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the almanac archives
thursday, september 2nd
lou barlow + the missingmen
wye oak
the unfamiliars
@ the middle east upstairs
saturday, september 4th
mg lederman (ex-victory at sea) cd release show with
the wrong reasons
the beat awfuls
brant deatley
@ the plough & stars
sunday, september 5th
sweet apple
(w/j mascis on drums)
black helicopter
zombie radio
@ the middle east downstairs
sunday, september 5th
the milling gowns
what time is it, mr. fox?
faux ox
jaggery
@ harper's ferry
monday, september 6th
wallcreeper
@ charlie's kitchen
monday, september 6th
shellac
helen money
@ the middle east downstairs
tuesday, september 7th
tortoise
greg davis
ben vidas
@ the paradise
tuesday, september 7th
someone still loves you boris yeltsin
telekinesis
golden bloom
@ tt the bears
tuesday, september 7th
kele (from bloc party)
does it offend you, yeah?
@ the royale boston
wednesday, september 8th
hot hot heat
22-20s
hey rosetta!
@ the middle east downstairs
wednesday, september 8th
airborne toxic event (acoustic)
with the calder string quartet
@ the somerville theatre
thursday, september 9th
apple betty
this blue heaven
the backup factor
apollo run
@ tt the bears
friday, september 10th
i, pistol
black fortress of opium
the crushing low
@ precinct
friday, september 10th
the charlatans uk
sherlock's daughter
@ the royale boston
saturday, september 11th
school of seven bells
active child
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, september 11th
neutral uke hotel (nmh covers on ukelele)
the michael j. epstein memorial library
@ cafe 939, berklee
saturday, september 11th
28 degrees taurus
magic shoppe (record release!)
@ the rosebud
saturday, september 11th
jamie lidell
@ the royale boston
friday + saturday
september 11th + 12th
lots of bands, raising money for kids
over 2 days in canton, ma
sunday, september 12th
jarrod gorbel
(of the honorary title)
air traffic controller
@ great scott
sunday, september 12th
blondie
@ the house of blues
sunday, september 12th
vampire weekend
beach house
dum dum girls
@ the boa pavilion
monday, september 13th
dirty projectors
owen pallett (final fantasy)
@ the wilbur theatre
monday, september 13th
isobel campbell
mark lanegan
willy mason
@ the middle east downstairs
tuesday, september 14th
rush
@ the td garden
wednesday, september 15th
laura veirs + the hall of flames
the watson twins
led to sea
@ tt the bears
thursday, september 16th
of montreal
janelle monae
@ the house of blues boston
friday, september 17th
one happy island
kevin dunn
cotton candy
7:30pm @ the lily pad, cambridge
friday, september 17th
broken social scene
@ the house of blues
friday & saturday
september 17th & 18th
the 5th annual viva la vinal festival!
with live performances from
audrey ryan, kingsley flood,
this blue heaven, bridget + the squares,
the international string trio, & justin shorey
6-10pm on friday + 12-9 on saturday
@ somerville community growing center
on vinal ave. in somerville's union square
saturday, september 18th
pavement
jenny (lewis) + johnny (rice)
@ agganis arena
saturday, september 18th
wavves
@ brandeis university, waltham
sunday, september 19th
thee oh sees
the human tail
thick shakes
@ the magic room gallery, brighton
sunday, september 19th
caribou
holy fuck
emeralds
@ the paradise
monday, september 20th
girlfriends
carnivores
weekend dads
@ o'brien's
tuesday, september 21st
superchunk
versus
@ royale boston
tuesday, september 21st
basia bulat
the acorn
john shade
@ tt the bears
tuesday, september 21st
sea wolf (alex acoustic)
sera cahoone
patrick park
@ the middle east upstairs
wednesday, september 22nd
phantogram
railbird
@ the paradise
wednesday, september 22nd
david bazan
the mynabirds
@ tt the bears
wednesday, september 22nd
field music
@ great scott
thursday, september 23rd
aloud (album release party!)
