June 3rd, 2008
Pomegranates | Website
Your Vegas | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $5 | Purchase Here
Genre: Rock/Indie/Pop
The fruit is delicious. The band is delicious. The comparison does not stop there, but I’ll spare the bad/obvious metaphor . Pomegranates are an up and coming indie pop act from Cincinnati, they bring a fantastic upbeat feel reminiscent of early Modest Mouse, but with much wider sonic range. The tone can at times feel shoegaze-y, without losing it’s playful and dance-able quality. Then Leeds UK’s next huge thing Your Vegas will be sharing the bill with their Coldplay/U2-ish style. They are blowing up at a hundred miles an hour, so with these two acts combined, this is most certainly one of those shows where in a couple years people will say “they played there?!”
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June 3rd, 2008
Mas y Mas | Website
Bastards of Fate | Website
Cinnamon Band | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $5 | Purchase Here
Genre: Rock/Indie/Punk
Welcome to Virginia Indie Rock Night.
Local Boot Favorite Mas y Mas is headlining, covering the fast, heavy, and upbeat punk rock side of things. Then Roanoke’s Bastards of Fate are on the bill playing fun, ironic indie pop songs in the vein of They Might Be Giants and Mates of State. Then warm tone songwriters The Cinnamon Band are a drum and guitar duo bringing the sounds of tube amps for fans of Pedro the Lion. Two up two down.
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June 3rd, 2008
Theodore | Website
Romulus | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $5 | Purchase Here
Genre: Country/Folk
You walk out onto the porch, you light your last cigarette while watching the moths sputter against the screen, separating you from your night and your long lost baby. You take solace, because there is always The Boot, booking music that identifies with you in your cold reflective state, country boy. Just listen. It’s beautiful. You’ll come.
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June 3rd, 2008
Moutheater | Website
Prideswallower | Website
Catalyst | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $5 | Purchase Here
Genre: Rock/Heavy
Heaviness. Our very own Moutheater recorded their debut album with Steve Albini last summer, and tonight they’re bringing their friends Prideswallower from Louisville Kentucky.
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June 3rd, 2008
Jeremy Jay | Website
Pepi Ginsberg | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $7 | Purchase Here
Genre: Rock/New Wave/Folk
Jeremy Jay’s gracing us with a great show as part of his impressively extensive summer tour. He has a very cool, brit-pop new wave sort of sound, almost like a more detached, ironic David Bowie. Pepi Ginsberg hails from Broolyn with catchy, plaintive folk-pop. Check out both of their myspaces, their songs are rather infectious.
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June 3rd, 2008
The Super Vacations | Website
Gary War | Website
Bomber | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $5 | Purchase Here
Genre: Rock
Surfing, Summer, Psychadelia, and Soul reign supreme at The Boot whenever Super Vacations wreck the place (in the best way possible) with their fuzzed out garage sound. There’s a reason this VB band has played here as many times as they have, so if they are news to you then get out here and change that! Minimal psychadelicists Gary War joins them on a Summer Tour, and local act Bomber will be opening. I think it would be appropriate/awesome if someone projected Valley of the Dolls onto the walls of that Warehouse next door during the show.
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June 2nd, 2008
The Great White Jenkins | Website
Friends | Website
Time: 9pm
Ticket: $5
Genre: Folk/Soul/Progressive
The Great White Jenkins is certainly one of our most favorite bands here at The Boot, a proud representative of the Virginia music scene. Grown in Richmond, spearheaded by Matt White of Fight the Big Bull, GWJ swims through genres with astounding ability and a blaring live presence, with guitars, horns, strings, pots, pans, Otis Redding sing-along choruses, and more influences than you can count on your country thumbs. This is the end of a month long tour for them, and everyone should come out to welcome our friends home. Local duo Friends are ecstatic to be opening, playing their first show ever.
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May 27th, 2008
The Shake ‘em Ups | website
Skye Zentz | website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $5
Genre: Folk/Roots Music
These gentleman don’t pussyfoot their way through folk music. This is roots music for real, looks to be a wonderful night with clacking acoustic rhythms, upright bass, gorgeous ringing harmonies to swim through our little restaurant all night long. Joy, joy, joy, joy…
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May 27th, 2008
Jesse Chong Band | Website
Time: 10pm
Ticket: $7
Genre: Reggae
Jesse’s been storming around the area for awhile now gathering lots of attention for his Reggae band, and we can think of no better way to end the Bayou Boogaloo at Town Point than with this good times event right here at The Boot.
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May 27th, 2008
The Matt White Ensemble | myspace
Time: 8pm
Ticket: Free before 10pm / $5 after
Genre: Big Band/Jazz/Afro-Beat
This is part of the Jazz Boot series.
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