A Partially Open Mic

Live Review

Jan 6

Written By Michael Gutierrez

Rappers pass the mic, and the signup sheet, for the Winter Showcase at The Jungle on Monday, 16 December 2024.

Presented by SFC, Hustle Killer, and Super Party Bros.

Say goodbye to Mondays at The Jungle…for now.

Ace the Quiz, Win the Tix

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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.

Hump Nights

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Ace the Quiz, Win the Tix

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Hump Nights 〰️ Ace the Quiz, Win the Tix 〰️

The word is that The Jungle will put a temporary pause on Monday nights at 6 Sanborn Court. January, “dry” or not, can be a bit of a bust in terms of overall numbers for music venues. So it’s not unusual to see establishments scale back hours, retreating into their den like a wintering bear, until the warmer days (or college kids on winter break) return.

What event served as the Big Temporary Monday Sendoff? A Winter Showcase with a mile-long bill, multiple co-presenters, a DJ, an emcee in a holiday sweater, and vintage arcade games (courtesy of Super Party Bros.) littering the all-in-one-room fun of The Jungle.

Kind of an open mic, kind of not? The laundry list of performers was secured in advance. Who would show up to perform, and in which order, was an open question. If you showed up, you signed your name at the bottom of the list sitting on the lip of the stage, and waited your turn.

Shout out to Maxedout for opening the festivities. The long arc of A Winter Showcase bent towards hip hop, with the house DJ accompanying various solo performances.

Shout out Dying Star, serving up a kind of Esham-inspired terror rap.

Shout out to King Loopz for his ode to joltin’ Joe Biden.

Shout out to Zach Vincent, who didn’t realize this was a hip hop show and only showed up prepared to deliver a few American Idol-style pop ballads. The crowd dug it.

And shout out to the young woman at the bar who was trying to talk the bartender into regressive sexual politics under the banner of some misguided, “through the looking glass,” umpteenth generation version of tradwife feminism. Are you ready for the Trump Years: Part Two? It’s going to be weird.

(Wrote up this event for my Cambridge Day gig as well.)