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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, September 07, 2006  Chi-town, here I come. I'm about to leave my Boston comfort-zone, and at this time tomorrow I'll be front and center for the first night of the weekend-long Touch & Go Records 25th Anniversary Celebration. I've been listening to T&G bands for as long as I've been listening to good music, and some of my faves are playing at this thing. As the full lineup was revealed, I was literally compelled to plan this trip, bank account be damned. I'm heading out there solo, so if you'll be around and feel like meeting up for a beer (or at least a hello and a handshake), drop me an email anytime at the link on the lower left... I'll hopefully have some kind of 'net access in between seeing all the great bands (and maybe some great art).Before I go, a few parting links and such. This will be quick, 'cuz I really gotta start packing...  The Wedding Present recently did another BBC Radio Session, this one a set of covers for Huw Stephens show last week, on Tuesday, August 29th. The four songs, one from each of the past four decades, were spread throughout the broadcast, which was streamed online for the past week or so. If you missed it, here are a couple of the songs for you... The Wedding Present - "Our Lips Are Sealed" (Go-Go's cover)The other two covers were the Lennon/McCartney-penned "Step Inside Love", made popular by Cilla Black, and Minnie Riperton's "Lovin You" (with 'the brown note' played on guitar, for the curious). No doubt all those songs will appear someday on yet another Weddoes BBC compilation. The second Billy Bragg box set from Yep Roc Records, surprisingly titled "Billy Bragg: Volume 2", arrives on October 17th. The label is making it tough for me to wait for the discounted Newbury Comics price, since they're offering pre-orderers a bonus disc to go along with the 9 discs already in the box. The ltd. edition freebie is a cd of live songs from a 1987 Victoria University in New Zealand. If you order up early, you may also win one of 50 copies of Billy's new book, "The Progressive Patriot", and 20 of those winners will also get an autographed BB poster. Courtesy of Yep Roc, here's the full tracklisting of the Billy Bragg: Volume 2 box set, along with what's on that pre-order bonus disc... "Workers Playtime"Pre-order the disc here. Billy will be returning to North America later this month for a dozen dates, some in Canada, and the rest on the U.S. West Coast. Any and all discriminating online music listeners will mourn the loss of WOXY, who are being forced by lack of fund to shut down operations next Friday, Sept. 15th, after a two-year attempt at being internet-only. I loved 'em, I'll miss 'em, and I'll be making sure I've got all the live Lounge Acts appearances before they're gone. Very glad to hear that WOXY DJ Barb has got herself a nice new radio job. Got myself an early copy of The Album Leaf's next disc, "Into The Blue Again", and it's as beautiful as I expected it to be, maybe moreso. Can't get enough of it, and I'm so glad I've got it on my mp3 player for the flight from Logan to O'Hare. Thanks to LHB for tipping me to the ten-minute quicktime mini-documentary on the making of the album. The Breeders going back into the studio with Steve Albini? Yes, please. The volume of Continuum Books' 33 1/3 Series that I've been most looking forward to is finally here: The story behind My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" by Mike McGonigal was released on Sept. 1st, and my copy is on the way. If you haven't checked out this excellent series of books, each telling the story behind (or a story inspired by) a particular landmark album, you can now order up a special collection called "33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume 1", which pulls together excerpts from the first 20 volumes. Daytrotter hosts a nice little session with Will 'Bonnie Prince Billy' Oldham. Four songs, including "The Seedling" from his upcoming disc, "The Letting Go". While Sophia Coppola's next film, Marie Antoinette, already has a bit of negative buzz around it, at least the soundtrack is going to offer something positive: songs from Swedish group The Radio Dept., who mentioned it on their myspace blog, along with classic Cure and New Order numbers. Full tracklisting here. My Mean Magpie tracked down info on the original artist (and accompanying mp3) who wrote the song "Blue Flower", which I fell in love with thanks to both Mazzy Star and the Pale Saints. Metal Hearts, who are on tour most of this month and will be heading over to Europe with Boston's Victory at Sea in November, have let us know that they'll be releasing a split EP with Headlights in early Spring next year. That'll hopefully tide us over until their next album. Radio Free Silver Lake pointed a live video clip of Explosions In The Sky performing "Your Hand in Mine" on YouTube. You already downloaded the free mp3s of their out-of-print "The Rescue" EP, right? More free greatness: "Bug House", which is select tracks from the Guided By Voices rarities compilation "Broadcaster House". You can download the tracks one by one, or grab one large .zip file. I've got to tell you, the quality and songs are just amazing. Thanks to Hold My Life for the heads up. Speaking of HML, I was bummed to read he's indefinitely stepping away from posting. Was good while it was around, and hopefully it'll return. Since we have to wait until early next year for Kristin Hersh's next solo album, "Learn To Sing Like A Star", I'm hankering for any pre-release info-morsel I can get. So here's the full tracklisting for the disc, which is likely to be on my 2007 faves list... Kristin Hersh Another tracklisting, this one for a long-awaited release from NYC band +/- {Plus/Minus}. They put out "Let's Build A Fire" in Japan late last year, and thanks to Absolutely Kosher Records, we'll finally see it stateside on October 24th. Here's the tracklisting for the U.S. version: +/- {Plus/Minus} One of the bands I'll be seeing this weekend (and likely seeing a little too much of frontman David Yow) is Austin's Scratch Acid, the Jesus Lizard/Rapeman ancestor that I was too young to catch when they were around. In honor of the