Off the couch!
The arrival of Labor Day means Summer 2008 is pretty much over, but don’t start hibernating just yet. BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY has quickly developed a strong following on the West Coast, and the LA-bred, poppy-punk quartet headlines a bill tonight (the 28th) at the Living Room with Boston-area support PROTECT THE WITNESS and SUNSHINE RIOT. Dial 401.521.5200. Coventry-based trio UNIBROWS sent a copy of “99,999 Needles” (from their ’07 debut Demented Arm Circus) to The Howard Stern Show last year and received an on-air thumbs-up from Stern; check ’em out tonight at JR’s Bourbon Street Rock House (401.463.3080) in Cranston. SHRYNE is readying their debut Here and Now due this winter; they’ll open for HAWKINS RISE at Cats (401.722.0150) in Pawtucket on Saturday (the 30th). Their ’06 debut, What We’re Like and Who We’ve Turned Out to Be, displayed a penchant for no-frills rock a la Wilco and Buffalo Tom. Jerky’s kicks off the long weekend with an 18+ affair when Boston’s COASTER THIEVES (working on a follow-up to their decent ’06 debut Push Push) and Brockton cover band INFUSE sharing a bill on Friday (the 29th). Infuse will kick out party favorites, specializing in loud-ass metal covers of System of a Down, Deftones, and Disturbed. Call 401.621.2244. Or get to the Living Room for a Long Island rock invasion when a handful of Victory Records artists fill a bill headlined by THE SLEEPING and ENVY ON THE COAST; THE SECRET LIVES OF FREEMASONS and entertaining duo THE GAY BLADES (whose debut Ghosts drops next month and deserves a listen) open. If you haven’t reveled in the guilty pleas-ure of an ERIK NARWHAL & THE MANATEES show, this weekend provides three chances to catch the talented madman’s delirium, as he channels his idols Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. Watch what happens when he launches into the frenetic showstopper “Free Alcohol.” Narwhal and Co. will fire it up on Friday at the Narragansett Café (401.423-2150) in James-town, at Corrine’s (401.725.4260) in Pawtucket on Saturday, and at JR’s on Sunday (the 31st). Renowned local jam-band specialists FUNGUS AMUNGUS are still doin’ their thing, so head to the Wheel House Tavern (401.284.0246) in Narragansett on Friday and Club Hell on Sunday. Call 401.351.1977. And you can sweat out the weekend toxins on Tuesday (the 2nd) when the Living Room welcomes “happy house” electronica outfit THE JUAN MACLEAN, aka John Maclean of Six Finger Satellite fame. TRIANGLE FOREST and SPANISH DANCER open.
Chris Conti can be reached at buckeebrooks@gmail.com.
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