If It's Too Loud...

Doing Anything Fun this Weekend? is a feature here at If It's Too Loud... where we feature some live shows in and on the far outskirts of the Boston area. Our main rules are that they have to be reasonably priced shows that you can attend last minute. They'll feature If It's Too Loud... approved bands, and we'll provide event links when possible. If you're looking for last minute plans this weekend, we recommend: Friday, February 9 Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight, Looking Glass War, and Ex-Hyena at Faces Brewing Co., Malden, MA Follow Thru, One Fall, Sour Punch, and Jaimee Danger & The Dynamite at AS220, Providence, RI TELL, D-Tension and the Secrets, The Daylilies, and Charming Arson at The Middle East, Cambridge, MA Colleen Green, Kremlin Bats, and Kathy Snax at Myrtle, East Providence, RI JVK, hifi, and Rat Palace at The Rockwell, Somerville, MA Saturday, February 10 Motel Black, C.E. Skidmore, and Matt Charette at Thirsty First, Lowell, MA Lemmyfest V w...

Towards the end of Modest Mouse's headlining set on Saturday night, Isaac Brock commented that he can normally ignore about half of the bands during a festival, but In Between Days just kept making him want to watch every band from the very start of the day. I ended up having the same experience. When I looked at the schedule, there were some bands I wasn't that familiar with or hadn't been able to get into previously, so I figured I'd have some downtime to casually eat some food from the food trucks, or play some free classic arcade games at the pop-up arcade, but instead for ten hours (ok, at one point I did stop to shove a quesadilla in my face for five minutes) I was just blown away watching band after band after band! I got there a couple of minutes late, and Quincy's own Gypsy Moths were already rocking the Arbella Insurance stage. Their classic Boston garage rock set the stage for the festival perfectly without sounding anything like any of the other bands on...