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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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Tuesday, July 25, 2006  Unless you're a complete pop-culture neophyte, you know that the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con finished up a couple days ago, and even though I was totally on the wrong coast for it, I was there in geek-spirit. In honor of that ever-growing entertainment love-fest, I offer you a little diversion as I write about one of my non-music obsessions. Read this whole thing, and you might just get a prize. No, really... Keeping tabs on this year's Comic-Con was easier then ever, with regular updates at Newsarama, Between the Panels, Bags & Boards, Heidi MacDonald's The Beat, the Onion's A.V. Club, and on-site updates from my internet crush, Whitney at Pop Candy. My RSS reader was refreshing non-stop. The A.V. Club offered up four reports (1,2,3,4), The Beat has a bunch of great video posts (divx-style), including one with James Kochalka (who also got a plug at Pop Candy). PC's Ms. Matheson, who usually takes weekends off, did a bunch of overtime with panel coverage and random news bits, as did BtP's Jevon Phillips. All well worth a read through, especially Whitney's pre-Con primer post, 'Comics For People Who Don't Read Comics'. If that sounds like you, dive in. It's a fine time to be a Mike Mignola fan, for a few reasons: Not only do we still get a regular supply of new Hellboy-related comics (the latest BPRD collection, 'The Black Flame' is excellent), but there's a wealth of other Mignola media available... The pilot episode for the animated adaptation of 'The Amazing Screw-On Head' is available for free online viewing (it debuts on the Sci-Fi Channel this Thursday, for the bandwidth-challenged). I loved the thing, and hope we get more than just a pilot, which perfectly captured the humor, action, and art-style of the printed work. Great dialogue that often got me laughing out loud in front of my laptop, with a solid voice cast that includes including Paul Giamatti, David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon, and personal-fave Patton Oswalt (who must be geeking out to be involved, unabashed comic nrrd that he is). Check out a Newsarama interview with animated series creator Brian Fuller (Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me) right here, and if you watch the episode, make sure you fill out this sci-fi.com survey. But only if you liked it, of course. Naysayers keep quiet! As much as I dug that pilot, I'm even more excited about the upcoming Hellboy animated film, 'Sword of Storms', which appears on DVD in October (and is not to be confused with GRRM's ace fantasy novel 'A Storm of Swords'). I've been following writer/director/producer Tad Stones' blog since it appeared last November, and while he's been offering up some very cool images and insights into the creation process, the mother of all previews came this past weekend at Comic-Con. Check out an entire hour-long panel, with Tad, Hellboy creator Mignola, producer Guillermo Del Toro, screenplay writer Matt Wayne, and character designer Sean "Cheeks" Galloway. The panel includes a 6-minute clip from 'Sword of Storms', which you can grab on its own over here. While the translation of Mignola's signature drawing-style isn't anywhere near direct as it appears with Screw-On Head, they smartly stuck with nearly the same cast from Del Toro's 2004 live action film for the voicework (including Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and John Hurt). The excerpt smartly shows off a couple of the required storytelling staples: Hellboy smacking around some big-uglies with his stony right hand while saying 'Awww... Crap'? Check. Liz nearly losing control after reluctantly roasting up some of the undead? Roger that. Looking forward to seeing what else they give us in just a couple months. Assuming that the film, and it's January '07 follow-up 'Blood and Iron', do well enough, we'll be getting more direct-to-DVD Hellboy down the road. Considering that a sequel to Del Toro's live-action film is currently up in the air, let's hope those DVDs sell mightily. Check out both an interview with Tad Stones and a write-up of the panel over at Bags & Boards, and take a look at this nifty Mignola-illustrated promo-poster for Guillermo Del Toro's next film, Pan's Labyrinth. Quite excited for that one, I am. Some of the more straightforward superheroes over at DC Comics are are also taking the direct-to-DVD route, with the announcement that one of my favorite stories from a couple years back, Darwyn Cooke's 'The New Frontier' will be getting the movie treatment. Alongside that we'll see an animated version of the classic 1980's Teen Titans tale, 'The Judas Contract'. Loved loved loved that story arc when I was a kid, and it's nice to hear that original creators Marv Wolfman & George Perez will be involved in the adaptation. Also slated for release is a personally less-exciting Superman/Doomsday film. The best part? The whole project is being overseen by Bruce Timm. If you know who he is, you know why that's good news. A whole bunch of DC characters will also be appearing on TV screens, but those screens will have a gaming console attached to them. The release of the previously announced Justice League Heroes videogame (Xbox, PS2 and PSP) is getting closer, and the offical site has a couple of production blog posts up. A hands-on review was posted after E3, and more recently Justice League Unlimited writer Dwayne McDuffie was interviewed about his scripting work in the game. McDuffie's involvement bodes very well for the storyline and character portrayals, and seeing what he comes up with is probably the main reason I'll be picking this one up. Especially after the finale of the JLU animated series last spring. While comics-to-screen adaptations are fairly commonplace, TV-to-comics projects are much less so... especially ones I actually care about. Suddenly, there are three books in the works that I'm curious to see...
