People of Providence, my itunes folder needs your help!

I’ve got a bunch of songs with no tags on them.  No titles, no artists, nothing.  And none of them are ringing any bells with me.

I’m so annoyed I even made a muxtape about it.  Anybody have any idea about what any of these dozen might be?  I’ll be eternally grateful if you’ve got any answers.

For some ungodly reason I woke up at four this morning, which means that I had hours and hours to dwell on the fact that one of the biggest festivals in the city this year is trying to pass off Tiffany as an exciting musical option. And, being the way I am, I started thinking about other gay-ish bands that I’d actually like to see performing downtown today. Like, for instance, bands who may have actually been culturally relevant in this no-longer-new millennium. Here’s eleven suggestions for a homo music festival that people might actually enjoy. To the Youtube-mobile!

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just when you thought it was safe!!

the co-ed fight club for girls return (again) to e&o monday, june 9th, 8pm-12am for yet another brutal night of biceps, bruises and beer. i’m pretty sure there’ll be free food, new faces, ridonk sweatsuits, and possibly the world premiere of CFCFG’s very own potentially embarrassing/undoubtedly outrageous dance party workout music video party party party dance video.

so stop watching the wire for a couple hours and COME THRU!!!!!!!

monday june 9th, 8pm-12am, 289 knight st. providence, ri

Butter Days will play one of their final shows of the year at the Living Room tonight. The friend rockers will make great things happen with glockenspiel and strength in numbers.

Also, Boston bands This Is How Rumors Get Started and Devil and a Penny will make their Providence debut.

The show starts at 8pm.

LIVE / WHIRLED – Perishable Theatre, Rhode Island’s Research & Development theatre, is pleased to announce the final concert in this year’s Live/Whirled Series.

“Girl-Whirled” on Sunday March 9 @ 3:00 PM.

Featured performers are two fabulous singers with very personal styles, Ellen Santaniello and Michelle Cruz. (more…)

Disclaimer: I’m in The Cold War. What of it? Direct from Sunderland in the UK, School Of Language, who sound like Modest Mouse and V. Weekend, bring their sweeping US tour through Boston, specifically TT The Bears. Their songs are very cool, check them out. They’re so American sounding you’d never guess they were British. People say the exact opposite of us, probably ’cause of the fake accents and all. Playing somewhere on the show are Boston’s Cyanide Valentine, who chase computer-squelchy electro and vibrant electric and acoustic guitar rock down the Radiohead rabbit hole. TT The Bears Place, Cambridge MA, cheap cover. 9pm?

Nick-a-Nees has live music tonight from 9PM to closing. The ‘mericans will be playing a special stripped-down acoustic show. Opening act is Black Eyed Anchor.

75 South Street/Providence/861.7290/free admission

So apparently the reunion that nobody really cared about anyway is officially on the rocks. And not in a good way, like a Dewars, but in the Eddie-can’t-play-guitar-anymore way, and that’s not even taking into consideration Diamond Dave’s completely awful sangin’: You knew he was going to be bad, but Eddie? In the clip above, try to hang in there for the solo, it’s the polar-opposite of a money shot.

The Co-ed Fight Club for Girls returns to the E&O tap Monday, February 25th, 8pm-12am for a night of serious bar tending, booze, breasts, biceps and BRAND NEW OUTFITS (printed & designed by yours truly under CFCFG direction). So, put on your knee-highs, stuff some singles in your wallet, adjust your sweatbands and jog on over.  E&0 tap is conveniently located at 289 Knight St. in Providence, RI 02909.  It’ll be just like this:

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

Oh my God. Oh my God. This is the best thing Brown has ever done. Get ready for some Galang Galang, because the love of my life M.I.A. is coming to Brown the weekend of April 11th:

Spring Weekend will be headlined by rapper Lupe Fiasco and Sri Lankan music sensation M.I.A., the Brown Concert Agency announced today. Mashup artist Girl Talk, cardigan-wearing indie rock darlings Vampire Weekend and the progressive rock jam band Umphrey’s McGee will also perform. . . .

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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

I keep on forgetting to post about Sundays at Local 121 — The Colonel spins R&B, reggae, and new wave, and the whole Sunday night crew formerly of Talk of the Town hangs out a bar-tends. Best way in town to spend a Sunday night.

10pm-1am, 121 Washington St.

To quote an article written about her in November: “Porter Singer is a Borders’ Books and Music favorite. Considering that the Wesport (CT) resident will perform more than handful of times at stores all over New England, the nationwide chain seems to understand what makes the 24-year-old performer’s songs so precocious.”

Ok, so like, it’s a massive book chain you say…, but the emerging chanteuse and pianist (and Brown grad) will make you forget that, even despite the lighting. Her songs are intricate, her lyrics are beautiful, and her voice is lovely, rich and nuanced.

People describe her with a whole bunch of comparisons (Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple…), but she has a truly unique command of the song form.

Tonight is the 50th anniversary of the Grammy Awards. On the schedule is a special tribute to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band which I’m sure will be ghastly. All hope of a spontaneous unscripted moment was abandoned years ago… but wait… there’s hope. CBS is teasing a live feed from London featuring Amy Winehouse! Keep in mind that there is a 5 hour time difference. At the start of the show it will already be 1:30AM Amy-time. What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile enjoy the famous Bob Dylan/ Soy Bomb incident.

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