The Illegal Briefs are in a brouhaha. They signed a label deal just a short while ago, and turned their demos into professionally mastered album tracks in, ahem, record time. Now the label wants them to tour, and two of them can’t take time off from their day jobs. Or perhaps just don’t want to. “This started in such a casual way, we’ve having trouble formalizing it,” says bassist (and occasional keyboardist) Connie Nash. “Part of us doesn’t want to.” Going on tour isn’t a deal-breaker for the record deal, the group’s legal-eagle saxophonist Flint Gennessee tells us, but it helps for bands to be accommodating. Strangely, the hardworking lawyer isn’t one of the ones who’s unable to pull up stakes for a few weeks and head westward one club at a time. “I take long vacations every year,” he argues. “Most of them are about recovering from work. This would be the most forward-motion vacation I could ever have.” You know you’ll be hearing more about this. First, however, you’ll probably get to be hearing the debut Illegal Briefs single and album, due out mere weeks from now.

The college on the hill plays its rival valley this weekend, and the crowds are already going wild. Some big britches have been booked into area venues to boost tourism: Dollaire’s just added Forty Rifles for Thursday,  and already announced Young Marauders Friday and Winner Lose all Saturday.. The Bullfinch is actually closed for a private party on game day, but has the incredible My Son My Son on Friday… Not to be outdone by My Son, Hamilton’s checks in with Night of the Wolf and the Murdered Party….