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Still not easy being Green
Speaking of American idiots, plus WAAF's 'Fright Night' and more
BY CARLY CARIOLI
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Yeah, we know, we mentioned Green Day in this space last week, too, but we thought we’d plug ’em again — if only to offer this friendly photographic reminder (pin it to your fridge or something) to vote the biggest American idiot out of office this week. To recap: tonight (October 21), get your pop punk on with Green Day at the Worcester Centrum (617-931-2000); on Tuesday, vote. If there’s nothing quite as frightening as another four years of Dubya, there’s still plenty of Halloween fare this week. The foam and the fiberglass — not to mention the fake blood and the other imitation bodily fluids — have been dug out of the warehouse and GWAR are hitting the road behind their new War Party; they’re at the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester on Friday and at the State Theater (207-780-8265) in Portland on Saturday. WAAF’s annual "Fright Night" gig brings Drowning Pool — nothing says Halloween like a band with a dead singer in their past — to the Palace (781-321-1660) in Saugus on Friday. Teenage lap-top noise kids XBXRX team up with yet another Thurston Moore side project, the Heavy Peeps, at Flywheel (413-527-9800) in Easthampton on Friday; show up early and you can catch a screening of MOVE, a documentary about the title African-American radical group whose Philadelphia compound was bombed during a firefight with police in the 1980s. Meanwhile, the cryptic Philly indie-hip-hop cabal Jedi Mind Tricks bring tunes from their new Legacy of Blood (Babygrande) on a tour with labelmates Outerspace to Pearl Street (413-584-7810) in Northampton tonight (October 21) and to the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on Friday. Nostalgists for hip-hop’s golden age can enjoy De La Soul on Friday at Pearl Street as well as Del tha Funkee Homosapien on Tuesday at Toad’s Place (203-624-TOAD) in New Haven, on Wednesday at Pearl Street, and next Thursday, November 4, at the Paradise (617-562-8800) in Boston. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Deftones, the sole outfit to emerge from the new-metal hordes with a sense of subtlety or elegance to match their ferocity. They’re road-testing tunes for a new album on a brief club tour that makes its only area stop at the Webster Theatre (860-525-5553) in Hartford on Saturday. The Red Sox’ World Series run has already spawned a rash of snow-day-like cancellations, with many bands and bars opting not to compete with possible sports history. If there’s a game seven on Halloween night at Fenway, you might begin to think about leaving town for less combustible celebrations. The Dresden Dolls play Pearl Street, Dixie-fried roots-rockers Southern Culture on the Skids hunker down at the Call (401-757-2255) in Providence (they’re also at the Middle East on Election Day), and Insane Clown Posse protégés Twiztid are at the Palladium, as well as at Toad’s Place on Tuesday.
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