st. claire
old jack
with special emcee
poet/author james caroline
@ church of boston
thursday, september 23rd
stars
wild nothing
@ the house of blues
thursday, september 23rd
!!! (chk chk chk)
fol chen
@ the royale boston
thursday, september 23rd
bettie serveert
meandjoancollins
the painted lights
@ tt the bears
friday, september 24th
eels
@ the royale boston
saturday, september 25th
teenage fanclub
@ the royale boston
saturday, september 25th
james
ed harcourt
@ the paradise
sunday, september 26th
come (reunited!)
wussy
@ tt the bears
sunday, september 26th
mr. sister (debut album release!)
coyote kolb
tallahassee
@ great scott
sunday, september 26th
mates of state
@ the paradise
monday, september 27th
rogue wave
midlake
peter wolf crier
@ royale boston
tuesday, september 28th
lcd soundsystem
sleigh bells
@ the orpheum
tuesday, september 28th
best coast
male bonding
@ the middle east downstairs
wednesday, september 29th
quilt
paper castles
toothache
@ the lilypad
wednesday, september 29th
foals
esben + the witch
@ the paradise
thursday, september 30th
mc frontalot
@ tt the bears
thursday, september 30th
menomena
suckers
@ the royale boston
thursday + friday
sept 30th + oct 1st
built to spill
revolt revolt
pretty & nice
@ the paradise
friday, october 1st
the tallest man on earth
s. carey (of bon iver's band)
@ the somerville theatre
friday, october 1st
ra ra riot
chikita violenta
we barbarians
@ the royale boston
saturday, october 2nd
gayngs
(with bon iver's justin vernon)
glasser
@ the paradise
saturday, october 2nd
film school
the depreciation guild
static of the gods
night fruit
@ tt the bears
sunday, october 3rd
the xx
@ the orpheum
sunday, october 3rd
tom tom club
caravan of thieves
tony castles
@ the paradise
sunday, october 3rd
lost in the trees
@ tt the bears
tuesday, october 5th
the vaselines
jeffrey lewis
@ the paradise
tuesday, october 5th
chapterhouse
ulrich schnauss
@ the middle east downstairs
tuesday, october 5th
ratatat
dom
@ the house of blues boston
wednesday, october 6th
gorillaz
@ agganis arena
wednesday, october 6th
the hold steady
wintersleep
@ the royale boston
thursday, october 7th
the walkmen
a.a. bondy
blood feathers
@ the royale boston
friday, october 8th
death
@ the middle east downstairs
friday, october 8th
fountains of wayne
marshall crenshaw (solo)
@ the paradise
friday, october 8th
bell x1 (acoustic)
@ the brattle theatre
saturday, october 9th
paul f. tompkins
@ the brattle theatre
sunday, october 10th
deerhoof
xiu xiu
father murphy
first show @ the paramount!
sunday, october 10th
miike snow
@ the house of blues
sunday, october 10th
primus
mucca pazza
@ the orpheum
tuesday, october 12th
ingrid michaelson
@ the house of blues
wednesday, october 13th
dead kennedys
@ the paradise
thursday, october 14th
the thermals
cymbals eat guitars
@ the paradise
thursday, october 14th
the morning after girls
the lovetones
the december sound
ghost box orchestra
@ tt the bears
friday, october 15th
nick lowe + his band
graham parker (solo acoustic)
@ the somerville theatre
friday, october 15th
jimmy eat world
@ the house of blues
friday, october 15th
bowerbirds
death vessel
@ tt the bears
friday, october 15th
belle + sebastian
@ the wang theatre / citi center
saturday, october 16th
deerhunter
real estate
