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When did the Lemonheads write a song called “Big Gay Heart” and why was this Bostonist never informed? Hearing Evan Dando sing “I don't need you to suck my dick or to help me feel good about myself” to thousands of families lounging along the Charles at EarthFest last Saturday gave us the same awkward trying-to-crawl-out-of-my-skin feeling that most Ben Stiller films evoke. Luckily for the families, most of them were hardly paying attention. On the packed Hatch shell lawn, just upwards of sixty people stood near guardrail, actually watching the band.

--Multimedia artist and musician Brian Dewan will join Bostonist faves Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, and S. Joe Hazelwood at Church. Of course, the Broken Toys are promising frilly panties and corsets. 69 Kilmarnock Street, 9:00 pm.

Berklee and Essence have teamed up again this year to bring the best young talent out to compete in the Hip Hop Songwriting Contest. If you are, or know, an eligible teen (unsigned and between 15 and 18) the time is nigh. Deadline for submission is March 9. It's all for a good cause, helping to balance the message in hip hop music and giving young songwriters a stage and training, not to mention...