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BY SARAH TOMLINSON
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Former TURKISH DELIGHT and BETWIXT frontwoman LEAH CALLAHAN has been exploring musical theater with a vaudeville cabaret act and her two-year-old Illegitimate Theatre Company, but she’s getting back to her post-punk roots with a new band, the GLASS SET. The group kick off a month-long Tuesday-night residency at the Abbey November 8 to celebrate the release of their debut CD, and Callahan is promising eccentric entertainment each night. Although the band have existed for only two months, many of the songs are taken from a rock opera Callahan recorded earlier this year at Richard Marr’s Galaxy Park Studios with members of CODETTA and LADY OF SPAIN. She says she was aiming for "Antonin Artaud meets the Slits" but ended up with something heavier and more unsettling . . . The Kuland Brothers, Nicky and David, are well known in these parts from their bands Honeyglazed and David James Motorcycle. Now living in NYC, they’ll bring their latest group, the SOFT EXPLOSIONS, to the Abbey this Saturday behind a new EP, Ride Between the Eyes. Drummer Nicky has been in remission for three years from the leukemia that struck him while he was living in Boston; frontman David says his brother "is strong and healthy, bedding girls from Brooklyn to the Bronx." The EP was recorded by Paul Kolderie and their single, "Sister Come On," was done with Claudius Mittendorfer, who has Franz Ferdinand and Mars Volta on his résumé. "The manic is manic as fuck," says David, "and the lonely you can slit your wrists to." . . . The EXPLOSION have parted ways with long-time manager Rama Mayo and are now working with Steve Davis, who also manages Less Than Jake and Giant Drag. The band are writing a new album to be recorded in early 2006. Mayo will continue to run the Explosion’s indie label, which has releases by Darker My Love, the Faux, and the Spitzz, among others. "We want Tarantulas to keep going," says Explosion bassist Damian Genuardi . . . A generation of Allstonians knows 158 Harvard Avenue as the upscale Wonder Bar, but in the ’80s and early ’90s it was home to Bunratty’s, an infamously gritty hub of Boston’s rock heritage. Some of the staff and regulars are throwing a "reunion" show Sunday at the Paradise that’ll include performances by the DRIVE, LIZZIE BORDEN & THE AXES, GIRL ON TOP, and RICK BERLIN. "The initial concept and number-one reason was to reunite people from a special time in the Boston music scene," says former Bunratty’s manager David Giammatteo, but proceeds will benefit the Jimmy Fund as well as the Abel Harris Fund, which is named for a Bunratty’s doorperson who was shot and killed in 1987. Sarah Tomlinson can be reached at stomlins@mindspring.com
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