Feb 3 (Tue) - Motion City Soundtrack, Say Anything, Sincere Engineer - College Street Music Hall, New Haven CT + Feb 3 (Tue) - Outta Pocket, Invoke, Soulless, Deprave, Jaw Wired Shut - Maennerchor Club, Taftville CT + Feb 3 (Tue) - Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause” - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 3 (Tue) - Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy / Lightning Luke / The Michael Character - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 3 (Tue) - Loser, Keep Your Distance, Sevalynn, This City Hates You - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Feb 3 (Tue) - Roddy Bottum (Faith No More keyboardist, book tour), Bitch - Porter Square Books, Cambridge MA + Feb 3 (Tue) - SPRINTS, My Transparent Eye - The Sinclair (Cambridge, MA) Feb 3 (Tue) - Strange Bunny EDM night - Alchemy (Providence, RI) Feb 3 (Tue) - National Carrot Cake Day - Everywhere + Feb 4 (Wed) - 77 Apes / A Former Friend - Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT + Feb 4 (Wed) - My Man Godfrey (1936) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 4 (Wed) - Semi Formal, Lean Meats, Toad Patrol, Bogo - Silhouette Lounge, Allston MA + Feb 4 (Wed) - Watermelon Sisters Gaza Relief Charity benefit show: In Shallows / Fossil / No More Youth / Madeline Wright - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 4 (Wed) - Motion City Soundtrack, Say Anything, Sincere Engineer - Roadrunner, Boston MA + Feb 4 (Wed) - Hot Slander, AdLo, Swimming to Drown, Mile 57 - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Feb 4 (Wed) - Baby Baby Explores + Luci Dead Limb + Supercar Repertoire - AS220 (Providence, RI) Feb 4 (Wed) - History of Heavy Metal: Part II - A seminar examining the history of Heavy Metal from the early 1980s to the present. Topics include Power Metal, Thrash Metal and the Big 4. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 4 (Wed) - National Thank a Mail Carrier Day - Everywhere + Feb 4 (Wed) - Karaoke with DJ Matt R - Everywhere + Feb 5 (Thu) - SOSMULA, RICKY HIL - Webster Underground, Hartford CT + Feb 5 (Thu) - Added Color / Radiodonta / Xur - Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT + Feb 5 (Thu) - Kyle McGrath, Carmen Olivia and The Underground Angels, ¿Inquieto!, Can't Commit, Ethan Fiske, The Jacob Insect Experience, Megaboner - The Cellar on Treadwell, Hamden, CT + Feb 5 (Thu) - Agenbite Misery + Ergi + Ingrate + BUZEM - Blue, Portland ME + Feb 5 (Thu) - A Nuclear Design // Roaches, All the way up // Stapler // The Gwiggles - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 5 (Thu) - The Defiant Ones (1958) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 5 (Thu) - Sparks the Rescue / 5ever / Megan From Work - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 5 (Thu) - Safekeep, Glaciers Collapse, Vertical Acceleration, Demiurge - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Feb 5 (Thu) - Debutants, The Whistles - Fete Music (Providence, RI) Lounge + Feb 5 (Thu) - Rodeo Parade/Mary McAvoy/Harry Zimm - The Parlour Providence RI + Feb 5 (Thu) - Sea Garden, Birds in Blue, Older Brother - News Cafe, Pawtucket RI + Feb 5 (Thu) - Eddie Gaudet, Spiralhead, Beld, Last Devotion - Marigold Brattleboro, Brattleboro VT + Feb 5 (Thu) - The Physics of Metal Guitar with Will Lunden - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Will Lunden. Will’s session will focus on the physics at the heart of the electric guitar in metal, and how the fundamental properties of waves and electronics lead to its characteristic sounds. Topics covered will include electric guitar pickup design and placement, natural and artificial harmonics, multiscale/”fanned fret” guitars, true temperament guitars, the boons and banes of nonlinearity, and why distortion is so integral to the “heavy metal sound.” There will be also be some shred-tastic demonstrations along the way. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 5 (Thu) - National Shower with a Friend Day - Everywhere + Feb 6 (Fri) - Tranquilized (Acid Bath Tribute), Singe, Spearhead, Gearteeth - 10 Selden, Woodbridge, CT + Feb 6 (Fri) - Steve Conte / Palmyra Delran / The Zambonis - Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT + Feb 6 (Fri) - The Whimbrels, Jeff Mueller, TV Sleep, The Sandy Clams - The Cellar on Treadwell, Hamden, CT + Feb 6 (Fri) - Casco, Palmball, Lootbug, Xur - The Dogpound, Connecticut (ask a punk) + Feb 6 (Fri) - Toxic Paralysis, Dog Drive, Dog Heaven, Ponce! - The Pleasent Peasant, Bristol CT + Feb 6 (Fri) - DROWN – THE ULTIMATE SMASHING PUMPKINS TRIBUTE, Serve the Servants – Nirvana Tribute, Soft Spot, Area