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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
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 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
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
@ 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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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Under The Gun A personal challenge: Let's see if I can actually finish up a post during my lunch hour. Bits on Kristin Hersh, the Shins, Wheat, Silkworm and more follows...   Throwing Muses / 50 Foot Wave frontwoman Kristin Hersh will be releasing her next solo album, "Learn To Sing Like A Star" in late January 2007 on Yep Roc in the U.S. and 4AD elsewhere. Last month she stopped into Seattle's KEXP's studio to play a few of the new numbers and an old TM song while she was in town for a solo show to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the debut Muses record. A stream of her four-song performance is archived on KEXP's site right here, during which she debuted "Winter", "Under the Gun", "Sugarbaby", and played 1986's "Soul Soldier". For a taste, here's one of the new tracks as an mp3...Go check out the rest, and have a look at the album artwork and tracklisting at Throwing Music. Really looking forward to that January 23rd release date. A couple weeks before that we'll get a preview in the form of a single for the song "In Shock", which will include three non-album tracks: 2 new Kristin songs ("Window Pane" & "Blackstone") along with an "eerie, dark version" of an Appalachian folk song called "Poor Wayfaring Stranger". In the meantime, make sure you bookmark or subscribe to the feed for Kristin's blog over at Throwing Music. Some of her entries are as thought-provoking as her lyrics can be. Portland, Oregon's Powell's Books invited her to contribute a guest post (entitled "Korporate Konsumer Kulture" to their blog recently as well, so give that a read. Kristin also took part in Powell's most recent "Bookcast", reading one of her best blog entries for an audience, and performing acoustic versions of her song "Beestung" and the Muses brilliant "Delicate Cutters", each with brief spoken intros. Here's a direct link to the spoken blog mp3 and "Beestung"... Check out all the rest right here. "Phantom Limb", the first single from The Shins' upcoming "Wincing the Night Away", has been unsurprisingly getting tons of radio play, especially on Sirius' Left of Center channel and KEXP. Curious to hear more (and as someone who doesn't do leaks), I made sure to check out their November 3rd live performance on KEXP when they were in NYC for CMJ (initialization overload). They played "Kissing the Lipless", "Girl Inform Me", "Turn A Square", and "Pressed in a Book", but just two from the out-in-January disc: "Phantom Limb" and "Australia". For just two more days you can listen to the entire Shins session by going to the KEXP streaming archive, selecting November 3rd from the dropdown, and entering 1:26pm into the time boxes. Click go, choose your media type, and you're off. If you miss it, here's the excellent "Australia"... While the glorious Silkworm rightly called it quits after the tragic death of drummer Michael Dahlquist last year, their official end could actually be marked as December 6th, 2006 when the 12xu label releases their final recording, the EP titled "Chokes". Six tracks: five originals and a cover of Dylan's "Spanish Harlem Incident". The originals were all tracked last year by Steve Albini, and the cover is actually a live recording from a New Year's Eve 2000 show by the Crust Brothers, which was Silkworm plus Mr. Stephen Malkmus. Fittingly, Dahlquist sings lead on that one, a perfect bookend to the released output of one of the best bands there ever was. 12xu has made the first track from the EP available for download... Damn it's good to hear that man behind his drum kit again. The definition of bittersweet. The rollercoaster ride of a career that Boston (ok, Taunton) band Wheat is on keeps going as they finally release some new music in the coming months. First up is a five song EP titled "That's exactly what I wanted...exactly that", which you can pre-order at Empyrean Records so you get it when it's released on December 15th. If you order up before this week finishes up, you'll get the mini-album plus "a limited-edition, hand-numbered, silkscreened poster, and t-shirt". Wheat fans, go get 'em. The band has made one track from the EP available... Next year comes the full-length follow up, "Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square". You could spend a mighty long time navigating the bands official site (which includes lots of buried lyrics for lots of random songs, including for the song above), which you might as well do while you download a wealth of shows (and albums!) over at the Wheat Live site. If you've never heard "Hope & Adams", I can only envy you for the first listen you're in for. Great, great stuff. An absolute live audio goldmine: A free online streaming archive of old King Biscuit Flower Hour & Fillmore live shows has been created at Concert Vault. 300 live soundboard-sourced shows, many of them classics, all just a few clicks away from your ears. You can stream whole shows or individual tracks, up to you. Just create a free account, log in, and click the "concerts" button to see a list of the 300 shows that are already up, and get over there quick before it disappears or they start charging... it just feels too good to be Here are some direct links to a few of the shows I've been listening to today (you'll have to register first for them to work), including a couple recorded decades ago here in Boston... And I'm not even halfway through the alphabet (ok, yes, I skipped ahead for the Neil Young). So get listening. If you're not in the mood to search around, just fire up their Vault Radio player and you'll get a playlist of random live tracks streamed for you. To save you a little digging, here's one of the songs you'll find in there, a relative rarity from that amazing 1984 set from the Cure. While the song "Forever" has often been performed live, it's never played the same way twice. Clocking in at over 9 minutes, this is probably the only time I'll be able to use the descriptive phrase "goth improv jam"... Jordan Jeffares of Snowden (who return to Boston in a couple weeks to play Great Scott with iForward, Russia!) made a solo AOL/Spinner Interface appearance last week, performing ultra-stripped down versions of four songs. While the full set won't be posted until early December, they've made his version of their debut album's title track available a little early. Head over here to stream "Anti-Anti". Actually, since Jay asked so nicely, here's the track for ya... Hit up this link in a few weeks for the rest. Greg Dulli's Twilight Singers have made a new/old song available to stream on their MySpace page. "The Lure Would Prove Too Much" was actually recorded back in 2004 for their latest album, "Powder Burns", but was ditched because it "didn't quite fit". The band is in Boston at the Paradise Killer Boston-area show alert: The Evens are coming to town. The four-fisted machine that is Fugazi/Dischord guy Ian MacKaye and drummer Amy Farina are playing at the Massachusetts College of Art's Pozen Center ( 621 Huntington Ave.) on Friday, December 8th. Doors are at 7, the one-band show starts at 8, it's all ages, and a mere five bucks (thank you once again, Mr. MacKaye). No advance tickets for this one, only at the door, so if you're late you may be fashionable, but you also might not get in. Check out the stylin' show poster right here. Partake of some tracks from the Evens over at this fan-run MySpace page, or head to the Southern Records site, where they've made a song from their new album, "Get Evens", available for download... So y'know how I said at the top of this post that I wanted to finish it during my lunch hour? That was a week ago. Yeesh. And, of course, a bunch of the stuff I wrote about popped up on other music blogs in the meantime. Good thing I don't get paid for this, eh?  |
sparklehorse
live at the paradise
in boston, mass.
on monday, february 26th, 2009
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music audiocasts
surf-worthy
- amie's flickr page
- andi's nonsequiturs
- bitter-girl
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- off on a tangent
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- the shy turnip
- sooz's dot com
- steve's f.r.h.m.
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- boston.com
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- exploit boston!
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