Allston Loop, at the Silhouette Lounge on Monday, 27 February 2023.

Erik Wormwood and Please Deal With Me sandwiches Twelveyes on a four-stack bill.

In this episode of As The Sil Turns, Bill the Bartender sets up his patrons with ‘Gansetts without even asking. He just knows by the look of the sad sap that walks through the door that he’s going to order the cheapest beer on the menu. And Bill’s not wrong!

But that’s the kind of vision and foresight you need to work the bar at Silhouette Lounge. Bill was slinging beer with abandon, like the sudsy stuff was about to go on the endangered list. All the while talking up the old timers at the end of the bar, bragging about his Dusty Rhodes t-shirt: it’s “the American Dream.”

What’s the American Dream? The wrestler Dusty Rhodes and the life he lived? Or the fact that you can make a living dispensing cans of beer while rocking a wrestler t-shirt? Sounds good either way. Something to ponder on a Monday night.

Quick hits:

• The Celtics took an ugly loss to an inferior Knicks team. The game was playing on the bar televisions. Didn’t have the usual tug-o-war between the basketball crowd and the hockey crowd. Maybe there was no Bruins game. If the Celtics keep dropping gimmes like that headed into the postseason, they’re going to get sniped in the playoffs.

• Overheard: a young woman got her phone number sold to an escort website. She started to get a lot of unsolicited calls from unicorn fetishists. What’s the business model there?

• Apparently the venerable Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash has a custom-built pacemaker, designed to resemble a pack of Marlboros. The rich truly do live better lives than the rest of us.

Erik Wormwood

The solo strummer Erik Wormwood played a stripped-down set of fuzzed out guitar ballads.

You can catch him with a full band as a member of the post hardcore group No Nations. You can catch him on a street corner waiting for the light to change. And if you were at Fields West on 2/25, you caught him playing a set alongside acoustic versions of Kal Marks and Cave In.

Extra points for the Mazzy Star sticker.

Twelveyes

Worcester’s Twelveyes have really painted themselves into a corner with the band name. Sure, three members, all wearing glasses. Makes sense now, but what if they add or subtract members? What if they start wearing contacts? Don’t let it keep you up at night.

Twelveyes printed up a setlist to keep themselves on schedule, which is standard procedure except this setlist also explicitly marked out tuning moments. A little less standard (again, don’t let it keep you up at nights), but contributed to a well-timed, tightly-tuned set of emo pop punk.

Square Loop

Square Loop is still riding high on the heels of its latest LP The Longest Distance Between Two Points, released in February. And still touring.

The Worcester band completed the Allston Loop, kicking off the first leg of their tour at O’Brien’s Pub (2/11) and finishing it up at the Silhouette Lounge on Monday night. That’s about a seven minute walk on a good day, and every day’s a good day in Ferret City.

Of course, there were a few other stops in between. And the second half of Square Loop’s tour starts up at the beginning of March, spanning five states and at least four tanks of gas.

Please Deal With Me

Closer and pride of Quincy Please Deal With Me delivered a strident pop punk set, performing as a four-piece. Emo overtones – undertones too! Tasty licks with some grungy bogwater vibin’.

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