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  • Show Crush: Foolish Ida / Jaggery / Heather Christian at Cafe 939 tomorrow

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    SHOWS // Friday 5/18/12

    All Asia: Matt Fuller, Figure 8, Pepe Sylvia, And the Traveler, and more

    Armory: Ashley Wells, Mark Lipman

    Atwood's: Tim Gearan

    Brighton Music Hall: Bang Camaro, Sidewalk Driver, The Fagettes

    Bull McCabe's: Jess Tardy Band

    Café 939: Runaway Dorothy, Gus + Scout, Beautiful Small Machines

    Cantab: John Sage's Unnamed Band, The Robot Knights, Rayanne, Terra Sophia

    Church: Potsy, Theory 13, In Dawn, Elsewhere, Nick Cardone

    Club Passim: Tish Hinojosa

    House of Blues: The Maine

    Johnny D's: David Lindley

    Lily Pad: The George Lernis Jazz Quartet, World Fusion Ensemble, Esthema (7pm); Torn Shorts (10pm)

    Lizard Lounge: Club d'ELF

    Middle East Up: Fog Wizard, Up Your Bucket, Chin Strap, Violent Order

    Middle East Down: Maps and Atlases, Zechs Marquise, Sister Crayon

    Midway: Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers, Ten Foot Polecats, Yankee Cockfight

    O'Brien's: Parasitic Extirpation, Summoning Hate, Untombed, Soul Remnants, Forced Asphyxiation

    PA's Lounge: Sonny Vincent and the Bad Reactions, White Pages, Foster Care, Guilty Party, Courters

    The Paradise: The Adicts, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Double Nines

    Plough and Stars: Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons

    Precinct: All Good Feel Good Collective, Big Trees, Endangered Speeches, Dirty Water Brass Band

    Radio: B.A.W.D.

    Rosebud: Counterpoint

    Royale: Milkman

    Sally O'Brien's: Larry Flint and the Road Scholars (6pm) The Derangers, The Electric Heaters, and more (9pm)

    Scullers: John Pizzarelli

    Toad: Tom McBride (8pm); Four Legged Faithful (10pm)

    Tommy Doyle's: Aloud, The Rationales

    TT's: Dirty Water, The USM, Confront, Jason Bennett and the Resistance