The Middle East (upstairs) Information and Event Guide

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472 Massachussetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Events:

Great Lake Swimmers
Tony Dekker is the singer/songwriter behind the musical project Great Lake Swimmers. Over the course of three albums, the band explores the worlds of indie folk, roots music and alt-country pop, with ...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-06-05 21:00:00

Califone
Califone has made an art out of taking the blues/folk music created by the generations that came before them and then interpreting and modernizing the genre in ways that speak to a new generation.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-06-06 21:00:00

RADIO BIRDMAN and THE KONKS One Night Only
http://www.mideastclub.comEvent submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of claynferno.
Category: Other, 20:00:00, 2007-07-03 20:00:00

The Six Parts Seven, Richard Buckner

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-11 20:00:00

The Ponys
Chicago post-punk revivalists The Ponys formed in early 2001, inaugurated by singer/guitarist Jered Gummere. He began writing and singing with girlfriend and bassist Melissa Elias and after adding for...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-07-20 21:00:00

Global Underground: International Hip Hop Throwdown
Nomadic Wax presents: Chosan (Sierra Leone), ELI EFI and Laylo (Brazil/Dominican Republic), Foundation Movement (Puerto Rico/Liberia), Zuluboy (South Africa) DJ Boo (Philippines) an accomplished group...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-22 20:00:00

3 @ Middle East (upstairs) (18+)
With the release of "The End is Begun" (Metal Blade Records) on July 24, 2007, 3 is hitting up the Northeast. The first stop is Cambridge with friends, The Distraction. The show is...
Category: Other, 19:00:00, 2007-08-01 19:00:00

Lez Zeppelin
Lez Zeppelin, the New York City-based all-girl, all-Zeppelin quartet, is set to release its self-titled debut album on July 10, 2007, with a nationwide and European tour planned in support of the new ...
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-08-04 19:00:00

Abigail Warchild

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-04 21:00:00

Big Bear
Hailing from Vancouver, They Shoot Horses Don't They? is six piece folk/rock band.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-06 21:00:00

Remus Lupins

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-07 21:00:00

Harris
The Main Drag hails from Boston, MA.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-08 21:00:00

Harris
The Main Drag hails from Boston, MA.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-08 21:00:00

Laura Vecchione Plays The Middle East
Laura plays with Wes Switzer (bass) and Sam Hooper (guitar). 18+ $10 cover.
Category: Music, 20:30:00, 2007-08-09 20:30:00

Calla
The refined artrock ensemble Calla have a fine catalog of compelling, memorable material to their credit, having released an album each for the Arena Rock Recordings, Sub Rosa and Young God imprints. ...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-09 21:00:00

Stoic
Stoic is a four piece "Melodic Punishment," that has recently emerged out of the dark shadows of Boston.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-10 21:00:00

Junior Senior
Junior Senior defiantly keep ones attention with their unique style of music. Gravy Train is the bitter brainchild of MC Chunx, Funx with her winning Casio beats and dancers Hunx and Drunx were quickl...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-11 20:00:00

Tokyo Police Club
18+ $10adv/$12dos Downstairs
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-12 20:00:00

Portugal the Man (Ex-Anatomy of A Ghost)
Portugal the Man is a soul/progressive/grime trio from Wasilla, Alaska. Russian Circles is a three piece instrumental band from Chicago. It would be tough to imagine that a band would be able to devel...
Category: , 20:30:00, 2007-08-12 20:30:00

Left Alone

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-14 21:00:00

Left Alone

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-14 21:00:00

Dear and the Headlights, Mae, As Tall As Lions
Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of equalvision.
Category: Other, 20:00:00, 2007-08-15 20:00:00

Dear and the Headlights, Mae, As Tall As Lions
Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of equalvision.
Category: Other, 20:00:00, 2007-08-15 20:00:00

Bishop Allen, Page France
Bishop Allen Page France 18+ $10adv/$12dos Ticket on Sale 6/1
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-17 20:00:00

Static of the Gods

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-23 20:00:00

The Rentals with special guests Copeland
­ 18+ $18adv/$20dos ­ Tickets on sale 6/16
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-24 20:00:00

Stereo Total, The Octopus Project
18+ $15 – Tickets on Sale 5/3
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-25 20:00:00

Ocean
Brooklyn-based doom quintet Bloody Panda is a strange animal. A hybrid of experimental atmospherics and cold, evil metal, they're equally at home opening for Soilent Green and playing with loc...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-27 21:00:00

SPECTRUM feat. Sonic Boom: Spacemen 3 & E.A.R, The December ...
18+/$10
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-28 20:00:00

