friday january 27

you can be a wesley

indie-pop darlings bring promwave to the pill

Boston rock pop quiz time: What band during the Carl Lavin Era has the distinction of playing Great Scott more times than any other? If you guessed Brighton promwave darlings You Can Be A Wesley -– or just connected these obvious dots of promo -– give yourself a jangly ol’ gold star. With roughly 20-something live gigs deep within the rock and roll playpen perched atop Edmund B. Abbott Square, You Can Be A Wesley are virtually a Great Scott house band, appropriate as they crystallized their melodic indie-pop sound inside a Boston University dorm room. This remarkable achievement of gig-piling is made all the more zany by the fact that they’ve never… played… the pill… …until now. In a beautiful convergence of the inevitable and the delayed, the Wesleys finally party it up with us this Friday night in Allston, and just in time, as the past few months have seen a meteoric buzz rise for Professional Gentleman P. Nick Curran and his merry band of melody makers: the whipsmart Nightosphere EP dropped last November, their music video for “Giants” premiered on NME.com, and they had the distinction of being the sexiest band this side of Bodega Girls to take part in the Weekly Dig’s New Year’s Eve photo shoot. Fucking A, they even got listed in the AV Club’s annual Year In Band Names. Oh, did we mention P. Nick Curran is in the band? (Drop by the GS men’s room post-performance, when DJ Michael V spins that one Cold Cave song, to find out what the P stands for.) Anyway, back in the spring, Consequence of Sound wrote: “Their catchy and friendly brand of indie music definitely ties in with what is going on in today’s music scene on a larger scale, the Northeast’s answer to what’s been going on. There are definitely elements that are reminiscent of bands like Deerhunter, Beach House, and Best Coast. It’s that mellow, low-key brand of grunge-esque music that’s gaining steam.” But more than anything, the YCBAW are good people and we’re psyched to do it up with them this Friday at Great Scott. DJ Ken + Michael V spin the dance party, before and after the band. You know how we roll. This one will be a rager. Look sharp. xo thepill

coming up live @ the pill...

feb. 10: the new highway hymnal

(vanya records release party for the 'blackened hands' 7-inch)

february 17: autochrome

(a rousing bloody post-valentine soiree)

march 2: slowdim

(taking off on an alt-rock melodic-pop joyride)

Feb. 4, 2005 - Feb. 5, 2010

five years of the pill at Great Scott

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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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!