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JIM BOGGIA w/ special guests ORANJULY, JOHN BRODEUR, and RYAN SCHMIDT and BAND

Friday 5/14
JIM BOGGIA
and special guests
ORANJULY
John Brodeur
Ryan Schmidt with band
$8 advance / $10 at the door
8:30 doors / 9:30 show
www.myspace.com/jimboggia

Misadventures In Stereo, the third album by widely lauded singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Jim Boggia, is unmistakably the work of a true believer and pop craftsman whoâs closely acquainted with musicâs capacity for transcendent uplift. His songs get the balance right between devastating beauty and sadness, and the big fat joke that is life. Born blind in one eye and with limited vision in the other, Boggia grew up an only child with an acutely developed ear for music. His early fascination for such iconoclastic pop classics as the Kinksâ Village Green Preservation Society, Nilsson Sings Newman and Stevie Wonderâs Innervisons helped to inform an aesthetic sensibility that would push him to create album-length listening âexperiencesâ on his own releases.

Boggia has gained impressive career momentum in a short amount of time. Blackberry selected one of his tracks for a new ad campaign and his songs have also been featured on MTVâs Real World and ABC-TVâs Men In Trees. Heâs developed a loyal grass-roots fan base for his dynamic, improvisational live shows. His work has been embraced by numerous fellow artists and kindred spirits, many of who have lent their talents to Boggiaâs albums. His sophomore release, Safe In Sound (2005, bluhammock music), featured key contributions from such notable admirers as Aimee Mann, Jill Sobule, MC5 guitar hero Wayne Kramer, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas and legendary â70s cult-pop icon Emitt Rhodes.