Cabiria (final show) + Plumerai + Jaggery + Sarah Rabdau
Mid East Upstairs; 18+; $8 adv/$10 dos http://www.cabiriamusic.com http://www.plumerai.com http://www.sarahrabdau.com http://www.jaggery.org
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-08-30 21:00:00

Anderson presents FREE sketch and standup!
Thursday, August 30, 2007 @ 10 p.m. 18+ / Free at the Middle East Corner, 480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge Videos by Anderson & standup by Lucas Lewis, Adam Haut, Matt Wilding, Fernando Strohmeyer, a...
Category: Comedy, 22:00:00, 2007-08-30 22:00:00

Acid Mothers Temple
Acid Mothers Temple hails from Nagoya in the Central region of Japan. The band describes itself as a "freak-out group for the 21st century."
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-08-31 21:00:00

Whole Wheat Bread
Whole Wheat Bread is from Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. Like their forefathers Bad Brains, WWB is doing their part to redefine punk for a whole new generation. Their sound is influenced by both...
Category: , 13:00:00, 2007-09-02 13:00:00

Jennifer Gentle
Enjoy a performance by Jennifer Gentle.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-02 21:00:00

The Almost

Category: , 19:30:00, 2007-09-04 19:30:00

One Am Radio + Lymbyc Systym + Montag
One Am Radio (Dangerbird Records) Lymbyc Systym (Mush Records) Montag (Carpark Records) 18+ $9
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-05 20:00:00

Montag, The One AM Radio, Lymbic System
18+ $9 Tickets on Sale 6/22 Upstairs
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-05 21:00:00

Meat Puppets
18+ $15adv/$17dos – Tickets on Sale 7/1
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-06 20:00:00

Hoodoo Gurus
For over twenty years and eight albums, Australia's Hoodoo Gurus have given the world a dozen classic anthems, topped the charts and gained cult hero status.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-08 20:00:00

Neil Hamburger

Category: Comedy, 20:00:00, 2007-09-09 20:00:00

Neil Hamburger

Category: Comedy, 20:00:00, 2007-09-09 20:00:00

Circle
Circle are a rock band from Finland. Endless Boogie is a rock collective from New York and this is their first concert at Tonic's.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-11 21:00:00

Circle
Circle are a rock band from Finland. Endless Boogie is a rock collective from New York and this is their first concert at Tonic's.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-11 21:00:00

Rehab
Rehab became a pioneering force in the musical melting pot of the Dirty South in the early '90s.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-12 20:00:00

Today Is the Day

Category: , 20:30:00, 2007-09-13 20:30:00

Noisettes
18+ $10 adv $12 dos Tickets on Sale 7/6
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-14 20:00:00

Noisettes
18+ $10 adv $12 dos Tickets on Sale 7/6
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-14 20:00:00

Do Make Say Think
Fri 9/15 Downstairs Do Make Say Think – 18+ $12 http://www.domakesaythink.com/
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-15 20:00:00

Do Make Say Think
Fri 9/15 Downstairs Do Make Say Think – 18+ $12 http://www.domakesaythink.com/
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-15 20:00:00

The Apples in Stereo, Laminated Cat

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-17 20:00:00

The Black Lips
Black Lips' music is overwhelming, refreshing and unparalleled by their peers.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-21 20:00:00

Aesop Rock featuring Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, Blockhead w/D...
presented by The Middle East and Leedz Edutainment - 18+ $20
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-23 20:00:00

Matters & Dunaway

Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-23 21:00:00

Trampled by Turtles
Trampled by Turtles is an original, non-traditional bluegrass band from Duluth, Minnesota. Their energetic live performances and two well-received albums, 'Songs From a Ghost Town' and...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-24 21:00:00

Okkervil River

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-25 20:00:00

Rocky Votolato, The Great Depression
US $12.00 Internet Onsale Info Onsale to General Public: Fri, 08/10/07 10:00 AM EDT **** ROCKY VOTOLATO THE GREAT DEPRESSION MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS 18 & OVER/POSITIVE ID REQ WED SEP 26, 2007 8...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-26 20:00:00

Yo Majesty
18+ $9adv $10dos Tickets on Sale 6/29 Upstairs
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-26 21:00:00

John Vanderslice
September 27 | Cambridge MA The Middle East | 18+ | $12
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-27 20:00:00

Boot Camp Clik

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-28 20:00:00

Fujiya & Miyagi
Brilliantly merging the best of disco, indie rock, and electronica with their own stream-of-consciousness lyrics, Fujiya & Miyagi give their infectious dance beats a sweet, melodic punch.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-29 20:00:00

+/-
Sat 9/29 +/- (ex-Versus) http://www.plusmin.us/ http://www.myspace.com/plusminusband 18+ $10
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-09-29 21:00:00

Mountain Goats, Bowerbirds
18+ $14
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-30 20:00:00

