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Gina Gershon's Prey for Rock and Roll, Le Tigre at the Roxy, plus more
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Girls on film Life imitates art later this month, when Gina Gershon promotes her new film, Prey for Rock and Roll — in which she plays the 39-year-old leader of a late-’80s LA club band who has promised to give up the biz if she hasn’t made it by the time she turns 40 — by undertaking an actual tour with an actual rock and roll band. We’re praying, all right — at least for the sake of Girls Against Boys members Johnny Temple, Scott McCloud, and Alexis Fleisig, who’ve spent time on both sides of the made-it/hate-it divide and will serve as Gina’s backing band. The Gina vs. GVSB band comes to the Middle East, 480 Mass Ave, on October 14. Call (617) 864-EAST. Eye of Le Tigre It’s been two years to the month since the last studio album from Kathleen Hanna’s new-wave/disco-punk outfit Le Tigre — a span that’s seen the rest of the world begin to catch up with the trio’s groundbreaking electro-garage synthesis, if not with Hanna’s trademark bubblegum feminism. Their "Deceptacon" has become something of an underground classic, thanks to DFA’s reworking of it from last year’s Le Tigre Remix disc (Mr. Lady), and we’re hoping to hear that one along with some newish stuff when the group hits the Roxy, 279 Tremont Street in the Theater District, for their highest-profile gig yet November 19. Tickets are $14; call (617) 931-2000. Under the covers Newtonville Books’ "Cover 2 Cover" series, in which rockers and authors get into the skins of their favorite authors and musicians, returns November 1 at the Paradise, where the guests will include the novelists Andre Dubus III and Junot Diaz (the former at press time undecided about what he’ll read, and the latter reading a Denis Johnson story), as well as singer-songwriters Blake Hazard (whose set will include Jobim’s "One Note Samba") and Merrie Amsterburg (doing June Carter Cash’s "Ring of Fire" and others). Local literary superstar Tom Perotta (Election, Joe College) hosts, and Steve Almond (My Life in Heavy Metal) mans the ones and twos with recorded cover songs of all stripes. That’s at 969 Comm Ave; doors are at 6, and admission is $7. Call (617) 562-8804. Beat street It’s not like the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti wants for adoration — when you’re a first-generation Beat poet and the publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl," people tend to notice. But Boston rock fans may have a special place in their hearts for Ferlinghetti’s 1999 album of his epic poem cycle A Coney Island of the Mind (Rykodisc), on which he was backed by the surviving members of Morphine shortly after Mark Sandman’s death. On October 26, Ferlinghetti shows up for a reading at the Museum of Fine Arts in tandem with a screening of Christopher Felver’s documentary The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1996), as well as a performance by Greenwich Village folkie Eric Andersen; the title track on Andersen’s latest disc, Beat Avenue (Appleseed), is a 20-minute epic beat poem set at a poetry reading on the day of JFK’s assassination. The reading/screening/performance begins at 3 p.m.; tickets are $24. Call (617) 369-3300.
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