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BY SARAH TOMLINSON
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They’d rather you didn’t call it a reunion, but after a three-year hiatus, local power-pop faves the GRAVEL PIT return Saturday to T.T. the Bear’s Place. In the interim, singer Jed Parish moved to New York and went solo while a few other members got busy in the GENTLEMEN. They have no grand plans for their first local show since 2002 except to play a long, career-spanning set and "to make it through without any major train wrecks," says bassist Ed Valauskas. They’re also opening for Nada Surf next month in New York and hope to record a new album this winter . . . Silver-voiced singer-songwriter SARAH BORGES has landed the lead slot on This Is Americana Vol. 2, a Borders bookstores compilation to raise money for the National Association of Recording Merchandisers’ Scholarship Fund. Borges plays the Boston Music Awards shindig Wednesday at Avalon, where she’s up for three awards including best debut album . . . Psychobilly trio the COFFIN LIDS play Sunday at the Middle East, warming up for a hectic fall: they’ll celebrate the release of their new Round Midnight (Bomp) October 29 at the Abbey Lounge, hit the Buenos Aires Stomp on November 11, then tour more of Argentina and Brazil . . . Alt-rock chanteuse Monique Ortiz, of BOURBON PRINCESS, is working on a collaboration with of all people Mark Karn, the fretless bass wizard of ’80s art-rock/new-wave stylists Japan . . . CONVERGE bassist Nate Newton’s heroic but more rocking side project DOOMRIDERS will contribute a new song and a cover of "Possession" to Not of This World (Level Plane, due November 8), a Danzig-themed split EP with Louisville’s Coliseum. Meanwhile, Converge embark on a two-week Canadian tour this weekend before taking North Shore grindcore maulers the RED CHORD along for an East Coast jaunt in November. Sarah Tomlinson can be reached at stomlins@mindspring.com
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