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Mix it up
Mae Shi want your mix CDs, plus Metallica at the FleetCenter and more

Shi mae be the song that summer sings . . .

Don’t let the boyishly tousled hair, collared shirts, and angelic smiles in this K-Mart Portrait Studio 8x10 fool you. LA’s the Mae Shi are not normal. Their new Terrorbird (5 Rue Christine) is chock-a-block with short and fractured songs: hurtling avant-hardcore tracts pocked with breaks and builds and spazz-rock clusterbombs and balls-in-vise screams. Veering from careering Minutemannish agit-pop to enervated electro-tinkering to brain-battering Beefheartian brickbats, Terrorbird’s 33 tracks in 42 minutes are a wild ride. But that’s nothing compared with the "2004 Mae Shi Mix Tape," an expertly sequenced 70 minutes of lightning-quick snippets of about 2000 of their favorite songs — from Abba to Jay Z, Patsy Cline to Melt Banana, Steely Dan to Hüsker Dü. The cumulative effect is even more jarring, disorienting, and thrilling than the band’s own music. Bring the Mae Shi your own mix CD when they stop by Great Scott next Sunday, August 14. They’ll listen to it! According to the band, "the goal of the tour is that each show is a celebration of a special event — someone’s birthday, a going-away party, a costume party, a bar mitzvah, etc." Make it special for them. Great Scott is at 1222 Commonwealth Avenue in Allston; call (617) 566-9014.

They just wanna be loved . . .

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, the new documentary from Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky that delves in unsparing detail into the band’s near collapse and their slow road back to musical and personal functionality with the help of intensive therapy, has been much ballyhooed by now. (See Carly Carioli’s review and interview in last week’s Arts section — and who’d have ever thought the band responsible for "Creeping Death" and "Leper Messiah" would be name-dropped in the New Yorker and on NPR?) Yes, it’s true: these monsters of rock — hell-bent, hooch-mad, heretofore-hairy — were really just wounded and vulnerable souls like the rest of us. But that’s not to say that they’ve lost their edge. They are, as the name of their tour states, "Madly in Anger with the World," and they’re not gonna take it anymore. See for yourself whether all that Stuart Smalley crap really worked when they take the stage at the FleetCenter on Sunday October 24 — with our own special headcases, Godsmack, lending a hand. Tickets are $55 to $75; call (617) 931-3000.

Deco the halls

With more than 250 art deco works — paintings, furniture, textiles, and, yes, that exquisite car — tracing the evolution of the form from pre-WW1 Paris to Jazz Age New York to 1930s Hollywood, the MFA’s "Art Deco, 1910-1939" is gonna be a corker. Come marvel at the dynamic geometric precision, the crisp and clean design, the sleek curvilinear forms, the exuberant evocations of the triumphs of the modern age. In 1926, the MFA was the first venue in the world to host selected works from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriales Modernes held in Paris the year before, and this fall it will be the last to host this globetrotting exhibition, which opens August 22 and runs through January 9. Cocktail hours, jazz brunches, and screenings of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis are gravy. The MFA is at 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston, and tickets are $22; call (617) 542-4MFA.

Synge loud, Synge proud

The Abbey Theatre was founded in Dublin in 1904 by William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Lady Augusta Gregory as a home for the works of the Irish literary renaissance they’d spearheaded. In celebration of its centennial, the Abbey is bringing one of its signature plays, Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World, out on tour, and in Boston it will be presented at the Wilbur Theatre. Revolutionary for its frank portrayal of rural Ireland, Synge’s play tells of a tiny County Mayo hamlet and the changes wrought upon the village folk when the shebeen keeper’s daughter becomes enamored of an enigmatic visitor. Angered by its indecency (the word "shift" is uttered) and supposed negative stereotypes, audiences tossed food on stage and shouted indignantly when the play opened in 1907, but it’s come to be seen as a hallmark in the evolution of Irish drama — just as the Abbey Theatre has come to be Ireland’s flagship venue. Directed by Abbey artistic director Ben Barnes, Playboy will be performed November 2 through 28 at the Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $46.50 to $67.50; call (617) 931-2000.


Issue Date: August 6 - 12, 2004
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