CENTRO-MATIC/SOUTH SAN GABRIEL + THE M’S + CHOO CHOO LA ROUGE | Middle East upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge | June 14 | 617.864.EAST orwww.mideastclub.com
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- The electric company
We all know how in 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival, the previously all-acoustic Bob Dylan took the stage with an electric guitar, plugged in, enraged fans, and destroyed the folk-music scene forever.
- Bit players
What do you get when you cross NYU music-technology majors just out of their teens, vintage Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy gear, traditional rock-and-roll instruments, a mysterious, robot-building fellow named José with half a middle finger on one hand, and a shadowy underground network of info-spreading Swedes? No.
- Stop making sense
"Look, we just think that we, as a band, are very . . . interested. In things, in the world."
- Photos: Eek-a-Mouse at the Middle East Downstairs
Eek-a-Mouse, live at the Middle East Downstairs, July 23, 2009
- Feels like the first time
One thing you don't realize when you vow to support local music is that it involves sitting through the same bands month after month as they burn through drink tickets, rearrange their sets, and stall the record release.
- Major laser
Of Naked Raygun's many conquests, perhaps their greatest was impressing Steve Albini. In a 1992 Maximumrocknroll interview, Albini — the sharp-tongued musician/producer who, among other things, once dismissed Nirvana as "R.E.M. with a fuzzbox" and the Pixies as "blandly entertaining college rock" — offered a rare public endorsement.
- Beat Circus | Boy From Black Mountain
The subjects of the stories sung on this second installment of Beat Circus's "Weird American Gothic" trilogy attain greater awareness of family, culture, and the world by voyaging across schisms in perception.
- Photo: Cymbals Eat Guitars at Middle East Downstairs
Cymbals Eat Guitars at Middle East Downstairs
- Due Dilla-gence
Extraordinarily missed Detroit beat stylist J Dilla (a/k/a Jay Dee) was righteously benevolent.
- Slideshow: Bajofondo at Middle East downstairs
Photos from Bajofondo at the Middle East downstairs
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