Rodfest VII at Paradise Rock Club on Saturday, January 31st
January 26, 2009
Some years ago, a resourceful man named Greg “Rodney” Moynahan was so passionate about music, he decided he’d throw himself an awesome birthday bash and pepper it with with local musical talent. The party went over so well, it just had to happen again. Unfortunately, 23-year-old Moynahan was killed in a tragic car accident, but the remarkable celebration now known as “Rodfest” continues this year in his honor and memory.
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Who / What: Rodfest VII Benefit Concert featuring Three Day Threshold, Rogue Heroes, Girls, Guns And Glory, and Cassavettes and short acoustic sets by Shays’ Rebellion, Colin Toomey and Sixteen On Center
When: Saturday, January 31st at 8pm.
Where: Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Take the Green Line’s “B” Train to the Pleasant Street Stop. Paradise Rock Club is across the street. Street parking is difficult to find; but if there isn’t a BU sporting event that night, you can park for $5 in the BU parking lot around the corner on Babcock Street.
Ages: 18+
Tickets: Rodfest will sell out. Get your tickets online for $15 or go to the box office to avoid the fees. Tickets day of the show are $20.
Facebook: Lots of people have noted they will be at Rodfest on the event’s page on Facebook. Add your RSVP, too!
This year’s Rodfest VII is once again at the Paradise Rock Club. The party happens on Saturday January 31st and features an abundance of local talent. The acts featured this year are Rodfest alums Three Day Threshold, Rogue Heroes, Girls, Guns And Glory, and Cassavettes. There are also acoustic sets from Shays’ Rebellion, Colin Toomey and Sixteen On Center. Plenty of these groups are capable headliners, so this will be a special night. You can even get your photo taken on the “Rod Carpet.”
As a rock and country band, Three Day Threshold sound like nothing else in the northeast. They’ve logged plenty of hours onstage, and like all good bands, they know how to bring the crowd into the show. Here’s the band’s cover of the Stones’ “Honky Tonk Women” from Exploit Boston! TV a few months ago.
As if that’s not inspiration enough, you’ll also have Allston’s Rogue Heroes bring their blend of updated punk and rockabilly, Girls Guns and Glory’s rocking country, and Cassavettes’ Texas folk.
You should hurry and buy tickets as the show is sure to sell out again this year. As in years past, proceeds go to the “Greg Moynahan Memorial Scholarship Fund” which benefits the students of Stonehill College, where Moynahan once attended. Rodfest is a great example of a local scene uniting for a special and thoughtful cause. And why not ride the January 2009 Obama swell into this year’s Americana tinged Rodfest? After all, the timing is right, and you’ve got seven groups serving up their take on music that this country had a great part in creating: country, bluegrass, rock ‘n roll, rockabilly, folk and punk. There’s something for everyone.
For a great taste of last year’s festivities, take a look at Exploit Boston!’s Rodfest VI Gallery:
Photo of Rogue Heroes at Rodfest 6, January 18, 2008, by Sooz for Exploit Boston!
The Murder Mile at TT The Bear’s on January 16th
January 9, 2009
It’s not surprising when a band from around Boston has anglophile leanings, or Irish folk rhythms. They’ve got the skinny suspenders, Fred Perry sponsorships, dulcimers … you understand. But for the rollicking Anglo-punk Boston quartet The Murder Mile, there’s a big difference — they’re bringing it when it comes to the music. It’s perfectly evident on their song “No Solutions.”
Video: “No Solutions”
It begins with a lone acoustic decree: “This heart beats black and blue.” And from there it quickly gets serious. Distorted, Johnny B. Goode guitar bends shred over pounding drums. The song builds, drops out, and finishes with a punch. Maybe most impressive of all, the vocals channel Danzig-like tone and phrasing during the chorus. Elvis Costello once wrote of 1970s Belfast: “But it’s no laughing party/When you’ve been on the murder mile“. For 00’s Boston, The Murder Mile is party music.
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Check out The Murder Mile at T.T. the Bear’s (10 Brookline Ave, Cambridge) on January 16th. They go on at Midnight. The night starts off with The Acre, Emergency Music, and the Televandals. The show is 18+ and tickets are $8. To get to TT’s, take the Red Line to Central Square and walk a couple blocks down Mass Ave towards Boston and take a right on Brookline Ave. If you’re driving, there’s cheap parking around the corner at the Green Street Garage (corner of Pearl Street and Green Street).
The Raveonettes at the Paradise Rock Club on Thursday, January 15th
January 3, 2009
English is a good language because you can make up words by combining existing ones. Denmark’s The Raveonettes know this: their stage name is a combination of Phil Spector’s darlings The Ronettes, and Buddy Holly’s jam “Rave On”. This wordplay reflects The Raveonettes’ ability to cut up vintage American rock sounds, and twist them into their own dark and detached riff rock. This stuff is clearly more “White Light/White Heat” than “Be My Baby”, but they don’t forget to bring the fuzzbox and reverb along with the attitude.
Check out The Raveonettes at the Paradise Rock Club on Thursday, January 15th. Doors: 8pm. Tickets: $16.50 (Buy tickets online or go to the Paradise Box Office at 967 Commonwealth Avenue on the MBTA Green Line’s “B” train). Ages: 18+. Also playing that night is Nickel Eye, the folk rock side project of The Strokes’ bassist Nikolai Fraiture.
Join the Exploit Boston! Email Newsletter to Win Cool Stuff From The Raveonettes
If you haven’t joined the Exploit Boston! email newsletter yet, sign up for a chance to win some cool stuff from The Raveonettes: Lust Lust Lust vinyl, all four of The Raveonette’s digital EPs, a signed poster, and tickets to the show at the Paradise Rock Club on January 15th. Winners will be selected on January 6th and notified via email. To stay on top of all things The Raveonettes, join their email newsletter, too.
The Raveonettes’ Music on iTunes
Dig into The Raveonettes’ latest EPs on iTunes: Wishing You A Rave Christmas, Beauty Dies, Sometimes They Drop By, Lust Lust Lust and check out the free Remixed EP on Vice Records.
Live Video of The Raveonettes at the SXSW Music Festival
Check out this video of The Raveonettes performming “Dead Sound” at the 2007 SXSW Music Festival in Austin. They’re almost too cool for smiles; but watch the drummer crack one at 2:34, just before she begins the buildup that launches a beautiful guitar squall on the audience. Also, playing the drums while standing tells you they aren’t messing around. Watch more videos on The Raveonette’s website.
