Sat 12/10 Rob Noyes (LP release) with Glenn Jones, Donna Parker, Animal Hospital @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10
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Fri 12/16 Angela Sawyer LPs Release Show! @Zayre’s Parking Lot w/ Hard Rugs (Keith Waters, Jesse Collins), Steve Norton/Andrea Pensado, Noisebreaker (MC5 style goof band with drummer Alan Richardson) and Mark Johnson/Id M Theft Able/Matt Robidoux soopergroop plus MC Ethan Marsh with Angela Sawyer backing. 8pm All Ages $5-10 *A Boston Hassle Effort*
This month there are TWO monumental misadventures manifesting right here in town—and we wanna direct your gaze to both! What’s more? These are two long time local homies dropping new tunes in our eager eardrums. Round 1—December 10th—Lilypad: The sultan of subtlety, the acoustic autocrat, the maestro of magnificent six string manifestations Rob Noyes is releasing his new album to you, and me, and everyone. Noyes has been hailed for his sweeping, complex fingerstyle guitar playing, which is both technically celestial and sonically heartwarming. If you were standing naked on Mass Ave in January, his tunes would be the sweater you so desperately need. He’ll be filling our souls alongside other local luminaries including world renowned finger guitarist Glenn Jones, a giant. Donna Parker will also be waiting in the shadows to welcome us into her sonic sepulcher along with the inimitable Animal Hospital. Hey art historians, did I mention the album cover was done by the legendary Raymond Pettibon?! Come snag this wax. Round 2 – December 16 – Zayre’s Parking Lot (you know what’s up): Wiry cabinets of curiosity that interweave blasts of distorted electro fuzz and jarring bursts of word salad, Angela Sawyer’s sets bring out the WOW and the HUH? in all of us. If you’re unfamiliar, come into the fold and pick up one (or both!) of her TWO count’em TWO new records: Croaks out on Feeding Tube, and On the Pedestrian Side out on Weird Ear. She’ll also have a fresh cassette and a 7” from her hardcore band, -1, for sale too. Wow! This evening she’ll be providing us with a glimpse into her unique void alongside Steve Norton and Andrea Pensado, Hard Rugs, Noisebreaker, Matt Robidoux, Id M Theft Able and more. So many contemporary free jazz, experimental electronic, implausible performance purveyors that our heads are likely to explode (or implode?) It remains to be seen. Be there to find out.
—Michael Achille
