Fur and Gold - Tenderfoot and Basement Jaxx CD Release Party

Bringing together Queers, Music, and Art together for everyone Host Sean Johnson invites you to dance, drink, and have a great time with DJ Brent Covington & DJ Taffy spinning Indie Rock/Pop/Dance, Post-Punk, ’80s, Britpop, Underground, New Wave, Electro, & Euro Hits. A night at the Alley for Art Fags, Hipsters, Geeks, the Music Obsessed and all. Exploring the alternative side of the Boston Gay Nightlife scene with a new twist for a new generation. Enjoy Visual Entertainment (Music videos, Artist Works), and Cheap Drinks. Bring your friends and spread the word. 21+ 10pm – 2am $$No Cover$$ Basement Jaxx Basement Jaxx are on top of the world. It’s a view these inveterate musical explorers have long embraced, ever since minting, at the turn of the millennium, the currently voguish, airwave-dominating pop-house sound. But as they prepare to release their earth-shaking, hip-shaking new album, that view is taking on added meaning. From Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton’s new studio in north London – in a business-y space that’s now the biggest music hub in the city – they can see the transformation of Kings Cross down below. They can hear it too: the clank and whirr of hard-hatted workers toiling to transform these acres of onetime railway yards into a new travel hub, new town-within-a-city, new gateway to Europe. Right now, there’s no place they’d rather be and, unlike their last studio, near Brixton, this one has windows. Let there be light, and tunes that hark back to the jump-around, era-defining likes of Where’s Your Head At, Red Alert and Romeo. Junto is the duo’s seventh studio album. Two years in the making, it’s the first since they set out on their own after the completion of their decade-plus contract with XL. Now they’re working with Coop/PIAS to release via their own long-running imprint Atlantic Jaxx. So it’s the sound of freedom (not that XL kept them chained in a cellar + made them churn out sweatshop singalongs). And it’s the sound of ambition (not that the Glastonbury-headlining, three-million-album-selling, Brit- and Grammy-winning maestros of global dancetronica have ever lacked ambition). And it’s the sound of Simon and Felix diving back into sunshine and the spotlight (not that they’ve been wintering in idleness and obscurity – they’ve written two film scores, produced an orchestral album and last year they released two singles, “just to dip our toes in the water”. They’re not on the new album. Basement Jaxx, blessed with collaborators and ideas, had too many other crackers competing for slots on the tracklisting). The spirit of the album is there in the title. Junto means together in Spanish. It’s definitely not to be confused Tenderfoot Tenderfoot is the folk project of Seattle-based artist Adam Boehmer. With an unabashedly romantic, lyrics-driven approach to songwriting, Adam excavates past relationships, growing up queer in the South, and living in the constant tension between city life and the yearning for a natural spiritualism. “Heart-shaped folk…” Emily Nokes, The Stranger “Adam Boehmer croons with heart-swollen vigor…” Jonathan Zwickel, CityArts Magazine “Atmospheric storytelling…” Sean M. Johnson, The Grateful Grapefruit