What's with today, today? Well, it's not so much today as tomorrow when Dig Boston and the Milky Way in Jamacia Plain host DAMN THE MAN, SAVE THE EMPIRE! w/ The Lights Out Friday at 9pm. I don't know about you guys, but as a teenager, I think we all had this one movie we could quote verbatim. This one was mine. This show is only 8 dollars of pure 90s nostalgia. The Lights Out, one of Boston's most talked about rock bands is performing, and I am hoping they are going to cover the entire soundtrack in the order it was released on the neon-yellow cased album I listened to religously on the bus on the way to junior high. There will also be special DJ sets by The Dig's own David Day and Hilary Hughes. Plus a photobooth (don't forget your flannel and docs) and giveaways from Mt. Gay Rum. See you tomorrow, for tomorrow is Rex Manning Day and it will be enitrely perfect.
Milky Way - $8 - 9pm - 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain - 21+ (hey if you are under 21 you probably wouldn't get it anyways)
Friendly People’s debut, self-titled 3-song EP gives a concise taste of a promising young Cambridge, MA-based band. Their jangly indie pop is peppered with hints of Americana, roots rock and folk with vocals that owe a debt to Neil Young. The EP’s clear highlight is its opening track—their namesake song—“Friendly People”. It’s a tremendous, positive track buoyed by a horn section in the bridge which lends a mariachi feel. “A Lot of Work To Do” brings out Harvest-era Neil Young, starting as a plaintive acoustic ditty which builds slowly into a passionate electric number. Closing track, “Branches”, follows the same acoustic-to-electric path. As the song builds, it introduces tribal rhythms that are reminiscent of 80s indie-punk legends, the Volcano Suns. Friendly People are scheduled to record their debut full-length in March. If the Friendly People EP is indicative of what we can expect from this young group’s next batch of tunes it will be a record to keep an eye on later in 2012.--George Dow
