friday, may 18

the pill is a dance party

britpop . modern indie . beyond

To quote the mercurial pop duo Sing-Sing, it “feels like summer.” Well, not exactly, despite some fleeting moments of springtime bliss around Boston. But we have summertime on the mind here at the pill, as we fire up a dance-party slate at the pill while the students are back home nursing bangovers and collecting inheritance. We’re scaling down the live slate a bit until fall, maybe hosting one band a month, to re-focus the night on the dance party component. That starts up Friday, as pill residents DJ Ken + Michael V clear the Great Scott for another all-night dance party in the heart of Allston Rock City. Now that graduation week has passed, it’s time to fire up the Britpop BBQ and enjoy the neighborhood in all its student-less glory: ample parking around Commonwealth Avenue, absence of Bro Parades marching aggressively down Harvard, warm enough weather to bust out that new Harrington, and a pretty chill atmosphere down on Abbott Square. We still have two live acts on the upcoming sked – Brooklyn/Boston’s fast-rising electro-pop playground project Grand Resort next week, May 25, and white-hot dance-fantasy duo SPF5000 come June 15 – but this week we’re all about the dance party. We’ve worked out a few technical kinks in our booth and are ready to roll out the proper beat. Dance with us to new jams Boston and beyond from Chairlift, Tanlines, Icona Pop, Passion Pit, Blouse, Marrellite, Seer Group, Bearstronaut, the Chromatics, Black Light Dinner Party, Holy Ghost, Parallels, Reptar, Stepdad, Trust, and whatever else conspires with the walls in making people dance like fuck. Join the shitshow. The pill is a dance party, forever and beyond. xoxo

coming up live @ the pill...

may 25: grand resort

(chillin with some posi tropical pop)

june 15: spf 5000

(somerville duo gonna make you dance yoyr ass off, sucka)

Feb. 4, 2005 - Feb. 5, 2010

five years of the pill at Great Scott

2012 live at the pill... so far: Ruby Ridge, You Can Be A Wesley, The New Highway Hymnal, Casey Desmond, Stereo Telescope, Autochrome, Slowdim, Black Light Dinner Party, Andre Obin, the December Sound, Lifestyle...

2011 live at the pill: Stereo Telescope, Girlfriends, Protokoll, Rituals, Soft Pyramids, Earthquake Party, Dirty Bombs, the Fagettes, Night Fruit, The Hush Now, The Love Dimension, Lindsey Starr, Oranjuly, Bearstronaut, People At Parties, Bozmo, Spirit Kid, The Cinnamon Fuzz, The Sterns, Cooling Towers...

2010 live at the pill: The Postelles, Class Actress, DOM, Zambri, the Depreciation Guild, Veil Veil Vanish, Spirit Kid, Vostok 4, Conservative Man, Endless Wave, Bearstronaut, Technoir MA, Dear Leader, the Daily Pravda, The Honors, Provocateur, Emergency Music...

2009 live at the pill: Thanks to all who came out to the pill in 2009, and thanks to all the bands that performed on our stage (in order): Viva Viva, the Sun Lee Sunbeam, Yes Giantess, the Toothaches, Black Joe Lewis, Televandals, Passion Pit, The Daily Pravda, Taxpayer, the New Collisions, Bodega Girls, The Honors, Hot Protestants, Twin Berlin, Hooray For Earth, The Dossier, Golden Silvers, Bon Savants and Cold Cave. Also thanks to all who voted in awarding the pill Best Dance Party accolades in both the Boston Phoenix and Weekly Dig, as well as other various tips of the cap in the Boston Globe, Herald and Improper Bostonian. xo the pill

The storied history of the Pill Halloween Show: 2011: Spirit Kid as The Beatles, Lindsey Starr as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Endless Wave as Ride, Dirty Bombs as Kasabian; 2010: The Honors as Morrissey, Bearstronaut as The Rapture and Vostok 4 as The Talking Heads; 2009: The Daily Pravda as Radiohead, Televandals as the Clash, The Honors as the Smiths and Lindsey Starr & The Chemical Smiles as the Sounds; 2008: The Perennials as the Strokes, Wonderful Spells as the Kinks, the Sun Lee Sunbeam as Elastica; 2007: The Daily Pravda as David Bowie, Mako as the Stone Roses, the Lie Society as Blur and the Perennials as the Libertines; 2006: Lifestyle as New Order, the Daily Pravda as Suede, the 8mm Fuzz as Echo & the Bunnymen; 2005: Emergency Music as the Velvet Underground, Protokoll as Bauhaus, the Chainletter as Joy Division; 2004: The Information as Depeche Mode, the Bon Savants as Pulp, Emergency Music as Blur, the Cignal as Primal Scream; 2003: The Information as the Cure, the Cignal as the Happy Mondays.

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... previously at the pill ...

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live @ the pill

Bands that have played the pill since 2003: the Information, the Dandy Warhols, Protokoll, Passion Pit, DOM, Yes Giantess, New Collisions, Snowden, Cold Cave, Pela, Freezepop, Mystery Roar, Class Actress, Endless Wave, Zambri, Twin Berlin, the Postelles, the Golden Silvers, Hooray For Earth, Lindsey Starr, the Love Dimension, Lifestyle, Soft Pyramids, Stereo Telescope, Rituals, Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Bearstronaut, Viva Viva, Matters & Dunaway, the Daily Pravda, Provocateur, Martin Carr of the Boo Radleys, BM Linx, the Bon Savants, Wonderful Spells, Technoir MA, the Honors, the Dossier, the Toothaches, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, Televandals, Barnicle, the Trucks, the Fatal Flaw, the Sterns, Hot Protestants, 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, 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 2011 - look sharp!