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wednesday and thursday
february 10th and 11th
the magnetic fields
laura barrett
@ the wilbur theatre
thursday, february 11th
v66 reunion
with rod & cones, big city rock,
the fools, o positive, animotion,
right turn, digney fingus, ernie boch jr.,
lizzie borden and the axes, & more
@ house of blues
thursday, february 11th
found audio
the first annual
the rockefeller fortune
boone
@ oliver's / cask 'n flagon
friday, february 12th
kings of convenience
franklin for short
@ the paradise
saturday, february 13th
one happy island
human hearts (with franklin bruno)
boy genius
free! @ toad, cambridge
saturday, february 13th
a benefit for haiti
the okay win
new son rising
the elevators
@ copperfields
saturday, february 13th
tegan & sara
holly miranda
@ the orpheum
sunday, february 14th
we were promised jetpacks
bad veins
royal bangs
@ the middle east downstairs
monday, february 15th
a benefit for haiti
with big bear, ketman,
chris brokaw, monique ortiz,
art decade, & the dirty dishes
@ the middle east downstairs
tuesday, wednesday, & thursday
february 16th, 17th, & 18th
3 nights with jonathan richman
@ the middle east upstairs
thursday, february 18th
editors
the antlers
@ house of blues
friday, february 19th
28 degrees taurus
el jezel
the broken river prophet
metal feathers
@ o'briens, allston
friday, february 19th
taken by trees
el perro del mar
@ the cambridge ymca theatre
saturday, february 20th
dawes
corey chisel & the wandering sons
jason boesel (rilo kiley)
@ great scott
monday, february 22nd
boy without god
ryan lee crosby quartet
the wailing wall
sleepy very sleepy
@ tt the bears
wednesday, february 24th
wild beasts
still life still
dj carbo
@ great scott
saturday, february 27th
hadoken (cd release)
caspian
irepress
slowest runner
@ tt the bears
monday, march 1st
rogue wave
@ the paradise
tuesday, march 9th
jet
crash kings
@ the paradise
monday, march 15th
one happy island
standard fare
summer cats
@ great scott
monday, march 15th
letting up despite great faults
the brother kite
plumerai
singing bridges
@ the middle east upstairs
wednesday, march 17th
joanna newsom
@ the sanders theatre, harvard
wednesday, march 17th
henry rollins (spoken word)
@ the somerville theatre
sunday, march 21st
the clientele
field music
@ great scott
saturday, march 20th
air
am
@ berklee performance center
thursday, march 25th
aloud
action camp
hello ninja
@ great scott
thursday, march 25th
the donnas
@ the paradise
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
@ 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
nada surf
@ the paradise
sunday, april 4th
serena maneesh
depreciation guild
@ tt the bears
tuesday, april 6th
wilco
@ the orpheum
wednesday, april 7th
florence & the machine
@ the paradise
wednesday, april 7th
rocky votolato
brooke waggoner
@ great scott
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
@ the paradise
saturday, april 10th
pissed jeans
confines
sqrm
@ great scott
monday, april 12th
the wedding present
play their 1989 lp 'bizarro'
with openers girl in a coma
@ the middle east downstairs
thursday, april 15th
red sparowes
doomriders
@ the middle east downstairs
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
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
@ the paradise
tuesday, april 20th
quasi
let's wrestle
@ the middle east downstairs
saturday, april 24th
los campesinos!
here we go magic
@ 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
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
monday, may 3rd
yeasayer
sleigh bells
@ the paradise
thursday, may 6th
shout out louds
@ the paradise
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
tuesday, may 25th
smittens
allo darlin'
one happy island
horrowitz
@ toad
wednesday, may 26th
reverend horton heat
cracker
miss derringer
@ the house of blues
wednesday, june 2nd
the national
@ the house of blues
friday, june 4th
brian jonestown massacre
@ the paradise
saturday, june 19th
james taylor
carole king
@ the garden
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 2008: My Favorite Music I've finally come to accept the inevitable tardiness of my yearly list of musical faves, and really, it's only tardy when compared to everyone else's list. Y'see, I listen to way too much music in the waning months of the year, using extra-long workdays and holiday travels to catch up on discs I haven't spent enough time with. A couple of the albums below didn't even hit my ears until last month, but rose quickly above many others. And then I need these first few quieter weeks of the new year to let some sounds settle, to narrow down the contenders and pull together this post. So here it is. As with last year, I've come up with an alphabetical list of the 20 discs that defined 2008 for me, along with a couple of EPs that stood out. At the bottom I also rattle off some also-rans, albums I either a) liked a lot but didn't spend enough time with, or b) enjoyed some of but had too many skip-worthy moments. These are the ones that would round out a top 30 or 40, but even I'm not that self-indulgent. I long ago abandoned the futile exercise of numerical ranking, and it should go without saying that these are not the 'best of' the year, just the ones I heard and