Magnolia Electric Company
Magnolia Electric Company plays the kind of rock you'd expect to hear in the '70s. The Watson Twins are Chandra and Leigh. The Kentucky-born singers weave a surprisingly eclectic and b...
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-10-01 19:30:00

The Brunettes
Coy, cute, cutie-pie, hoochie-pie, coochie-woo, woochie-candy-poo. These are, more or less, all terms that New Zealand band The Brunettes have been denying and simultaneously inviting their entire car...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-01 21:00:00

Minus the Bear
$15
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-10-03 19:30:00

Great Lake Swimmers
With Arthur & Yu
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-03 20:00:00

Minus the Bear, Subtle

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-04 20:00:00

Caribou, Born Ruffians

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-05 20:00:00

Mr. Lif

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-06 20:00:00

Qui
Qui was founded in 2000 by drummer/vocalist Paul Christensen and guitarist/vocalist Matt Cronk in Los Angeles, CA. Their idiosyncratic blend of punk, noise, metal and experimental genres, coupled with...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-06 21:00:00

Sunset Rubdown

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-07 20:00:00

Digitalism
18+ $10 adv $12 dos Tickets on Sale 7/6
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-10 20:00:00

Tim Barry
Tim Barry is the lead singer of Avail - a hardcore/rock/punk band.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-10 21:00:00

High on Fire
High on Fire, featuring former members of the defunct, post-metal outfit Sleep, shares a similar penchant for brutal audio assaults as well as furious and unrelenting bouts of mind-altering heaviness....
Category: , 20:30:00, 2007-10-11 20:30:00

Voxtrot
Voxtrot combine classic '60s pop with the heady, subversive sounds of '80s Britain. "This band exists to talk about the things you go through when you confront the big stuff l...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-13 20:00:00

The Hives
The Hives play downstairs at The Middle East. Does it get any better? No. Does it get worse? Yes... It's sold out.
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-14 20:00:00

Cheeseburger

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-19 21:00:00

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Devin the Dude & The Coughee Brot...
presented by The Middle East and Leedz Edutainment 18+ $22 Tickets on Sale 7/27
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-20 20:00:00

Jesu & Torche

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-23 20:00:00

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-25 20:00:00

Caribou, Born Ruffians
18+ $10 Tickets on Sale 7/2
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-25 21:00:00

Boris

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-29 20:00:00

Thermals

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-30 20:00:00

Avail
Avail is a punk quintet from Washington, DC. Smoke or Fire is a punk band from Richmond, Virginia, USA. Clearly influenced by predecessors like Hot Water Music and Avail, these young upstarts also ble...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-31 20:00:00

Buck 65
album release party w/ Sage Francis, Bernard Dolan, Prolyphic, & Jared Paul $10, 18+
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-01 20:00:00

Bobby Bare Jr. w/ Lucero
With a big-as-the-room persona, an ability to rock the doors off the most jaded of clubs, the heart to hold a room completely still with just his guitar, and a genius for arrangement, Bobby Bare, Jr. ...
Category: Other, 20:00:00, 2007-11-02 20:00:00

Say Hi to Your Mom
Say Hi To Your Mom play a dreamier variety of indie rock. On a homemade PC, one-man band Eric Elbogen assembles slow, statuesque, self-consciously "indie" rock with analog synthscape...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-04 21:00:00

The Spill Canvas
18+ Downstairs
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-05 21:00:00

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Jones, the first lady of funk and soul, has performed with the Four Tops, The Drifters and Maceo Parker. She is backed by The Dap-Kings, a group of musicians from The Soul Providers and The Mighty Imp...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-09 20:00:00

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Quentin Stoltzfus

Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-11-12 19:30:00

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is an indie rock band from Canada.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-12 21:00:00

Streetlight Manifesto
Combining countless influences, but focusing on ska, punk and reggae, the Streetlight boys command a sound all their own. Suburban Legends is a rock octet from California.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-11-13 19:00:00

The Electric Six
The Detroit sextet Electric Six mixes garage, disco, punk, new wave and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs like 'Danger! High Voltage' and 'Gay Bar.' Every Mo...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-14 20:00:00

Dax Riggs, Cormega
Dax Riggs is from band Deadboy and the Elephantmen. He is former member of Love As Laughter.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-15 21:00:00

The Samples, Die Mannequin
One of the most consistently popular touring acts in the country, The Samples have built a huge grass-roots following for their jazz-tinged pop. Shannon McNally writes rootsy midtempo songs with an or...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-16 20:00:00

Travis Morrison Hellfighters, Day Sleeper

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-17 21:00:00

The Gossip, OM
The Gossip's bluesy garage punk boasts a wailing front-woman who routinely hits herself on the backside and offers up more soul than one is inclined to expect from a band of this genre. The pu...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-11-18 20:00:00

