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10/30 Friday

7:00 PM The Ghost Tour featuring: The McMickle Brothers and Bern & the Brights

Part of the vibrant and up-and-coming Montclair, New Jersey music scene, Bern & the Brights and the McMickle Brothers are set to haunt the hollows of New England this Halloween.

Bern & the Brights is an evocative rock group whose driving rhythms and potent lyrics have garnered them national attention. Recently asked to open for Butch Walker at Webster Hall in NYC, the Brights have also shared the stage with acts such as Living Color, Nicole Atkins and Mike Doughty. The play The Lily Pad in Cambridge, MA, their first stop on this October's Ghost Tour with the rising Montclair duo the McMickle Brothers.
With guitar and drums, young brothers Matt and Sam McMickle create rousing, visceral soundscapes. Their timeless garage rock is marked by contagious melodies and raw, energetic vocals that span whispering falsettos to guttural howls.

Bern & the Brights: www.myspace.com/bgroove

McMickle Brothers:www.myspace.com/boquiver

$5

10:00 PM CHROME TONGUES AND STEP BROTHERS

http://www.myspace.com/chrometongues

CHROME TONGUES AND STEP BROTHERS is a newly formed live electronic improvisation group pursuing an at once vintage and futuristic origninal sound. Inspired by the jazz stylings of Sun Ra, electronic beats of groups such as Black Moth Super Rainbow and Prefuse 73, also enlisting the punk spirit of groups like Sonic Youth.
This evening promises to be a well-lit and original experience!