“Sometimes someone’s in a band and they say, ‘Hey, we put out two albums and we really like them, but we want to do a new project.’ And sometimes that new project sounds kind of like the old project, but it’s understood why it’s different. Like you have Modest Mouse and Ugly Casanova. Or The Beatles and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass.”
_Ben Sisto on why he’s retiring the arts-and-music rubric Honeypump after four years.
Honeypump’s final show takes place on Thursday, June 8, with GLASS CANDY + CHROMATICS + U.V. PROTECTION + SQUIDS + THE SHOWMAN + video projections from Matt Boch│$8 │18+ │9 pm │Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston │617.734.4502.
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