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The Really Heavy at News Cafe

with The Callouts and Bundles
News Cafe
Broad St
Pawtucket, RI
9pm
$530

The Funcrushers at The Met

CD release show for their self titled album and Handsome Pete’s Birthday Shit Show!

with Teazer and The Anchorites

The Met
Main St
Pawtucket, RI
9pm

The Noise reviews I am Tom Cummins, Suicide Bill & the Liquors, and Coma Coma

04/30
75orLess
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You can read the reviews here

SUICIDE BILL & THE LIQUORS Cricket Wisdom

12 tracks

Low-budget Big Star worship abounds here. The fact that this is their fifth album and it sounds like a clunky demo might be worrisome to some, but I think it works. They never land square on the beat, their timing is always slightly off, the solos have duff lines here and there, the vocals slip out of tune, and it always sounds like it’s all happening in a basement next to a leaky water heater. These guys are not swashbucklers, they’re bunglers, but endearing bunglers with decent record collections and open hearts who probably remember their friends’ birthdays. Most of the songs are about how girls don’t dig them, which is cool. A few of the songs – funny/sad power-popper “No Friends,” the Husker-y “Cool Fail” – would be hits if somebody, you know, more competent recorded them. Overall, I’d say Cricket Wisdom squeaks by on low-watt charm. It’s not as good as I’d like it to be, but what is these days? (Sleazegrinder)

I AM TOM CUMMINS Holiday 3-Pak

3 tracks

A cruel person might suggest that “Squirrel Song,” with its ukulele accompaniment and spacy keyboards, is like something a mentally challenged person might conjure up—but I beg to differ; it takes a good deal of talent to come up with and put across this faux-naif approach. “Downy Woodpecker” is another supposedly poignant encomium to the natural world, replete with aah-ing chorus. “Resolve to Start Again” is a bit like a terminally depressed Mr. Rogers decrying the commercialism of the Christmas season. Short and sweet, but, all in all, a bit twee for my taste. (Francis DiMenno)

COMA COMA The New American Dream

10 tracks

If you like indie rock, I would say this album is above par. I’m not sure why, I just feel like if you like stuff like this, it’s a prime example. The end. (Sleazegrinder)