There are few times when hollering “I love patriarchy” is wholly appropriate, and one of those rare occasions comes tonight (October 31) while pressed up against sweaty, sexy strangers experiencing Patriarchy at The Midway Café in Jamaica Plain. Yeah, you could see yet another screening of some classic T&A horror flick this Halloween, or you could drink in a lascivious goth-pop band that’s fronted by NSFW filmmaker Actually Huizenga in the flesh.
“I’m here to help you out / Out your clothes,” she offers on “Good Boy,” lead single for Patriarchy’s August record The Unself, a trampy, vampy, kinky-but-make-it-campy dissection of what Huizenga refers to as a “chaotic semi-relationship.” First the album numbs the pace between pain and pleasure; then it folds seductive synths into come-hither lyricism that goes from “I didn’t mean to bite you” (“Heat Lamps”) to “it’s time to feed off your host” (“Suffer”) real quick. The music fits as snug as latex, and shines like it, too; if The Unself could beg for you to step on its neck in 10-inch platforms, it would.
“I might bewitch some people à la Hocus Pocus,” she warns Vanyaland about tonight’s Halloween show, before disclosing she and the rest of the Los Angeles trio are staying in Salem tonight. “Someone please call SJP [Sarah Jessica Parker].”
Dial Die With Your Boots On for a new bat harness while you’re at it.
PATRIARCHY + WILD VELVET + RAWSTRUM + CHOKE CHAIN :: Monday, October 31 at The Midway Cafe, 3496 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA :: 7:30 p.m., 21-plus, $10 cover
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