PLAYGROUND BOSTON

The Vandelles at PA's Lounge, part of the Deep Heaven Now Festival in Union Square, Somerville on 8/7 - Photo Credit: Tim Bugbee

Abunai! – “Tomorrow” – Mystic River Sound

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Abunai! were the organizers of the original Deep Heaven Festivals in the 90’s, but have since disbanded. They reunited for this very special occasion, the recreation of their beloved ambient/psych festival in a new time and place – Deep Heaven Now in Union Square, Somerville.

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Thanks to Tim Bugbee for his great work with the camera! Check out his complete portfolio at Tinnitus Photography!

Broken River Prophet at Precinct Bar, also part of the Deep Heaven Now Festival - Photo Credit: Tim Bugbee

Thanks also to Jinsen Liu of 28 Degrees Taurus for organizing such an amazing event! Deep Heaven Now featured 19 bands across 2 venues over the course of an entire day and night, complete with visual media to go along with the music! All this was happening while the Somerville Rock & Roll Yard Sale was going on right in the heart of Union Square in Somerville with even more bands playing – right in between the two venues! Unfortunately we were not able to get photos of Jinsen’s set, but that only serves as a testament to how successful the entire event was – by the time they went on both venues were so packed that it was impossible to get close enough to shoot them! Here’s looking forward to more similar multi-venue mini-festival events like this in the future!

BONUS: Check out some video of the Vandelles’ set from Phoenix Music Editor Michael Marrotta here!

Deep Heaven Now

Somerville Rock & Roll Yard Sale

28 Degrees Taurus

“Electricity”

All The Stars In Your Eyes

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28 Degrees Taurus

28 Degrees Taurus singer/guitarist Jinsen Liu has put together a spectacular festival happening this Saturday, August 7th in Union Square, Somerville. Deep Heaven Now will take place at 2 venues in the area, Precinct and PA’s Lounge, and will feature some of the best ambient and psychedelic acts in the Northeast! $10 gets you access to 19 bands stretched across 2 venues for 11 hours! They’ve even staggered the band starting times so you can run back and forth and catch everyone you want to see (I wish ALL festivals would do this properly!)

While the festival rages indoors the Somerville Rock & Roll Yard Sale will be going on outdoors in Union Square – get all the vinyl and music mementos you can handle while rocking out to the sounds of Sleepyhead, The ‘Mericans, Tad Overbaugh, and Thea Hopkins on the outdoor stage! This is an incredible event – Boston needs more multi-venue festivals like this, show some support and get treated to some amazing music in the process! Here’s the full lineup with set times at each venue:

Friday, June 11th – Rosebud Diner

Nice lineup here! Muy Cansado and Sun Lee Sunbeam are both PGB Favorites who’ve received plenty of coverage on these here pages. These guys rock out with the best of ‘em, and the two of them together on a bill at an extremely cool venue is an event not to be missed! This is Muy Cansado’s first show in months, as they’ve been locked up at Q Division hammering away at a new EP due out later this year. The 5 songs on the new album will be “Not About A Girl,” “Love & Fear,” “Sharpshooter,” “Giant,” and “Acquaintances” – and there’s a good chance you’ll be able to get a sneak peak of the new tunes if you get your summer lovin’ butts down to the Rosebud tonight!

Friday, June 11th – McGann’s Pub

OK OK to be fair, this isn’t really a flyer for this show so much as it is a listing for all the shows at McGann’s this month. However, its got Super Mario critters on it, so its going up on the site, dammit. Shows like this are helping McGann’s to gain notoriety as a quality music venue in this city. Artsy indie darlings The Hush Now have been exploding both nationally and internationally since their debut in 2008. They’ll be joined by the Hendrixian trash rock duo Kuuluuko, an incredible act in their own right! Also on this bill are The Susan Constant and El Fuego. But check this out – apparently a regular flyer wasn’t good enough for this show, so The Hush Now made a little video flyer with some artsy images and soothing music, to lull you into coming out to the show. Take a look!

Saturday, June 12th – Rosebud Diner

Rosebud’s got some great shows going on this weekend – isn’t it about time you checked the damn place out? Looks like our friends at Boston Band Crush have come up with another AWESOME idea for a show. This one strikes close to my Middle School soul (Even *I* had long hair back then. And yes, you’re right, it looked friggin’ terrible.) Rather than have a show full of covers of one specific band’s songs, the Mixtape series takes an entire year and lets bands cover whatever songs they like that came out at that time. Think about some of the albums that came out in ‘93 – In Utero, Vs., Siamese Dream, Rancid, Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We, Black Sunday, The Wedding Album, Pork Soda, Are You Gonna Go My Way, Doggystyle, Pablo Honey, Last Splash, 36 Chambers, Undertow – holy shit, right? They picked a hell of a year to kick off this series with! This show’s going to be great, especially considering they’ve tapped some of Boston’s best to do the performing – The Luxury, The Rationales, and St. Helena will be joined by the newly formed Exile in Somerville, featuring members of Apple Betty, Kingsley Flood, Dark Martini & The Dirty Olives, and Ashley from BBC!