Feb 9 (Mon) - Dropkick Murphys, The Aggrolites, Haywire, Slugger - State Theatre, Portland ME + Feb 9 (Mon) - So-Matic, Toy Monsoon, Chris Lee-Rodriguez - Silhouette Lounge, Allston MA + Feb 9 (Mon) - Flyway / FM Collective / Lamb Rest / Izzy Savides - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 9 (Mon) - MDOU MOCTAR - The Drake, Amherst MA + Feb 9 (Mon) - Return To The Pit! - WUNH Studios (Durham, NH) Feb 9 (Mon) - Ignominious, Cave Dweller, Practical Gore, Retrained Surgical Instrument, 16BUMPS - Alchemy (Providence, RI) Feb 9 (Mon) - National Pizza Day - Everywhere + Feb 9 (Mon) - Ambassador Mode: Metal Stewardship with Jose Mangin - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Jose Mangin. This lecture will address what it means to represent a genre and who is being represented: bands, fans, scenes, or a set of values? Jose breaks down ambassadorship as a service role: welcoming newcomers, amplifying artists, and supporting young metalheads through his Headbang For Science Foundation. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 10 (Tue) - ¡Ponce!, Spray Bottle Fever, In Spite Of You, Syndicate - Grace's Place, Meriden CT + Feb 10 (Tue) - The Nomad Circus / The Welcoming Committee / Long Autumn / Lowest Rung of Show Business - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 10 (Tue) - Riffindots | AUGUST | Oak.Land - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 10 (Tue) - Baceprot Means “Noisy”: Language, Identity, and Owning the Word with Voice of Baceprot - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturers, Firda Marsya Kurnia, Euis Siti Aisyah, and Widi Rahmawati from the band Voice of Baceprot (VOB). “Baceprot” comes from Sundanese, and VOB wields it as both a mission statement and a sonic aesthetic. The band will share how their language and local humor have become part of global metal and the importance of singing about social, gender, and environment issues while keeping things LOUD. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 11 (Wed) - Midnight Psychic / The Way Up / GRNCH / DonutShoes - Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT + Feb 11 (Wed) - Umphrey’s McGee - State Theatre, Portland ME + Feb 11 (Wed) - Billy F Gibbons and the BFG Band - Plymouth Memorial Hall, Plymouth MA + Feb 11 (Wed) - Karaoke with DJ Matt R - Ralph's Chadwick Square Rock Club (Worcester, MA) Feb 11 (Wed) - Little Low, Roof Tops, Sal Ellington - Silhouette Lounge, Allston MA + Feb 11 (Wed) - Kristiane, Screenager - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 11 (Wed) - Woman of the Year (1942) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 11 (Wed) - Compa, Cotter, & Chuck - Radio Bean, Burlington VT + Feb 11 (Wed) - History of Heavy Metal: Part III - This will be a seminar examining even more genres of Heavy Metal. Topics will include more about the (then) New Wave of American Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, and Progressive Metal. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 12 (Thu) - Umphrey’s McGee - Citizens House of Blues Boston, Boston, MA + Feb 12 (Thu) - Common Swans / Objects In Motion / Mizz Konduct / The Outside Ins - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 12 (Thu) - Now, Voyager (1942) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 12 (Thu) - Oddie, Girls Night, Vallory Falls, Lunar Static - Radio Bean, Burlington VT + Feb 12 (Thu) - Stavros Halkias - The Flynn, Burlington, Vermont + Feb 12 (Thu) - The Birth of Metal: Blue Cheer Prove that Metal is More than Music with Bob Mayo - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Bob Mayo. In this presentation, Boston-area metal musician Bob Mayo will attempt to establish conclusively