Here at TeaParty Boston, we’ve made it our mission to showcase only the best local music that Boston has to offer. When we were planning our weekly residency project at the Lizard Lounge this past winter, we had a lot of bands to choose from, but only a handful were selected. Viva Viva definitely made the cut.

The Wet Bandits are DJ Durkin and Evaredy. While they were both booking steady gigs on their own, the two turntablists decided to up the ante with a collaboration when they experienced a fateful “mind meld,” leading to their informal debut as a duo during the groundbreaking Together Festival.

Photography by Catie-Rae
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Coming up next month…
“Do you enjoy partying until the “breaka breaka dawn”? Do you enjoy being in a sweaty room surrounded by stud muffins and beautiful dames? Do you want to hear jams from Judas Priest and Chromeo in the same night? If you said “yes” to any of these questions, you need [...]

They may be married, but George Michael Jackson and Merica Lee are not exactly Mates of State.

Full disclosure: TeaParty really loves Southern Belle. It’s probably no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. After their entrancing performance at our Haiti earthquake relief benefit, we signed on to help out with their Broke After VDay show at Middlesex Lounge earlier this month and invited them to play alongside another TPB favorite, Mystery Roar, for the final installment of our TeaRoom Tuesdays concert series at the Lizard Lounge. We finally got a chance to talk with frontman, multi-instrumentalist and producer Isom Innis about the group’s history, and promising future.

Local electro badasses Bodega Girls have gained a following ’round these parts for their monthly Lo-Fi Hedonistic Dance Parties at the Middlesex Lounge. On the last Wednesday of each month, the ‘Girls present writhing clubgoers with a full-on multimedia assault which often includes, but is not limited to: decidedly NSFW video (or, inexplicably, Barbarella), digital beats, ukulele, signature cocktails (Coke Classic + red wine anyone?) and male toplessness. In short, it’s the real life manifestation of their mantra…

We hope you got to usher out the Oughts with a bang, but that was, like, a whole week ago. No one cares what you did in 2009, man. It’s 2010. Clean up the empty Champagne (of Beers) bottles and scrape the confetti off the soles of your party shoes– you’ve got a whole new decade to debauch.

Is 2009 over already? Seems like just last week it was Christmas… Anyways, we’re sure that most people have a pretty good idea about what they’ll be doing this Thursday night, but we’d also be willing to bet that a lot of you still have no idea. At all.