Looks like it’s gonna be another one of those weekends for the Boot bandits. One of those weekends that reasserts their reputation for binging the bestest cheapest mostest minblowingest independent live rock to Norfolk that completely scorches the staff, taking years off their lives and bringing them close to the danger zone of having been rocked too much for a lifetime. They may be a bit battered and crabby after this, but admire their sacrifice. For the apathetic sins of the 7 cities, they absorb the rock punishment. Amen.

So there’s a show tonight that Allison blogged about here. Read the blog or better yet go to the shoe tonight and maybe just maybe you can ask her what it said there. But wait, there’s more…Saturday night brings another great show. This one is more my speed in that it happens on a night I’m not working and is up to it’s neck in shoegaze. Is there any better place than the “Boot” for “shoe”gaze? Oh my gosh I am LOLing at myself and I didn’t even yoga for it, this shoe is bound to be great! Seriously, they aught to make that a theme and maybe even display some fresh sneakers for it and hire that tapdancing wonder that pops up here and there. So who’s going to be fixating on foot pedals and blasting the Boot with enveloping fuzzy guitar fury? So glad you asked…

Ceremony are a duo from Northern Virginia who both play guitars and drum machines as well as vocalizing. From these few guys with an arsenal that sounds small in a sentence comes a sound that is massive with an intimacy that maybe gets lost in the non-dictatorial big rock bands of today. It is much noisier (and friendlier and coherent) than all of the kids in Broken Social Scene and way more personal than that Polyphonic Spree the experts have warned me about.

Screen Vinyl Image bring an intricate tapestry of low-fi guitar scuzz to beat driven compositions you can dance and/or rock to. They seem to really love Eurohorror and Electro (but then, who doesn’t?) Both acts record for Custom Made Records in VB, so get out there and buy some merch! As if all of this wasn’t enough, they’re bringing pals Averkiou from FL to keep the noise ‘a makin’ and the doins ‘a transpirin’.