Malajube, Ben Lee
Malajube is a Canadian pop-rock quintet that in 2004 quietly impressed hungry listeners with their debut record 'Le Compte Complet' and more recently has drawn a wide amount of praise ...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-21 21:00:00

Planes Mistaken for Stars
Planes Mistaken for Stars is based out of Peoria, IL, originally upon signing to Deep Elm, the group made its recorded debut in early 1999 on the label compilation.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-23 21:00:00

Burn in Silence

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-24 21:00:00

Shonen Knife + The Juliet Dagger + Verona Grove
Upstairs 18+ $12 8pm Doors
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-25 20:00:00

Three
Three features pianist Greg Burk, bassist Rick McLaughlin and saxophonist Jeremey Udden.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-26 21:00:00

Maritime
Maritime consists of members of Promise Ring and Dismemberment Plan. Chicago's Bound Stems come from different backgrounds, playing pop music founded on secretly complicated rhythmic structure...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-28 21:00:00

Celebration

Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-29 21:00:00

Oneida, Satori
Oneida has described their own music in many ways -- warehouse-art-rock, terror-rawk or stoner-metal. Destroy Babylon are a power trio of eclectic and dynamic musicians.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-01 20:00:00

The Mobius Band
Based in Western Massachusetts, The Mobius Band filter the standard indie rock trio through post-rock texture, Krautrock repetition and modern electronics.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-02 20:00:00

Dirty Projectors
The Dirty Projectors is the project of Dave Longstreth, a former Yale student who left college to become one of the most prolific and unique indie singer/songwriters of the early 2000s.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-05 21:00:00

Bayside
Long Island-based Bayside formed in the winter of 2000 and quickly started developing a local following with their melodic brand of moody, guitar-driven emo. June is a band from Chicago. The band feat...
Category: , 18:00:00, 2007-12-06 18:00:00

Rob Kelly

Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-07 20:00:00

Angeline, The Sword
Fox Pass is a rock band. The Sword is a metal band from Austin, TX whose influences include Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Prong. Black Cobra are an LA based indie rock band. Valient Thorr features Ra...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-08 20:00:00

Margot and the Nuclear So & So's
Described as a cacophony of electric and acoustic instruments that sat on top of rock-type rhythms, Margot and the Nuclear So & So's music is filled with stories and observations. Le L...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-12 21:00:00

Mr. Lif
18+ $15
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-14 21:00:00

The Flaming Tsunamis
Formed in rural Connecticut and starting out as a manic-paced skacore band, the group has since transformed into a much more experimental outfit that uses a framework of modern hardcore/metal to bring...
Category: , 13:00:00, 2007-12-15 13:00:00

Tokyo Police Club, Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot and special g...
18+ $15 Downstairs
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-12-15 19:00:00

Major Stars
Chris Brokaw hails from the Lemonheads.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-12-15 21:00:00

The Most Serene Republic, The Postelles
Sun 12/16 The Most Serene Republic (Arts & Crafts), The Postelles – 18+ $9 – Tickets on Sale 11/9
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-12-16 20:00:00

Till We Die

Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-12-21 18:30:00

The Lemonheads + Raccoon
The Lemonheads (featuring Evan Dando with Bill Stevenson and Karl Alvarez of The Descendents), Raccoon 18+ $20 Tickets on Sale 9/28
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-12-22 21:00:00

Mighty Mighty Bosstones 10th Annual Hometown Throwdown
Bouncing Souls and Everybody Out! opening.
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-12-26 19:30:00

Mighty Mighty Bosstones 10th Annual Hometown Throwdown

Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-12-27 19:30:00

Mighty Mighty Bosstones 10th Annual Hometown Throwdown

Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-12-28 19:30:00

Mighty Mighty Bosstones 10th Annual Hometown Throwdown

Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-12-29 19:30:00

Mighty Mighty Bosstones 10th Annual Hometown Throwdown
ALL AGES
Category: Music, 15:00:00, 2007-12-30 15:00:00

Badfish
Badfish is a Sublime tribute band. What separates Badfish from other tribute bands is that they have replicated Sublime's essence, developing a scene and dedicated following most commonly rese...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-12-31 20:00:00

White Williams, Ecstatic Sunshine
18+ $10 Upstairs Tickets on Sale 11/23
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2008-01-12 21:00:00

Appetite for Destruction
Appetite for Destruction is a Guns N' Roses tribute band.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-18 20:00:00

Marah
The Philadelphia based band's second release is called 'Float Away With the Friday Night Gods.'
Category: , 20:00:00, 2008-01-19 20:00:00

The Slackers in Boston

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-02-15 20:00:00