The Illegal Briefs got signed! It helps if you have a lawyer (Flint Gennessee) as bandleader/saxophonist, though only when it comes to assuring the deal’s for real and not one of those screw-the-newbie specials. We’ve seen the IBs three times now (beyond overhearing several rehearsals at Gennessee’s offices in the old Modern Practice Building, where bandmates Connie Nash and Hoff Eukis also work), and can think of few local bands more deserving of a snatch at the wider-appeal gold ring. In fact, The Illegal Briefs play with another of our personal faves, The Rock Pirates (who are not really called The Rock Pirates), Thursday at Hamilton’s. Sure to be a packed house. If you get jostled, call a lawyer—there’ll be plenty in the house—unless the lawyers are the ones doing the jostling.

Still dark days: cold rain, few signs of spring. Hence: Among the living, Colt Comrades ad Crack in the World making you feel ever colder and creepier at the Bullfinch… The Air Raid Wardens, Bar 20 and Beware of Ladies helping taking the chill off at Hamilton’s… The beguiled, The Big Cats, The Beloved Bachelors and Three Big Show-offs (what’s with all the Bs? And both those Bigs) in another world altogether. A B-movie world, perhaps…