flyer by Tim Jacques

The Clippers are back in town after a quick jaunt down I-95 with Bozmo at the beginning of December. They’re still doing some of the best odd-punk around by deconstructing verse/chorus/verse structures, cutting off all the fat and leaving only the leanest and tautest of compositions.
“Boku & Chevre” MP3

Sweet Tooth are a mysterious NYC upstart with just a sole song available on their bandcamp page. But its descriptors are pretty accurate: “Zombie Apocalypse” is some female-fronted abrasive no-wave, primed for basements and falling into all your friends.
“Zombie Apocalypse” MP3

SaraLee were rightly awarded the opening track on Boston Hassle’s compilation, which has been approved by not just jerks like me but also Forbes and the Globe. The songs from their demo are universally engaging; one of the few bands you could lure your grandparents into a basement show with.
“Cabin” MP3

Speedy Ortiz is the newest project from Sadie Dupuis, who held down guitars and vocals for Brooklyn’s Quilty (may they R.I.P.). The Death of Speedy Ortiz is a batch of ten songs self-recorded “at summer camp” this year, a hodgepodge of lo-fi grungy pop-rock that seems to expand on the stricter sonic restraints of her former project.
“Cutco” MP3

Allston City Limits: it used to be called something else
bring $$$$ for the two bands that traveled up here from NYC
all ages // 9pm start-time // facebook signups