Weekly Music Picks: Anniversary Party Edition

Don't forget Saturday is the Bostonist Anniversary Party at the Kinsale. In the interim please feel free to rev yourselves up with some of the great music rolling down the pike.

Monday 3/20:
Editors
Neo-post-punk brits Editors (a la Joy Division & Bloc Party) with appropriately asterisked Stellastarr*.
Roxy.
Editors: Myspace | All Sparks.ram | purchase

Tuesday 3/21:
The English Beat, Westbound Train, The Sterns, and DJ Ford E. Buxworth
More than just a precursor to Fine Young Cannibals, they are the seminal ska band that rock fans can enjoy without dressing in checkers or wearing suspenders.
Middle East Downstairs.
18+ $15 note: 7pm doors
The English Beat: website | Mirror In the Bathroom.mp3 | purchase

The Go! Team with Aberdeen City
Bostonist loved The Go! Team’s Thunder, Lightning, Strike regardless of what year it came out, and lucky Bostonians were rowdied up by their cheerleading rock mash-up last year. Local Interpolators Aberdeen City landed the support slot for this week’s show.
Paradise Rock Club.
18+, 7PM
The Go! Team: Myspace | Huddle Formation.mp3 | purchase

Wednesday 3/22:
Th’ Faith Healers
The Critique of Pure Reason presents 90's shoegazers Th' Faith Healers in a rare live show, with Bright.
PA's Lounge.
18+ 7PM $13/$10
Th' Faith Healers: Myspace | This Time.mp3 | purchase

Thursday 3/23:
Mates of State with Maria Taylor
Organ & drum married duo Mates of State with Maria Taylor (of Azure Ray, Now It's Overhead) and Via Audio.
Middle East Downstairs
18+ $12
Mates of State: Myspace | Fraud In the 80's.mp3 | purchase

Artick Monkeys with The Spinto Band
WFNX Presents Artic Monkeys with The Spinto Band. We think VH1's Best week Ever summed it up best with the 4 Stages of Artic Monkeys (video): Infatuation, Betrayal, Acceptance, Heartbreak.
Paradise Rock Club
18+, 8 PM
Arctic Monkeys: Myspace | I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor.mp3 | purchase

Annie with Protokoll, Shy Child, and DJ Carbo
Electronica chanteuse Annie with Protokoll, Shy Child, DJ Carbo.
Great Scott
18+ 9pm $8.00
Annie: Myspace | Always Too Late.wma | purchase

The Books with Death Vessel and Jose Gonzalez.
Found-sound experimentalists.
Museum Of Fine Arts.
The Books: Myspace | There Is No There.mp3 | purchase

Aaron Berkowitz and Richard Giarusso
Franz Schubert's Schwanengesang, a song cycle touching on sad, eternal themes of love and loss. Performed on the spooky fortepiano, the instrument Schubert likely played himself.
University Hall, Harvard University
12:15 p.m., free and open to the public
Aaron Berkowitz: web site Schubert's Schwanengesang: Wikipedia | purchase

Billy Bragg
While $36 bucks seems a bit steep coming from a self-proclaimed Socialist, no doubt Billy Bragg will delight the Davis Square Yippies.
Somerville Theatre
8PM, $36
Billy Bragg: Myspace

Friday 3/24:
The Magic Numbers with The Elected
There's brothers & sisters & harmonies; the Mammas & the Papas comparisons are inevitable, (and accurate, we might add): The Magic Numbers with The Elected.
Paradise Rock Club
18+, 8 PM
The Magic Numbers: Myspace

Bon Savants
They may spend more time in NYC now, but Boston knew them first: Glam Rockers the Bon Savants, with Hooray For Earth (formerly Raymond), Controller Controller, The Picture.
TT the Bears.
21+, $9, 9PM
Bon Savants: Myspace

Boston Chamber Music Society: Turning Points
Three crucial moments in the lives of three very different composers: Debussy's Cello Sonata, Schnittke's Piano Quintet of 1976 and the Beethoven "Dear Quartet"
Jordan Hall
7:30 p.m., $25
Boston Chamber Music Society: web site | The Soldier's March .m3u | purchase

Saturday 3/25:
Bostonist Anniversary Party
Local act Hugo follows Emily Easterly. We’re nailing down some details that will keep a DJ spinning until closing. Come early and find us, we may have a treat for you. More information and a guest list sign-up can be found here.

Bach Collegium Japan
A dynamic ensemble dedicated to the music of JS Bach, who probably had no idea Japan even existed. They aren't performing anything out of the ordinary (the fifth Brandenburg Concerto, the Concerto in D minor for harpsichord and strings), but they're famously lively.
Jordan Hall, 8 p.m., $25, $41, $59
website

Mittens
Local lo-fi pop trio Mittens are celebrating a new CD release. Bostonist has enjoyed their shows with Furvis and believes they are among the best Boston has to offer in 2006. Label-mates Emergency Music, as their website proclaims, is Improper Bostonian’s “Best Band in Boston” of 2005.
TT the Bears
21+, 9PM, $10
Mittens: Myspace | Belinda.mp3 | purchase

Sunday 3/26:
Punk/Soul combo Gossip with UV Protection, Panther.
Middle East Downstairs
18+ $10adv/$12dos
Gossip: Myspace | .Aint it the Truth.mp3 | purchase

Dr. Dog with The M’s
This is a show too big for the Middle East Upstairs – which is why you should get a ticket soon. Bostonist already told you how much we like Dr. Dog. Did you buy Easy Beat to hear “Say Something” yet? The M’s Future Women is an early 2006 favorite, so give them a shot if you missed their nice warm up for Of Montreal recently, or if you didn’t.
Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge
18+ $10 8:30pm doors
Dr. Dog: website | Wake Up.mp3 | Easy Beat.mp3
The M’s: website

McCoy Tyner
Pianist McCoy Tyner played a major role in shaping the course of modern jazz, beginning with his pivotal 5 year stint with the John Coltrane Quartet in the 1960s. Catch a living master in a special solo performance.
Regattabar (Charles Hotel), Harvard Sq.
$36, 7PM
website

Boston Chamber Music Society: Turning Points
(see Friday 3/24)
Sanders Theatre
7:30 p.m., $25

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