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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
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)
Hank Sinatra Jr at AS220
with Gloria Gardenburger, Kevin Steinhauser, and Lynn Breslow Swanson
Hosted by Randy Bush
AS220
115 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903
Get RI reviews Eric Baylies ‘Heroin’s Rainbow’ book
You can read the article here.
Website updates continue….
As of March 15, 2013 newly updated sections include:
1. a fully-linked discography page.
2. an ‘about’ section with label and podcast info.
3. the addition of 30 album covers on the front page scrolling marquee.
4. all album cover photos in the marquee link to that release.
4. 25 albums in the store now have links to purchase the digital download.
5. added the ‘New Releases’ section to the store.
6. 36 new songs added to the Free Mp3 Song Downloads section.
Torches ‘Forest’ album now available for free download
The album ‘Forest’ by Providence (at the time)-based band Torches is now available for free download.
Vertical Twin’s ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ Silkscreen Poster with Album Download Card is now released.
75OL-162 Vertical Twin’s ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ Silkscreen Poster with Album Download Card is now released. Vertical Twin’s ‘ElectroSonicMotherphonic’ was released in December and a limited number of posters were printed to celebrate the release. Providence artist Ryan Lesser drew the cover image. Fifty glow in the dark 19″x 25″ hand silk screened three color posters, featuring the album cover image, will be offered for sale and include a digital download code for the album.