Thanks to Bell Biv Devoe’s weird sense of spelling, it just took me half an hour to track down this song which, incidentally, I didn’t remember was by BBD and also which sounds ABSOLUTELY NOTHING like I remembered. Also, the search wasn’t really worth it.

My favorite part of this song is the verse at 2:14, when one of them raps the names of other hits by former members of New Edition.

• Firehouse 13  Queen Of Hearts Prom ‘08 Music by Abstract Soul, killer dance party action at Firehouse 13. You don’t have to dress up but really, don’t you want to get all fly? 9pm, $10
• The Blackstone  Phoenix Poll Winners The ‘Mericans along with Sleepyhead and Costarr. 9pm, $6
• AS220  Indian Jewelry, Lybthith, Phthalocynine, Bronhard/Going/Public, and possibly other ridiculously named bands. Here, I’ll make one up: Bthlinonislappy 9pm, $7

Rocking Rock and soft rock, and then not-very-rock at all: out and about tonight in the city of Prov.

• AS220 Space-folk super fairy Larkin Grimm brings her Billie Holiday cult chanting to town along with Drew Danbury and Dan McCauley of Deer Tick, which is weird because I thought he was the only member of Deer Tick. PS, his voice is awesome. 9pm $6
• White Electric Another in the series of quiet and eclectic stuff they’ve been doing for awhile, tonight it’s Area C, Mem1, Shawn Greenlee and Freida Abtan. 7pm, donations smacked out ya’ mouth.
• Studio Blue Way, way out in Riverside this ex-karate dojo and current recording studio/party space hosts the Viennagram (pictured) tonight with Baylies Band and Radio Drama 7pm $5
• The Blackstone Way, way up in Pawtucket The Radionics with most-robbed-Phoenix Poll-band the Cold War, also Penrose and Senior Discount. 10pm $5

Okay, maybe I can just drown out the damn bird. Taking a page from the Radiohead playbook, Nine Inch Nails is offering their/his/its new album “The Slip” free-of-charge.

In a post on the band’s web site the band’s leader, Trent Reznor, said, “Thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years — this one’s on me.”

According to The New York Times, Coldplay is jumping on the ‘free’ bandwagon as well… thing is, their music should be free.

Gorgeously shot and beautifully mixed, Greatest Band Ever (I said it) Radiohead recently did one of those VH1 From The Basement things and they even included one of my favorites, “Where I End And You Begin” from Hail To The Thief. ( VH1)

Soooooooo nice outside.

Soooooooooooooo hot in my workplace.

Soooooooooooooooooooo very unhappy.

Must cheer up.

Must feel better.

Must listen to the poppiest of pop songs.

Need…

OMD…

right now…

More after the jump.

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo refreshing…

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Shows going on Friday night…

• White Electric Coffeehouse Some quite, folky, cool stuff with NYC artists Bedsit Poets and Lauren Agnelli. 7pm, free.
• Building 16  Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Javelin, and Notendo. 9pm, ?$
• AS220  Killing Pablo, Dirty Dirty, Spurs, Exiles. 9pm, $6
• Firehouse XIII  Baylock, Benedict Arnold, and Soul Movement. 7pm, $5
• Jimmy’s Saloon, Newport  Suicide Bill & The Liquors, Diepod, Six Star General. 9pm, ?$
• Thunderdome  Sneepo De Mayo III featuring The Body, Ramming Speed (Boston), Dave n’ Steve, Steve Pid. 8pm, donations kindly beaten out of you at the door.

Jersey City’s Black Hollies are incredible. They fuse all kinds of dark, Nuggets-era psychedelic white-boy soul with Black Rebel/Brian Jonestown fuzz and stomp. They’re also not afraid to rip insane solos at inappropriate moments. And that’s a pretty goddamn perfect band name, actually. They’re at AS220 tonight along with Darsombra and Kintaan, 9pm, $6.

After that, head to Local 121 for LOADED! K-Leav, HP and I bring the guitar-pop sugar rush to your torn and frayed eardrums. We take requests but usually ingore them. 10pm, free, man.

Playing at the Hi-Hat tonight is Mark Olson, one of the founding members of the Jayhawks. The show starts at 7PM with openers, the ‘mericans, playing an acoustic set. This is a classy joint people — no sneakers, no t-shirts, no hats. C’mon, dress up. Act like you’re somebody.

I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t know what Coachella was until this morning.  If you guessed “a giant music festival/jamboree of some type in oh so sunny California,” then well done. And how do you put an end to such a behemoth gathering?

Roger Waters brought Coachella to a close with an epic two-set performance that included playing all of “Dark Side of the Moon” and unleashing a giant inflated pig into the night sky.

Ok, but how do you make the space-pig relevant for all the kids with their youtubes and facebooks?

The pig, which was led above the crowd from lines held on the ground, displayed the words “Don’t be led to the slaughter” and a cartoon of Uncle Sam wielding two bloody cleavers. The other side read “Fear builds walls.”

The underside of the pig simply read “Obama” with a checked ballot box alongside.

As Waters drew the song to a close, flame bursts exploded on the sides of the stage and the swine floated into the night sky. Waters said sadly and comically, “That’s my pig.”

It apparently launched last week, but whatever.  It’s AWESOME.  I mean, it’s no All Mine in terms of awesomeness, but still. The album’s out on Tuesday and I’m actually waiting until then to hear it, despite it being all over the internet already.  Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy.

So what have we learned? Zombies move faster than you might think… when being chased by angry bar managers. And they dance okay too, although that fetid odor of rotting flesh and dried blood makes them somewhat undesirable partners. Ghouls on the other hand smell quite nice thank you. And they are snappy dressers and are frankly pretty hot in a baseball furies/thriller/heroin chic-goes-to-the-prom kind of way. Mostly what I learned at the happening at Studio Blue on Friday night (and if you missed it you are to be pitied) is that watching a guy* eat a light bulb is actually pretty damn entertaining. One rarely sees such aggressive good cheer and anarchic party energy. What a scene — and it was in Riverside.

What I did not learn on Friday cuz I knew it already, is that The Viennagram is amazing and fun and they rock. I like that Viennaguy a lot but I didn’t get his name. (They will be playing May 9 at Firehouse 13, and again on May 21st at AS220. Go see for yourself.)

*who was he, and is he okay?

Happy Sunday!

By Michael Grigelevich

Back when wearing shorts with Doc Martens and ripping off Neil Young was the order of the day, Providence’s Six Finger Satellite donned suits, signed to Sub Pop, and released a string of near-perfect records of the electro, post-punk variety. Critics and listeners loved and feared them: 6FS’s coldness and penchant for disturbing lyrics and personal appearance – see the photo inside the “Massive Cocaine Seizure” 7″, for example – came across as both refreshing and terrifying. 6FS plowed through the 90s making records that still make any contemporary band playing in similar genres look pedestrian (The Rapture, anyone?), toured with giants like the Jesus Lizard, and even landed a video on Beavis and Butthead (“Parlor Games”). (more…)

The ‘Mericans will be the featured guest tonight on Boudin Barndance on WRIU 90.3 fm. They’ll be playing songs and taking calls, basically taking over the broadcast, at 8pm and if you don’t have one of those old-fashioned radio thingys you can listen online too!