Singles, Singles, Singles
The Daylilies and Ruby Grove trot out new singles at The Jungle on Saturday, 5 October 2024.
Happy Little Clouds and Music Farm probably had new singles too, but, you know, it’s hard to hear what the bands are bantering about on stage sometimes.
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Indoor Friends sometimes play a tiny guitar. With Half Dizzy and Bad Idea USA at Midway Cafe.
Spider Water Record Release w/ Robo Pumpkin and Headsick at the Regent Theatre.
Filmed by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid. Part of the Boston Palestine Film Fest.
Indie rockers Trace Mountains and Long Beard, who might not have a beard, at Deep Cuts.
Pearl Sugar, who just released new album Zipper, with Dress Better Please and Kai Burns at the Capitol Theater.
Unleashed from the dungeon of the American Genre Film Archive, THE AGFA HORROR TRAILER SHOW is a senses-shattering compilation of horror & cult thrills. Double feature!
Funky trip hoppers Ruby Grove are secretly plotting a fantasy-themed rock opera. Prove me wrong. With The Plus One and Marilyn Eden.
The Presidential Erection: Dance & Drag Party, Pop Up Arcade, and Bars Over Bars will help you get through election night anxiety.
The story of women making the Boston music scene. In-house appearance and Q&A (and maybe a uke performance?) with Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls).
The Modern Faces, pop punk powurrr. With Perfectly Lethal, Whyte Lipstick, Luddites.
Linnea's Garden EP release, w/The Ghouls, Catwolf, and Goodkarma at Deep Cuts.
The 4th Wall celebrates its 1-year anniversary with Trash Sun, Lady Pills, Petal Dance, and the Dreamtoday at the Capitol Theater.
Alt rockers Moon Room play out their self-titled EP. With Divey, Michael Boezi, and Stevie Subrizi.
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Four bands, two (maybe, probably) new singles at The Jungle.
Ruby Grove’s “Crystal Land” has a Tracks write-up that will have posted by the time this Live Review goes live. You might have to scroll to find it, but I believe in your scrolling ability. Check it out.
The Daylilies performed a new song too. Called “Pétillant,” which is French for “effervescent” or “sparkling.” Kind of what sparkling wine does. Elsewhere I called the track “a shimmering pop anthem with dreamy vocals, pert rhythms, and whip-smart guitar fills,” and I’ll stick by that.
But how to describe the band as a whole? Pop, for sure. Their set reminded me of that REM/B-52s singer collab “Shiny Happy People.” Plucky and good-natured, lowkey psych, with a very vocals-forward emphasis. Every single member of this five-piece band had a mic available, though it was mostly the pair of guitarists that sang most of the tunes.
Aside: definitely caught the female guitarist performing at an Animile show last December, helping out with the auxiliary vocals.
Is that a Bob Ross reference?
Happy Little Clouds is a rock n roll trio with a hell of a fronter. Big guitar, big voice, complemented by a rollicking rhythm section. Fuzzy, buzzy, melodic.
Oh, look, sure enough another band on the bill had a new single coming out. You know, hard to hear banter at The Jungle. Which was the new single? Oh wait, here it is, “It's Alright” by Music Farm.
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