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David Tessier All-Stars, Jets Can’t Land, and the Six Star General Quartet at The Parlour
8pm
The Parlour
North Main St
Providence, RI
The McGunks at Midway Cafe
with Silver Screams, Revilers, Damnation, Live Nude Girls
The Midway Cafe
3496 Washington Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
3pm
$5.00
Matt Fraza Band at Knicks
Tap Room at Knicks
35 Railroad Ave
Westerly, RI
8-10pm
Free!
Deadlands, The Really Heavy, Keith AB, & Steve K at Askew
Early show 7-10pm
Askew
Chestnut St
Providence, RI
We Own Land at Parlor Newport
with Primitive Ritual and Atomic Death Shakes
Parlor Newport
200 Broadway
Newport, RI
9pm
header Gladhouse No One Is My Name
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
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)
Mark Cutler and the Men of Great Courage at 133 Club
29 Warren Ave
East Providence, RI
9pm