This week we're trying hard to think about something other than how hard it is out here to be a pimp. Well, ok, maybe Bostonist is looking at the Oscars and just scratching our heads. We didn't know Jon Stewart could be that bland. We're still waiting to hear what Three 6 Mafia were wearing that made the camera all jakey last night. Now that we're done with the Academy we're looking back to Grammy. We're turning it up this week. You'll find Bostonist bruising our eardrums with indie and sippin' tea with classics, there is even the possibilty we're gonna mix them all together.

Monday 3/6:
Hallelujah the Hills
Singer/songwriter Eileen Rose stars her March residency at the Lizard with Hallelujah the Hills, who recently rose from the ashes of now-defunct Stairs.
Lizard Lounge
21+ $5 9PM
Hallelujah the Hills: Myspace | Hallelujah the Hills.mp3 | purchase

Wolf Eyes (also known as the lupine-named band not from Canada) bring noise with Secret Diary.
Great Scott
18+ $10 9PM
Wolf Eyes: Myspace | Stabbed in the face.mp3 | purchase

Tuesday 3/7:
Baker with The Outfielders, Self Righteous Brothers, Frank Smith, Bar Rot, The Animal Closet, Big Dawg & Grieco, Michelle Lewis.
Bad things happen in New York, and it's not just the Yankees. Local band Baker recently had their gear swiped from their trailer after a gig in Brooklyn. Quite a few friends have teamed up for a benefit concert; come show your love or at least your disdain for the evil empire. Baker plays with The Outfielders, Self Righteous Brothers, Frank Smith, Bar Rot, The Animal Closet, Big Dawg & Grieco, Michelle Lewis.
TT the Bears.
$10
Baker: Myspace

GZA, aka Genius (of Wu-Tang Clan) and DJ Muggs (of Cypress Hill)
Grandmasters from two of the biggest groups in hip hop history recently released a collaborative album titled, what else, "Grandmasters." Self Scientific opens.
Paradise Rock Club
18+ $18 advance / $20 dos
GZA: myspace
DJ Muggs: myspace | Purchase

The Wedding Present.
Influential tastemaker and hipster BBC DJ John Peel once said that the band's songwriter, David Gedge, "has written some of the best love songs of the Rock 'n' Roll Era." Judge for yourself when you catch these indie rock gods, who've been cranking it staight outtta Leeds since 1984. London's retro new wave rockers Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves open.
Middle East Downstairs
18+ $17 advance / $20 dos
Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves: myspace | drive it like you stole it.mp3 | one that got away.mp3 | Purchase
The Wedding Present: website | At The Edge of the Sea.mp3 | purchase

Rachel Cantu celebrates her CD release on local label Q Division, with Stars For Sunroofs, Ok Thursday, and Vivek.
Middle East Upstairs
18+ $9
Rachel Cantu: Myspace | Run All Night.mp3 | purchase

Metric
Part-time Broken Social Scenesters but full-time Canadians, Metric continue their sweep of North America.
The Roxy
Myspace | Live It Out.mp3 | purchase

Wednesday 3/8:
The Subways
OC approved Brit rockers, The Subways with The Gun Shys, Unbusted.
Paradise Rock Club
18+ 7 PM; Free show for FNX cardholders
The Subways: Myspace | Rock and Roll Queen.mp3 | purchase

Serena Maneesh
Blogger buzz along with the prerequisite high marks on the Pitchfork scale are turning the wheels of Norwegian rockers Serena Maneesh's hype machine. With Charlene and Appletown Gun Shop.
TT the Bears
21+, 9pm, $8
Serena Maneesh: Myspace | Un-Deux.mp3 | purchase

Thursday 3/9:
Nada Surf with sunny Californians Rogue Wave and Inara George.
Paradise Rock Club
18+, 8 PM
Nada Surf: Myspace | Do It Again.mp3 | purchase

The Boy Least Likely To with Bon Savants and DJ Carbo.
Great Scott
18+ 9pm $8
The Boy Least Likely To: Myspace | Fur Soft as Fur.mp3 | purchase

Friday 3/10:
A Jonathan Richman Tribute for the benefit for Somerville Arts Council offers a slew of local lo-fi & indie pop:
The Shrinking Islands, Anushka Pop (read Bostonist's interview), B for Brontosaurus, Spoilsport, The Specific Heats, The Rabbit Family Girls' Choir, John O'hara, The Hyphens, Shana's Mango, The Double Stops, Tony the Bookie.
PA's Lounge
The Shrinking Islands: Myspace | Swallowed in Grace.mp3
The Specific Heats: Myspace | Things Get in the Way.mp3

Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Concertos for Indigenous Instruments. Like most Boston Modern Orchestra Project programs, this one is filled with carefully-selected pieces that Bostonist has never even heard of before, let alone heard, including two world premieres and a composition by Tan Dun, best known for the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon score.
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
8PM, $10-38
Boston Modern Orchestra Project: web site
Tan Dun: web site

Boston Secession
"The Valrhona chocolate of choral groups," according to the Phoenix. They’ll sing a live accompaniment to Jean Cocteau's surreal and dreamlike film Orpheus for the fifth year in a row. Bostonist has it on good authority that this is strange, wonderful, and worth the
ticket price.
Somerville Theatre
3PM (Saturday) and 8PM (Friday and Saturday), $10-$35
Boston Secession: web site | Missa Canonica: Kyrie (Brhams).mp3

Saturday 3/11:
The Saint Lawrence String Quartet
The subject of the cheesily-named documentary Music, Mountains, Magic, in which you can see these young Canadians being sexy and barely legal and winning the Banff International String Quartet Competition. At this Saturday's Bank of America Celebrity Series concert they'll be joined by the sexy-in-a-different-way pianist Menachem Pressler for pieces by Mozart, Schumann, and bizarre Canadian R. Murray Schafer.
Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
8PM, $43-$53
St. Lawrence String Quartet: web site | Mozart: Quartet in C Major, K. 465 ("Dissonant") .wav

The Foundation.
Local hip hop greats hold a record release party for their debut album "Greatest Hits," which features Dead Prez, among others.
Massive Records, 1105 Mass. Ave (between Central and Harvard Sq.)
3PM, 18+ Free
myspace | not like the others.mp3 | let's ride.mp3

Sunday 3/12:
No frills, no hyphenates, just rock: The Damnwells, with Augustana and The Collisions.
TT the Bears.
21+ 9PM $8 (box office only)
The Damnwells: Myspace
The Collisions: Myspace | Gasoline Can.mp3 | purchase

Isobel Campbell with special guests Damon and Naomi
If you missed last week's two night stand with Belle & Sebastian, or simply didn't get enough indie pop, former member Isobel Campbell plays in support of her solo release.
Museum Of Fine Arts
7:30PM Students/Members $14, general admission $18
Isobel Campbell: Myspace | Amorino.mp3 | purchase

The Boston Camerata and the Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble
They give us a glimpse of 15th-century Venice.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
1:30 pm, $5-20 (ticket includes admission to the museum's exhibition Gentile Bellini and the East)
Boston Camerata: web site
Sharq Arabic Music Ensemble: web site | Samai Hijaz .mp3

Lora Valente, Matt Durutti, C. Fernsebner, and Christina all contributed to this post