Taliban Law, an exchange-student three-piece, observed 45 minutes of silence at the Bullfinch last Wednesday afternoon. It was a political statement, obviously, about cultures that fear the arts.

Thing about silence, however, is that folks invariably fill it. It was Happy Hour, and it wasn’t more than three minutes after the opening announcement of the silent set that the crowd was back to their conversational ways.

Now the one-off band—a project in Provocative Performance at the college on the hill—has become a two-off band, modifying their statement for a show in the English Department Lab 12 later this week. Instead of cutting music out of the conversation this time, TL will turn the conversation into music. The “band” plans to conduct the audience in a “rhythmic verbal symphony.” If that works, they’ll bring the whole experiment back to the Bullfinch in springtime.

Tonight: Majestic Mosaics, Propark and My Unused Greek Book at the Bullfinch… Philippe Count of Darkness, whom you usually don’t see except in October (and never in daylight)

makes winter scary at Hamilton’s. His backing band includes members of the cover-savvy Beverage Boss… An Evening with The Story Needs (tenth anniversary full-album rendition of Bud the Untalented) at D’ollaire’s. We know this matters to many people, yet we don’t know why…