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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
am
@ 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
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Thursday, May 05, 2005 Get the ’Nac: The Bradcast is in Beta As a small step towards some eventual blogcasting (no, they're not podcasts, 'cuz you don't need an iPod), I just set up my own Shoutcast server for Almanac readers. For now it's called The Almanac Bradcast, and it streams my entire 22,000 song music collection at 128kbps out over the wire, mostly at random, but sometimes specially programmed by yours truly. I can create playlists on the fly ('bands coming to town', 'new this week', 'Boston bands', or maybe by genre depending on my mood), and I can even take requests and drop songs in on a moment's notice. Got a song you want to hear while you're sitting in your cube? Just send me an instant message at AIM screenname 'bradcast'. Right now the stream is limited to 5 users at a time (including me, of course), but depending on how much bandwidth the (admittedly small) home-based connection can handle, I might bump that up (or down?). Hopefully I'll be able to keep it at 128k, though... we'll see. 192kpbs resulted in too much buffering, and I've only had 4 users max on it so far. So get listening (open link in your browser, or open it with WinAmp or iTunes), and let me know how it sounds on your end... the more feedback I get, the better it'll become. Yes, I know the occasional mp3 tag will be messed up, but I'm fixing them little by little... and I make no apologies for some of the random stuff that might appear; the stream might be classified as 'indie', but I'd have a hard time arguing that my collection is all that. Mostly, yeah. Labels, schmabels. A quick copy and paste of the 'recently played songs' gives you an idea what you're in for though... 14:29:48 Slowdive - Silver Screen (demo)Now that I've let this outta the bag, it'll probably get crushed in about 10 minutes, so beware the buffering, and of it disappearing suddenly. In the end, this thing is mostly for myself, so if you end up getting kicked while I'm testing it out, sorry in advance. Especially if it's during a song that's hitting you just right... Movin' on then...  Ticket alert: Genius director Hal Hartley is coming to town in a few weeks to personally introduce a screening of his new movie, "The Girl From Monday". The film is playing at the Brattle on June 3rd through June 5th, and also at the Coolidge until June 9th, but Hartley will only be appearing at the Friday, June 3rd, 7:15 Brattle screening. Tickets are now on sale, and they'll no doubt disappear quickly, so go ahead and get yours here. So we saw the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie last weekend, and as a pretty loyal fan of the books... I reeeeally didn't enjoy it. Well, most of it. And Amie, as someone who's never read the books... disliked it even more. She actually bailed about halfway through and caught a bunch of Kung Fu Hustle in the theater next door, which she loved, of course. I'll spare you a bunch of complaining about it, though. The friends I saw it with will be surprised to read this, actually, as I didn't really voice my opinion afterwards... didn't want to bring anyone who loved it down. Don't even think they knew that Amie escaped... but I do know they agree with the all-healing appeal of the Kung-Fu Hustle. Tonight: We might just try to crash the Serenity screening, hoping that someone, anyone, has extra tickets. Oh please oh please oh please... I cannot hold out until September. Speaking of Serenity, this is pretty damn cool... Dark Horse Comics will be putting out a 3-issue Serenity mini-series from creator and super-scribe Joss Whedon that will bridge the gap between the end of the TV series and the movie. Let's hear it for sweet, sweet synergy. At long last, a date: Word is that the very-much-awaited Miss Mary record, "Ready 2 Pop", the sophomore followup to 2000's "Hey Blue" (and followup to the recent 'release' of "Holly"), will be out on May 23rd. Check out her MySpace page for songs, details on (hopefully) future live appearances, and where to buy the thing. Nice to think she'll be playing out again, baby and bass player in tow. Also on the subject of talented friends, the one n' only Colin Clary made a live radio appearance a couple days ago on Providence, RI's WBRS 88.1 FM, on the 'Phoning It In' program. As the name implies, guests perform live over the phone, and Colin played a whole bunch of random songs. The sound quality varies, but overall it sounds pretty good considering, so give the archived show a listen on your computer right here. Fans of Ida get some long awaited goodies: Insound now has their hard-to-find (and limited edition) Last Affair Records releases for sale in their Annex. These include the one-time import only Dan Littleton solo record 'Nobody's Fault But Mine' coupled with his other ultra-rare solo disc 'Down By The Riverside', plus a limited double-disc live recording from San Fran's Bottom of the Hill in April 2000. That live show also apparently includes 3 new recordings. Mine are on the way. That reminds me... I sent my artwork off awhile ago for Dark Beloved Cloud's Singles Club so I could get some new Ida songs. Wonder how long that usually takes? Anyone try it? This is fairly random: Photos I took at Boston's first flash mob are being used this weekend as part of a symposium called "Sampling the Spectrum: The Politics, Practices and Poetics of Mobile Technologies" at La Soci�t� des Arts et Technologiques in Montreal. It starts today, and a grad student asked if it was ok to display them during her Saturday discussion on "Flash Mobbing: �Hipster Sheep�, �The Clique Machine� and �A Love Rug�". In the unlikely event that anyone reading this actually attends, lemme know. There's a brand new mp3 blog on the block, and it's called 'Last Post on the Bugle'. I guess Adam's a regular Almanac reader, so it's cool to see him joining in. Most of you know this by now, but just in case: The Daily Show's Steven Colbert is getting his own show. Great news, and yet, I'll really miss his obvious (and usually successful) attempts to get Jon Stewart to crack up during his pieces. And what will become of The God Machine?! He'd better bring it with him, because no one else could punch it quite so perfectly. Bruce Campbell returns to town: Boston is the next to last stop on his book tour for 'Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way'. It's not until September 16th, and yeah, that's a hell of a long ways away, but early notice is good notice. The new Tullycraft disc, 'Disenchanted Hearts Unite' got released this week, and you can check out one song from it over at Three Imaginary Girls (just click the banner in the left column there), and another one over at the Magic Marker Records site. In honor of it's release, I'll be sharing up a live set on Monday from Crayon, the band that Tullycraft sprung from many years back. Probably won't hear from me until Monday (although ya never know), so I hope everyone has a good weekend. Me? I'm so, so psyched for Saturday's Lucksmiths / Ladybug Transistor / Pipas show at P.A.s Lounge, and the get-together we're having beforehand. A guaranteed good day, despite the rain.  |
david bazan + his band
live at tt the bear's place
in cambridge, mass.
on tuesday, october 20th, 2009
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- enough cowbell
- exitfare
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- heads up boston
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- new artillery
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- pilgrims of sound
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- ryan's smashing life
- soho the dog
- stereo typing
- the stu reid experiment
- under 21 in boston
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boston music media
boston live show / event info
music blogroll
- between thought & expression
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- idolator
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- largehearted boy
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- little hits
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- my old kentucky blog
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- said the gramophone
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- the sound of indie
- stereogum
- the rawking refuses to stop
- too much rock
- torr
- unfinished
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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.
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- boston.com
- boston phoenix
- boston online
- boston common
- boston blogs
- craigslist boston
- exploit boston!
- boston wireless
- surfacecity's boston
- tourfilter
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- tt the bears place
- the plan @ great scott's
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- wzbc concert report
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- sox: surviving grady
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