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WED 10.14 @ Turf Club

$6|  21+  |  9:30PM

Brighton, MA (of Chicago, IL)

Matt Kerstein and his crack squad of players – guitarist Jim Turek, bassist Devon Bryant and drummer Sam Koentopp – sink themselves into a general mood that feels like sad chandeliers, a cold frost and men sipping glasses of brandy or whiskey in glasses that are almost always empty and in rooms that are dimmed and staring back with an anxious tension. The songs on Amateur Lovers and their new brothers are a combination of these scenes and the anticlimactic (or most interesting) narratives that have shown the characters as the flawed, yet resiliently trying men that everyone starts out as and winds up as through no lack of effort. These are thoughts that build into a kettle of steam that announce their presence over the course of time, seeping out slowly without the whistle. These are thoughts that one catches himself thinking and knows not where they came from or how they found him, just that they’re right or they’re more right than wrong. Kerstein has one of the most engaging voices and lyrical minds anywhere and Brighton, MA has already made an album that should be recognized, not necessarily alongside other albums that are marveled over, but sharing quarters with prized literature, the pleasure and pain of solitude and mankind’s corrupt beauty. (Daytrotter)

We Landed On The Moon! (of Louisiana)

We Landed On The Moon’s front-woman Melissa Eccles has a blessed voice that is absolutely perfect for a guitar pop wonderland. But, These Little Wars is obviously very much a group effort. The band’s take on the eighties and nineties scene is compelling and exciting. And, unlike Neil Armstrong’s supposed voyage, there is no doubt that this a real event of an album. This is a great album to dance, care, and rock to throughout any purely darkened night. (FensePost)

Greycoats

& This World Fair

Brighton, Ma – “Amateur Lovers” (MP3)

We Landed On The Moon: RE Your Letter [mp3] (via fensepost.com)

Breaksea Caravel is a dark theatrical orchestra from Minneapolis: cello, accordion, clarinet, erhu, upright bass, violin, percussion.

The show is tonight @ The Bedlam – 8PM w/ Carpscale Orchester & Greycoats

Here’s a note from Breaksea Caravel..

“New Album out Feb. 2009
We have finally finished our third album and it is now available. Three of the songs on this cd are available on our myspace.
The album is titled “Home”, it was recorded at Two Pillars studio with Matt Patrick.

In Minneapolis you can pick one up at Treehouse records on 26th st. and Lyndale ave. or at the Seward Cafe on Franklin Ave. and 21st st. or at the Hardtimes Cafe on Riverside Ave. and 19th st.

If you are in Europe we hope to have some at a local distro soon. if you have paypal I can send you one directly.

We will be in Germany and Switzerland this May. Details will be posted soon.