Rock Out With Your Cocktail Out Vol. XVII - FEST Edition

Let FEST come to you! Drink some Florida OJ and listen to featured Boston bands.

This year, THE FEST, an independent multiple-day, multiple-venue underground music festival held annually in Gainesville, FL, with support from No Idea Records, predicts that over 10,000 music lovers will converge on Florida to enjoy the beautiful fall weather and some of the best underground punk, hardcore, indie, and alt-country bands from all over the world.

And several of those bands will be from Massachusetts!

Halloween Run Down - Shows & Events

Special screenings of Halloween classics, haunted ghost tours, and your favorite local bands performing as imposture musicians. Looks like the Foo Fighters and Green Day are very popular costumes this year. It's Halloween in Boston, go to a show. Updates in orange.

Clicky Clicky Music Presents a Local Benefit Show

Clicky Clicky Music Benefit Show at TT's November 3rd (flyer designed by Matt Klimas)

Community Servings, based in Jamaica Plain, is a not-for-profit food and nutrition program providing services throughout Massachusetts to individuals and families living with critical and chronic illnesses. Community Servings delivers 395,000 free, home-style meals to about 1,300 people per year, who are too sick to cook for themselves or their families. Come out to a show and support this awesome cause.

#BandcampRoulette

#BandcampRoulette – Sink or Swim (Burlington, VT) take 58 seconds out of their day to tell you how selfish you are in "Straight Jabroni, No Chaser" off of Vermont Road Trips EP.

Play Bandcamp Roulette.

You Can Shut Down the Government But You Can’t Shut Down Rough Francis

Maximum Soul Power at Middle East on 10/18/13 (image credit)

That pivotal moment in a song or performance when you think, “Fuck yeah music. Fuck. Yeah.” Well that’s Rough Francis.

Rebuilder - Rebuilder EP Record Release Show

Boston punk meets iconic Vermont maximum soul power during the Rebuilder Record Release Show.

On Friday, October 18th, emerging Boston pop punk band Rebuilder will hit the stage with Riki Rocksteady, Great Lakes USA and Rough Francis (VT) during the Rebuilder EP Record Release party at The Middle East.

Born Without Bones – This is a Born Without Bones Cover

Born Without Bones played to impress during Friday night's O'Brien's Show.

Holy shit, Born Without Bones. Go to their shows, buy their merch, listen to their music, write their name on your locker, buy three dogs and name them ‘Born’ ‘Without’ and ‘Bones’. Can you get pregnant from this? I think you can.

The Mighty Mighty Moss Tones

I'm bad in plaid and I'm plaid and I'm proud.

Modcloth, the kitschy / vintage / retro clothing and decor online retailer often applies witty names to its inventory from over 700 independent designers. Ranging from “Executive Sweet Jacket” to “On your Vest Behavior” and even “The Squirrel Next Door Stop”, Modcloth now pays homage to the Boston Music scene with the “Mighty Mighty Moss Tones Dress” in a very appropriate plaid.

Speaking of The Bosstones, The Hometown Throwdown 16 tickets are on sale now for December 27, 28 and 29 at the House of Blues - Boston.

Lions Lions Continues to Make Videos of Poppy Cover Songs Performed in Tight Spaces

Boston post-hardcore band, Lions Lions continues to make videos of poppy cover songs performed in tight spaces. While on tour, the band released their take on 'Holy Grail' by Jay-Z / Justin Timberlake. Previously this year, Lions Lions put forth onto the internets a delightful rendition of Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven". 

If you are curious, this is how they usually sound. 

The Young Leaves - 'Alive and Well' Record Release Show

Indie pop covered in sludge. Would have been cool in 1994, still cool in 2013. Just don't call them pop-punk

This Friday – Hang with Boston's indie pop band, The Young Leaves during their Record Release show with Born Without Bones, Save Ends and Betty Nico at O'Brien's Pub in Allston. 21+/$8/8pm doors.

Formed in 2006, The Young Leaves are a 3-piece indie rock band from Holliston, MA. Taking influence from bands such as Dinosaur Jr., Archers of Loaf, and Husker Du, The Young Leaves play loud, fast, and powerful sludge-pop that will make you think you traveled back in time to 1994.

Alive and Well (Baldy Longhair Records) is the band's third full length. Head over to Bandcamp for free downloads of the The Young Leaves' previously recorded EPs and LPs. And visit Baldy Longhair Records to purchase the limited edition colored 12" vinyl or colored cassette of Alive and Well.

Follow The Young Leaves on Facebook and Twitter for additional show dates.

#BandcampRoulette

#BandcampRoulette – Wake up to the garage punk title track off of Livids' (Brooklyn) Your House or the Court House 2013 EP (Slovenly Recordings).

Play Bandcamp Roulette.

Rock Out With Your Cocktail Out Vol. XVI

Get fancy - use a glass. (image credit)

Pumpkin domination. A lot of October cocktails floating around the internets these days call for Black Vodka, which I've already decided tastes like black licorice and food coloring. Keep it simple with pumpkin beer while staying classy with fancy glasses. And keep it eerie with the October playlist featuring local Boston bands Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion and Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys.