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recommended boston area events

saturday, march 13th

butch walker & the black widows

will dailey

@ the paradise


sunday, march 14th

a special screening of the

white stripes tour documentary

"under the great white northern lights"

free admission / prize pack drawing

10pm @ the otherside cafe


sunday, march 14th

carbon leaf

@ 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


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

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


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

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

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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Friday, January 30, 2009

My Future Faves: Upcoming 2009 Releases

New-music-wise, 2009 has been off to a semi-slow start for me, with just a few eagerly-anticipated albums released within this first month, including Andrew Bird's "Noble Beast", Loney Dear's "Dear John", and just a few days ago, SPC ECO's download-only debut "3-D" (that's Dean Garcia of Curve's new band with his daughter Rose on vocals). I'm also semi-obsessed with The Hush Now's new one which, while technically available for a couple months, gets its official release party in a couple weeks (and can be downloaded for free). While those four albums have been plenty enough to occupy my ears, things really pick up with February's arrival.

Like last year, I took some time to pull together a list of discs officially scheduled for release in the year ahead (and some rumored to be) that I'm most excited to hear. This practice makes my year-end list more interesting by contrast, just to see which bands let me down, and which ones weren't even on my radar. Speaking of that, if there's anything not listed that you think I'd dig, leave a comment (and yes, this is implied permission for promo-people to go nuts). Keep in mind, though, if there's something blatantly conspicuous in its absence, there probably be a good reason.

I also threw in some other random events and releases at the bottom that have me very much looking forward to the remainder of the year ahead...

fyi, I'll be updating this list randomly with schedule changes and new releases as I find out about them.
February
  • Heartless Bastards - "The Mountain"
          (Feb. 3rd on Fat Possum)
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - self-titled debut
          (Feb. 3rd on Slumberland)
  • Travels - "The Hot Summer"
          (Feb. 14th / release party on Feb. 14th @ PA's)
  • "Dark Was The Night" - A Red Hot benefit compilation
          (Feb. 17th on 4AD / listening party on Feb. 16th at River Gods)
  • Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3: "Goodnight Oslo"
          (Feb. 17th on Yep Roc)
  • Asobi Seksu - "Hush"
          (Feb. 17th on Polyvinyl)
  • Beirut - "March of the Zapotec"
          (Feb. 17th on Ba Da Bing)
  • M. Ward - "Hold Time"
          (Feb. 17th on Merge)
  • Circle Of Buzzards - debut EP
          (Jason Loewenstein & Bob D'Amico, demos here)

    March
  • Erik Blood - "The Way We Live"
          (March 3rd, self-released)
  • Bishop Allen - "Grrr..."
          (March 10th on Dead Oceans)
  • Bell Orchestre - "As Seen Through Windows"
          (March 10th on Arts & Crafts)
  • Julie Doiron - "I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day"
          (March 10th on Jagjaguwar)
  • Bonnie Prince Billy - "Beware"
          (March 17th on Drag City)
  • Superdrag - "Industry Giants"
          (March 17th on Superdrag Sound Laboratories / Thirty Tigers)
  • Decemberists - "The Hazards of Love"
          (March 24th on Capitol)
  • Adam Franklin - "Spent Bullets"
          (March 31st on Second Motion Records)
  • Kristin Hersh - "Speedbath"
          (self-released, demos downloadable now)
  • The Sea Navy - self-released sophomore album

    April
  • Bill Callahan (Smog) - "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle"
          (April 14th on Drag City)
  • Boy In Static - "Candy Cigarette"
  • Camera Obscura - "My Maudline Career"
    (April 21st on 4AD)
          (April 14th on Fake Four Inc/Circle Into Square)
  • Bob Mould - "Life and Times"
          (April 7th on Anti)
  • Grand Archives - TBA
          (on Sub Pop)
  • Silversun Pickups - "Swoon"
          (April 14th on Dangerbird)
  • Trashcan Sinatras - "In The Music"
          (self-released)

    Sometime in Spring?
  • Dylan In The Movies - debut full-length
          (self-released / pre-order info here)
  • 50 Foot Wave - "Power + Light" EP (on vinyl - stream it here)
  • The Long Winters - TBA
          (on Barsuk)
  • You Can Be A Wesley - debut full-length
          (self-released)
  • The Wooden Birds (Andrew Kenny of AmAnSet / David Wingo of Ola Podrida) - "Magnolia"
          (on Barsuk, tracklist here)

    Elsewhen in '09?
  • The Album Leaf (Fall '09)
  • Autolux
  • David Bazan's Black Cloud
  • Bon Savants - sophomore album
  • Built to Spill - "There Is No Enemy" (Fall)
  • Caspian (September)
  • Chatelaine (Toni Halliday of Curve)
  • The Cure (that supposed 'darker' companion album to ""4:13 Dream)
  • Clogs - Possibly in May
  • Hallelujah the Hills - "Colonial Drones" (on Misra)
  • Idaho
  • A Will Johnson/Jason Molina collaboration album (October on AK/Misra)
  • Kings of Convenience - "Quiet is the New Loud"
  • Magnolia Electric Co. - "A Map of the Falling Stars"
  • The One AM Radio - TBA (Fall / Demo here)
  • Joe Pernice - "It Feels So Good When I Stop" (covers album, soundtrack to his book)
  • Joe Pernice - "Murphy Bed" (all original, sometime in '09)
  • Pow Wow (Mary Timony, Jonah Takagi, & Winston Yu)
  • Sea Wolf
  • Six Finger Satellite
  • Snowden
  • Sonic Youth - "The Eternal" (June on Matador)
  • Radio Dept. - "Clinging to a Scheme" (on Labrador, of course)
  • Wheat - "White Ink, Black Ink" (demo here)

    Maybe? New material in progress?...
  • Bottomless Pit (update here)
  • The Broken River Prophet (hitting the studio soon)
  • Explosions in the Sky
  • Midlake - "Courage of Others" (tentative title)
  • The In Out
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • MBV (I'll list this every year until it happens)
  • The National
  • Rival Schools (look here)
  • Summer at Shatter Creek - sophomore album
  • Ted Leo & the Pharmacists
  • Tristeza

  • Other random happenings I'm looking forward to in '09
  • The Merge Records 20th Anniversary Fest in July...
  • ... and my Merge Score! subscription, all year long
  • Swirlies live at the Middle East in March
  • Throwing Muses with 50 Foot Wave at the MidEast in March, too
  • Kristin Hersh's auto-biography
  • The live return of The Jesus Lizard (fingers crossed for a Boston show)
  • The return of Versus ("we'll be back in 2009")
  • The Wedding Present "Bizarro" album 20th anniversary tour (so sayeth Gedge)
  • Michael Showalter & Michael Ian Black's new sketch show on Comedy Central
  • The fall debut of "Stargate: Universe"
  • More bands I like getting added to the ATP New York 2009 lineup
  • The loooong-awaited next George RR Martin novel, "A Dance With Dragons"
  • And lastly, hopefully, the very last issue of Ellis & Cassaday's "Planetary"
  • Yes, those last three are very wishful thoughts, but I remain optimistic...












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