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wednesday, march 17th
joanna newsom
@ the sanders theatre, harvard
wednesday, march 17th
henry rollins (spoken word)
@ the somerville theatre
thursday, march 18th
TOURFILTER DJ NIGHT!
when tourfilter's chris +
the almanac's brad (aka, me)
spin songs by bands coming to
the boston area sometime soon
9pm sharp @ river gods
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
wednesday, march 24th
extraneous noise presents...
golden spurs
spirit kid
some say fire
the novel ideas
@ the middle east upstairs
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 folds & 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
guillermo sexo
freddie t and the people
(ex-june of 44 / hoover)
travels
ghost box orchestra
@ pa's lounge
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
graham parker with
the figgs
@ johnny d's, somerville
saturday, april 24th
los campesinos!
here we go magic
@ the paradise
sunday, april 25th
harlem
@ 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, may 5th
minus the bear
@ the wilbur theatre
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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Wednesday, January 04, 2006 January Revital "Whoops, there goes another year... whoops, there goes another pint of beer..." - Billy Bragg   The first truly great album of 2006 is already out, if only in digital form. It's New Radiant Storm King's 'The Steady Hand', which appeared on iTunes last weekend. Now, I'm not much of an iTunes user... I'm one of those weirdos who needs to hold a disc in their hands on the actual release date; to take in the package design, read every detail of the liner notes as I listen through for the first time, start to finish. But my patience crumbled on this one.The two song samples posted on the Darla site over the past couple months got me excited enough to grab it as soon as an Almanac reader let me know that it was there, and I haven't stopped listening to 'The Steady Hand' since. The full versions of 'The Winding Staircase' and 'Fighting Off the Pricks' are better than promised, and stuff like 'From a Roof' and 'Quicksand Under Carpet', just as good. Honestly, there's not a bad track on the thing... not a single one I'd skip. Hell, even the iTunes-only bonus track is a keeper. I'm loving the warm, play-it-loud production... easily the best sounding album they've ever made. The energetic new(ish) rhythm section really delivers, but it's Matt Hunter and Peyton Pinkerton's infectious dual guitar interplay that floors me. I'm just sucker for that stuff, and they pull it of so well. It's a hook-filled rock record with pop moments, taking the best parts of NRSK's noisy past and exanding upon it... it may be their best collection of songs to date, but I'm a little drunk on them all right now. Ask me again when, and if, I sober up. Doubt I'll say much different, though. It's one of those discs that's gotten me excited about new music again, an album that I'm instantly sure will sit high in my 'best of 2006' in another 12 months. I'm pretty damn excited to see these songs played on a stage, so hopefully word of a Boston show will come down soon. New Radiant Storm King's 'The Steady Hand' is in stores on February 14th, although Darla is selling it early through their website right now. I didn't even hesitate to pay for this sucker twice, once to Apple and once to the Darla crew... it's so worth it. There's a little new year's update over at The Wedding Present's website, and it teases us with some cool stuff in the works: "We're hoping 2006 will see the release of a live DVD and we've been in negotiation with Sanctuary Records here in the UK regarding the release of a complete set of Wedding Present Peel Sessions." Yes, please. Can I just say how bitter I am that Mogwai (or their booking crew) has decided to shun Boston on their upcoming March tour? There, I just did. Come on, give us that open slot on the 5th, will ya? Sloppy Art offers up live recordings of 5 new Crooked Fingers tracks from an Eric Bachmann solo show last month. Very nice. You can grab some live radio session songs from Super Furry Animals over there, too. While Catherine Wheel frontman Rob Dickinson does his solo thing, guitarist Brian Futter & drummer Neil Sims are making music together as 50 ft. monster. Check out a couple of demos at their website or MySpace page. As a major Versus fan, I enthusiastically follow all of their various offshoots, so I was glad when for the records directed us to some samples from the upcoming debut disc from the Richard Baluyut-fronted trio Whysall Lane over at the Midheaven Mailorder site. I'm pretty psyched to hear Jawbreaker's Adam Pfahler behind the drum kit again. You can hear more at the Whysall Lane MySpace site. The full-lengther will be out in February on Blackball Records. Ex-Boo Radleys frontman Martin Carr, still releasing music as bravecaptain, will make his next album available for download on January 30th, for free. Yup, 8 tracks, no charge, available as either mp3s or high quality .wav files. Says the site: "the idea of releasing this album in this way is to make bravecaptain's music freely available to as many people as possible, in order to enable the bravecaptain fanbase to continue to grow." That's not the only Boo-related news, though... long-silent guitarist Sice has a new band and some new demos. They're called Paperlung, so head on over. (via excellent online) That killer Twilight Singers live DVD (previously only available via limited official sales on ebay) is getting a proper release. One Little Indian will put it out on January 30th. I've got one, and it's simply a must-own for any Greg Dulli / Afghan Whigs fans. In case you missed 'em, a couple of pretty funny guest editorials: One from Buffy-Angel-Firefly guy Joss Whedon on the 'future of television' for TV Guide, and another in the NY Times (bugmenot login) from Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David about why you won't find him at a showing of Brokeback Mountain. Hot on the heels of those ace Muppet Show stamps that came out late last year, it's been announced that the US Postal Service will be releasing a set with DC Comics characters. Check here for a complete list of 2006 commemoratives, including Favorite Children's Book Animals (Wild Thing from Where The Wild Things Are, Wilbur from Charlotte's Web, Curious George, etc.), Baseball Sluggers (Roy Campanella, Hank Greenberg, Mickey Mantle, & Mel Ott), and tons more. I was kindly sent a couple giveaway copies of the new Michael Winterbottom film 9 Songs on DVD, which I'll happily offer up to a couple of (adult) Almanac readers. Why adults only? Why, the loads of unfiltered sex, of course! The film made headlines last year for it's very frank, and therefore very unrated, depiction of a sexual relationship between two London concert-goers. They get it on in between live performances by the likes of Franz Ferdinand, Elbow, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and more. Unfortunately, I found the film fairly boring, the sex scenes not so sexy, and even the live concert footage felt, for the most part, kind of uninspiring. The best part of the DVD, for me, was the bonus Elbow promo-documentary. If you're an Elbow fan, that's well worth checking out. So the first two U.S. or Canadian readers (and over age 18, don't get me sued) to leave a comment below will get a copy of the DVD sent to 'em. Don't worry about sharing your postal address, but leave your email addy so I can get in touch with ya. Ok, back to the grind I go...  |
sparklehorse
live at the paradise
in boston, mass.
on monday, february 26th, 2009
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music audiocasts
surf-worthy
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- march to the sea's musings
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- 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-centric
- boston.com
- boston phoenix
- boston online
- boston common
- boston blogs
- craigslist boston
- exploit boston!
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- tourfilter
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- tt the bears place
- the plan @ great scott's
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