that California’s Blue Cheer was the first heavy metal band, and their debut album “Vincebus Eruptum” is the first heavy metal album. Mayo will use choice examples of the band’s music, but also key interview excerpts from contemporary published interviews as well as TV appearances. The debate ends here! - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 13 (Fri) - Ballers, SiNGe, Mitch Kramer, Sentiments - 33 Golden Street, New London, CT + Feb 13 (Fri) - Anti-Valentine's Day Emo Night: Anthms, Make Way! - Bad Sons Beer Company, Derby CT + Feb 13 (Fri) - BLAHSUM, Someone You Can Xray - Stella Blues Bar, New Haven CT + Feb 13 (Fri) - The Anti-Valentine's Day Metal Massacre: Cyperna, No Honor Among Thieves, Scumbag, A Matter of Fact - The Cellar on Treadwell, Hamden, CT + Feb 13 (Fri) - SLAMPIG, In The Kingdom of Nightmares, KRULL - The Old Town Theatre, Old Town, ME + Feb 13 (Fri) - Tauk, MJT - Brighton Music Hall (Allston, MA) Feb 13 (Fri) - Melty Kiss, Big Mess, No One And The Somebodies, Rong - Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown MA + Feb 13 (Fri) - Rockin Bob Punk Band / TJ Welch and The Wasted / Still Sedated - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 13 (Fri) - Miss Fairchild, The Macrotones, The Valley Moonstompers Society - Ralph's Chadwick Square Rock Club (Worcester, MA) Feb 13 (Fri) - Frank Morey - Vincent's, Worcester MA + Feb 13 (Fri) - Eve's Bayou (Director's Cut) (1997) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 13 (Fri) - Paradox/Seldom Chalant/Ruby Grove/Boymom/GReatness AF/Militia Rashad - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 13 (Fri) - Id M Theft Able, Hope Symphony, smog moss, I.C.B.M., P.V. - Panopticon, Allston MA + Feb 13 (Fri) - Fenway Punk - book release event for Chris Wrenn's book - Featuring Jared Carrabis and a live audience recording for the Section 10 podcast - Bridge Nine/Sully's Brand, Beverly MA + Feb 13 (Fri) - MomDad, The Leatherbound Books, Assorted Fruit, The War Turtles - Odd Fellows Hall, Burlington VT + Feb 13 (Fri) - TVOD, Balaclava, The Bubs, Greasfeace, Firstsex, POLKAROBICS - Radio Bean, Burlington VT + Feb 14 (Sat) - Venus Kiss, Psycho Brat, Crash The Net, Mexican Touchdown - The Cellar on Treadwell, Hamden, CT + Feb 14 (Sat) - Mighty Mystic, Solgyres, Sunshine Melodies - Scottish Dave's Pub, Clinton CT + Feb 14 (Sat) - Weird Music Night: Kim Van Aelst, The Broken Robots, Fluxux Scores, Danger Music, DJ Turd Burglar - Ely Center, New Haven CT + Feb 14 (Sat) - Red NOT Chili Peppers - Paradise Rock Club presented by Citizens, Boston MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - Coffin Salesman / Daphne Blue Underworld / Bad Idea USA / Thou Merciless Graves - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 14 (Sat) - The Femmes: The Valentines Ball - a Gay Prom - Iron Horse Music Hall, Northampton MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - Sentient Horror, Spesimin, Grotesqueries, Wretched Inferno, Blessed Be - Ralph's Chadwick Square Rock Club (Worcester, MA) Feb 14 (Sat) - The Moore Brothers - Vincent's, Worcester MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - Crimson Peak (2015) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - The Princess Bride (1987) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - Trolls (2016) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - In/Shreds | On What You're On | Drug Deal Gone Rad - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - Risque Holiday | Toy Monsoon | Moss Creek - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 14 (Sat) - Polka Party! - WUNH Studios (Durham, NH) Feb 14 (Sat) - Antidote for Annie, Ground to Dust, pixelgrinder, Shed Skin, Siberia Zero - Jewel (Manchester , NH) Feb 14 (Sat) - Convoluted / Depopulate Montana / Gastric Fascitis / Emmett Gelber / Industry Standard - Alchemy (Providence, RI) Feb 14 (Sat) - Nuclear Tomb, Agonesiac, Moisturizer, & Guano - Getties @Fete Music, Olneyville RI + Feb 14 (Sat) - Melt, Mimi Fang - The Stone Church, Brattleboro VT + Feb 14 (Sat) - Academy Order, Omegatelik, Night Protocol, Dutch Experts, The Goat, Vetica - Higher Ground - Showcase Lounge (South Burlington, VT) + Feb 15 (Sun) - Instantiations series at Real Art Ways. Improvised music with Diane Buettner, Yoona Kim, Joe Morris, Adam Matlock - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT + Feb 15 (Sun) - Academy Order, Midnight Psychic, DJ Order Amoris - Grace's Place, Meriden CT + Feb 15 (Sun) - Mitch Kramer/Rockin Bob Punk Band (feat members of Jerry's Kids/The Fu's)/Wolves at Bay/Wires in the Walls/Cry Havoc! - Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT + Feb 15 (Sun) - Trueblood, Prestyn Smith - Brighton Music Hall (Allston, MA) Feb 15 (Sun) - New Edition, Boyz II Men, Toni Braxton - TD Garden, Boston MA + Feb 15 (Sun) - Telescope Club / Field Day / Arto Vaun / Ugly Moon - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 15 (Sun) - When Harry Met Sally... (1989) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 15 (Sun) - Trolls (2016) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 15 (Sun) - Eleanor On Earth, Eden Troderman, Audrie Jones, Salome - Panopticon, Allston MA + Feb 16 (Mon) - Dinos, No One And The Somebodies, Children Of The Flaming Wheel, Irish Goodbyes - Silhouette Lounge, Allston MA + Feb 16 (Mon) - Orbiter / Scrod / Divorce Cake / On Regret - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 16 (Mon) - Point Break (1991) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 16 (Mon) - Mary Poppins Sing-Along - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 16 (Mon) - Return To The Pit! - WUNH Studios (Durham, NH) Feb 17 (Tue) - The Runarounds, Aestrea, Hey I'm Outside - Citizens House of Blues Boston, Boston, MA + Feb 17 (Tue) - Life as a Modern Metal Drummer: Tech, Production, and Touring with Matt Zappa - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Matt Zappa. This lecture will explore drumming techniques used by modern metal musicians, featuring live demonstrations. It will also cover the skills and requirements expected of contemporary drummers in the music industry, the impact of technological advancements on music and instrument production, and personal stories from life on tour. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 19 (Thu) - Abel Blood, Stoned Shadow, Mercury Burns First, Project H - The Shaskeen Pub and Restaurant, Manchester NH + Feb 19 (Thu) - History of Heavy Metal: Part IV - This will be a seminar examining even more genres of Heavy Metal. Topics will include more about Metal Fusion, Experimental and Avant-Garde Metal, and whatever else we missed so far. As always, it’s going to get weird. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 21 (Sat) - Cardvault by Tom Brady presents: The Causeway Card Show - Big Night Live, Boston MA + Feb 22 (Sun) - Baymele, Adah Hetko - The Lilypad, Cambridge MA + Feb 26 (Thu) - Moviola/Wet Tuna/Animal Piss It's Everywhere - The Stone Church, Brattleboro VT + Feb 27 (Fri) - MAJOR MOMENT, PULSIFIER, UNDER THE HORIZON, ASH AND BONE - Platinum City Gaming, Taunton MA + Mar 6 (Fri) - Drive-By Bukkake (DBB), Karate Steve, Gearteeth - THCC (The Heavy Culture Cooperative) - Easthampton, MA (at 1 Northampton Street) + Jun 28 (Wed) - SANCTUS IUDA (POLAND), DROPDEAD, THE MASSACRED, KNELT - The Cantab Underground, Cambridge MA + CANCELLED Jan 18 (Wed) - Testing something - Your face +