Rock Out With Your Cocktail Out Vol. XIII

Happy July to my favorite audiophiles and alcoholics! A playlist made perfect for your backyard grilling pleasure featuring some recent bands I had the pleasure of seeing in person including Count to Four, Crimes and Await Rescue, and some favorite new songs from Marnie Stern, Said the Whale and The Boxer Rebellion. This month's featured cocktail comes courtesy of Somerville Food Blogger, Culinary Colleen. Turn it up and make yourself a pomegranate cosmopolitan. Because we're fancy and antioxidants are good for us.

Sassy and sophisticated and all about the music.

TT The Bear's Cancels Boyd Rice Show...Puts on Benefit Show for Rosie's Place

Local venue cancels show, replaces with benefit show

Vanyaland.com reported on Wednesday, June 26th, that TT The Bear's canceled Friday’s sold-out Cold Cave show. “The Central Square venue’s management have [sic] raised questions and concerns over the opening act, controversial noise artist Boyd Rice.” Rice, who has been associated with Nazi and Satanic groups, has also spoken out against women’s rights.

In an interview with now defunct Misanthrope Magazine, Rice stated, “I don't think women deserve the same rights as men. I don't think women are on an equal footing with men. I think they're totally different creatures. I think the world operated better when they had less say over how the way things went, had less control.”

Canceled Boyd Rice shows have been trending across the country as many venues recognize the contentious nature and potential hazard of hosting such an individual.

On Thursday, June 27th, TT The Bear’s announced that they will be replacing the canceled show with a Benefit show for Rosie’s Place (a Boston sanctuary for poor and homeless women), featuring The Luxury, Cult 45 and Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. Support local music and local charity this Friday, June 28th, 8:30pm. No set cover - pay what you can at the door.

This Is New England - A 100% Benefit Compilation

New England bands come together to create a compilation
to benefit brain cancer research and the One Fund.

Earlier this year, Jeff Bernoth, guitarist for Boston punk band, Yo Ticonderoga, lost his mother to brain cancer. During his last few months with her, Bernoth recounts, “[My Mom's] memory got worse and worse, and her language was very limited, but curiously she was able to sing songs she knew from beginning to end.” While working on a project to benefit brain cancer research, the unfortunate events of the Boston Marathon occurred, and in an effort to focus on something positive, This Is New England was created.

This Is New England is a benefit compilation featuring a stacked representation of local punk and ska bands. Every last penny raised from it will be split between the One Fund and the American Brain Tumor Association.

Stream/Buy This Is New England: A 100% Benefit Comp on Bandcamp today.

The bands on the compilation include:

Big D and The Kids Table, Billy Raygun, Borderlines, Brunt Of It, ChokeUp, The Fake Boys, Great Lakes USA, Have Nots, Mr Fahrenheit, The New Warden, Opposition Rising, Poison Ivy League, Peeple Watchin', The Pomps, The Prozacs, Stray Bullets, Trophy Lungs, Weak Teeth, Yale Massachusetts, Yo Ticonderoga.

Await Rescue - Feel Free to Move Up, We're Not Going to Stab You

Velocity, aggression, strong handshakes, Bonnie Raitt, this is a rock show. TT the Bear’s hosted the second installment of Await Rescue Double Shot on Monday night in Cambridge. Introducing the band’s fourth record, Everyone You Know (released April 2013), Await Rescue has been gaining attention, including an impressive eleven week stint on Boston Emissions with Anngelle Wood.

Boston band, Await Rescue, plays a hardy rock and roll set in Cambridge.

Cut It Off - Denim Vests

What do you call an alligator in a vest? An investigator! Jokes. Among the many styles aboard the 2013 fashion train, sits pretty the totally radical 1980's look. Although denim vests are a staple in the punk scene, most common folk are rocking the resurgence for the first time in a long while. Denim vests are hot right now. Like, white denim hot!

Anarchy in the Nordstrom USA

A Week of Music via Instagram

As always, each week in Boston is a tremendous week for music, featuring both local and touring acts. And as always, I try to make it out to every event saved in my Google Calendar. Swear to Dinosaurs, all your shows are stored in my online calendar of organization. Here are a few that I went to.

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