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recommended boston area events

thursday, july 2nd

the church

adam franklin (swervedriver)

@ showcase live, foxborough


sunday, july 5th

city breathing

deep sea diver

adam rich

steve pardo & lindley cameron

@ the middle east upstairs


saturday, july 11th

the luxury

the click five

midatlantic

aloud

@ the paradise


sunday, july 12th

the dead weather

screaming females

@ the house of blues


saturday, july 18th

butterflies

travels

@ pa's lounge


sunday, july 19th

grand duchy (w/frank black)

the bunnies

van elk (w/valerie mistle thrush)

@ the middle east downstairs


sunday, july 19th

lymbyc systym

coralcola

the cush

the pandas

@ the middle east upstairs


monday, july 20th

you can be a wesley (cd release!)

casper & the cookies

everything, now!

magic magic

@ the middle east upstairs


monday, july 20th

green day

the bravery

@ the garden


tuesday, july 21st

mark eitzel & marc capelle

performing american music club songs

@ the lizard lounge


friday, july 24th

varsity drag (cd release!)

the grownup noise

winterpills

brendan boogie & the best intentions

@ the middle east upstairs


sunday, july 26th

pete yorn

@ the house of blues


tuesday, july 28th

cass mccombs

jennifer o'connor & band

mike bones

@ tt the bears


wednesday, july 29th

foreign born

the veils

faces on film

@ tt the bears


thursday, july 30th

justin ripley & his band

@ pa's lounge


friday, july 31st

destroyer (dan bejar)

iran

wooden wand

@ the paradise


friday, july 31st

depeche mode

peter bjorn & john

@ great woods


saturday, august 1st

alasdair roberts

@ lorem ipsum books, inman square


saturday, august 1st

wheat (cd release show!)

the xyz affair

@ great scott


sunday, august 2nd

soft power (featuring mary timony)

gramercy arms (featuring dave derby)

@ tt the bears


monday, august 3rd

billy bragg

@ the berklee performance center


monday, august 3rd

tinted windows

(james iha, adam schlesinger,

taylor hanson, & bun e. carlos)

@ the paradise


monday, august 3rd

coldplay

elbow

kitty daisy & lewis

@ the comcast center


wednesday, august 5th

the rural alberta advantage

joshua english (ex-six going on seven)

with lisa molinaro

baby teeth

@ the middle east upstairs


wednesday, august 5th

arctic monkeys

modey lemon

@ the paradise


wednesday, august 5th

joe pernice (solo show & book tour)

@ the brattle theatre (2 shows)


wednesday and thursday

august 5th and 6th

paul mccartney

@ fenway park


friday, august 7th

the electric prunes

love

sky saxon (of the seeds)

@ the middle east downstairs


saturday, august 8th

blondie

pat benatar

@ the b.o.a. pavilion


wednesday, august 12th

the warlocks

@ great scott


wednesday, august 12th

the pretenders

cat power

juliette lewis

@ the bank of american pavilion


thursday, august 13th

bat for lashes

@ the paradise


friday, august 14th

six finger satellite

@ tt the bears


sunday, august 16th

the decemberists

heartless bastards

@ mountain park, holyoke


sunday, august 16th

trashcan sinatras

@ tt the bears


monday, august 17th

the breeders

@ the paradise


friday, august 21st

choo choo la rouge (cd release!)

the big disappointments

impossible hair

the operators

@ pa's lounge


saturday & sunday

august 22nd & 23rd

bruce springsteen & the e street band

@ the comcast center / great woods


saturday, august 29th

caspain

actors & actresses

irepress

arms & sleepers

@ tt the bears


sunday, august 30th

the flaming lips

explosions in the sky

stardeath and white dwarfs

@ the boa pavilion


thursday, september 3rd

kay hanley (letters to cleo)

antisocialites

ingenue

@ tt the bears


saturday, september 5th

the pains of being pure at heart

cymbals eat guitars

depreciation guild

@ the middle east downstairs


saturday, september 5th

pet shop boys

@ the house of blues


thursday, september 10th

autolux

sleepy sun

@ the paradise


thursday, september 10th

dirty three

@ the i.c.a. boston


friday, september 11th

kings of leon

glasvegas

@ the comcast center / great woods


saturday, september 12th

the cult

performing 'love' in its entirety

@ the house of blues


sunday, september 13th

down

melvins

@ the house of blues


tuesday, september 15th

the horrors

@ the paradise


saturday & sunday

september 19th & 20th

boston lebowski fest

with movie screening & bowling

@ the house of blues & kings


sunday, september 20th

u2

snow patrol

@ gillette stadium


tuesday, september 22nd

son volt

@ the paradise


friday, september 25th

township

the lights out (cd release!)

reverse

gravehaven

@ tt the bears


friday, september 25th

charlatans uk

hatcham social

@ the paradise


saturday, september 26th

kmfdm

@ the house of blues


sunday, september 20th

maximo park

@ the paradise


monday, september 28th

sunny day real estate

@ the house of blues


wednesday, september 30th

mono

maserati

@ the middle east downstairs


sunday, october 4th

the "loud & rich" tour

richard thompson &

loudon wainwright iii

performing solo & together

@ the sanders theatre, harvard


wednesday, october 7th

bob mould

@ the paradise


saturday, october 10th

the psychedelic furs

happy monday

@ the house of blues


wednesday, october 14th

loney dear

asobi seksu

@ great scott


wednesday, october 21st

mum

@ the somerville theatre


saturday, october 31st

pinback

@ the paradise


friday, november 13th

janeane garofalo

rob riggle

two shows @ the wilbur theatre


visit tourfilter for more shows



Friday, April 11, 2008

Friday Music Miscellany

This will be brief. There are things you must know...


