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saturday, march 13th

butch walker & the black widows

will dailey

@ the paradise

sunday, march 14th

a special screening of the

white stripes tour documentary

"under the great white northern lights"

free admission / prize pack drawing

10pm @ the otherside cafe

sunday, march 14th

carbon leaf

@ the paradise

monday, march 15th

one happy island

standard fare

summer cats

@ great scott

monday, march 15th

letting up despite great faults

the brother kite

plumerai

singing bridges

@ the middle east upstairs

tuesday, march 16th

bacchus king

croquet

cathy cathodic

the ugly fucklings

@ the middle east upstairs

wednesday, march 17th

joanna newsom

@ the sanders theatre, harvard

wednesday, march 17th

henry rollins (spoken word)

@ the somerville theatre

thursday, march 18th

apollo sunshine

drug rug

@ the paradise

friday, march 19th

i, pistol

mascara

planetoid

forgetful jones

@ tt the bears

saturday, march 20th

the whitehaus family blastfest

needy visions, manners,

morgan shaker, avi jacob,

and many more

@ cambridge ymca theatre

saturday, march 20th

air

@ berklee performance center

sunday, march 21st

the clientele

field music

@ great scott

thursday, march 25th

"thursday night alright!" with

the beatings

aloud

action camp

hello ninja

@ great scott

thursday, march 25th

the donnas

@ the paradise

friday, march 26th

eldridge rodriguez (the beatings)

ryan lee crosby

ted billings (age rings/hot protestants)

@ the somerville armory

friday, march 26th

basia bulat

marissa nadler

lady lamb the beekeeper

@ tt the bears

saturday, march 27th

your say party! we say die!

the new collisions

static of the gods (cd release)

@ tt the bears

saturday, march 27th

the big pink

a place to bury strangers

magic magic

@ the paradise

saturday, march 27th

spoon

deerhunter

@ the house of blues

sunday, march 28th

beach house

bachelorette

@ the paradise

monday, march 29th

the soft pack

nodzzz

beaters

@ great scott

tuesday, march 30th

shearwater

wye oak

hospital ships

@ tt the bears

tuesday, march 30th

manchester orchestra

the features

biffy clyro

o'brother

@ the paradise

wednesday, march 31st

japandroids

love is all

girlfriends

@ the middle east downstairs

wednesday, march 31st

miike snow

delorean

@ the paradise

wednesday, march 31st

a sunny day in glasgow

pants yell!

bearstronaut

@ great scott

thursday, april 1st

girls

dum dum girls

@ the paradise

friday, april 2nd

the xx

jj (late show only)

two shows @ the paradise

friday, april 2nd

drive-by truckers

lucero

langhorne slim

@ the house of blues

saturday, april 3rd

cassavettes

the grownup noise

kingsley flood (cd release)

spouse

@ the middle east upstairs

saturday, april 3rd

black rebel motorcycle club

alberta cross

@ the house of blues

saturday, april 3rd

nada surf

dawn landes & the hounds

@ the paradise

sunday, april 4th

serena maneesh

depreciation guild

black fortress of opium

@ tt the bears

tuesday, april 6th

wilco

@ the orpheum

tuesday, april 6th

ben fold & a piano

kate miller-heidke

@ the house of blues

wednesday, april 7th

florence & the machine

@ the paradise

wednesday, april 7th

rocky votolato

brooke waggoner

@ great scott

thursday, april 8th

faces on film

hands & knees

st. claire (cd release!)

mr. sister

@ tt the bears

thursday, april 8th

thom yorke + atoms for peace

flying lotus

@ the citi/wang theatre

friday, april 9th

midlake

@ the paradise

saturday, april 10th

xiu xiu

tune-yards

@ the middle east downstairs

saturday, april 10th

ted leo & the pharmacists

obits

screaming females

@ the paradise

saturday, april 10th

pissed jeans

confines

sqrm

@ great scott

sunday, april 11th

fanfarlo

lawrence arabia

robert francis

@ the paradise

monday, april 12th

the wedding present

play their 1989 lp 'bizarro'

with openers girl in a coma

@ the middle east downstairs

monday, april 12th

titus andronicus

the babies

@ great scott

thursday, april 15th

jakob dylan with guests

neko case + kelly hogan

@ the wilbur theatre

thursday, april 15th

red sparowes

doomriders

@ the middle east downstairs

friday, april 16th

have nots (vinyl release!)

the appreciation post

razors in the night

wicked whiskey

the swaggerin growlers

@ tt the bears

saturday, april 17th

kaki king

an horse

@ the middle east downstairs

saturday, april 17th

the morning benders

miniature tigers

@ tt the bears

sunday, april 18th

heavy trash (w/jon spencer)

the konks

the cobra-matics

@ tt the bears

sunday, april 18th

the thermals

past lives

@ the middle east downstairs

monday, april 19th

trans am

@ the middle east downstairs

tuesday, april 20th

owen pallett (aka final fantasy)

