$10 cover / 7pm doors / 7:30 start / seated
Original music performed live by three local indie rock groups.
Whistle Jacket
There have been many Whistle Jackets. The 2026 version is the 9th line-up, bringing this "unapologetically quirked-up, quasi-psychedelic ensemble” (Weekly Dig) into its quarter century mark. Through six full-length releases, Whistle Jacket has offered songs “ranging from touching love songs to tales of unrequited love to social commentary… (with) thoughtful harmonies” (Northeast Performer). It is these harmonies, both literal and figurative, that have been at the core of Whistle Jacket. The band, despite its revolving cast, has always been a deeply collaborative unit. Band founder Michael Leyden puts it this way: Any song I bring to the band always comes out better in the hands of my bandmates, my friends. The band has been fortunate to have the opportunity to take their show on the road outside the Boston area to New York City, Philadelphia, Columbus, Washington D.C., Chapel HIll, Richmond, Baltimore, Clemson, Syracuse, and their home away from home, Northampton.
Grape Slushies
Grape Slushies thank you very kindly to watch for a band camp with our music in the future until then imagine Dolly Parton, Bhad Bhabie, and Rick Dees formed a gang in prison and wrote a musical. Local influences: Honey Cassette, BJ Snowden, Fat Creeps, and the Shaggs
Toby Tantrum
Toby Tantrum may sound like an indie rock band, but they do not play in this style of music but rather against it. Indie rock, with its ethic of "coolness for coolness' own sake", its open celebration of its own marginality, and its near total abandonment of revolutionary aspiration, is a style of rock and roll music that must be overcome. As a politically inert genre, it is entirely out of tune with the political upheavals of the present day or perhaps entirely in tune depending on whose perspective you take. Toby Tantrum has scoured rock and roll history for musical elements to be used as weapons against this musical style and the status quo in general, and particular attention has been paid to the revolutionary eras of 60s rock and roll and late 70s punk rock.