Good Times at Good Life

Pretty Poison and Atom Strikes Again proved Good Life deserves it's name this Tuesday night. July continues free Tuesday live music shows at Good Life in downtown Boston (28 Kingston St. 02111) with many more acts to come.

The multi-talented members of Atom Strikes Again opened the night up with a long set of their best material. By the time Atom put their instruments down everyone in the room were feeling warm and ready for fun.

Pretty Poison then lit up the crowd her with smooth flow and tantalizing lyrics. Poison's set got everyone on their feet and bouncing around.

Before the night ended Atom got back on stage with a couple friends and gave up an encore.

Every Tuesday of the week there is a free show at Good Life downtown. Doors are at 8PM, it is 21+ and there is NO COVER. Next week is ORYN, Grace B*Curran, and Travel Info. Then on the 20th The Culprit Policy and the_Stampede play. All presented by Good Life and F Nice Records.

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Another Great Skum of the Earth Wednesday Punk Night

Skum of the Earth Wednesday Punk Night at McGann's Boston is certainly going strong with another great one last night. Fan and musicians alike all brought their 'A' game for a night of drinking, dancing, and singing at McGann's.

Jumper started the night right off with some really great stuff that took me right back to when I was their age, or at least how I remember it. They showed huge energy and some really fantastic musical talent.

Four Point Restraint followed up with a nice long set that took the audience across up and down and brought smiles all around. Check out this video of them.

Last on the bill, The Few And The Far tore the place up. Everyone got involved and there were many guest vocals and sharing of mics.

Chestnut Growler arranges these wonderful Wednesdays, so be sure to get at him if you've got a punk band you'd like to see at McGann's. All the photos and video in the post are courtsey of him. You can also signup for our newletter to the right, which will keep you up to date on all F Nice's great live music concerts.



Enjoy the 4th everyone. If you are in Boston this Friday night I highly recommend Hannah & the Bloodlines, Torpedo Rodeo, and Abbey Parcellin at McGann's starting at 9pm.

Cheap presale tickets are available HERE

F Nice's Official Blog Returns

After a looooonnnnnggggg break, F Nice Records' official blog is BACK! We have an amazing number of shows coming up, and we'll do our best to bring you all the hottest previews, reviews, pictures, and video clips from all the great Boston nightlife action we put on.

One set of shows we are really proud of is at Good Life (28 Kingston Street Boston, MA 02111). We have shows there Tuesdays this month as well as something very special Thursday June 17th.

To give you a good idea of how seriously we pumping out the great live music shows, check out what we have going on at McGann's next month:

To keep up on our live shows, join our mailing list using the box to the right. See you soon!

Leaders Led NCN 10 Rompetition Trophy Acceptance Video

As I'm sure you know, Leaders Led won the NCN 10 Rompetition. The grand prize includes playing on stage at The Regent Theater this Friday 3/19 with Destroy Babylon, The Flo, Travel Info, and Sour D. Leaders Led also wins 2 days of recording at Sanctum Sound studio in downtown Boston, and duplication and distribution from F Nice Records.

However, all great competitions also need a trophy for the winner, and Green Side Up Gallery provided us with a really amazing one. Here is a video of Leaders Led being presented with the trophy during a The Boston Local Music Show music break.

Leaders Led Trophy Acceptance Video

Don't miss Leaders Lead at the NCN 10 Grand Finale on 3/19

DCAP Birthday Bash Review

Last night's show at McGann's Boston rocked so hard the rain almost stopped. DCAP had two birthday's to celebrate, and the audince really dug it as things got hot on the floor.

Rocket Rocket opened the night on a handful of Cosmos and blew things up. Lost On Liftoff came on next and built the energy up even higher; there is just something so proper about white ties.

Moonstone Lady played a great set including a song they had not played since the band was formed, and kept things at full boil for 'Crespo.

Then DAve Crespo's After Party got on stage and things got CRAZY. For those who have not seen DCAP in a while, their lineup has gotten real serious, and the band puts on blow-you-away shows.

We've got really great shows coming up this week like Destroy Babylon at The Regent Theater, and Voltaire at Church. Keep up to date on F Nice events by joining our mailing list.

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Leaders Led accepts the NCN 10 Rompetition trophy at UNregular Radio

Leaders Led came in to UNregular Radio today to accept the trophy for winning the NCN 10 Rompetition. Green Side Up Gallery provided us with a magnificent piece of functional art for a trophy this year.

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Leaders Led is playing with Destroy Babylon, Travel Info, The Flo, and Sour D on 3/19 at The Regent Theater. Get tickets here.

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Videos of Bands in the Rompetition Finals

Check out these videos of bands that are in the Rompetition Finals tomorrow Saturday March 6th.