loved most. And believe me, given my ever-demanding dadly-duties, there is a lot I didn't hear. Hell, I've been listening to something for a few weeks now that should probably be in this list, as it was technically released a couple months back... but I'll save that one for a later post. With each album listed below you'll see a few things -- the titles of my favorite couple tracks, a link to the record label where you can buy the disc directly, and of course, an artist/label/promo-sanctioned downloadable Mp3 from each album. If an Mp3 wasn't officially made available last year, I've included a link to where you can stream some songs instead. Keep an eye out next week for a extensive post about the albums I'm most looking forward to this year (I love looking at last year's version and comparing it to this favorites list). Time permitting, I'm also hoping to pull together a list of last year's live shows that moved me most. But first, the albums...  British Sea Power - "Do You Like Rock Music?" (on Rough Trade) faves: "No Lucifer", "Down On The Ground" Mp3: "Waving Flags"  The Broken River Prophet - "With Infinite Arms To Cradle The Flames" (self-released) faves: "Burned In Place", "She Gives Me Hope" Mp3: "Burned In Place"  Centro-Matic / South San Gabriel - "Dual Hawks" (on Misra Records) Centro-faves: "Quality Strange", "Counting the Scars" SG-faves: "Kept on the Sly", "Alabama Crusade" Mp3: Centro-matic - "I, the Kite" Mp3: South San Gabriel - "Trust To Lose"  Crooked Fingers - "Forfeit / Fortune" (on Constant Artists, Inc. / Red Pig Records) faves: "Cannibals", "Your Control" Mp3: "Phony Revolutions"  Death Cab For Cutie - "Narrow Stairs" (on Atlantic) faves: "Cath", "Long Division" Mp3: "Long Division" (Seattle Session) (via Stereogum)  Land of Talk - "Some Are Lakes" (on Saddle Creek) faves: "Some Are Lakes", "Give Me Back My Heart Attack" Mp3: "Some Are Lakes"  Mogwai - "The Hawk Is Howling" (on Matador Records) faves: "The Sun Smells Too Loud", "Thank You Space Expert" Mp3: "The Sun Smells Too Loud"  My First Days On Junk - "No Order" (self-released) faves: "Count Me In, I'm Good To Go", "Try Hard" Mp3: "Count Me In, I'm Good To Go"  New Radiant Storm King - "Drinking in the Moonlight" (on Darla Records) faves: "Clouds Cover Everything", "Eraser" Mp3: "Senseless"  The New Year - "The New Year" (on Touch & Go) faves: "X Off Days", "MMV" Mp3: "The Company I Can Get"  The Notwist - "The Devil, You + Me" (on Domino) faves: "Gravity", "Boneless" Mp3: "Good Lies"  Plus Minus - "Xs On Your Eyes" (on Absolutely Kosher) faves: "Unsung", "X's On Your Eyes" Mp3: "Unsung"  Retribution Gospel Choir - "Retribution Gospel Choir" (on Caldo Verde) faves: "Take Your Time", "What She Turned Into" Mp3: "Somebody's Someone" Download: Full live shows @ the Live Music Archive  School of Seven Bells - "Alpinisms" (on Ghostly Int'l) faves: "Connjur", "Face to Face on High Places" Mp3: "Connjur" Mp3: "Connjur (acoustic)" (from the Stereogum Decomposed Session)  Sigur Ros - "Med Sut I Eyrum Vit Spilum Endalaust" (on XL Recordings) faves: "Inni Mar Syugur Vitlajsingur", "Vid Spilum Endalaust" Mp3: "Gobbledigook"  Stereolab - "Chemical Chords" (on 4AD) faves: "Three Women", "Vortical Phonotheque" Mp3: "Three Women"  Sun Kil Moon - "April" (on Caldo Verde) faves: "Moorestown", "Tonight in Bilbao" Stream "Moorestown" at Caldo Verde and more songs at MySpace  Tokyo Police Club - "Elephant Shell" (on Saddle Creek) faves: "Juno", "Listen To The Math" Mp3: "Juno (Ra Ra Riot/Andrew Maury Remix)"  The Wedding Present - "El Rey" (on Manifesto) faves: "Palisades, "The Thing I Like Best..." Stream songs at MySpace  Wye Oak - "If Children" (on Merge Records) faves: "Warning", "I Don't Feel Young" Mp3: "Warning" (more Mp3s at their site) And a couple of 2008 EPs I really dug...  Bottomless Pit - "Congress" EP (self-released on vinyl/cd, on Comedy Minus One digitally) faves: All four tracks (Hey, it's Bottomless Pit) Mp3: "Fish Eyes"  50 Foot Wave - "Power + Light" EP (self-released) faves: the whole epic 26-minute beast Stream in its entirety at CASHmusic (physical release coming soon) The honorable mentions (aka 'If I'd made a longer list'): The Breeders - "Mountain Battles", The Cure - "4:13 Dream", Frightened Rabbit - "Midnight Organ Fight", Grand Archives - "Grand Archives", Ida - "Lovers Prayers", Magnetic Fields - "Distorion", The Night Marchers - "See You In Magic", Okkervil River - "The Stand-Ins", Shearwater - "Rook", The Stills - "Oceans Will Rise", Nada Surf - "Lucky", Ra Ra Riot - "The Rhumb Line", REM - "Accelerate", Silver Jews - "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea".  |
midlake
two copies of their new cd
running until 9am on 2/12
david bazan + his band
live at tt the bear's place
in cambridge, mass.
on tuesday, october 20th, 2009
recent posts on the 'nac...
- Ticket Giveaway: Longwave, Wheat, + Bon Savants @ ...
- Premiere: new Travels track - "Severed"
- New Year's Giveaway: David Bazan on DVD
- Mp3s: (Farewell) Dirty on Purpose in Cambridge, MA...
- A Very Westerberg Christmas
- The (Snowbound) Sunday Fiver
- The Thursday Fiver
- Mp3s: Wedding Present in Cambridge, MA
- The Tuesday Fiver
- Mp3s: Loney Dear in Somerville, MA
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