As they are every year, the 2006 Eisner Awards were announced and presented at Comic-Con, and while a couple of my faves nominees were denied (Zak Sally for a 'Recidivist' story, Warren 'I've never won one and never will' Ellis for Desolation Jones, Fell, & Ocean), there were a bunch of other winners I very much agreed with... Best Archival Collection - Comic Strips: The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, by Bill WattersonFor a complete list of the 2006 Eisner Award winners, go here. Speaking of Warren Ellis, I'm eagerly awaiting more details on the new half-hour TV series pilot that he's been contracted to create and write for AMC. It's been described as a "sf/entertainment-industry dramedy". Whatever it is, I'm ready. And something I'm not sure I'd be ready for: a possible Preacher series on HBO. Don't get me wrong, if my favorite comic series ever gets visualized, HBO would be a fitting place for it, and it'd be nice to have something longer than the stalled movie adapatation. But I'm so close to the books that the whole idea makes me a tad nervous. We'll see if it ever becomes more than a rumor, though. An adaptation I'm more than happy to see: A drawn b&w version of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami short story 'On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning'. I'm still in a Murakami mood, making my way through his entire bibliography (after a brief detour into Banana Yoshimoto). Just started in on 'Sputnik Sweetheart'. Some of these are very cool, others are very not: Superheroes incorporated into works of fine art. Equals parts awe and shudder. Suicide Girls offers up a little light reading to go with your emo-erotica: interviews with a couple of the best comics writers around. Greg Rucka chats about all sorts of stuff (including the fact that a 'Whiteout' movie movement should be happening soon) and Alan Moore talks about Lost Girls, his new fairy-tale sex story, and about the state of television. Nice to find out he's a big fan of The Wire (season four soon!), even cooler to know how much he digs crime novelist George Pelecanos. I mentioned the unabashed nerd-pride of Patton Oswalt above, and you need no further proof than the unaired Super-Nerds TV pilot over on YouTube. Oswalt plays a comic shop manager, fellow comedian (and comic writer) Brian Posehn plays an in-store hang-arounder, and Sarah Silverman stops in to play the "pretty girl who reads comics?!". Middle America never woulda bought that, right? And it's almost too geeky to hang the plot on a smashed Star Trek statue. Even for me. Picture books I've been digging lately: Rick Veitch�s epic "Can�t Get No" (reviewed here, buy it here), that aforementioned BPRD book "The Black Flame", and the latest Fables collection, "Arabian Nights (and Days)". Glad to hear Bill Willingham announce a new original Fables graphic novel, "1001 Nights of Snowfall", which arrives in October. Writer/artist Brian Wood has been getting a bunch of mainstream press this year, thanks to his great work on Vertigo's DMZ series and his other current books, Local (from Oni) and Supermarket (on IDW). Wizard Magazine spotlighted him back in February (read it here and here), and Entertainment Weekly gave the first DMZ collection, 'On The Ground', an 'EW Pick' in its new issue. Local, his 12-issue limited series with Ryan Kelly that sets each story in a different locale, got some love from G4's Attack of the Show yesterday (video clip here). The series is almost halfway done, with the fifth issue out and the sixth in the works (set in Brian's current home-base of Park Slope, Brooklyn), and Brian recently spilled the remaining backdrops. In no particular order, we'll see Ann Arbor, MI, Norman, OK, Austin, TX, and Chicago, IL. Last but hardly least, issue 12 will be set in Burlington, Vermont, our shared childhood stomping grounds. Goes without saying, but I can't wait to see Ryan Kelly's take on some too-familiar sites. Which brings us to the giveaway I promised way back at the beginning of this epic post. Since I just picked up Brian Wood's 'On The Ground' collection, I've got an extra set of the original five issues found within. Brian was here in town recently for a New England Comics signing, and scribbled his signature in the cover of the debut issue, so if you live in the U.S. or Canada, drop me an email (address in the left hand column) with 'DMZ' as the subject sometime before Monday. I'll randomly pick a winner of that signed copy (along with issues two through five) and send it along next week . And no, I'll not ask you to answer some obscure comics trivia question. As a matter of fact, I'd be psyched if they went to a comics novice. Actually, I'd be very surprised if a comics novice made it all the way to the end of this post... Tomorrow, back to music, with a live set from Scotland's Camera Obscura.  |
arcade fire
live at the boa pavilion
in boston, mass.
on sunday, august 1st, 2010
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- 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
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some cele-bloggers
