Information Crush: Amy's Show List

So here we are at the weekend before the holiday season officially begins and everyone's schedule gets really busy, so get your music fixes in now. On Thursday night you can check out the final night of the Jenny Dee & The Deelinquints residency at the Lizard. It's also the first night of the International Pop Overthrow 4 night stint at Church. Night 1 of the IPO has The Buckners, The Doom Buggies and more. There are also 2 great free shows on Thursday, Lars Vegas is at the Alchemist and Sally O'Brien's has an impressive lineup. On Friday Thalia Zedek and Shepardess is at the Milky and Dave Aaronof is at the Plough. Night 2 of the IPO has The Stompers, Big City Rockers and Fox Pass. Also on Friday the Beatle Butchers are at Toad doing "The Early Years". Saturday night has many many great shows to choose from, good luck deciding where to go. Night 3 of the IPO has The Kights Out, The Motion Sick and more at Church. It's Neon Night at the Cantab with the Port Charles Quintet (saw them last week and they were so much fun, definitely worth checking out). Saturday is also the second night of the Beatle Butchers doing "The Later Years", a little Sgt Pepper, perhaps? I hear good things about Kingsley Flood but my pick for Saturday is the Vivs (great write-up in Blurt Magazine this month btw) at the Plough. On Sunday I wish I had tix to see Sonic Youth and the Feelies at the Wilbur, oh well, at least there's the final night of the IPO with Sal Baglio and the Rationales at Church. On Monday, the Gong Show Karaoke at TTs looks like it could be very entertaining and it's free. Also on Monday Vagiant's at Charlie's Kitchen and Sonic Youth is at the Wilbur for their second night. On Tuesday Hilken Mancini and Tom Novotny are at the Alchemist. Wednesday brings Fuck Buttons to Great Scotts and they're getting lots of buzz.





Thursday, 11/19:

• The Books at the Rose Art Museum, Waltham
• Chandler Travis Philharmonic at Johnny D's
• Jenny Dee & the Deelinquints at the Lizard
• Lars Vegas at the Alchemist, Free!
• Brendan Boogie, Sodafrog, Nate Leavitt and John Copeland at Sally O'Briens, Free!
• Sean Bones at the House of Blues
• Evangelicals and the Holiday Shores at Great Scotts
• The Unfamiliars at the Cantab
• International Pop Overthrow (IPO) with The Buckners, Doom Buggies and more at Church

Friday, 11/20:

• International Pop Overthrow (IPO) with The Stompers, Big City Rockers, Fox Pass and more at Church
• Thalia Zadek and Shepardess at the Milky Way
• Thunderpants Johnson's Hillbilly Orchestra at the ME Corner, Free!
• Dave Aaronoff at the Plough
• Devendra Banhart at the Berklee
• Metric at the House of Blues
• The Beatle Butchers at Toad, Free!
• Cold Cave at Great Scotts

Saturday, 11/21:

• Times New Viking and the Axemen (fr NZ) at Great Scotts
• International Pop Overthrow (IPO) with The Lights Out, The Motion Sick and more at Church
• The Vivs, Buttercup and the Greg Allen Complex at the Plough
• Neon Nite with Port Charles Quintet and Kenne Highland at the Cantab
• Jetset, The Time Beings and The Balls at Ralph's, Worcester
• Baroness and Earthless at the ME
• The Beatle Butchers at Toad, Free!
• Kingsley Flood at The Rosebud Diner, Somerville
• MassAveAThon! Starts at 6:30p at the Hong Kong!

Sunday, 11/22:

• Sonic Youth and The Feelies at the Wilbur Theater
• The Watson Twins at the House of Blues
• International Pop Overthrow (IPO) with The Rationales, Sal Baglio and more at Church

Monday, 11/23:

• Sonic Youth at the Wilbur Theater
• Vagiant at Charlie's Kitchen
• Gong Show Karaoke hosted by Tommy Somerville at TTs, Free!
• Echo and the Bunnymen at the House of Blues CANCELLED
• Julian Plenti at the Paradise

Tuesday, 11/24:

• Melt Banana, Melt Banana Lite at the ME
• Hilken Mancini and Tom Novotny at the Alchemist, Free!
• Tony the Bookie Orchestra, Headband and Evil Bill at Great Scotts
• Tin Soldier at Harpers

Wednesday, 11/25:

• Fuck Buttons at Great Scotts

If you have any additions to the list, please send them to me at amy@bostonbandcrush.net before Wednesday to have them included in the weekend's postings.