casino vs. japan
@ royale boston
sunday, october 17th
the henry clay people
the dig
@ tt the bears
monday, october 18th
greg dulli
(afghan whigs/twilight singers)
first-ever solo tour
with opener craig wedren
(of shudder to think)
@ the brattle theatre
monday, october 18th
bad religion
the bouncing souls
@ the house of blues
monday, october 18th
the drums
the hairs
@ the paradise
monday, october 18th
phoenix
two door cinema club
wavves
@ agganis arena
tuesday, october 19th
massive attack
thievery corporation
@ the orpheum
wednesday, october 20th
the pains of being pure at heart
yuck
eternal summers
@ the paradise
wednesday, october 20th
helmet
@ the middle east downstairs
sunday, october 22nd
gary numan
rasputina
playing 'the pleasure principle'
@ the paradise
saturday, october 23rd
local natives
the ruby suns
union line
@ the house of blues
sunday, october 24th
woven bones
frankie rose & the outs
@ tt the bears
monday, october 25th
the corin tucker band
hungry ghost
darren hanlon
@ the paradise
wednesday, october 27th
a sunny day in glasgow
candy claws
@ great scott
wednesday, october 27th
black prairie
(members of the decemberists)
sarah jarosz
@ the middle east upstairs
thursday, october 28th
the tt's halloween bash
with members of mean creek + campaign
for real time (as talking heads)
john powhida (as todd rundgren)
preacher roe (as guided by voices)
@ tt the bears
friday, october 29th
frightened rabbit
plants and animals
the phantom band
@ the paradise
saturday, october 30th
hallelujah the hills
magic magic
boy without god
@ great scott
sunday, october 31st
florence and the machine
the smith westerns
@ the house of blues
monday, november 1st
blonde redhead
pantha du prince
@ the paradise
monday, november 1st
social distortion
lucero
frank turner
@ the house of blues boston
tuesday, november 2nd
junip (jose gonzales)
sharon van etten
@ the royale boston
tuesday, november 2nd
black mountain
the black angels
@ the paradise
wednesday, november 3rd
the dandy warhols
blue giant
@ tt the bears
wednesday, november 3rd
land of talk
suuns
little scream
@ tt the bears
thursday, november 4th
through sunday, november 7th
the international pop overthrow
4 nights @ pa's lounge
thursday, november 4th
matt + kim
javelin
@ the house of blues
thursday, november 4th
blitzen trapper
@ the paradise
friday, november 5th
guided by voices
blitzen trapper
@ the paradise
sunday, november 7th
drivin 'n cryin
@ tt the bears
monday, november 8th
clinic
the fresh & onlys
@ the paradise
tuesday, november 9th
the morning benders
@ the paradise
thursday + friday
november 11th + 12th
sufjan stevens
@ the orpheum
thursday, november 11th
shearwater
horse feathers
damien jurado
anais mitchell
@ the house of blues
thursday, november 11th
deer tick
@ the royale boston
thursday, november 11th
mumford & sons
cadillac sky
king charles
@ the house of blues
friday, november 12th
bottomless pit
black helicopter
chris brokaw
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, november 13th
roky erickson
@ the royale boston
saturday, november 13th
grinderman
(nick cave, warren ellis, + more)
@ the house of blues
sunday, november 14th
elizabeth mitchell (of ida)
and friends
(a children's show!)
4:30pm @ club passim
sunday, november 14th
man or astro-man?
