boston area shows of note: friday, july 25th comedian joel mchale (from the soup) @ the wilbur theatre saturday, july 26th bon iver bowerbirds @ the museum of fine arts sunday, july 27th the new collisions (debut) red quiet melt @ tt the bears sunday, july 27th sunfold antiques @ the middle east upstairs wednesday, july 30th we are scientists @ the middle east downstairs wednesday, july 30th earlimart @ the middle east upstairs wednesday, july 30th spiritualized the dirtbombs @ the wilbur theatre thursday, july 31st the police elvis costello & the impersonators @ the tweeter center friday & saturday august 1st & 2nd eddie vedder liam finn solo @ the opera house saturday, august 2nd wolf parade @ the paradise monday, august 4th coldplay @ the garden tuesday, august 5th (and every tuesday this month) neil cleary's 'doozy' a guest-packed 4-show residency @ the lizard lounge wednesday, august 6th neil halstead (slowdive/mojave 3) rogue wave jack johnson @ the tweeter center saturday, august 9th margot & the nuclear so and so's @ the middle east saturday, august 9th melvins @ the paradise sunday, august 10th ho-ag six finger satellite the in-out certainly, sir @ great scott tuesday, august 12th thao nguyen with the get down stay down david schultz & the skyline pepi ginsberg @ tt the bears tuesday, august 12th (and every tuesday this month) neil cleary's 'doozy' a guest-packed 4-show residency @ the lizard lounge wednesday, august 13th radiohead grizzly bear @ the tweeter center thursday, august 14th grizzly bear violens outside in the courtyard @ the museum of fine arts friday, august 15th the ex getachew mekuria debo band @ the middle east downstairs saturday, august 16th +/- (plus minus) broken river prophet (cd release!) animal hospital ba-na-nas free kickass cupcakes from 9-10pm! @ the middle east upstairs tuesday, august 19th (and every tuesday this month) neil cleary's 'doozy' a guest-packed 4-show residency @ the lizard lounge wednesday, august 20th human league, belinda carlisle, abc, flock of seagulls, naked eyes @ the bank of america pavilion thursday, august 21st yndi halda caspian irepress @ tt the bears friday, august 22nd obits (ex-hot snakes/rftc) @ the middle east saturday, august 23rd amo joy! franklin bruno (from nothing painted blue) one happy island (ep release!) @ the lily pad saturday, august 23rd newbury comics / unnatural axe 30th anniversary bash the meatmen, queers, nasties, unnatural axe, sleazies @ the middle east down tuesday, august 26th the final installment of... neil cleary's 'doozy' a guest-packed august residency @ the lizard lounge wednesday, august 27th liz phair performing 'exile in guyville' @ the paradise wednesday, august 27th xiu xiu prurient @ the paradise monday, september 1st the juan maclean @ the middle east downstairs friday, september 5th silver jews @ the middle east downstairs saturday, september 6th my morning jacket @ the bank of america pavilion sunday, september 7th ryan adams & the cardinals @ the bank of america pavilion tuesday, september 9th paul weller @ the berklee performance center saturday, september 13th wfnx disorientation 2008 the kooks, flogging molly, alkaline trio, rogue wave, and more to be announced @ bank of america pavilion monday, september 15th james @ the paradise tuesday, september 16th a place to bury strangers @ the paradise thursday, september 18th the walkmen @ the middle east downstairs friday, september 19th sigur ros @ the bank of america pavilion friday, september 19th to sunday, september 21st all tomorrow's parties with my bloody valentine, low built to spill, mogwai, shellac, polvo, yo la tengo, lilys, autolux dinosaur jr, mercury rev, & more @ the catskills in nyc monday, september 22nd mogwai fuck buttons @ the wilbur theatre tuesday, september 23rd writer dennis lehane (release day for 'the given day') @ the coolidge corner theatre wednesday, september 24th low @ the museum of fine arts boston saturday, september 27th built to spill performing 'perfect from now on' dinosaur jr. meat puppets @ the orpheum sunday, september 28th the bird and the bee willoughby @ great scott thursday, september 30th boston spaceships (gbv's robert pollard) big dipper @ the paradise sunday, october 5th pinback @ the paradise monday, october 6th the wedding present @ the middle east downstairs monday, october 6th stereolab monade @ the paradise wednesday, october 8th wire @ the middle east downstairs sunday, october 12th the residents @ showcase live, foxboro sunday, october 12th the notwist @ the roxy tuesday, october 14th cold war kids @ the paradise friday, october 17th jonathan richman with drummer tommy larkin @ the somerville theatre saturday, october 18th ra ra riot walter meego the morning benders @ the middle east tuesday & wednesday october 21st & 22nd billy bragg @ the somerville theatre wednesday, october 22nd lyle lovett & john hiatt (acoustic, on stage together) @ the orpheum thursday, october 30th of montreal @ the orpheum saturday, november 1st henry rollins (spoken word) @ the orpheum monday, november 3rd coldplay @ the td banknorth garden 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, ![]() 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? $blog_id=5700275131370610332; $blog_mail="bsearles@gmail.com"; $file_name=$PHP_SELF; global $blog_id, $blog_mail, $file_name; include ("blogkomm/module/blogkomm_show_link.php"); ?> |
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