Thighs Highs
THIGHS at the Silhouette LoungeTHIGHS smash an aluminum diamond plate at Silhouette Lounge on Monday, 5 February 2024.
Little Pond, Moon Room, and James 3 sandwich a four-stack bill on a Hump Night.
Have you seen the new Hump Nights champion belt?
We’re not kidding. There’s a monthly contest to win tickets to Hump Nights around town. These nights are awesome music shows that Hump Day News has a hand in promoting. And if you win the contest, you win tickets.
Used to be a random drawing, but we’re switching to a local music quiz because it’s more fun. Watch for the quiz to drop about halfway through each month – get the high score by the deadline and you’ll win a pair of tickets to every show on the slate.
Maybe at Midway Cafe, maybe at Silhouette Lounge, maybe at Regent Theatre, or who knows where else. Mostly music, sometimes film, always awesome.
Track Hump Day News on our socials to jump on the next quiz. We won’t hand over this awesome championship belt, because, honestly, it was expensive, but photo ops are a distinct possibility…
James 3
Great poster for this show. The iridescent green and pink hit just right in the drab winter months.
James 3 is the band listed in the lower right quadrant of the posters marquee. Just north of the monster’s pom-pom hairpiece and a little east of the hoop-pierced earrings.
Who or what is this monster?
Is it a symbolic projection of our ghoulish late capitalism avatars of mindless consumption? Or just a bad dream induced by too many chicken wings before bedtime…
Moon Room
A strummy rock outfit of noisemakers that pivots between pop ditty and colossal guitar build tendencies. Moon Room has a sense for drama, a sense for the epic, which stood out in high relief on their closing number, a kind of floating rollercoaster of sound.
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You see a band capitalize their name once and you just figure that’s protocol, even if it’s not. THIGHS!
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So many dumb online platforms out there that artists have to fool around with to get their name and music and art communicated to a fragmented public. Bandcamp! Spotify! Soundcloud! On and on…
How many times do you input your band name, and location, and email address, and handle into the input fields before you go a little loony? Maybe you start to vary the spelling or grammar or punctuation just to mix things up a little bit.
THIGHS is an artcore force squadron. Maybe five or six members deep, boasting an eclectic array of instruments that could only have been pieced together by midnight raids on tour vans, high school lockers, and abandoned construction sites.
Shout out to the aluminum diamond plate percussion. You know, that textured metal sheeting that corporate chain restaurants use as wainscoting to make cleaning up your puke a more efficient task. The percussionist for THIGHS had cut out a tight square of the material and mounted it where the cymbal would usually go.
Hard to hear what it sounded like above the warbling roar of underwater vocals, guitars, and saxophone. But goddamn it, it looked cool.
Little Pond
There are plenty of little ponds in Massachusetts. We’re not the “land of 10,000 lakes” but there are bodies of water scattered all over the state.
Little PondIn fact, have a look at a map and you’ll see an enormous reservoir in the dead center of the state with smaller lakes and ponds radiating outwards in every direction.
Could Little Pond the band be named after one of those smaller ponds circling around the Quabbin Reservoir?
Or maybe the band is named after the actual little pond named Little Pond, located in Plymouth. Little Pond the pond has its own Wikipedia page, which seems unnecessary.
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