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boston area shows of note:
monday, october 6th
catfish haven
dead confederate
mean creek
the motion sick
@ tt the bears
monday, october 6th
the wedding present
the jealous girlfriends
@ the middle east downstairs
monday, october 6th
fleet foxes
frank fairfield
@ the somerville theatre
monday, october 6th
stereolab
le loup
monade
@ the paradise
tuesday, october 7th
liam finn
the veils
@ the paradise
wednesday, october 8th
lucinda williams
@ the orpheum
wednesday, october 8th
the opening night of
carrie fisher's one woman show
'wishful drinking'
@ the huntington theater (bu)
wednesday, october 8th
allison moyet
@ the wilbur theatre
wednesday, october 8th
wire
@ the middle east downstairs
thursday, october 9th
chuck ragan (of hot water music)
ben nichols (of lucero)
tim barry (of avail)
with guest jesse malin
@ the middle east
friday, october 10th
kirsten a. malone scholarship fundraiser
ho-ag
bone zone
tinsel teeth
cathy cathodic
@ the milky way
friday, october 10th
writer sarah vowell
7pm @ brookline booksmith
saturday, october 11th
the new year
dirty on purpose
tre orsi
@ the middle east upstairs
saturday, october 11th
les savy fav
passion pit
phil and the osophers
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, october 11th
the feelies
@ the roxy
sunday, october 12th
the residents
@ showcase live, foxboro
sunday, october 12th
the notwist
@ the roxy
sunday, october 12th
jamie lidell
janelle monae
@ the paradise
sunday, october 12th
against me!
ted leo & the pharmacists
the future of the left
@ the wilbur theatre
monday, october 13th
tv on the radio
the dirtbombs
@ the wilbur theatre
tuesday, october 14th
cold war kids
@ the paradise
thursday, october 16th TOURFILTER DJ NIGHT with dj's chris tourfilter and bradley almanac featuring only songs by bands playing soon in the boston area 9pm @ river gods, cambridge
thursday, october 16th
ben kweller
whitley
@ the paradise
thursday, october 16th
jonatha brooke
glen phillips
(from toad the wet sprocket)
@ the wilbur theatre
friday, october 17th
hallelujah the hills
wonderful spells
capstan shafts
needy visions
@ tt the bears
friday, october 17th
jonathan richman
with drummer tommy larkin
@ the somerville theatre
saturday, october 18th
asobi seksu
the broken river prophet
@ tt the bears
saturday, october 18th
ra ra riot
walter meego
the morning benders
@ the middle east
sunday, october 19th
the spinto band
frightened rabbit
@ the middle east
monday, october 20th
magnetic morning
(adam swervedriver & sam interpol)
julie ocean
springhouse (w/jack rabid)
@ great scott
tuesday, october 21st
annuals
live in-store performance
7pm @ newbury comics, newbury st.