The Turkeys

A Bit Much

Starlight Grey

Deadfish

Other winners playing tomorrow include Leaders Led, East is East, and Lady Lamb The Beekeeper. Catch them all at the Middle East Upstairs starting at 1PM tomorrow!

Round One of the Rompetition Concludes

The first round of the NCN 10 Rompetition is over.

• The Turkeys WON
• Lady Lamb The  Beekeeper WON 2-12
• East is East WON 2-13
• A Bit Much WON 2-18
• Leaders Led WON 2-19
• Deadfish WON 2-20
• Starlight Grey is the WILDCARD!

The shows were all huge, and we can't wait until the finals on Saturday March 6th at the Middle East Upstairs.


Tickets for the finals can be bought at fnicerecords.com/tickets

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Learn more about NCN 10 and the Rompetition at www.nocontractsneeded.com.

The Boston Local Music Show kicks off a Hot Weekend with F Nice

* It's The Boston Local Music Show * We're gonna play a bunch of awesome shit that you should already know *

Finally it's time for another episode of The Boston Local Music Show on UNregular Radio. I hear Dex and DAve have a super playlist for you, and I also hear they are pretty funny...

The radio show kicks off a jam-packed weekend of music brought to you by F Nice Records. For starters, there are last three Rompetition round 1 shows, Thursday and Friday at McGann's, and an ALL AGES show at All Asia which starts at noon on Saturday. CHECK OUT THE LINEUPS BELOW!

2.18 @ McGann's Pub (197 Portland St. Boston, MA 02114)

Show starts at 9pm, 21+

• 9- The Pink Parts
• 9:30- Dirty Strange
• 10- A Bit Much
• 10:30- Colborne
• 11- The Lone Pinecones
• 11:30- Cory Allen Staats
• 12- Gravitas

2.19 @ McGann's Pub (197 Portland St. Boston, MA 02114)

Show starts at 8:30pm, 21+

• 8:30- Milque Toast
• 9- Atom Strikes Again
• 9:30- Orphan Killbot
• 10- The Truezoos
• 10:30- Leaders Led
• 11- Tall Heights
• 11:30- Ice Station Impossible
• 12- Faulty Conscience
• 12:30 Hello Ninja 

2.20 @ All Asia (332 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139)

Show starts at 12:30pm, ALL AGES

• 12:30- Don't Look Back
• 1- Pongo's Groove
• 1:30- Melophobe Radio
• 2- Contained Chaos
• 2:30- Deadfish
• 3- Bullet Boulevard
• 3:30- Let Us Not Forget
• 4- Mojo Kick
• 4:30- Alien 8
• 5- Signs of Chaos
• 5:30 The Scouflaws

In addition to those huge bills ripe for brutal competition, we have a show at Precinct in Somerville on Friday night featuring Hippocrypt & The Metro Gnomes, Webb & the Weisenheimers, The Melancholy Proper, and Maffeo.

Lastly, but certainly not least, there is a blowout show at McGann's with The Flo, Cole Medeiros Band, El Fuego, and Craig Range band, all opened by Michael Skinner.

Buy tickets to any of these live music shows at a SAVE OFF THE DOOR at fnicerecords.com/tickets.

Metal Night Returns to McGann's Pub

As anyone who reads this blog regularly knows, F Nice loves McGann's Pub. For those of you who have not been there, McGann's is located at 197 Portland Street in downtown Boston. This is right next to both the TD Garden and the MBTA North Station (Green and Orange T lines plus northern commuter rails).


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McGann's is a great place to eat and drink during the day as well as a super bar to sit in and watch your favorite game, whether it be the Bruins or Rugby. Then at night McGann's large stage becomes one of the area's best places to see up-and-coming live music acts.

The venue has been host to many spectacular themed concerts. One of current note is the NCN 10 Rompetition, which continues this week with battles at McGann's on Thursday and Friday. An ongoing live concert series that F Nice has been running at McGann's with excellent following is Tuesday All Acoustic Night. We bring in all sorts of great acoustic musicians and always have a nice low cover so everyone can afford to have some drinks while they enjoy the night's music.


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Recently it was brought to our attention that before there was All Acoustic Night, Tuesdays at McGann's were reserved for metal. Now being all about the scene, F Nice would never turn down what the fans want; so on Tuesday February 16th METAL NIGHT RETURNED!

Gutshot, Powerstance, and Horcrux tore things up and set spirits rights. Faces were melted, eardrums were blown, and a great time was had by all.

Now don't you worry, All Acoustic nights will continue (with the next one slated for March 9th), but mixed between them will now be plenty of sweet sweet metal.

Catch the next metal night one month from now on March 16th. We'll see you at McGann's!

The NCN 10 Rompetition Starts Off Strong!

The second night of the NCN 10 Romp was full of fantastic music and lively spirits. Every performance was great and there was a lot of fun to be had.