few shows that the reunited band will be doing, Austin 360 presents a great S.A. retrospective called "An Oral History, from Scratch". Someone else I'm really looking forward to seeing in Chicago this weekend: Tara Jane O'Neil. Her fourth full-lengther on Quarterstick, "In Circles", comes out this Tuesday the 12th, and I'm hoping they'll have early copies at the T&G shows. Here's a preview track... Mp3: "Tara Jane O'Neil - Blue Light Room" (from "In Circles") Ida's Liz Mitchell has another album of children's songs out called "You Are My Little Bird". Order it from Folkways over here. Still waiting for word on if that October Ida show at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is really going to happen. So pre-sales for the big Death Cab For Cutie / Ted Leo & the Pharmacists show at the Boston Opera House on November 2nd happened this morning, and I gotta admit, I was awfully hesitant to drop the big bills for that one. I haven't had any strong desire to see DCFC for a long time, but the chance to see Ted & Co. on that stage, in the same spectacular setting where I caught Sigur Ros last year... I just couldn't pass it up. So I took a shot at the pre-order deal and ended up with center seats pretty close to the stage. Yeah, I think I can deal with that. Boston pre-sale tix sold out in under 60 seconds, with Rochester and the first Toronto date disappearing shortly after. When that Toronto show was closed, a second night there was added, and a second Boston show has also been placed on another open date, Nov. 3rd. Pre-sale tickets for that one aren't up yet, but regular tickets go on sale Saturday, Sept. 16th at 9am. Another guaranteed sell-out, this one on the smaller side, is the return of Margot & the Nuclear So and So's to the Boston area. They're playing at TT the Bears with The Elected (featuring Blake Sennett from Rilo Kiley), also on Nov. 3rd. Even if students weren't back, tickets would be scarce for this fine Friday night double-bill. So go get yours. In advance of the October 10th release of the next Portastatic disc, "Be Still Please", Mac & Co. will be putting out a digital-only EP called "Sour Shores" next week. Here's some capilatizationally-challenged info from Mac's blog... "the first track is the album version (of "Sour Shores"), track 2 is an acoustic cover of the great Hot Chip song ("And I Was A Boy From School"), track 3 ("Portraits From Before the War") was recorded at the time of Bright Ideas but for whatever reason didn't fit with the rest of those songs (i remember -- it was too FANTASTIC! so you should probably get it now), and track 4 is the demo for the title track of the EP. the EP will be available from from all your favorite online sources (iTunes, emusic, et al) as well as directly from the Merge site!" Congrats to Almanac reader Rob from Maine, who won the copy of David Bazan's "Fewer Moving Parts" EP that I had up for grabs. More contests are in the works (including one for Portastatic merch and live tix), so check back, unless you're one of those freaks who hate free stuff. Alright, time to go get my travel gear together. Like I said, if you're in Chicago this weekend, drop me a note with your cell number. Otherwise, if you see a guy with a Homestar or Star & Bullock Hardware tee and a messenger bag with a bunch of comics-related patches all over it, say hello. Or just yell "Geek!" from a distance. Either way.  |
arcade fire
live at the boa pavilion
in boston, mass.
on sunday, august 1st, 2010
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- I Keep Coming Back
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- The Race Is On Again
- Mp3s: Acid House Kings live in Cambridge, MA
- The Endless Stream of the Everyday
- Mp3s: The Legends live in Cambridge, MA
- Mp3s: Midlake live in Cambridge, MA
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on the mp3 player
- the new pornographers | together
- tokyo police club | champ
- travels | robber on the run
- standard fare | the noyelle beat
- one happy island | self-titled full-length
- serena maneesh | no. 2: abyss in b-minor
- broken social scene | forgiveness rock record
- the national | high violet
- the radio dept. | clinging to a scheme
on the screen
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other boston-area music blogs
- anti-gravity bunny
- the ash gray proclamation
- aurgasm
- band in boston
- beantown scene (musician's resource)
- beginning to see the light
- boston band crush
- boston makes music videos
- boston music spotlight
- boston through my eyes
- clicky clicky
- enough cowbell
- forgotten disc friday
- the giant panther
- heads up boston
- hip to be square
- i heart noise
- melophobe
- music down to your soul
- music savage
- musings from boston
- new artillery
- on a friday
- one in a million media
- pelly twins
- pilgrims of sound
- playground boston
- ryan's smashing life
- soho the dog
- stereo typing
- the stu reid experiment
- visible voice
- zed equals zee
boston music media
boston live show / event info
music blogroll
- between thought & expression
- brainwashed
- brooklyn vegan
- captain's dead
- the catbirdseat
- cerulean's love of music
- chromewaves
- coolfer
- comets, stars, & moons
- donewaiting
- ear farm
- excellent online
- exitfare
- extrawack!
- fluxblog
- for the records
- gorilla vs. bear
- hard to find a friend
- harmonium
- heartache with hard work
- the hype machine
- i am fuel, you are friends
- idolator
- i guess i'm floating
- ijamming
- information leafblower
- junkmedia's world of sound
- kingblind
- lacunae
- largehearted boy
- the late greats
- leaky sparrow
- little hits
- more cowbell
- music for robots
- muzzle of bees
- my old kentucky blog
- pitchfork
- quick before it melts
- said the gramophone
- scenestars
- shake your fist
- sixeyes
- skatterbrain
- song, by toad
- the sound of indie
- stereogum
- the rawking refuses to stop
- too much rock
- torr
- unfinished
- yeti don't dance
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.
other frequent haunts
boston-centric
- boston.com
- boston phoenix
- boston online
- boston common
- boston blogs
- citybeams boston
- craigslist boston
- exploit boston!
- boston wireless
- 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
( < | > random list )
some cele-bloggers
