The Love Bullets don’t sound like any other band in Providence. Call it electronic guitar pastoral, or noir wave, or whatever. Their sound is a dark mix of chittering, gurgling electronic drums, synths, and burning, fuzz guitar all stretched out underneath a beautiful baritone voice almost Morrison-esque in its black crooning. The songs are slow burners, building themselves up slowly then bursting into brisk motorik paces, all clanging drumboxes and junked-up riffs. Check the Velvets/Doors/BRMC meltdown of their track “Castle” to catch the full drift. Rock-N-Roll Suicide at The Blackstone. DJs at 10pm, band at 11pm, FREE

post valentine-post burlesque shennanagins.
i mean if you’s not getting dressed to kill and going to the ball to see the anarchoChicks dance then check this lineup out:

Chubby Behemoth (brooklyn)
Nuclear Power Pants
Brown Book (formerly Bananahands)
BrownHard/Going/Public

Firehouse13
2nite
9pm $6

Tonight at Firehouse 13 is an amazing lineup and probably your only chance to see these three great bands together. Most everyone’s aware of the Chinese Stars and their glass-shattering disco-spunk, not everyone’s as down with The Black Clouds, whose primal, belligerent garage rock is always pretty exhilarating. With them are the Awesome Brothers, who fuse a bizarre hybrid of drum machines, synths and super-hooky, almost 80’s inspired novelty pop topped with noisy, nebulous guitar riffs and jams. (Listen to their “Mascara”)

Firehouse 13, 8pm $6

Thanks to Bookslut (and a total inability to focus on work today), I just found Musicthatmakesyoudumb and Booksthatmakeyoudumb, conceived by a CalTech student named Virgil Griffith. The two lists compare what kids say they like on Facebook with the average SAT scores of the schools they go to.

The book list is interesting though ultimately depressing. (Hint: If kids on your campus like books by black women, your school’s probably not ranked that high.) The music list isthe same–Lil Wayne and TI fans probably don’t go to very prestigious schools either, it turns out, and the only black people in the whole top 20 are animated.

Also, aside from the whole race issue, it turns out the co-eds all listen to the same music. Griffith says in the faq that “There were 3,164 distinct favorite books, but only 1,455 distinct favorite musics. College students have far more diverse tastes in books than they do in music.” Which is, you know, kind of a letdown. That’s 1,455 favorite “musics”–bands, genres, and answers like “I like anything but country”–coming from top 10 lists at 1,352 different schools across the whole country. The list data isn’t perfect–Facebook lists the top music at SAT-challenged Dallas school Paul Quinn as “I Dont Have A Particular Genre Of Music…i Listen To Wateva!” That can’t be the #1 answer at a school that has 280 people in its network. A little breakdown after the jump: (more…)

L.O.A.D.E.D. (it stands for nothing) is back and tonight I’ll speak for myself (and K-Leav) by saying I’m going to play a shitload of Primal Scream. Who the hell were Primal Scream? Yikes! I’ll give you a brief video primer on their classic Screamadelica album after the jump. Meanwhile, as always we’ll be at Local 121 tonight for our Tuesday night romp thru all the britpop, indie rock and glam classics you can handle. We like to party.
Local 121, 10pm, free!

Screamadelica, the video primer: (more…)

Right now, over at the Myspace, the Magnetic Fields are making available in its entirety Distortion, which is out officially tomorrow. I’m listening to it right now, and it’s fucking fantastic.

Zegota
been around since 98/99, from South Carolina/Sweden, on Crimethinc, last time they played Providence was 2005, their only new england show!!!

Relics
from Western MA, on Clean Plate, mem. of Wasteland

Spring Break! North Korea
providence post-hardcore heros, mem. of Hulk Out

Thieves
From CT, ex-Breed/Extinction

8pm, $8

Get to know Joe Strummer.

If all you know about Joe Strummer is that he was the lead singer for the The Clash then go pick up Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go, or Streetcore the albums he recorded with his get-up The Mescaleros. In my admittedly all-over-map opinion these albums include some of the best songs of Joe’s all too short life. Some of my favorites are Mega Bottle Ride from Global A  Go-Go, Yalla Yalla from X-Ray Style, and Ramshackle Day Parade on Streetcore.

 CLOSING PARTY: FORTUNE @ the THRESH*HOLD
FHXIII 11/28/07 7-11pm 

Musics by:  Dylan Going
Shallow Waters + Thunderpants = Shallowpants!!!
DJ Scary Jurker + Zane Crochverie
 
maximum cockfuck:
oral anal takedown
coco cockweed shaketown
delirious from penis slapsound
no way, to promote today
super sacreligious buttnoises

Mad bands (not angry, but mad as in the cali-slang for a surfeit) play Building 16 tonight near Olneyville Square. Get there early at 7:30 for a free showcase featuring The One Time String Band (ol’timey openers), Metropolis (psycho/electro/metal/funk), Adelit@s (punk/folk/latin) - all the way from Portland OR on their “Spreading Joy and Rebellion Across the Land” tour. Local faves Killing Pablo round out the evening riding their oh-so-emotronic wall of sound.

  Friends-of-blog (or friends-of-friends-of-blog) Zox are about to release Line in the Sand. New tunes up on their myspace page. If we hadn’t been so crazy last week, we might’ve remembered to tell you about the show they played at Club Hell on Thursday. Dates for their mini-tour are on their web site.