Lady Lamb The Beekeeper took first place and earned herself a spot in the finals at The Middle East Upstairs on March 6th. Ship High in Transit won the online vote, but the other contenders put up a serious fight, and Ship High was not sorry to have lost to a friend. In fact no one seemed upset that Lady Lamb won, as she blew pretty much everyone out of the water.

Starlight Grey one the crowd vote and almost first. All through the night though, each act was excellent, and none were to be missed.

Tonight the press to win recording, dupe & distribution, and a spot on stage at the grand finale Regent Theater show on March 19th continues. Here's the lineup. If you missed out on getting advance tickets you can still buy them here.

2.13 @ McGann's Pub (197 Portland St. Boston, MA 02114)
Show starts at 8pm, 21+
8- Zero Point
8:30- Guenivere
9- Centerlink
9:30- Neon God
10- Art Decade
10:30- Kick Drum
11- Jaxon Boom
11:30- The Few
12- The Stereo Flys
12:30-  East is East 

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Preacher Jack coverts PA's Lounge in Somerville

How many of you have ever heard of Preacher Jack? Now how many of you have seen him live? Well you need to, because Preacher Jack is seriously amazing.

Jack rocked the crowd with some great Hank Williams and Jerry Lee Lewis tunes, a few of which I had never even heard. There was also some gospel in the mix to "Lift our spirits...and send us home with warmth in our hearts." Now that's the kind of sermon I like!

Geezer played next and proved that 8 middle aged dudes can all fit on the sage at PA's. We thank them for that greatly.

After Geezer were the Ten Foot Pole Cats. They put on a fantastic set and really rocked the house. We are very excited because the Pole Cats are coming to PA's Lounge again on Feburary 25th to play with a very special guest, Mr. T Model Ford.

The Fiends rounded out the night

with some really great grooves and sent everyone off with warmth in their hearts as Preacher Jack had hoped.

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Thanks and see you again soon!

F Nice at PA's Lounge - Hot n Sexy

Last night, sweet music poured from PA's Lounge right up until closing time. PA's is located at 345 Somerville Ave, thats Union Square in yep you guessed it, Somerville; and it was full of happy dancing bodies last Friday.

The Whipjacks started off the January 22nd show and really set a great vibe for the night. Their music is smooth and uplifting, and really makes you move your hips to it.

Next was Sour D, who showed off some serious talent at genres of music far south and west of New England. The

crowed was thick and loved the beats, and we all know that life is much better with plenty of sax. Sour D even played an encore, which isn't the most kosher thing for the support band to do at a show, but no one complained about their excellent cover of Pressure Drop.

Slow Century brought the night to a fantastic end with some fine keyboard action as well as great male and female vocals. The room stayed full right up until the last song and the crowd chanted for more even after their instruments had been put away.

Everyone went home happy, and there will be plenty more great F Nice show as PA's Lounge. There is even a very special one tonight featuring Ten Foot Pole Cats, Preacher Jack, The Fiends, and Geezer.

To purchase advance tickets to F Nice shows at discounted prices visit www.fnicerecords.com/tickets.

You can also join our mailing list to hear about all the awesome F Nice shows around greater Boston by filling in your email in the box on the right side of our blog.

See you tonight!

The Boston Local Music Show's First Airing

Today was the first airing of The Boston Local Music Show, hosted by none other than Dex Muthafukin Ter. The show is a new fixture on UnregularRadio.com, Thursdays from 1-4pm. It is sponsored by F Nice Records and Unregular Radio, but don't worry because as we all know there is no telling Dex what to do or say.

The Boston Local Music Show focuses on local music acts; fucking duh. Boston has so many great artists, and with the current sorry state of the scene it's hard for any local Boston band to get the exposure they deserve. Dex was accompanied by Dave Crespo, best know as the latin head of the Boston local band DCAP, and they definitely did the scene some justice.

Anyone who listened to the show knows that there were some technical difficulties involving Dex's vocal feed which were unable to be resolved in the 3 hour show. Resident ponderer Mr. Lax speculates that the issues have to do with how fantastically unique Dex's voice is and the simple fact that the internet was not ready for it.

Nonetheless there were over 35 fantastic songs played, all featuring local arists, and only a few of which you could ever get a chance to hear on any "mainstream" station. Over the 3 hours there was such a great range of excellent music played that I think everyone listening heard something that they hadn't before but really liked.

Tomorrow night (Friday January 8th 2010) we will again be working with Unregular Radio to bring you the show at McGann's show streaming live. So if for some reason you can't make it to that show, which will be a supertastic rocksplosion, you can listen to it on unregularradio.com.