tuesday, october 21st
minus the bear
annuals
sylvie
@ the wilbur theatre
tuesday & wednesday
october 21st & 22nd
billy bragg
@ the somerville theatre
wednesday, october 22nd
writer/expert john hodgman
6pm @ the coolidge corner theatre
wednesday, october 22nd
yeasayer
@ the paradise
wednesday, october 22nd
lyle lovett & john hiatt
(acoustic, on stage together)
@ the orpheum
thursday, october 23rd
robert fisher
(of willard grant conspiracy)
chris brokaw
drew o'doherty
@ the lily pad
thursday, october 23rd
lykke li
@ the paradise
thursday, october 23rd
deerhoof
experimental dental school
@ the middle east down
friday, october 24th
fujiya & miyagi
prototypes
@ the paradise
sunday, october 26th
scars on broadway
the duke spirit
@ the paradise
sunday, october 26th
broken social scene
land of talk
@ the wilbur theatre
monday, october 27th
matthew sweet
@ the paradise
wednesday, october 29th
legendary pink dots
@ the middle east down
thursday, october 30th
of montreal
@ the orpheum
friday, october 31st
hotel cafe tour
with rachael yamagata, meiko,
thao nguyen, samanatha crain,
and jenny owen youngs
@ the paradise
friday, october 31st
the rumble strips
birdmonster
@ tt the bears
friday, october 31st
david byrne
performing the songs of byrne & eno
@ the wang center
saturday, november 1st
henry rollins (spoken word)
@ the orpheum
monday, november 3rd
matt and kim
best fwends
@ the middle east
monday, november 3rd
coldplay
@ the td banknorth garden
wednesday, november 5th
conor oberst +
the mystic valley band
@ the roxy
thursday, november 6th
the decemberists
loche lamond
@ the orpheum
friday, november 7th
"my name is bruce"
area theatrical premiere
with director/star bruce campbell
@ the kendall square cinema
sunday, november 9th
the hold steady
drive-by truckers
@ the orpheum
tuesday, november 11th
deerhunter
times new viking
the vivian girls
@ the paradise
wednesday, november 12th
the sea and cake
@ the middle east down
wednesday, november 12th
kings of leon
we are scientists
the whigs
@ the orpheum
thursday, november 13th
nicole atkins & the sea
salt & samovar
@ tt the bears
friday & saturday
november 14th & 15th
smashing pumpkins
@ the citi wang theatre
saturday, november 15th
scarce (cd release!)
wheat
triplethick
@ tt the bears
sunday, november 16th
centro-matic
@ the middle east
monday, november 17th
margot & the nuclear so and so's
@ tt the bears
tuesday, november 18th
m83
school of seven bells
@ the middle east down
thursday, november 20th
bishop allen
@ the middle east
friday, november 21st
robyn hitchcock
performing 'i often dream of trains'
@ the somerville theatre
saturday, november 22nd
sondre lerche
@ the paradise
sunday, november 30th
18th dye
devon williams
@ tt the bears
tuesday, december 2nd
nada surf
delta spirit
jealous girlfriends
@ the paradise
friday, december 5th
mercury rev
dean & britta
@ the paradise
saturday, december 13th
neil young
wilco
everest
@ the dcu center, worcester
sunday, december 14th
bon iver
@ the wilbur theatre
monday, january 5th, 2009
glasvegas
rails to russia
@ great scott
sunday, january 18th
frightened rabbit
@ great scott
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Thursday, July 31, 2003
The First Boston Flash Mob : Ode to Bill
That rumbling you hear is the stampeding of dozens of bloggers back to their computers to share details of this evening's first Boston Flash Mob.
Ok, technically, it was in Cambridge. Harvard Square to be exact. The masses descended on their assigned locations, picked up their instructions, and headed over to a store called the Harvard Coop at around 7pm.
If mob success is measured in sheer numbers of mobsters, it went well. If it's measured in subtlety, or how well people followed directions ... not so well. The media attention garnered in the past week was both good and bad... it blew much of the surprise, but it brought what I think ended up being a much wider variety of attendees, and a whole new aspect to the mob experience. I was glad to see a mother and daughter waiting at the Border Cafe to pick up their instructions. While the majority of the crowd was probably 20-30 something hipster-types, it certainly wasn't exclusively so.
What the attention also brought was a whole lotta cops. Seriously. Count 'em...
Walking cops, bicycle cops, motorcycle cops, cops in cruisers, cops in unmarked cars, even an ambulance. And then there were the reporters. TV reporters, print reporters, cameramen. There were reporters talking to the police. There were reporters on TV talking about the police. There was even a helicopter in the sky waiting in vain for footage (not only were they an hour too early, but the thing was happening indoors. Oops.) Everyone was all worked up for this 'hot new fad', which may have been officially dead the moment it hit the Yahoo front page headlines a couple days ago.
