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Central Square’s popular haunt, The Middle East, hosts “For Amie,” a breast cancer awareness benefit on Saturday, October 17, with performances by Kristin Hersh, Bill Janovitz, Travel, and other special guests. All profits are for charity, so if you’re choosing between the Saturday night ritual of Ben and Jerry’s alone on your futon and this, choose this...
...irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
...band started the set with "Birdbrain," the title track from their 1989 album, with Janovitz wrenching out his tormented vocals as the rhythm section gnashed beneath him. He doesn't always hit the note right, and often there's more noise coming out of him that song. But this isn't k.d. lang--he's supposed to be in agony, and his imperfect, sincere singing makes the band seem like they rehearse in your neighbor's basement...
Their current hit, "Taillights Fade," got the crowd pensive. Janovitz's guitars, Chris Colbourn's bass and Tom Maginnis's drums slowly rework the same few chords while Janovitz pleads to his ex-girlfriend that he'll get over her rejection. It's the same old story, but his raspy voice sounds triumphant in lines like "I've hit the wall, I'm about to fall...Watch my taillights fade to black." "Porchlight," also from their current album "Let Me Come Over," isn't any happier. With a folky bounce, Janovitz tells the story of--surprise--an unhappy relationship...
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