If you are a local artist and want to be played on The Boston Local Music Show email them to thebostonlocalmusicshow@unregularradio.com. Otherwise just enjoy all the great tunes next and every Thursday at 1pm.

Don't Call The Bartender A Bitch

The lesson of last night's show at McGann's is: When the bartender tells you to wait outside until your set, you probably shouldn't call her a bitch or the towering bouncer, who happens to be her boyfriend, will throw your ass out before you even set foot on the stage.

After that we all had a laugh about how much it sucked to be 19, and the headliner Kuuluuko opened up for themselves. Plenty of fun was had and only some of it at that dude's expense.

Anyway, today at 1pm Dex will be live on Unregular Radio doing the first of his new weekly Boston Local Music radio show. He put together some really fantastic local music from many genres and the show is going to be great.

Be sure to tune in to that today. You can go to unrelegularradio.com and click the big "Listen Now" button to open a little pop-out player and start listening now.

Accepting Band Entries for the NCN 10 Rompetition Now

Yes it's that time of the year again, and we arn't talking about your annual New Year's resolution to not sleep with Aunt Sandra on New Years Eve. We're talking about the 2010 No Contracts Needed Rompetition fool!

The No Contracts Needed Rompetition is a two-round band battle in February and March. Prizes include studio recording time, cd duplication, and other serious musician goodies.

To enter NCN10 email your band MySpace and other info to NCN10@fnicerecords.com

Here is a video from our VP, Dex MF Ter himself.

See you at the ROMP!

Sneak Peek at New The Yer Moms Shirt

Alrighty folks, here it is. A new The Yer Moms shirt for their reunion / farwell show this Friday the 11th at McGann's Pub in downtown Boston.

These will be available at the show only and in limited quantity. Music starts at 9 and we expect to already be sold out by then. A special shirt for a special night because not all good things can last forever.

Whether you get a shirt or not, the whole night is going to be crazy entertainment with plenty of Narragansett beer to be drank.

The show involves many very special guests using a range of instruments which rivial a marching band. Supposedly The Yer Moms entire catalog will be performed, but that is just a rumor circling the Boston underground. Even if the word turns out false you can be sure all the fan favorites such as "30% Approval Rating" "$5 Blowjob" "I'm Not A Liberal" and "The Pescetarian Song" will be heard as well as some early songs you may not even know exist.

In addition to The Yer Moms, the night's music will feature the Sommerville Symphony Orchestra, Swell, and Iceberg Young and Tea Musket.

McGann's Pub is right by North Station in downtown Boston. The Yer Moms have practially rocked this place down before and this Friday September 11th will be a performance for the history books.

We are real proud to have the people from Narragansett beer helping us out on this show, so make sure ya tip a can to em while you're down there too. "You buy a case, they'll build a brewery"

See ya there!

Matt

Marcy Playground Boston Tickets Going Fast

As you may have guessed, tickets for the September 26th Marcy Playground show are selling faster than water-bottles after a terrorist attack.

The show features ours truly, Cars On Mars. Also playing is DAve Crespo and the After Party, The Energy, and the winner of a band battle earlier that day at The Middle East. We'll be pouring good old Narragansett Beer, and the guys from FNX are gonna come down to give some stuff out and enjoy the show.

Doors are at 7. It's all-ages. The Regent Theater is on a number of bus lines and has a ton of parking.

You can GET TICKETS HERE while there are still enough for you and all your friends.

See ya there.

Matt

Pray For Polanski Ripping Up The East Coast

Pray For Polanski's tour of the east cost is going strong. The have dropped their rock on New York, Philidelphia, Baltimore, and now Washington D.C. and as always its was received with great love.

PFP brought on tour with them a whole bag of great fun including both CDs and Download Cards of their new album as well as a new shirt featuring a skeleton farting ghosts. The image for the new Pray for Polanski t-shirts can be seen here and is another instant classic in their "pray card" design line.

Still left on the tour is Asheville NC, Birmingham AL, another show in Baltimore MD, two in New York City.

If you havn't caught PFP on their tour yet check out Pray for Polanski on Facebook for tour dates, and don't forget to become a fan and sign up for the mailing list so you don't miss future events. If you have already seen them consider yourself blessed, and come be a Facebook fan anyway.

The album and new shirts can be bought online at F Nice Records website. You can also find free mp3 downloads of Pray For Polanski there as well.

Hope to see you at some of the shows!

--Matt

I am so pissed off at Wordpress.com

In short: F Wordpress.com. The site that only caters to longely bloggers.

The official F Nice Records blog will now be hosted at fnicerecords.blogspot.com because they don't want out money, just our soul. And frankly, I've got a soul to sell.

If you have any links to the F Nice Records blog please update them accordingly. If you do not have any links to the F Nice Records blog then make some.

Well, the next post will come shortly since they can now include more fun stuff.

Bye!