@ the middle east downstairs
monday, november 15th
la roux
@ the house of blues
tuesday, november 16th
a night of springsteen covers
with chris keene (mean creek),
corin ashley, dave aaronoff,
brendan little, hilken mancini,
the dirty truckers, drew o'doherty,
and more to be announced
marking the release of the new
6-disk 'darkness on the edge of town'
box set @ tt the bears
tuesday, november 16th
the posies
brendan benson
aqueduct
@ the royale boston
wednesday, november 17th
cornershop
@ the middle east downstairs
thursday, november 18th
kate nash
@ the paradise
thursday, november 18th
bear in heaven
@ the middle east downstairs
friday, november 19th
township
the lights out
the organ beats
@ tt the bears
saturday, november 20th
delorean
lemonade
@ the middle east downstairs
wednesday, november 24th
idlewild
happy hollows
@ the middle east downstairs
thursday, december 2nd
director/actor kevin smith
@ the house of blues
saturday, december 4th
peter hook + the light
play joy division's "unknown pleasures"
@ the royale boston
saturday, december 4th
killing joke
@ the paradise
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Thursday, April 28, 2005
Hoo boy. Long week, feels about a month long. A nagging cold and an unending workload keeping me down, but other stuff is liftin' me back up. Time to escape into the blog for a bit...  The Independent Film Festival of Boston came and went, and I caught a couple more films since opening night last Thursday. Friday night we got in to see Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, an improved fake-umentary about the comeback of a former superstar paintballer played by The Daily Show's Rob Corddry. He was surrounded by a great supporting cast of familiar names, with members of the Upright Citizens Brigade and Naked Babies sketch comedy groups, including Dannah Feinglass, Paul Scheer, Ed Helms (also from the Daily Show), Billy Merrit, and SNL's Rob Riggle, who was a hilarious standout. You'd probably recognize some of those faces if you watch VH1's Best Week Ever, too. Boston local-boy Corrdy (who seemed to know most of the audience personally), co-star D.J. Hazard, director Brant Sersen, and executive producer Darren Gold, and a craft services guy had a Q&A after the screening, and here's an excerpt (I had to guess at Darren and Brant's voices)...
Saturday evening brought the premiere of a very special, and very important, new documentary called Same Sex America, which screened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Filmed last year here in Massachusetts during the fight over the legalization of same sex marriage, it was a completely heart-wrenching, fairly hope-filled, and at times totally engraging look at both sides of the issue. It follows seven gay and lesbian couples, their journies towards marriage, and the struggles as our legislators debate an amendment banning their big day. As May 17th, 2004 approached, and our despicable governor tried to block the legalization at the last minute, we see the planning, the hopes and fears, the family and friends around them. It was a beautiful, heartstring-pulling film, one that everyone on both sides of the issue really needs to see. Being the Boston premiere, the creators and much of the cast were in attendance, and it was a real pleasure to see them gather together on stage. To have had such an intimate, seemingly unfiltered look into their personal lives, and then have them stand up and appear before us... it was just something really touching. I wanted to thank every one of them for their bravery, their candidness on film. Showtime funded the filming, so keep an eye out for it there eventually. There's hope that it will see a theatrical release, and it will definitely be on DVD at somepoint, whether through Showtime or another distributor. I'm telling you, do not miss Same Sex America. Moving on from movies to music... It was a costly week for new releases... stopped by Newbury comics on Tuesday and grabbed all three of those new Cure album reissues, along with the Stereolab three-disc-one-dvd boxset. Ouch. And yet, hooray!. There was really no free will involved... they all fell into my 'must own' category. Speaking of costly, I got my Dinosaur Jr. tickets, thank you very much. Again, free will not a factor. Gotta go. That's July 15th, Avalon, Boston. If you haven't got your tickets yet, the pre-sale was here. Not sure if it's still going on, but Next Ticketing should have tix on sale on the 6th, too. Oh, and on the off chance you didn't hear/see them on the Late Late Show a couple weeks back, here's an mp3 of Dinosaur Jr. doing 'The Lung'. Looks like I'll be watching that show for the second time ever, since the Futureheads will be on it tonight. My TiVo won't be able to skip through the Rosie O'Donnell interview fast enough. Thanks to Becky for letting me know that The Field Mice were featured on BBC6 Music's Dream Ticket last night. I missed the broadcast, but it's archived here. Not sure how many live songs were played, or how old the session was, but I'm psyched to listen later. Emma from Lush's current project, Sing Sing, has some news on their site