Jan 25 (Sun) - Ghostface Killah - District Music Hall, Norwalk CT + Jan 25 (Sun) - Balmora, Holder, Fatal Realm, Force Of One, Jaw Wired Shut - The Maxx, New Milford CT + Jan 25 (Sun) - Krixus, Nick Meadan, Spill the Light, A Big Hat - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) - Zuzu + Jan 25 (Sun) - We are Space Horses / Mother Fungus / Strawberry Coffin / Lesotho - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Jan 25 (Sun) - Dog Dilemma / Car Girlfriend / Roaches, All The Way Up / The New Noise - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Jan 25 (Sun) - Cape Crush, Blame It On Whitman, Tragwag, Steppin' Razor Blades - Hutghi’s at the Nook, Westfield, MA + Jan 25 (Sun) - Big Jon Short - Vincent's, Worcester MA + Jan 25 (Sun) - Negativburn w/ Matthew Flynn, Bibbe Hansen (mother of Beck), Niki Luparelli, Caroline Moore, VI - Hunchback Gallery, Worcester MA + Jan 25 (Sun) - Justin Arena, Fortune Frenzy, Bigest Beast, Hooly J Chan, Molly O'Leary, Dogtailcorners, Emma Cashman, Chris OG, Christian Camarao - Kitty Castle, New Bedford MA + Jan 25 (Sun) - Black Season Witch / Vudu Sister / Silver Rein / tarot readings by Beth Metal - AS220 (Providence, RI) Jan 25 (Sun) - Vivian Davis & DJ Meow Mix / Sapling / Pepita - Myrtle, East Providence RI + Jan 25 (Sun) - Film & Gender, AFK, Depopulate Montana, A Monolithic Dome - AS220 (Providence, RI) Jan 25 (Sun) - National Opposite Day - Everywhere + Jan 26 (Mon) - Wild Pink, Dead Gowns, Tremolo Fields - SPACE (Portland, ME) + Jan 26 (Mon) - Blame It On Whitman, Care For, Cape Crush, MK Naomi - Silhouette Lounge, Allston MA + Jan 26 (Mon) - Flyway / Botch Job / Village Revival / Broken Daisies - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Jan 26 (Mon) - Return To The Pitty! - WUNH Studios (Durham, NH) Jan 26 (Mon) - History of Heavy Metal: Part I - A seminar examining the history of Heavy Metal from the late 1960s through the early 1990s. Topics will include Hard Rock, Archetypal Heavy Metal, and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM). - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Jan 26 (Mon) - National Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day - Everywhere + Jan 27 (Tue) - The Tubs, Hotline TNT, Horse Jumper of Love, Wishy, Canaries - Space Ballroom, Hamden CT + Jan 27 (Tue) - Mary Poppers / Routine Happiness / Angelina Cara / Newcastle Anchorman - O'Briens Pub (Allston, MA) Jan 27 (Tue) - Wild Pink, Dead Gowns, Dummy Ache - The Press Room, Portsmouth NH + Jan 27 (Tue) - Neuroscience of Metal with Evgeny Gromovoy - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Evgeny Gromovoy. How is music processed in the brain? Why does it evoke pleasure? Can it have therapeutic effects? Advances in neuroscience are beginning to unravel these intricate questions. In this talk, Evgeny will provide an overview of our current understanding—and highlight the mysteries that remain. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Jan 28 (Wed) - GHOST - Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, CT + Jan 28 (Wed) - Ghostface Killah - Oxbow Blending & Bottling, Portland ME + Jan 28 (Wed) - Gene Loves Jezebel, Black Season Witch, Silver Rein, Gossip Collar - Middle East (Cambridge, MA) Upstairs + Jan 28 (Wed) - Saint Throwaway, Structure Sounds, Paint By Numbers, Something Sneaky - Silhouette Lounge, Allston MA + Jan 28 (Wed) - Wild Pink, Dead Gowns, Otis Shanty - Warehouse XI, Somerville MA + Jan 28 (Wed) - All About Harsh Vocals – History, Application, and Technique with Paul Buckley – LIVE In-Person and Online! - This class will take place both in-person on MIT’s Campus in room 35-225 and will be livestreamed (if possible) and recorded for later viewing. To join in person, please head to Building 35 on MIT’s campus, and room 225 will be on the second floor. Please register here: https://forms.gle/4BHMDX7YFCGGGrEU9
MAP: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AvrVmqMBTk8qe67a7 Parking is limited. **Please note: you must arrive before 7pm to be able to access the classroom.**
MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Paul Buckley. This talk will discuss the history of harsh vocals, how they are applied in everyday life, and how rock and metal singers use them to do what they do. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Jan 29 (Thu) - Wild Pink / Dead Gowns / The Tines - Cafe Nine, New Haven, CT + Jan 29 (Thu) - Ghostface Killah, DirtyDurdie, Mister Burns & Friends - Higher Ground Ballroom (South Burlington, VT) Jan 30 (Fri) - Dogheaven, Nightfall, Propolis, Ow! Ouch! Owwie! - The Felt Fanatic (Salem, MA) + Jan 30 (Fri) - Black Season Witch, Gene Loves Jezebel, Gossip Gollar, Silver Rein - Jewel (Manchester , NH) Jan 30 (Fri) - Poor Impulse Control(Record Release)/Klaxon/Badterms/Grem/DJ Tom Butts - Neptunes (Cape Cod) + Jan 31 (Sat) - Black Season Witch/Midnight Psychic/Silver Rein/Gene Loves Jezebel - Webster Underground, Hartford CT + Jan 31 (Sat) - Candy Striper Death Orgy, PSYCHO and Konseptikor - Kettlehead on Main-97 Main St Nashua,NH + Jan 31 (Sat) - Dogheaven, Nightfall, Hallowed Blood, Palmslow - AS220 (Providence, RI) Feb 2 (Mon) - Mosh Pits to Mise en Place with Elvia and Alex García - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturers, Alex and Elvia García. This lecture will explore the overlap between metal scenes and kitchens, mapping where metal’s values – authenticity, extreme passions, and DIY mentalities – match with restaurant life and building a community. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 4 (Wed) - History of Heavy Metal: Part II - A seminar examining the history of Heavy Metal from the early 1980s to the present. Topics include Power Metal, Thrash Metal and the Big 4. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 5 (Thu) - The Physics of Metal Guitar with Will Lunden - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Will Lunden. Will’s session will focus on the physics at the heart of the electric guitar in metal, and how the fundamental properties of waves and electronics lead to its characteristic sounds. Topics covered will include electric guitar pickup design and placement, natural and artificial harmonics, multiscale/”fanned fret” guitars, true temperament guitars, the boons and banes of nonlinearity, and why distortion is so integral to the “heavy metal sound.” There will be also be some shred-tastic demonstrations along the way. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 9 (Mon) - History of Heavy Metal: Part III - This will be a seminar examining even more genres of Heavy Metal. Topics will include more about the (then) New Wave of American Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, and Progressive Metal. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 11 (Wed) - Billy F Gibbons and the BFG Band - Plymouth Memorial Hall, Plymouth MA + Feb 12 (Thu) - The Birth of Metal: Blue Cheer Prove that Metal is More than Music with Bob Mayo - MIT Heavy Metal 101 is pleased to present guest lecturer, Bob Mayo. In this presentation, Boston-area metal musician Bob Mayo will attempt to establish conclusively that California’s Blue Cheer was the first heavy metal band, and their debut album “Vincebus Eruptum” is the first heavy metal album. Mayo will use choice examples of the band’s music, but also key interview excerpts from contemporary published interviews as well as TV appearances. The debate ends here! - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Feb 17 (Tue) - The Runarounds, Aestrea, Hey I'm Outside - Citizens House of Blues Boston, Boston, MA + Feb 19 (Thu) - Abel Blood, Stoned Shadow, Mercury Burns First, Project H - The Shaskeen + Feb 19 (Thu) - History of Heavy Metal: Part IV - This will be a seminar examining even more genres of Heavy Metal. Topics will include more about Metal Fusion, Experimental and Avant-Garde Metal, and whatever else we missed so far. As always, it’s going to get weird. - Zoom registration: https://metal.mit.edu/ + Jun 28 (Wed) - SANCTUS IUDA (POLAND), DROPDEAD, THE MASSACRED, KNELT - The Cantab Underground, Cambridge MA + CANCELLED Jan 18 (Wed) - Testing something - Your face +