September 27th - Friendly People // Coaches // Infinity Girl // Mike Simonelli @ the Elks Lodge in Cambridge

Saturday night I’ll be playing a bill with a few of my favorite bands that are from/were from Boston - Friendly People, Coaches, & Infinity Girl.  

It’s going to start at 8:00 PM and I’m going on first - so if you want to catch my set get there for 8:00.

I’ll be playing a set called "A Story About Love".  The story will start like I’ve been telling it for the last few shows, but then it’s going to go somewhere different...If you like drastically reimagined collaged 90s songs you'll probably be on board.  I might post a short preview in the super near future.   

Friendly People are an indie rock band who are currently based out of NYC - they've got a super lot of groove, sometimes go into really awesome jammyness, and have got some super awesome tunes.  I mentioned their record shake in my top 50 of 2012 which is up on their bandcamp and definitely worth checking out.  

https://friendlypeople.bandcamp.com/

Coaches are the electric, noiser, and gnarlier reincarnation of We Avalanche (+ a drummer).  Their single "amisarewaswere" is a fucking jam and they've got a lot of other great tunes - some that are crazy reimaginging of We Avalanche tunes, and some that are brand spankin new.  

https://coachesband.bandcamp.com/

Infinity Girl are also currently based out of NYC - they're a poppy noisy shoegazy band that rock my socks.  Some crazy awesome textural things going on and some crazy awesome harmonic things going on at times.  Check out their EP "Just Like Lovers" on their bandcmap.  

https://infinitygirl.bandcamp.com/

If you need the address to Elk's Lodge it's: 55 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge MA 02143

It's easily accessible off the Central Square T stop.

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Hit me up if you need more details!

Hope to catch ya then!

Mike

Talking in Circles (Serious Dialogues ~ on the ~ Silliness of Everything) - by Ryan Simonelli

My Brother Ryan just finished a book that he's been working on for 4 years.  The book consists of dialogues that function as a thought experiment about experimenting with thought.  Stuff gets super loopy and meta as you go down the rabbit hole...but it somehow keeps a sense of humor about itself and is actually a really fun read in my opinion.  This book has been a huge influence on me in the music I make - especially in my re-imagining of the kids song "Here We Go Loopty Loop".

You can read what my brother has to say about it (which is definitely more informative than anything I said on here) on his word press.

And you can read a PDF of it for free here.  There might be hard copies in the future...as well as possibly an animated film version of it (which if the later happens, I'm on board to score)

Go and get loopy y'all

Enjoy!

FALL SHOWS - 2014

END OF SUMMER SHOWS:

September 19th - Sun Kil Moon (Sommerville Theatre)

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Panda Bear (Paradise Rock Club - Allston)

September 20th - Mount Eerie (Columbus Theater - Providence, RI)

FALL SHOWS:

September 24th - Fluxion (Middle Sex- Cambridge)

September 27th - Mike Simonelli, Friendly People, Coaches, Infinity Girl (Elk's Lodge - Cambridge)

THIS IS GOING TO RAD!!!  So ridiculously stoked!!!

This is the last time I'll be playing this set that I've been playing this summer before shit gets more dark and personal and a little apocalyptic and scary for the set I'll be playing for the rest of the Fall.

Also happening this date:
-Guerrilla Toss (Deep Thoughts - JP)
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-Beantown Jazz Festival (Bay Back Boston)

September 28 - Kneebody & Snarky Puppy (Berklee Performance Center- Boston)

October 2 - Om (Sinclair- Cambridge)

October 4th - Speedy Ortiz, Grownup Noise (album release show), & more - FREE LAWN SHOW!!!

October 8th - Nico Muhly (at MFA)

October 9th - Cloud Nothings (at Sinclaire)

October 11th - Citrusphere, Couples Counseling, Sundog, Shira (Midway Cafe - JP)
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October 15th - Andy Mckee (Regatta Bar Cambridge)

October 17th - Flying Lotus, Thundercat (Paradise Rock Club)

October 20th - Coaches (Charlies Kitchen - Cambridge)
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October 25th - Sam Amidon (Club Passim - Cambridge)

October 26th - Slowdive (Royale - Boston) 

October 27 - LSDV (Weirdo Records - Cambridge)

October 28th - Giant Claw, Couples Counseling, World Cup, BLKBX (Deep Thoughts - JP)
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October 30 - Speedy Ortiz & Pile (Great Scott - Allston)
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Shy-Tech, Sun Rad, Of the Sun, Radio Scotvoid (Zuzu - Cambridge)

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October 31st - Secret JP Halloween Show - Midriffs, Thin Lizzy, Big Kill, Voidgod, Mike Simonelli, NobodyFace

Super pumped for this - will be debuting some new darker material....my set is going to be a 90s death trip of sorts - with Bop-it's and Twin Peaks and home videos and lots of fire.
...contact me for details

November 5th - Rusko (Paradise Rock Club) 

November 7th - Zamuto (Great Scott)

November 8th - I'm playing a 15 minute set at this variety show at the Democracy Center
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November 7th - November 9th - BOSTON HASSLE FEST 6 (Cuisine en Locale - Sommerville) - Body/Head (Kim Gordon + Bill Nace), Pile, & way too many more to list, but here's the event page

November 11th -
Stevie Wonder (TD Garden)

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Antemas - this is basically the new Mars Volta (Middle East Downstairs)

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Caribou (Paradise Rock Club)

November 14th - Mike Simonelli, Happy You, Pixels & Animal, Esq (The Waterman Co-Op in Providence)
Rhode Islanders...this is going to be rad


November 15th - Deerhoof (Met Cafe - Pawtucket RI)

December 13th - Brad Mehldau (Berklee Performance Center)