PREVIEW: Protomartyr – Middle East Upstairs

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For those of us with Indigenous Peoples’ Day off, Tuesday is our Monday, but that doesn’t mean it has to suck. Thanks to Boston Hassle homies, we have a Tuesday night fit for a kickstart to the week with Protomartyr, Growwing Pains, and The Channels at Middle East Upstairs.

The Channels provide the local support to start the evening. We put them on our most recent mixtape, because they’re a band you should be following. Their chaotic noise mixed with pop melodies creates an interesting dynamic and epitomizes the Boston music scene.

Growwing Pains come to us from Detroit whose rock city history is flourishing again with recent younger bands like Growwing Pains and Prude Boys and continues with hardworking, album-churning Protomartyr itself. Their newest EP, I Always Know, is fun and jangly at times with garage vibes to soothe the opener anxiety of Protomartyr fans.

Protomartyr is fresh off the release of their third album, The Agent Intellect and ready to take it on tour. I think we’re ready for them too, because this album is smooth like a damn fine cup of coffee. It’s hard not to jump around in place while listening to the dancey grooves and comforting, rough voice from Joe Casey we’ve grown to love over the last few years.

Protomartyr with Growwing Pains and The Channels
Presented by Boston Hassle
Middle East Upstairs
472-480 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
8pm doors | 18+ | $12 | FB event