friday july 30:

modern indie summer

a dance floor coated in neon black

Ok, right off the top: Manhattan indie-dance kids the Postelles are NOT performing live this Friday night at the pill. Yeah yeah, we know that’s what we told you, and we did have that shit sorted, but two weeks ago they were suddenly picked up for a fuck ton of dates with the Interpol tour (hitting the House of Blues on Aug. 5), so they postponed – the Postponelles? – their gig with us at the pill until later this fall. No sweat. While we made a casual attempt at re-filling the date with a live band, we ultimately decided that this recent run of summer time shit show dance parties has been such the sparkling modern indie firecracker that fuck it, we’ll continue the resident DJ streak and jump back on the band wagon next month when Bearstronaut have their new EP ready (and that would be Aug. 20, for those scoring at home). Until then it’s a straight shot of DJ Ken and Michael V under the neon black strobe, offering up their sterling mixture of Britpop, Modern Indie & Beyond all tucked hotly within the dopest venue ever to grace the now-bloodstained corner of Abott Square, Great Scott. This is Boston, this is Allston Dance City, this is summertime down at the pill. Look sharp. xo.

Feb. 4, 2005 - Feb. 5, 2010

five years of the pill at Great Scott

2010 live at the pill (so far!): Class Actress, DOM, the Depreciation Guild, Veil Veil Vanish, Spirit Kid, 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

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coming up live @ the pill

August 20: Bearstronaut

(A soulful synthpop party machine)

Sept. 3: The Honors

(More you ignore them, the closer they get)

... previously at the pill ...

(for more flyers and images, go to myspace.com/thepillboston or our Facebook profile and group page)

live @ the pill

Bands that have played the pill since 2003: the Information, the Dandy Warhols, Protokoll, Passion Pit, Yes Giantess, New Collisions, Snowden, Cold Cave, Pela, Class Actress, Endless Wave, Twin Berlin, the Golden Silvers, Hooray For Earth, Lifestyle, 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 2010 - look sharp!