Fri. June 25

Call your band The Big Disappointments and you win both ways: If you suck, it’s truth in billing, if you rock, it’s ironic. Eric Boomhower – who used to drum for the In Out – played under The Big Disappointments moniker as a joke back in 1999, and then abandoned it. He picked it up again last year when he made the switch to singer-songwriter-guitarist and In Out bassist Andy Abrahamson moved to guitar for this quartet. “I re-used the name,” says Boomhower, “because everybody liked it.” One person who especially liked what bassist Jon Littlefield calls their “swamp rock,” was Thalia Zedek. The former Come/Uzi singer-guitarist happens to live with Boomhower, and she co-produced their eponymous debut with the band. (Paul Kolderie engineered.)

“We like that jagged, angular, aggressive-but-melodic sound,” says Boomhower. Mention them in company with the Fall, Gang of Four, Grinderman, the Cramps or the Gun Club and Boomhower won’t complain. “But I don’t think we go for the roots as deep” as Gun Club. ”It’s more like old Birthday Party stuff at times - their lack of reverence that we mix with melodicism.” The Big Disappointments play Club Bohemia the Cantab Lounge Friday June 25. Boomhower sent us this email about the updated work of the Big Disappointments: "We would like to encourage you to click the link below to listen to some new mp3's we posted on our website. We record live at our studio at the Berwick Research Institute and it may interest you to know that we are all forming new thought patterns in one way or the other. We hope you enjoy our new experiments." The site: http://www.thebigdisappointments.com. Also on Friday's bill: Thomas Nola Et Son Orchestre, Croquet and the headliniong Silver City. Tickets: $8.

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