Political Musings and Acoustic Guitars

Why do the dreamboats always roll into town when Bostonist goes away for the weekend? (Boozy better be worth the bus ride.) Tonight at 7pm, David Rees will be chatting with the Harvard kids. Rees is the genius behind Get Your War On, the clip-art comic that blends equal parts sarcasm and hatred for the Bush administration. GYWO appears regularly in Rolling Stone, and Rees donated all the proceeds from the Get Your War On II collection to help clear landmines in Afganistan. Bostonist met Rees in 2003 at a Million Year Picnic signing, and we're still swooning.

Tomorrow, M. Ward is performing at the Museum of Fine Arts. He's part of the "let's get the hipster and indie rocker demographic" series that has included Ida, Antony and the Johnsons and, in April, Magnolia Electric Co. and The Books. Ward's fourth album, Transistor Radio, came out last week, filled with raspy-voiced jems about insomnia, boats, and at least one charming love song. Bostonist was happy to read recently that M. Ward's old man vocals are not the result of years of cigarettes. Apparently he started singing and recording when he was still living with the 'rents, so he had to be very quiet.