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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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Tuesday, January 15, 2008 2008 Record Releases On My Radar It's the first notable new music release day of 2008 here in the States (thanks mostly to the Magnetic Fields), so I thought I'd write a bit about a bunch of albums I'm really looking forward to hearing in the coming calendar year. Hopes are high for many of these, so it'll be interesting to check back with my list when I pull together my next year-end list; not just to see which ones lived up to expectations, but to see how many weren't even on my radar. As I mentioned, today's the day that the Magnetic Fields release "Distortion" (full stream), along with the "Like Bees" EP from Dirty On Purpose (stream it), so those will keep my ears very occupied until January 29th, when Ida's "Lovers Prayers" arrives on Polyvinyl (Mp3 / preorder here, cd and vinyl). That day also sees the release of a new Joe Jackson album entitled "Rain", and despite his tendency to shift stylistic gears on a dime, I'll always give new JJ releases a shot, just based on his first two 1979 rock records alone. Part of my formative musical years, they were. Another disc out that day that I'm intrigued about is Chris Walla's solo disc, "Field Music" (Mp3), as I'm curious to hear what he sounds like outside the confines of Death Cab For Cutie (and hey, the guy wrote a song titled "David Narcizo"). February brings a bunch more good stuff, including Nada Surf's "Lucky" (Mp3) and Bob Mould's "District Line" (Mp3) on 2/5, and British Sea Power's promising "Do You Like Rock Music?" (Mp3) a week later. Thanks to Merge, I've already heard American Music Club's "The Golden Age", out on 2/19, and it may be as good as anything they've ever done. Still need to spend more time with it, though. Also on Feb. 19th is the Mountain Goats' "Heretic Pride" and Monade's "Monstre Cosmic". For those not aware, Monade is the name that Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier adopted for her own songs, and it has long since evolved from a bedroom project to a full-band experience. I liked 2005's "A Few Steps More" enough to be more than interested in the follow-up. The second month of the year wraps up with Beach House's "Devotion" (Mp3) on the 29th, but the February release I'm most excited about is probably the self-titled debut disc from Maybe It's Reno, which is essentially a Bridget Cross-fronted Unrest reunion. Unrest/Air Miami/Flin Flon mainman Mark Robinson is on guitar and backing vox, and who else but Phil Krauth is behind the drum kit. So look for that on Teenbeat in February, or maybe a month later in... March looks a bit light at the moment, with new albums from Dan Bejar's Destroyer ("Trouble In Dreams" on 3/11) and Elbow ("The Seldom Seen Kid" at some point), but I just learned that it finishes with a pleasant surprise: The debut album of a band that consists of 3/4ths of the much-missed Hot Snakes, who called it quits in 2005. The new project is called The Night Marchers, they're fronted by the Snakes' John Reis, and will release "See You In Magic" on March 25th (tracklisting at PunkNews). Anything even remotely Hot Snakes/Drive Like Jehu/RFTC-related and I'm there. Speaking of which, vocalist Rick Froberg just unveiled his new band, Obits, over the weekend in NYC, and the show was written up at 17 Dots. So perhaps we'll see new music from those guys in '08 as well. April starts off strong with, at last, a new album of Sun Kil Moon material ("April" out on 4/1, stream a song here) and some fresh R.E.M. in the form of "Accelerate", also on the day of fools. That'll be followed by releases from some other old friends on the 8th: Billy Bragg gives us "Mr. Love & Justice" and the Breeders deliver "Mountain Battles". Also out sometime in April is M83's "Saturdays". All I've got noted for May so far is Death Cab For Cutie's not-yet-titled follow-up to "Plans", and Shearwater's "Rook", coming out on Matador. Oh, and that's also the month that Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning releases his "BSS presents..." solo record. If that measures up to Kevin Drew's solo outing, it'll find itself on my year-end-faves as well. June promises Margot & The Nuclear So And So's first for Epic, "Animal", but not much else this far out. The rest of the year is a jumble of maybes and don't-know-whens, with hopeful releases from a bunch of my faves. Let's get listy, shall we?: 2008 should bring us more new music from David Bazan's Black Cloud, The Cure, My Bloody Valentine (believe that when I hear it), the "Beautiful Noise" documentary score from Medicine's Brad Laner (howsabout a soundtrack?), The Futureheads, Albert Hammond Jr., Autolux (truly hope so), Built To Spill, Spiritualized, Sigur Ros, The Verve (more "All In The Mind", less "Bittersweet Symphony", please), Will Oldham (there's something being mastered at this very moment), Silver Jews ("Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea" bumped until later '08), Tokyo Police Club (full-lengther on Saddle Creek), The Stills (in the studio right now), and at very long last, The Notwist. Notwist manager Florian Steinleitner responded with a hearty "Yes!" when I asked if we'll be hearing new music from the band this year, and this confirms it. It's been far too long of a wait since 2002's "Neon Golden", so hopefully we'll get a solid release date from City Slang soon. And lastly, the 2008 arrival I'm most anticipating (and this will not be a shocker) is the September release of The New Year's third disc for Touch & Go. Drummer Chris Brokaw confirmed the album's release month here, and T&G has just put up a placeholder page right here. Oh, catalog number TG324, you and I are going to be spending a lot of time together this autumn, mark my words. So, what did I miss? There must be some glaring omissions, so go ahead, embarrass me. What single planned 2008 release excites you the most? Even if I mentioned it above, let me know in the comments. But if it's a Boston-based band, hold those horses, as I've got an in-progress post about what a bunch of area faves have planned in the year ahead...  |
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