#bow shows

[bostonhassle]

GO TO: TONIGHT (4/18) KINSKI (SEATTLE), WILLIAM TYLER, HURRICANES OF LOVE, PRAY FOR SOUND @ MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS

Central Square is the place to be TONIGHT as the Boston Hassle family joins forces with the Middle East to present a super sick show to soothe your soul! Seattle four-piece Kinski are here to take you on a mystical journey through dense layers of caustic guitars and pulsating bass that form a delectable blend of krauty noisy post-rock that’s sure to give you a head rush. Joining them tonight is Nashville singer-songwriterWilliam Tyler with some twangy psychedelic country wonders, the heavenly acoustic story-telling of JP’s holiest roller Hurricanes of Love, and Pray for Sound whose vicious concoction of ambient drones, distorted guitars, and crashing drums oscillates between shoe-gaze and post-metal. Ease into the weekend with some sick tunes and cool peeps!

8pm 18+ $12

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GO TO: SCANNERS

There has been a lot of talk in the last year or two about how electronic music (and the techno scene in particular) has been embracing something of an “outsider” aesthetic and adopting more and more of the trappings of punk/noise/industrial/psych or, to put it more broadly, DIY.

To varying degrees this is a constant phenomenon, and it has definitely come in and out of fashion at various points in the past. However it can not be denied that in 2012 and 2013, artists less associated with the traditional channels and club scenes have been making huge waves on labels like Blackest Ever Black, PAN, 100% Silk and others, to the chagrin of some purists and to the delight of those like myself who would prefer cross-pollination and a wide, deep musical gene pool to the stagnation of cliquishness and rigid genre boundaries.

It is a testament to this prevailing trend that B.O.W. Shows and Boston Hassle, Boston's premier outlets for left-field, “out” sounds from the underground, are now organizing a recurring techno/dance night of their very own. SCANNERS will feature CONTAINER as a resident DJ and live performances by some of the area's more avant garde beat-driven producers. For the inaugural party, which will be happening at the Video Underground in Jamaica Plain, there will be a set by Providence noisemakers MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED. This event is ALL-AGES, $5-$10 sliding scale and starts tomorrow night (Saturday the 16th of March) at 11pm. Show up. Dance. Go Crazy. Zone out. Zone in. Flip your damn wig.

(John Francis Bittrich)