Tickets for all the films showing during the upcoming Independent Film Festival of Boston are now on sale. Go get 'em, procrastinators will suffer. I'll have a post next week focusing on all the music-related aspects of this year's fest.


Mission of Burma keeps their rocking career retrospective going with not one, but two shows at the Paradise here in Boston this summer. On Thursday, June 12th, they'll run through the entirety of their 1980 "Signals, Calls and Marches" release, and On Friday the 13th, we'll be lucky enough to get a complete live performance of their 1983 "Vs" record (as you know, both were just reissued and expanded). A pre-sale for two-day passes ended this morning, but individual tickets for the general admission gigs can be had here starting at 10am on Thursday, April 17th.

If you're a New Yorker, you'll get your own version of the MoB album run-throughs on June 14th and 15th at the Bowery Ballroom. Tickets here, on sale at noon today.


Mission of Burma drummer Peter Prescott further embraces his musical past by taking part in another Boston band reunion: The Volcano Suns are coming up for air again. I totally missed this when it was announced in December, but Harp details what will be the band's second reunion tour (a few shows took place in 2005), which will coincide with the Taang Records reissue of a double-cd collecting two albums: "The Bright Orange Years" and "All Night Lotus Party". While the 2005 reunion had Prescott playing with David Kleiler and Bob Weston (who is remastering the reissue), this year's tour has the original lineup of Prescott, Jeff Weigand and Jon Willams hitting the road.

According to the article, the reissue was originally planned for this month, but there's been no news for while, so hopefully that means it's only delayed a bit.


That Hallelujah the Hills free EP I wrote about last week is now available for your downloading and listening pleasure. The 7-track "Prepare To Qualify" EP will help us pass the time between HtH's excellent debut disc and their sophomore record, which should be out next year. The tracks, along with lyrics, and downloadable artwork, can be grabbed here. The band plays a release show tomorrow night at Great Scott with Ho-Ag, Pretty & Nice (update: P&N had to bow out due to injury, but Big Digits are stepping up to the plate in their place), Thunderhole, and DJ Mark Pearson. Tickets here. It'll be a busy day for 'em, as they're also playing a G.S. Rock-n-Romp kid-friendly show that afternoon. Details here. If B was a little older, we'd be there.


Archers of Loaf / Crooked Fingers frontman Eric Bachmann recorded a session for Spinner's Interface recently, running through a few acoustic numbers, including one of the greatest songs of all time, the Archer's "Web In Front". Here's his solo version...
Mp3: Eric Bachmann - "Web In Front" (live acoustic)
For the rest of the performance, with audio and video of Eric doing "Devil's Train", "Little Bird", and "Run, Lt., Run", hit up Spinner. Eric mentions in the interview portion that another Crooked Fingers album is in the works. Very nice. Also cool to see a Richard Thompson name check, although the misspelling is a bummer. AOL needs to hire another proofreader.


Some shows on Tokyo Police Club's upcoming tour are already selling out, and once their debut full-length "Elephant Shell" arrives on April 22nd, more will likely follow. It's a great record, with short, sharp shocks of ultra-catchy songs that reveal a few new tricks we didn't hear on their inaugural EP. They put on an excellent show at Great Scott when they first hit town in 2006, nice to see 'em graduate to the Paradise stage relatively quickly. Tickets for the Boston show are still available, but not for long I'd wager, especially with Smoosh and Meligrove Band sharing the bill.

Check out the video for TPC's "Tessellate", and download the Mp3s for two other songs ("Juno" and "In A Cave") right here.


Psyched about all those Rhino Replacements reissues I mentioned recently? They're coming out in just a couple weeks, and to wet your whistle, Enough Cowbell directs us to some classic live 'Mats video hosted over at their old label, Twin/Tone. We're talkin' 1981-style here, people. Two full sets of Quicktime vids, with seriously early material and covers. Pure gold.


NPR will stream the entirety of Nada Surf's performance tomorrow night (Saturday 4/12) at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club, starting around, well, 9:30pm EST. Calexico's Martin Wenk will join the band on keys and trumpet, and the set should be archived for listening later on.


A reminder: Tickets for Radiohead's August 13th show at the Mansfield, MA Tweeter Center go on sale tomorrow morning at 10am via Live Nation. Brooklyn's Grizzly Bear opens up.


Boston-area old-school videogame geeks take note: Tomorrow I'll be roadtripping to New Hampshire's Weir's Beach for a visit to gamer's paradise Funspot. If you've seen the excellent King of Kong documentary, you know what I'm talking about. I've got a bag full of leftover tokens from my last trip in 2003, and it's the perfect prescription for a rainy spring Saturday. So who's with me?










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