And Looking Forward...
11/27 Pixies at the Citi Performing Arts Center
11/27 Do Make Say Think at the ME
11/27 Charles Spearin at the ME
11/27 Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears and The Black Hollies at TTs
11/27 Roy Sludge and Friends at the Plough
11/27 Bebel Gilberto at the Paradise
11/28 Sam Reid and the Riot Act at Atwoods
11/28 Andrea Gillis at the Plough
11/28 The Pixies at the Citi Performing Arts Center
11/28 28 Degrees Taurus at the ME
11/28 Totem and Bogged Down at the Guru Room, Plymouth
11/28 Zero 7 at the House of Blues
11/28 Themselves at the ME
11/29 The Mountain Goats and Final Fantasy at the Wilbur Theater
11/29 This Blue Heaven at Great Scotts
11/30 Kickass Cupcakes Cocktail Happy Hour 5-7p (Yummy...Cupcakes!)
11/30 Country Drinking Songs and Drinks with Br. Cleve at the Independent
11/30 Elvis Perkins in Deerland and the Bowerbirds at the Paradise
12/1 Big Pink and Crystal Antlers at the Paradise
12/1 Jaguar Love at ME
12/2 They Might Be Giants at the Borders Bookstore, Braintree
12/2 Brendan Benson at the ME
12/2 The Flobots at Harpers Ferry
12/2 Russian Circles at the ME
12/3 Sloan at TTs
12/3 Pelican at Harpers Ferry
12/3 Nitzer Ebb at the Paradise
12/4 Holiday Party with the Satanics at the Armory
12/4 Weisstronauts Holiday Party with Charlie Chesterman and the Legendary Motorbikes at Sally O'Brien's, Free!
12/4 Friendly Fires and The xx at the Paradise
12/4 Tin Soldier at Pa's
12/4 The Script at the House of Blues
12/4 Spoon at the Orpheum
12/5 My Own Worst Enemy at the Cantab
12/5 The Ragin' Teens Holiday Hoedown at TTs
12/5 The Cello Chix at the Plough
12/5 Hooray for Earth at Great Scotts
12/5 Gene Dante and the Future Starlets and Totem at Church
12/5 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists at the ME
12/5 Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles at Johnny D's
12/6 Bazaar Bizarre Boston at the Cyclorama
12/6 A Very Merry Unbirthday Gift Swap www.misteriosos.org
12/6 El Vez and Los Straitjackets at the Paradise (Viva Christmas Extravaganza!)
12/6 Wye Oak at Great Scotts
12/7 Company of Thieves at Great Scotts
12/7 Weezer at the Agganis Arena
12/8 Bay State's Make A Wish Benefit with Gentlemen Hall, Spies Like Us, Taste and Front Page at Harpers
12/9 Holly Golightly at the ME
12/9 Orchestrotica Mini at the Fireplace, Brookline
12/9 Raphael Saadiq at the House of Blues
12/10 Dashboard Confessionals at the ME
12/10 Todd Barry at Great Scotts
12/10 The Stools at the Beachcomber, Quincy
12/11 Ships in the Dark and Richard James at Harpers
12/12 Barrence Whitfield and the Monkey Hips at the Plough
12/12 Brenda Lee at the Hanover Theatre
12/12 This Blue Heaven at the ME
12/12 Bang Camaro at the Paradise
12/12 John Powhida International Airport at the Rosebud Diner
12/12 The Cliks at the ME
12/12 Peter Tork & Shoe Suede Blues at the River Club, Scituate
12/13 Rock n Soul Holiday Concert with Willie Alexander, Jenny Dee and the Deelinquints, Mike Gent, John Powhida, Andrea Gillis and more at the Regent Theatre
12/13 Rooney and Tally Hall at the ME
12/13 Arctic Monkeys and the Screaming Females at the House of Blues
12/15 Christmas with Aaron Neville at Showcase Live, Foxboro
12/16 Grant Hart, The Lights Out and Ian Adams at the ME
12/17 Fuzzy Christmas wit Other Girls, Tanya Donnely and Bill Janovitz at the Plough
12/17 Fanfarlo at TTs
12/17 Hallelujah the Hills at the ME
12/18 The Figgs at TTs
12/18 Girl Howdy and Roy Sludge & Friends at Johnny D's
12/18 stellastar* at the Paradise
12/18 The Elevator Drops at the ME
12/18 Thunderpants Johnson at the Plough
12/19 Jenny Dee & The Deelinquents and The Phil Aiken Army at the Rosebud Diner
12/19 Pa's Holiday Party with Pants Yell! and Tony the Bookie Orchestra
12/19 The Big Big Bucks and Drink Up Buttercup at Great Scotts
12/22 Aaron Perrino at the Plough
12/23 TT's Annual Holiday Party
12/23 Downbeat 5 at the Plough
12/23 The Scrooges at Great Scotts
12/26 Andrea Gillis at the Plough
12/26 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the House of Blues
12/27 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the House of Blues
12/28 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the House of Blues
12/29 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at the House of Blues
12/29 Mente at the Plough
12/29 Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers at Passims
12/29 Totem, Devil and a Penny and The Hail Baby at TTs
12/31 The Neats, The Lyres and Buffalo Tom at the Orpheum (part of First Night)
12/31 Waltham at Harpers
12/31 Amanda Palmer & the Pops at Symphony Hall
12/31 J Geils at Mohegan Sun, CT
1/6 Passion Pit at the House of Blues
1/9 Anthony Bourdain at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium
1/10 The Duke and the Dutchess at TTs
1/12 Eddie Izzard at the Garden
1/14 Joe Pernice at the Lizard
1/15 Mission of Burma at the Paradise
1/16 Mission of Burma at the Paradise
1/16 Anvil at the House of Blues
1/16 Totem and Aux at Copperfields
1/23 Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Somerville Theatre
1/30 Cheap Trick and Dear Leader at the House of Blues
1/31 Molina & Johnson and Chris Brokaw at the ME
1/31 La Roux at the Paradise (Rescheduled Date)
2/3 Evan Dando at Great Scotts
2/6 Reverse and Sun Lee Sunbeam at Great Scotts
2/10 Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
2/11 Magnetic Fields at the Wilbur Theatre
2/13 Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg at the River Club, Scituate
2/13 Tegan & Sara at the Orpheum
2/18 Four Tet at the ME
2/19 Mardi Gras Party at Johnny D's
2/24 Wild Beasts at Great Scotts
2/26 Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillets at Scullers
3/1 Rogue Wave at the Paradise
3/4 Justin Townes Earle at Great Scotts
3/31 Miike Snow at the Paradise
4/6 Acid Mother's Temple at the ME
4/17 Record Store Day
5/4 Mark Kopfler at the Orpheum
6/25-27 Ohana Luau at the Lake (Aloha!)

Any other suggestions? Let me know. Also please excuse any typos, I try to keep them to a minimum but I'm only human.