about their upcoming single (called 'Lover', out June 27th, and mixed by demi-god Alan Moulder) and full-length ('Sing Sing and I', out July 11th). But that involves some waiting. For immediate Lush-style gratification, check this out. On a Resonance FM program called Full Circle, host Mark Braby interviews Emma and asks her to 're-work' one of her earliest musical compositions for the show (thus the show's theme of circularity). She chose to re-do the early Lush b-side 'Sunbathing' with Sing-Sing, and Braby not only plays an early demo (with future Pale Saint Muriel, Lush's first vocalist) and some Lush/Sing-Sing excerpts, but interviews Ms. Anderson about her entire career. Coolest part? You can download a zipped mp3 of the broadcast, even though it just aired earlier today. It's in my headphones at this very moment. In case you missed it: A great Ida interview on Gothamist. Really glad to read that Bob Mould is doing the full band thing on his next tour, and with Fugazi's drummer, Brendan Canty at that. Great guest list on the upcoming album, too. The latest Asaurus Records newsletter says that the next Colin Clary record, "Sweater Weather or Not, These are the Songs I Got" is out soon, and they've shared up one of the songs 'The Mixtape on My Mind'. You can either stream it or download the mp3. Go Colin Go! Behold: The packaging for the upcoming Season 3 DVD set of HBO's THE WIRE. No details on a release date yet, but you'd better damn well rent or buy the first two seasons by then. Or else I'll, well, feel sorry for you? Yeah, pity's easy. In the "two favorites collide" department, comics writer Warren Ellis will be releasing a one-shot comic called Velocity Girl as part of his Apparat2 series. Infamous for often using song titles in his work, do you think he got it from the Primal Scream 7'', or from Velocity Girl, who themselves took it from that 7''? Either way, cool title. According to Ellis' Bad Signal description: "VELOCITY GIRL takes early TV like HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL and nails it on to the Japanese chambara form, exemplified by the likes of ZATOICHI." If it's Ellis, I'm buyin' it. Glad to hear that the full-length feature film starring Sascha Baron Cohen's Borat character is back on track. The original director, Todd Phillips (Old School / Starsky & Blech), bailed out, but they've got a replacement in Larry Charles (Seinfeld / Curb Your Enthusiasm). Much better fit, I think. For nostalgic fans of the now-deceased Screen Savers technology show on the much-missed TechTV, check out this recent podcast called 'Revenge of the Bleep' (Bleep as in 'Screen Savers', to avoid G4-fueled lawsuits), which features former TSS co-conspirators Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron chatting about what they're up to. Hopefully it's the first of many. Oh, when you lick that link, make sure you scroll waaaaay down, as it seems Leo's page formatting is a bit messed up at the moment. Amie and I made our first visit of the 2005 season to Fenway Pahhk on Tuesday night, and it happened to be the brutal four-hour marathon that ended in another nasty Red Sox loss to the Orioles. Yeah, we blew a five run lead, twice. It's an understatement to say that the Sox have 'pitching issues' at the moment, and boy does Bellhorn need to buckle down in the clutch. Watching him stare at strikes as they blow by him is pretty painful, especially with guys on base. Still, we had a great time... not much beats a spring night at Fenway. The place exists inside a magic bubble that makes everything a little mo' better... the too-expensive Bud goes down so smooth (and I never drink Bud, says the beer snob), the salted peanuts are near perfect, the pretzels are even more... pretzely? Lost for adjectives there. Since the game was a long slooooow one, a lot of people bailed early, and we were able to work our way down to the very front row, a little past third base. And who was sittin' only a couple seats to our left? Why, none other than Mr. Doug 'Gimme Fouls' Flutie, just being a Sox fan like the rest of us. Between him, his son, and his two buddies, they have a collection of 10 foul balls this season, and added another last night. Talk about ball hoggin'. Mr. Flutie was gracious to every single fan who asked for a picture or an autograph, although I didn't feel comfortable intruding. Came close after a little cell-phone-nudge from Chris, but couldn't follow through. Amie did snap a quick phone-photo, though. Hey, here's a new Red Sox blog I've been readin' lately: Red Sox Reality Check. Oh, and regarding the title of this post... TONIGHT: The freakin' WEDDING PRESENT. On stage in front of me. At last. Oh, and in a couple hours, at 6:30pm, Weddoes main-man David Gedge will be on Petrina's WZBC radio show for a little interview action. The listening link can be found here. If my show recording goes well, and I'm too hyped up afterwards to sleep, you'll see some live Wedding Present mp3s here tomorrow morning. Unless, of course, I end up following them across country for rest of the tour. Sigh, don't I wish.  |
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