The Luxury are attending The Pill's 10th Annual Halloween show as Oasis on Wednesday
Well, shit, is it the weekend already? Best speed up this countdown to 'Ween and hit you with a two-fer today. As is tradition, bands are dressing up (musically, that is) as their favorite artists-- dead or alive-- and headlining Halloween cover and tribute shows around town this weekend and on Halloween night. Here are just a few.
FRIDAY
"HALLOWEEN HANGOVER 12: NIGHT 1" | With Cougar Bait, Mojo Kick, Sour D Cosmodrome,
and Western Education | 7:30 pm at the Middle East Upstairs
| $12; $10 advance | 617.864.EAST
"HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 1" | With Skinny Cleveland, Ryan Jackson Troika, Left
Hand Does, School For Robots, and Bent Knee | 9 pm at Precinct | 617.623.9211
SATURDAY
"DEADBEAT'S HALLOWEEN BASH" | With Grateful Dead cover band Deadbeat and
hippie costume contest ($100 cash prize for the guy and girl with best Dead or
hippie-themed costume) | 9:30 pm at Sally O'Brien's | $5 | 617.666.3589
"HALLOWEEN HANGOVER 12: NIGHT 2" | With Shoney Lamar & the Equal Rights, OTP,
Ellis Ashbrook, Kristen Ford Band, and The Symptoms | 7:30 pm at the Middle East Upstairs | $12; $10 advance | 617.864.EAST
"HALLOWQUEEN: THE LIGHTS OUT 4TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA" | With the Lights Out as Queen, Sidewalk Driver as Spinal Tap, the Field Effect as Weezer, and I Pistol as Nirvana | 7:30 pm at Church | $12; $10 advance | churchofboston.com
"HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 2" | With Effzero, Waves, Semi-Good Looking, Shotgun
Waltz, and Ways to Fall | 9 pm at Precinct | 617.623.9211
MONDAY
"HALLOWEEN PARTY!" | With The New Dumb & Friends as the Hives, Great Lakes
USA as the Lawrence Arms, Roger as Dashboard Confessional, Courters as the
Sonics, and Ex-Magicians as the Clash | 8 pm at Charlie's Kitchen | $5 | 617.492.9646
HALLOWEEN NIGHT
"HALLOWEEN COSTUME SHOW" | With Babydriver as Modern Lovers '88, Earthquake Party!
as Nirvana, Personal Finance as Them, and Pimple Zoo as Guided By Voices | 9 pm at T.T. the Bear's
| $8 | 617.492.2327
"HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY" | With Otter Control and Coq Au Vin | 8 pm at the Vault | 617.292.3355
THE HARDER THEY COME 40TH ANNIVERSARY HALLOWEEN TRIBUTE SHOW | Destroy Babylon play classic 1972 movie soundtrack The
Harder They Come, along with the Sterns as Fleetwood Mac and The Fat Mikes
as NOFX | 8 pm at the Middle East
Upstairs | $10 | 617.864.EAST
"JOHNNY D'S HALLOWEEN PARTY" | With Power of Love
as Huey Lewis and Bikini Whale as the B-52's. Costume contest for most original
80s outfit | 7:30 pm at Johnny D's
| $10 | 617.776.2004
"THE DOCTORS FOX AS CAKE HALLOWEEN
TRIBUTE SHOW" | 9
pm at the Middle East Corner
| Free | 617.864.3278
"THE PILL 10TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN SHOW" | With The Luxury as Oasis, The New Highway Hymnal as The
Stooges, Color Channel as LCD Soundsystem, Ruby Ridge as The Knife, and pill
residents DJ Ken & Michael V | 9 pm at Great Scott | $10 | 617.566.9014
"WALTER SICKERT PRESENTS THE
SQUIDHOUSE OF HORROR" HALLOWEEN SHOW |
Hosted by Johnny Blazes with music by Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken
Toys, XNY, Darling Pet Munkee, and Moe Pope. Halloween burlesque by the Bunny
Collective and more | 8 pm at Brighton Music Hall | $15 | 617.779.0140
And don't forget to check out our full Halloween listings -- parties, shows, costume pub crawls, themed dinners, scary movies, and more-- at thephoenix.com!
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