@ the ica boston

tuesday, april 20th

elvis costello & the sugarcanes

@ the orpheum

tuesday, april 20th

the low anthem

timber timbre

@ the paradise

tuesday, april 20th

quasi

let's wrestle

@ the middle east downstairs

wednesday, april 21st

the church

special 30th anniversary

acoustic career retrospective

@ the somerville armory

wednesday, april 21st through

wednesday, april 28th

the 8th annual independent

film festival of boston

@ various boston area theatres

including the somerville + brattle

thursday, april 22nd

the mary onettes

@ great scott

saturday, april 24th

los campesinos!

here we go magic

@ the paradise

sunday, april 25th

harlem

@ the great scott

monday, april 26th

echo + the bunneymen

hatcham social

@ the paradise

wednesday, april 28th

gogol bordello

devotchka

jesse malin

st. mark's social

@ the house of blues

thursday, april 29th

frightened rabbit

@ the paradise

friday, april 30th

the everyday visuals

the lights out

the flying machines

aloud

@ tt the bears

friday, april 30th

corinne bailey ray

@ the house of blues

friday, april 30th

the album leaf

sea wolf

@ the paradise

wednesday, april 28th

little boots

dragonette

fan death

@ the middle east downstairs

saturday, may 1st

white rabbits

here we go magic

@ the paradise

monday, may 3rd

yeasayer

sleigh bells

@ the paradise

tuesday, may 4th

gregory & the hawk

lady lamb the beekeeper

@ tt the bears

tuesday & wednesday

may 4th & 5th

public image ltd.

@ the royale (formerly the roxy)

wednesday & thursday

may 5th & 6th

jonsi (from sigur ros)

@ the house of blues

thursday, may 6th

shout out louds

@ the paradise

friday, may 7th

ok go

earl greyhound

robert francis

@ the paradise

saturday, may 8th

local natives

@ great scott

tuesday & wednesday

may 11th & 12th

dr. dog

deer tick

@ the paradise

thursday, may 13th

small brown bike

bridge and tunnel

your skull my closet

wallcreeper

@ great scott

saturday, may 22nd

killing joke

@ the paradise

tuesday, may 18th

spectrum (featuring sonic boom

from spacemen 3 + e.a.r.)

with the broken river prophet

@ the middle east upstairs

tuesday, may 25th

the smittens

allo darlin'

one happy island

hearts!attack

a smile and a ribbon

horowitz

@ the lizard lounge

wednesday, may 26th

reverend horton heat

cracker

miss derringer

@ the house of blues

friday, may 28th

mono

the twilight sad

@ the middle east downstairs

wednesday, june 2nd

kings of convenience

franklin for short

@ the paradise

wednesday, june 2nd

ryan bingham & the dead horses

@ tt the bears

wednesday & thursday

june 2nd & 3rd

the national

@ the house of blues

friday, june 4th

brian jonestown massacre

@ the paradise

friday, june 18th

reigning sound

movers & shakers

triplethick

@ tt the bears

saturday, june 19th

james taylor

carole king

@ the garden

sunday + monday

june 20th + 21st

isis

melvins

totimoshi

@ the paradise

thursday + saturday

august 19th + 21st

tom petty + the heartbreakers

my morning jacket

@ the comcast center

visit tourfilter for more shows

An indian summer sky shines brightly, a perfect weather week continues here in Boston. "Don't you just love the sun, doesn't it make you feel good all over?" Yes, Mr. Bazan, it surely does.

Warning: this post is all over the subject-matter map...

Time to set the TiVo: Interpol will be appearing on the Tonight Show next week, Friday, October 1st. Rilo Kiley visits Conan O'Brien the following Wednesday, October 6th.

Everyone's talking about the long-awaited Star Wars DVD release, it seems, and I can't help but acknowledge it in some way. Strange how such a massive part of my childhood evokes so little nostalgic love from me, thanks to the passage of time and a couple of super-weak prequels (weak-quels?). That said, I feel compelled to buy the new box set, if only for the supposedly ace documentary included on the fourth disc. I've seen the three films so many times that I hardly feel the need to see how Lucas has messed with them (sorry, 'fixed' them), but it would be nice to replace of the old videotapes.

Actually, I may watch them again just to see these much-needed changes. "Oh, stewardess? I speak Jedi."

Fellow Wes Anderson worshippers are counting down the days until The Life Aquatic hits the theaters. Kill a tiny bit of that time by watching the original 13 minute short film that his first movie, Bottle Rocket, sprang from. I knew it existed, and it's nice to finally find it online.

For all you budding RSS Feed addicts (and if you aren't, you should be), here's another one to add to your pull list: The snarky snobsters over at Pitchfork have oddly missed the xml train, so another reader pulled together his own Pitchfork RSS Feeds, one for news, another for reviews. Consider them subscribed.

It's kinda nice when the hype rings so true. I'm entirely blown away by The Arcade Fire's "Funeral" disc. The sucker is firmly stuck in my head after just a couple days in the player, and I just discovered they're playing the semi-small TT the Bears in November, and with the Hidden Cameras, no less. I'll be racing the hype over to TT's tonight for a couple tickets.