But one Boston mob needed to be attempted, and so it was. As interesting as it was to have that many people crammed into the greeting card section of the Coop, it was more a noisy gawkathon than mysterious occurance. The crowd was supposed to remain "eerily quiet", and didn't even come close until someone shushed 'em near the end of the 8 minute greeting card search. People were also instructed to wait quietly a few minutes before pulling out the cameras. Apparently no one read that part, or thought they were exempt. Go figure. It was an out and out flash-fest. Sometimes it looked like the picture takers outnumbered the subjects. There will be no lack of documentation of this Mob.
The only thing the crowd did do 'right' was stick to the story. Every person that I overheard answer a reporter's question of "Why are you here?" responded the same... "Just looking for a card." "For who?" "For my friend Bill" "Where's Bill from?" "New York". I asked the confused sales clerk at the counter "What's the deal with all the people, anyway?" His explanation? "I dunno... some Channel 4 thing." "All I wanted to do was pick up a card." "Well, good luck with that," he said. Then, of course, somebody jumps in and starts tellin' the guy "Oh, actually, this is a new thing called a Flash Mob, where random people get together and... blah blah blah." Yeesh.
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on the mp3 player
on the screen
on the nightstand
- mignola, arcudi, & davis | bprd: the killing ground
- diggle & manco | hellblazer: joy ride tpb
- brian wood | northlanders #5
- mignola & golden | baltimore
- brubaker & epting | captain america tpbs
- gillen & mckelvie | phonogram: rue britannia
- armin a. brott | the new father
other boston-area music blogs
- anti-gravity bunny
- the ash gray proclamation
- aurgasm
- band in boston
- beginning to see the light
- clicky clicky
- drive blind
- enough cowbell
- exitfare
- forgotten disc friday
- the giant panther
- hip to be square
- los amigos de durutti
- mel.opho.be
- morkelson
- new artillery
- onward charles
- pocket|trax
- ryan's smashing life
- under 21 in boston
- under the rotunda
- zed equals zee
boston music media
boston live show info
music blogroll
- between thought & expression
- brainwashed
- brooklyn vegan
- captain's dead
- the catbirdseat
- cerulean's love of music
- chromewaves
- coolfer
- comets, stars, & moons
- donewaiting
- ear farm
- excellent online
- extrawack!
- fluxblog
- for the records
- gorilla vs. bear
- hard to find a friend
- harmonium
- heartache with hard work
- the hype machine
- i am fuel, you are friends
- idolator
- i guess i'm floating
- ijamming
- information leafblower
- junkmedia's world of sound
- kingblind
- lacunae
- largehearted boy
- the late greats
- leaky sparrow
- little hits
- more cowbell
- music for robots
- muzzle of bees
- my old kentucky blog
- pitchfork
- quick before it melts
- said the gramophone
- scenestars
- shake your fist
- sixeyes
- skatterbrain
- song, by toad
- the sound of indie
- stereogum
- too much rock
- the rawking refuses to stop
- too much rock
- unfinished
- yeti don't dance
music audiocasts
surf-worthy
- amie's flickr page
- andi's nonsequiturs
- bitter-girl
- brian wood
- bridget's journal
- ckelly's ink
- the dead part of you
- falfa's milk
- the great leap forward
- heath's media diet
- hedgehog's dilemma
- the icebox journals
- jim's flickr page
- jen's jenville
- jen's blossom
- joe sizzle's
- kimprobable
- march to the sea's musings
- marm0t's livejournal
- mickipedia!
- miller's memorables
- mishie's tear
- off on a tangent
- rsl's ostracons
- the shy turnip
- sooz's dot com
- steve's f.r.h.m.
frequent haunts
boston-centric
- boston.com
- boston phoenix
- boston online
- boston common
- boston blogs
- craigslist boston
- exploit boston!
- boston wireless
- surfacecity's boston
- tourfilter
- the middle east cafe
- tt the bears place
- the plan @ great scott's
- wmbr concert report
- wzbc concert report
- phoenix movie listings
- coolidge corner theater
- brattle theater
- red sox / dirt dogs
- sox: surviving grady
- patriots / go pats
- celtics
- mass pike traffic
( < | > random list )
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