Pin The Tail On the $5 Beer

Live Review

Feb 10

Written By Michael Gutierrez

Diane Young cuts deep at Deep Cuts on Tuesday, 4 February 2025.

Pintail plays its third show ever in the opening slot.

Know Your Scene beers are $5. Uncanny.

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Declaw / Husbands / Not Milk / Office Hours

Jun 16

A quadruplestack of rock in Rat City, USA.

Raspberry Pie / Battlemode / Koji Kompote Band

Jun 17

Raspberry Pie: The Tokyo Summer Tour comes to Boston!

Bottom Bracket / Clipboards / Oldsoul / Trash Rabbit

Jun 26

Rock n roll fourstack extraordinaire at Deep Cuts.

Jun 28

The legendary documentary about the legendary rock n roll band.

Jun 29

Matinees are punk rock at Midway Cafe.

Jul 1

Know Your Scene free show series returns to Deep Cuts.

Jul 5

Sensory overload at the Capitol! Music, film, video games, and multi-media explosion…

Jul 7

Monster slate at Jamaica Plain’s premiere music joint.

Jul 11

Build-Your-Own-Guitar Night at Deep Cuts.

Jul 12

An Allston Pudding x The 4th Wall collab at Capitol Theater.

Jul 13

The story of groundbreaking slide-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine.

Sep 3

Willie Fest 3. Bands and special guests TBA. Part of Hot Willie Summer.

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Only the third show for Pintail? It’s a new band from Tyler Zucco-Bernard, whose artcore band This Body Is All I Have In This World is a real mouthful, and possibly on hiatus.

A cursory search reveals at least two other Pintails. One from Canada and the other from the UK. The coast is clear in New England at any rate. All the sensible band names have already been taken, so to find a new original one, you have to resort to strange spelling, grammar, or just make the name really long like This Body Is…

Pintail is a short name and, at first blush at Deep Cuts, has a pithier sound. Less oblique artcore wrangling, more of a straight ahead post punk attack.

Another newish band, Diane Young, a five-piece with some alt pop jangle and solid vocal harmonies.

Not that many shows notched into the belt just yet, but there are some veteran musicians in the mix, including the fronter from Good June.

Is Diane Young a specific person or just a general “band name concept”? Bandcamp lists membership as follows: nina, dan, alex, jack, zach. So I’m guessing it’s both a specific person and a “band name concept” (you know, they named it after a gym teacher they all shared in sixth grade or something like that).