Boston-based author Robert B. Parker releases his latest hardcover detective story today, this one titled "Melancholy Baby". It's a Sunny Randall novel, one of three starring characters he rotates between books, the others being Boston detective Spenser and Paradise police chief Jesse Stone.

His last Jesse Stone book, Stone Cold, grabbed me more than his others have in years, so I'm hoping this one does the same. His books are relatively light reading, usually just a couple of days to blow through... but that's because I can't seem to put them down once I get going.

To promote this new one, he'll head out on a signing tour tomorrow, and it kicks off right across the street from where I work. Tomorrow, Friday the 24th, he'll be at Barnes & Noble in the Prudential Center, Boston. For more signing tour dates, check here.

Brian Michael Bendis is a freak. How one man writes so many comic books, and writes them all so well, is a complete mystery to me. The guy's output is so consistently high-caliber (on Daredevil, Powers, Ultimate Spider-Man, and more) that he must be on some kind of storytelling-steroids.

Here's a mini-biography of the man from the New York Times, written and drawn by Bendis himself (thanks, chromewaves). I highly recommend picking up my favorite of all his works, the four Alias collections.

Another mention of Green Magnet School. You already know they're reuniting for a Boston show on October 7th, right? And you already know that I just shared up their 1992 live set from the Sub Pop Vermonstress Fest, right?

But didja know there's an Anime video for the song "Windshield"? Well, neither did I. It's by Tom "the Fish" Guttadauro of Studio Three Lonely Kaiju, who's also one half of the local electronic duo Client/Server. Neato.

Do you get warm, retro-style feelings when you see the word "Pong". Does it bring ya back? Well, then you've gotta see this. Some crazy German built a two-player Pong machine. A physical Pong machine, no computer involved. I know, it makes no sense until you see the video. (thanks jason)

So, writer/director Chris Weitz (About a Boy, American Pie, played 'Chuck' in Chuck & Buck) has been chosen to helm the first of New Line's movie adaptations of Philip Pullman's much-revered His Dark Materials trilogy. (Haven't read them? Fix that.)

On first hearing this news, I was a bit unnerved, but now that I've read this lengthy interview with Weitz about his well-considered plans, I'm pretty dang excited. He claims the books "changed his life", and seems ready to devote himself fully to what's ahead, preserving not just the important parts of the books (he refused to condense the story into less than three films), but more importantly the messages behind them. He's met with Pullman, traveled to the Artic, scouted out London-area academies... he's all over it. Can't wait to hear casting news.

(In case you missed it, I posted a bit about the His Dark Materials London stage play back in March.)

Boston area film-fans listen up: ING Direct is hosting two free screenings of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, one on Friday, October 1st, 7PM at the Boston Common theater, the other at Millennium Park in West Roxbury at 7pm on Saturday, October 2. Not only is the movie free, but free popcorn and soda will be served. There's no need to RSVP, and you don't have to be an ING Direct customer to attend. You may, however, be required to turn on your heartlight. (sorry)

I have a special place in my heart for The Last Starfighter, the 1984 story of trailer-park videogamer turned reluctant space-pilot Alex Rogan, his crush-worthy girlfriend Mags, and jovial alien recruiter Centauri. So I was laughin' pretty hard at last weekend's Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode, which had Meatwad's videogame high score summoning the Mooninites to recruit him as a Moon Master.

I fully expected to hear news of a Last Starfighter movie remake sometime soon... but...um... a musical version? Yikes.

Starfighter trivia: A full two years before appearing in Stand By Me, geek-proud writer and former star-trekker Wil Wheaton had a part in the Last Starfighter, as a friend of Alex's younger brother. Alas, his part got cut.

Now that he's gettin' more famous here in the states, how will Ali G be able to keep fooling his celebrity interview subjects? Slate wonders that very thing. The answer: maybe more Borat and more Bruno. Works for me.

Hey, look, my friend Steve has a website. And it's got a dirty name that might get stuck in your work firewall. Who knew? Not me.

He's got a couple of no-budget Colin Clary videos posted up there right now, so check it.

The Boston Globe reviewed that Snow Patrol show we went to last week.

Online foreign commercials by some of your favorite directors? Cool. The fact that these commercials promote smoking? Not so cool. Ah well, still well worth a look. Jason has links to ads by David Lynch, the Coen Brothers, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, and Robert Altman. Hell of a lineup.

Curious about Doom 3, but haven't taken the plunge? Wondering if your computer is manly enough to even run the pretty thing? Then download the new demo to take a taste. I loved it at first, but after awhile it's becomes just another first person shooter. Granted, a damn fine looking one, but it's still run, gun, get scared, jump, gun, rinse, and repeat.

There's a new Mp3 Blog in town, and it's name is Neon Bubble.

I'm very much in the mood to relax out on the porch tonight, maybe watch some Sox, or do a little reading in the evening sun. On the other hand, I've got free tickets to an early screening of the zombie-romantic-comedy (aka zom-rom-com) Shaun of the Dead. Decisions, decisions. Whatever shall I do? Life's rough, ain't she?

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