The Living Room delivers a great indie-folskter lineup on Sunday, September 7, with Brooklyn acoustic whiz KEVIN DEVINE opening for former Get Up Kids and current New Amsterdams frontman MATT PRYOR, touring behind his new Confidence Man (Vagrant Records). Rumor has it a 10-year reunion is being planned to commemorate the Get Up Kids’ 1999 breakthrough Something to Write Home About, an audio blueprint for just about every recent post-punk band. Devine often dabbles in political sentiment and his excellent new single “Another Bag of Bones” pulls no punches, with a string of matter-of-fact punchlines: “It’s an occupied country foamin’ at the mouth/No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud” and “It’s a military mother with a boy in hell/It’s an oil-draped casket down an oil well.” Also on Sunday, EDDIE AND THE LOVERS headline a packed Reject Records local showcase (check out the recent RI Rejects II compilation) at Club Hell, with Prov punk legends THE DOOSH BAGS, Cranston’s GUT BUCKET, and Pawtucket grindcore lunatics SUFFERING BASTARD. Rounding out the bill are THE NO IT ALLS, whose full-length Dead Scene is due in a few months (song titles include “Fuck You,” “Fuck Islam,” and “Fuck Science”), and THE GONERS, readying their first release since being signed to the Holyoke-based Fear the Dead label. Or head to the Hi-Hat (401.453.6500) in Davol Square on Sunday, September 7, for their fifth anniversary party, with no cover charge and jazz with JOHN ALLMARK, VINNY PAGANO & FRIENDS from 4 to 7 pm and FRONT & CENTER raising the roof from 8 to 11:30. On Wednesday (the 10th), the Hi-Hat delivers improv quartet UM, featuring Berklee jazz prof and trombonist extraordinaire Hal Crook for only $5.
On Tuesday, September 9, WBRU delivers another great cheap date show (only $5.95 in advance ) at Club Hell with THE WOMBATS, who penned the ridiculous and catchy “Let’s Dance to Joy Division,” with Spring Tigers and Warwick’s LEMON LIME TENNIS SHOES opening. Lastly, don’t forget about H.R. of Bad Brains at the Living Room on Wednesday, a guaranteed steal of a deal at only $15.
Chris Conti can be reached at buckeebrooks@gmail.com.