Code, The 77 Apes, Lostsol, Overloded, Johnny Clifford - Toad's Place (New Haven, CT) Feb 6 (Fri) - Your Spirit Dies, Pure Bliss, Intrusive, Her Delicate Wounds, Justice Blade - Howard's Bookstore, Torrington CT + Feb 6 (Fri) - S.C.O.B.Y., Clock Out, Mortar, Jeez - Geno's (Portland, ME) Feb 6 (Fri) - Thru Traffic, Horrendous Downplay, Hümna Humna, Frogs - Rabie's, Boston MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Burr/Condition Baker/A Modern Anthem/Four Four Send/Mike Messina - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Gothic (1986) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Sparks the Rescue / We Demand Parachutes / Borderlines - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 6 (Fri) - Leather Lung, Mother Iron Horse, Swamphead, Gnawed Off - Ralph's Chadwick Square Rock Club (Worcester, MA) Feb 6 (Fri) - Bret Talbert, Dan Burke - Vincent's, Worcester MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Ignominious, Cave Dweller - Shea Theater Arts Center, Turner's Falls MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - BASSAL | MONARCHS AND MASSES | ANDREW BROOKS & THE CARDINAL SIN OF BETRAYAL - Marigold Theatre, Easthampton MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Failure to Thrive, Cade Earick and Friends, Andro Queen / Drag show: E.T. Barnum, Rock Hardick, Barry Cuda - Moon Base One, Salem MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Fire From The Gods, For The Fallen Dreams, VRSTY, Divide The Fall - Taffeta Music Hall, Lowell MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Wake Up Claudia, Muzzle, Dinos, Tongue Love - Panopticon, Allston MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - Blink x Jaap Blonk - The Firehouse, Worcester MA + Feb 6 (Fri) - FFO:Chillin, Headcase, Zinc, Cooked, Upon Broken Apologies, Wise Choice - The Bungalow, Manchester NH + Feb 6 (Fri) - Agenbite Misery, Imipolex, Beneath Purgatory, Perfect Suffering - Riverhill Grange, Concord NH + Feb 6 (Fri) - Horsefly Gulch, Blindspot, Strangeroos, Mike Gruber - The Shaskeen Pub and Restaurant, Manchester NH + Feb 6 (Fri) - Added Color, In Shallows, Dead Wait, Monument Hill, Headfirst - Bad Brgr, Manchester NH + Feb 6 (Fri) - Vervain, Revenge Body, Jacob B, EDT - Lost Bag, Providence RI + Feb 6 (Fri) - Onyx, Smif-N-Wessun - The Strand Ballroom & Theatre, Providence RI + Feb 6 (Fri) - The sleds, the ghouls, starbath, deceiving texture - News Cafe, Pawtucket RI + Feb 6 (Fri) - Sex With Jenna: Dating Show - Higher Ground - Showcase Lounge (South Burlington, VT) + Feb 6 (Fri) - Wild Pink, Dead Gowns - Radio Bean, Burlington VT + Feb 6 (Fri) - Work Naked Day - Everywhere + Feb 7 (Sat) - Fear the Masses, Ironrift, Lostsol, Flavor Bomb - 10 Selden, Woodbridge, CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - NEWFARE, SAMIZDAT, PHATT JAMES, MOOSE MACHINE - The Cellar on Treadwell, Hamden, CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - The Florals, Firecharger, Music Farm, Three Seater, Sandy Clams - Grace's Place, Meriden CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - Dirt Pile, Vrsa, Warm, Beth - 33 Golden Street, New London, CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - A Ghost Named Guilt, Solace In Bloom, Palisade, mybodywasfoundinahollowtree, Analropophagy, secret set - 54 Greenmanville Ave, Mystic CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - Non-Sequitur, Deernest, Urso, South of One, Overlöded, Xur - The Maxx, New Milford CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - Intrusive, Self-Inflicted, Subordinate, Crike - University of Hartford's Hawk Nest, Hartford CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - Tombstoner, Cranial Damage, Fatal Sacrament, What Weapons Bring War, The Red Mass Ritual - Counterweight Brewing, Cheshire CT + Feb 7 (Sat) - Coelacanth, Earthwyrm, Hobo Wizard, Kin - The Old Town Theatre, Old Town, ME + Feb 7 (Sat) - Dusty Buckets, Morgan The Fairy, Jake Tantog + Donnybrook Farm - Blue, Portland ME + Feb 7 (Sat) - Tease - Radon, Orono Maine + Feb 7 (Sat) - Anemoia | Lonely Leesa & The Lost Cowboys | Charming Arson | Why Try? - The Jungle Community Music Club, Somerville MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - SAHA GNAWA - Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - The Hunger (1983) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - 2 Bands 3 Poets - Bands: Moss Hallways, Plight of The Pianist. Poets: Heather Nelson, Emma Jannsen-Kennedy, Melanie Siegal. (matinee) - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 7 (Sat) - Opiate (Tool tribute), Alice (Alice In Chains tribute) - Ralph's Chadwick Square Rock Club (Worcester, MA) Feb 7 (Sat) - RESTRAINING ORDER, COLIN OF ARABIA, VIOLENT STREETS, VIOLENT PROTEST, PRICE OF REDEMPTION - Hutghi’s at the Nook, Westfield, MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - Fugue State, Modern Ego, Ferriday, Feminine Aggression - Hot Plate Brewery, Pittsfield MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - Ivory Farm, Flyway, Greeting Card, Decibel Park - Union Tavern, Somerville MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - Pink Talking Fish (Pink Floyd/Talking Heads/Phish tribute band), Leon Trout - Off The Rails, Worcester MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - Castrated Caligula, Harmony's Cuddle Party, Cursed Image, Jawzwa - Panopticon, Allston MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - Goodkarma, Isaac Raven, The Apothecary, Tongue Love - Fat Freddy's, Boston MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - DNR | Requiem | Huck 2 | Andrew Brooks - Midway Cafe (Jamaica Plain, MA) Feb 7 (Sat) - DEVA | Charmed and Strange | The Jacklights | Ashley Rhodes - Midway Cafe (Jamaica Plain, MA) Feb 7 (Sat) - Fleuke, Added Color, Fur Coat Judy, Jules Wade - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Feb 7 (Sat) - This City Hates You, Ursa, Brickarms - Cappy's Pizza, Boston MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - The Welcoming Committee / Roaches, All The Way Up / Pleasure Wheel - ask a punk, Brighton MA + Feb 7 (Sat) - Dr.Acula, Across Five Aprils, Bela Kiss, Hard Target, Greyloch - Bungalow Bar & Grill (Manchester, NH) Feb 7 (Sat) - Polka Party! - WUNH Studios (Durham, NH) Feb 7 (Sat) - MK Naomi, Megan From Work, Spongehead - Auspicious Brew, Dover NH + Feb 7 (Sat) - Hell Beach, Another One Down, Oh The Humanity, Breaking Up - The Shaskeen Pub and Restaurant, Manchester NH + Feb 7 (Sat) - Devitalized, Provenance, No More Youth, Dawn of End - Bad Brgr, Manchester NH + Feb 7 (Sat) - COUCH, Thumber - Fete Music (Providence, RI) The Ballroom + Feb 7 (Sat) - Agenbite Misery, Rhizaria, Satan Weed, Care Giver - AS220 (Providence, RI) Feb 7 (Sat) - The Copacetics/Tai Chi Funk Squad/Electric Paisan - The Parlour Providence RI + Feb 7 (Sat) - Your Spirit Dies, Voices in Vain, Pure Bliss, Creedbratton - Higher Ground - Showcase Lounge (South Burlington, VT) + Feb 7 (Sat) - Porttitor, Tabarnak, Cellar Door - Radio Bean, Burlington VT + Feb 7 (Sat) - National Fettuccine Alfredo Day - Everywhere + Feb 8 (Sun) - Ignominious, Cave Dweller, Process, Helltide - Cherry St. Station (Wallingford, CT) Feb 8 (Sun) - Bad Move, Clock Out, Satiate - Rumors, Biddeford ME + Feb 8 (Sun) - Sholay (1975) - Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline MA + Feb 8 (Sun) - Agenbite Misery / Hexrot/ Gloomlurker / Northstar the Wanderer - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 8 (Sun) - Big Jon Short - Vincent's, Worcester MA + Feb 8 (Sun) - (matinee) Ad Infinitum, Seven Spires, Tulip - Taffeta Music Hall, Lowell MA + Feb 8 (Sun) - Ronald Raygun, Mile 57, Secaydia, Aidy - The Fifth Column, Allston MA + Feb 8 (Sun) - Weepin' and A Wailin' | The B+ | Intrinsic Trio | Raccoon Road - Midway Cafe (Jamaica Plain, MA) Feb 8 (Sun) - Shit-Faced (from Japan), The Erections (from Japan), Who Killed Spikey Jacket?, Uniformed Service, Phantom Rider - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Feb 8 (Sun) - Slugger, Neighborhood Shit, Off The Top, Fools Gold - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Feb 8 (Sun) - Timbear, Milk St. - Auspicious Brew, Dover NH + Feb 8 (Sun) - Restraining Order, Colin Of Arabia, Peace Test, Can't Lose, Price Of Redemption - Alchemy (Providence, RI) Feb 8 (Sun) - Roddy Bottum (Faith No More keyboardist, book tour), Amra Brooks - Riffraff Books, Providence RI + Feb 8 (Sun) - National Kite Flying Day - Everywhere + Feb 8 (Sun) - Super Bowl!!! Yeah! Go Pats!!! - football galaxy + 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) - 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) - 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 9 (Mon) - National Pizza Day - Everywhere + Feb 10 (Tue) - The Nomad Circus / The Welcoming Committee / Long Autumn / Lowest Rung of Show Business - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Feb 11 (Wed) - Billy F Gibbons and the BFG Band - Plymouth Memorial Hall, Plymouth MA + 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 17 (Tue) - The Runarounds, Aestrea, Hey I'm Outside - Citizens House of Blues Boston, Boston, MA + 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 22 (Sun) - Baymele, Adah Hetko - The Lilypad, Cambridge 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 +