PLAYGROUND BOSTON

Aloud with Muy Cansado – “Lola” (Kinks Cover)

Great show this past Tuesday. The Enormous Room is a very intimate place to have a show – close quarters, couches everywhere, small stage – and it made for the perfect environment for a little tour kickoff party. Muy Cansado opened the night playing some crowd favorites from Stars & Garters, as well as several brand new songs recently recorded in preparation of a new album release. They brought up Corey Blanchette to help out on guitar for a few tracks as well, adding a spacey element to their flippant rock style. Aloud played songs from their most recent full-length, Fan The Fury, which they are touring in support of. They… well they just flat out rocked out. I think I saw a few of the Enormous Room regulars pop in for what they thought was going to be a normal loungey smooth-house night at their favorite club, and promptly got their faces melted off by the quartet’s raucous vocal assault and blazing hooks. Here’s Aloud’s tour schedule, if you know anyone in any of these towns do them a favor and tell them to check this band out!

I’m going to let the videos speak for themselves. Each band brought the other band’s singers up for several songs to play together, including the above video featuring both bands belting out a great rendition of “Lola” by the Kinks. Thanks to Mick Murray for the great video footage, Enjoy!

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Muy Cansado

“Tu Eres Mala”

Stars & Garters

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Muy Cansado’s Website

The New Collisions - Photo by Seth Drury

Oranjuly

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Muy Cansado

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Hot Protestants

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The New Collisions

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The Luxury

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All Photos by Seth Drury

Muy Cansado – “Stockholm Syndrome” – Stars and Garters

The New Collisions – “Generations” and “Parachutes on the Dance Floor” – The New Collisions EP

The Luxury – “Nothing Comes to Mind” – In The Wake of What Won’t Change

(Complete with the original background video featured at their CD Release Party)

The Luxury – “Malcontent” – This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

(Featuring Christopher Pappas of The Everyday Visuals on backup vocals)

Thanks to Mick Murray for the videos! www.inyourfacephoto.com

Muy Cansado

The New Collisions

The Luxury

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This Thursday Playgroundboston.com, in conjunction with WTBU and Rocknrollboston.com, are taking over the Middle East Downstairs for a incredible night of rock with some of the best bands the local scene has to offer! We’re gonna keep it nice and cheap for you too – $10 gets you 5 great bands, but if you’ve got a student ID you get $3 off!

Check out the amazing lineup! We got The Luxury, who just this past weekend played to a crowd estimated to be in excess of 20,000 at the Boston Freedom Rally on the Common. We got The New Collisions, playing their first show back in their hometown after touring the nation with the B52’s and opening up for Blondie. Muy Cansado will be debuting a new drummer for this show, and they’ll all be joined on stage by the Hot Protestants and Oranjuly, two excellent indie pop bands. We’re looking at light shows, costumes, special guests, and plenty of other surprises all night long!

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Kinsgley Flood – It’s 8:36, and the job falls on Kingsley Flood to warm us all up for the night, and they kicked it off right with a slow, bluegrass-style ballad. The song, entitled, “Eventually,” featured frontman Naseem Khuri’s acoustic guitar and electric guitarist George Hall’s delicate-yet-shining lead lines, and the song had what I thought to be the best three-part vocals I’ve heard this side of the Mississippi.

For me what makes a great band is dynamics, and Kingsley Flood has it in spades. Consistently, for the first three songs, Hall’s guitar solos made the perfect transformation from background shimmer of noise and gentle countermelody into growling and blinding prima danseurs.

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