Boston heads, holleur at your boy!
verb606
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I feel like there was just a "Boston, What it do?" thread recently, so feel free to direct me to that, but i'm a be in Beantown the weekend of May 5th and 6th for my boy's wedding. Saturday is the nuptials, but Friday the 4th the wife and I are looking to make it happen. I managed to catch The Get Back when I was in Vegas, any chance I can happen upon one of y'alls nights out there? if not, we're down to check out any halfway decent hip-hop-related club nights, as Becky and stripey-shirt-free as possible.anyone with leads post up or PM me. thanks in advance.
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have fun; feel free to post any ??s about food/transpo/parts of town, etc. there was a boston thread a while back, but much of it was about breakself gettin' dah-rinkin.
no need to apologize about the repost of a city. i feel like everyweek someone is posting, 'i'm gonna be in nyc! where are the records stores there???'
dude ask homie aschrock. bean town knowledge for dayz...
fridays are tough, most places know they can make more money on the typical college crowd, so thats the route they take......I was doing a thing at Middlesex Lounge for a bit, but stopped it. I think my friend DJ Knife took it over. It will still have some becky/stripedshirt contingent, but not HUGE. Mostly hiphop, with some other stuff also.
I think Kon does a night someplace, but I think its pretty mainstream.....dunno how far he can branch out on fridays.
I usually tend to stick around Central Square (in between Harvard & MIT). There are 3 main places I frequent: Zuzu (next to the middleeast), The Enormous Room (567 Mass Ave), and Middlesex Lounge (further down Mass ave toward the river, not sure on the address). You can walk between all those places, so just hop a cab to "central square", and walk around from there.
If you get done with the wedding early on sat (yea right), check out our soul night at ZUZU. We've been doing it for about 4.5 years now. Its packed with people dancing every week now. Super fun. Its called "Soul-le-lu-jah". I forget who is there that weekend though (we have rotating djs). I believe my next gig there is the 19th of may?
-pj
The Central Sq. area in Cambridge does have some good spots. I'm not a huge fan of the Middlesex, but that's mainly because I hate standing in line to get into a bar.
The Enormous Room has a more exclusive clientele, mainly because it's unmarked, but the demographic has shifted as more of the striped-shirt crowd has found out about it. PJ used to DJ there on the regular. I'll still go from time to time, but it has fallen off a bit.
Zu Zu has a nice vibe, but it's pretty damn small. If you get out early enough, though, it's cool. And Saturday night is Soullelujah at Zu Zu, which is great until the place gets too packed.
The Middle East is a good bar and venue, and their food is pretty good too. As you might imagine, it is Middle Eastern fare. Most of the good midlevel hip hop shows play the Middle East. If they're a big enough act, they'll play Avalon, if they're smaller, they'll play Great Scott.
Also, pretty decent record stores in the Central Sq. area. Check out Cheapos and InYour Ear to start. I'm sure some other dudes on here have a better hook up at those spots than I do, so they might be able to get you some better info on who to talk to about scoring the raer.
Yeah for record stores, go see Reid at In Your Ear. The one on Comm Ave it best. He has MAD 45s. The good ones are up front behind the counter. Just tell them you wanna see the funk/soul 45s.
Also has good LPs too.....reasonable prices.
-pj
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Maybe dude'll finally give it a rest.
or he'll have to stick to playing all the spots up in Beantown where n***as carry burners.
my man akira is performing friday, he's dope.
weekends are definetly hit or miss around here...especially during the school year.
on that tip the students are almost gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
boston is wack until the college kids leave.
i can dig it. Thanks for all the help, fellas. I'm probably just going to have to lower my expectations for one night. I've done it before.
Only to be replaced by tourists. "Look kids-that's historic!"