friday july 3:

modern indie fireworks

(britpop strikes back on fourth of july eve)

On July 4, 1776, our great nation declared its independence from the savage grip of the Kingdom of Britain. What followed were 200-plus years of dormancy and shame across the pond; the mighty Brits waiting patiently for the right time to strike back and reclaim their influence on American soil. Finally in the mid 1990s, a satellite spy called Britpop cracked the whip of the butcher’s apron and infiltrated Yankee dance floors, exchanging politics for culture through a captivating sound and style of Cool Britannia sweeping through the free land in ways not seen since the heydey of the Thirteen Colonies. So on the eve of this weekend edition of Fourth of July, the pill raises a glass to the new children of the revolution and sparks musical fireworks on the dance floor as resident DJs Ken & Michael V spin the all night Britpop and Modern Indie dance party. We’ll hold the stage down before Bodega Girls arrive next weekend, and get lit early the following morning like an M80 on speed at Great Scott’s yearly Independence Day patio BBQ. Blow up, morning glory. Look sharp.

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coming up live @ the pill

July 10: Bodega Girls

(hedonistic dance party sex-plosion)

July 24: The Honors

(streaking across a dance rock sky)

August 14: Hot Protestants

(a scratch-rock dance from ex-Age Rings)

new flyer for summer

(shot by John Morabito; model: Halley Jay)

... previously at the pill ...

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Bands that have played the pill since 2003: the Information, the Dandy Warhols, Protokoll, Pela, Passion Pit, Yes Giantess, New Collisions, Snowden, Lifestyle, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Viva Viva, Matters & Dunaway, the Daily Pravda, Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys, BM Linx, the Bon Savants, Wonderful Spells, the Dossier, the Toothaches, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Televandals, Barnicle, the Trucks, the Fatal Flaw, the Sterns, the 8mm Fuzz, Hiss & Chambers, the Blakes, the Lie Society, Elkland, Emergency Music, Retrosleeper, Run Run Run, the Sun Lee Sunbeam, the Lights Out, the December Sound, the Motion Sick, Logan 5 & the Runners, Jupiter One, the Films, MEandJOANCOLLINS, Karacter, Taxpayer, Blanks., Saintface, Mako, the Good North, Bad Jamie, Guillermo Sexo, Raymond/Hooray For Earth, Two if By Sea, the Perennials, the Glass Set, the Cignal, HeadQuarters, the Never Never, Aloud, the Vershok, Warm Bodies, the Cold War, Cassette, Certainly Sir, World's Greatest Sinners, the Picture, Cyanide Valentine, the Westward Trail, Fragile, Mittens, Morning Theft, A Brief Smile, the Tommies, Soft, 1986, Four Volts, the Living Sea, a Wish for Fire, the Casual Lean, Up the Empire, Steadman, Phaser, the Chainletter, the High Dials...

the pill 2009 - look sharp!