Weekly Music Picks: Here Comes the Sun

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here. What's better than Bostonist ripping off lines of Beatles songs on a Monday? Checking out the Boy Least Likely To show at TT's. What's better than Bostonist ripping off Beatles lyrics on a Tuesday? The Aaron Goldberg Trio's Boston CD release party. What's better…oh you get the point. Check out this week's music picks for some live-listening enjoyment all week.

Monday, June 12
The Boy Least Likely To w/The Bicycles, Pants Yell!
Like the Little Engine that Could, The Boy Least Likely To are building steam and gaining support for their underdog approach to anti-rock pop. The twee-est show on earth hits TT the Bear’s tonight, coming Bostonist-recommended if you take any stock in nerdy cool-factor a la Belle and Sebastian.
TT the Bear’s Place
9 pm
$10
website

Tuesday 6/13:
Aaron Goldberg Trio CD Release Party
Boston born, Harvard educated, New York City based Aaron Goldberg describes his new album Worlds as "an attempt to regard song from a globalist perspective, yet to approach other cultures with a creative NYC sensibility." Never heard of Goldberg? Well, Joshua Redman described him as having "boundless imagination, burning intensity, exquisite sensitivity and abundant soul," noting that he is "one of the most exciting, inventive, and lyrical pianists you will ever hear."If you missed him during his regular stints at Wally's back in the mid-90s, you can catch him now that he's hit the big time. With Reuben Rogers (bass) and Eric Harland (drums).
Regattabar
$18, 7:30pm
website | bio/info | purchase

Wednesday 6/14:
Boston Landmarks Orchestra
A new commission for the BLO is sneak-previewed on Wednesday. Lifting The Curse, a piece for youngsters who need to be taught Yankee hate, features a score by local composer Julian Wachner and a text by Bill Littlefield, host of NPR's Only a Game. Free performances will take place all over Boston in July, as well.
Wednesday, June 14th, Ritz Carlton Hotel
$225
Boston Landmarks Orchestra: website
The Curse: anti-Semitic?

Thursday 6/15:
Rob Swift (X-ecutioners) and Evil Dee with with DJ Kon and DJ Big
There is no doubt that Rob Swift (X-ecutioners) is one of the best turntabalists on the planet (check the clips below and listen to him scratch along to Charlie Parker's "Cheers"). And DJ Evil Dee (Beatminerz, Black Moon) is one of underground hip hop's major talents. You can see these living legends as they take over the wheels of steel at the Scion Metro series. Ok, sure, it's sponsored by and promotes Toyota's Scion, but their promotional events have done a great deal for indie hip hop, electronica, underground DJs, and local scenes (the Oakland Faders won Scion's 2004 Free Up Your Mix national DJ contest). With Boston's DJ Kon and DJ Big -- Scion Metro's resident DJs at AXIS.
AXIS
21+ FREE admission, but you must RSVP to gain entry
Rob Swift: website | bio/info | wikipedia | cheers: X-ecutioners style (edit).mp3 | Rob's get busy (edit).mp3
DJ Evil Dee: website | myspace | interview
DJ Kon: David Day's (sQuare Productions) Boston Phoenix article

Friday 6/16:
Angels in America (also June 17th, 20th and 24th):
This weekend, Peter Eötvös's two-act opera receives its North American premiere in a joint production of Opera Boston and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The grotesque beauty of the original play by Tony Kushner is heightened with singing angels, ringing telephones and a small, amplified orchestra, and is rumored to drift saucily between musical and opera.
Virginia Wimberly Theatre, Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts
Friday, June 16th: opening benefit at 6:30pm;
Saturday, June 17th and Tuesday, June 20th: 8pm;
Saturday, June 24th: 3pm
Tickets to opening benefit $150, all other performances $45 and $65, half-price student rush tickets two hours before concert time (cash only)
Opera Unlimited (Opera Boston + BMOP): website
New York Times: review

Saturday 6/17:
Mango Blue
Ecuadorian born, New York based composer, bassist and singer Alex Alvear's Mango Blue project "blends an exciting mixture of musical styles to create a refreshing new sound in Afro-Latin and World music, through songs of celebration and social conscience." You'll hear music from the Caribbean informed and infused with Afro-Cuban jazz, funk, and good ol' R&B. It'll make you wanna shake that ass.
Regattabar
$16, 7:30pm & 10pm
website | purchase | immigrant blues.mp3 | a moverse.mp3

The Legendary Pink Dots
Led by barefoot British expatriate Edward Ka-Spel, the Dots have been together since Bostonist was in preschool. The imagery of their rambling synth-prog epics and infinite waltzes ranges from gothic ("I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty") to scifi ("Andromeda Suite") and back again ("Crushed Velvet Apocalypse").
Middle East Downstairs
18+, 8 pm, $15
web site | Princess Coldheart .mp3 | The Shock of Contact .mp3

Sunday 6/18
Pelican
Pelican's post-rocking intrumental metal has been lauded by critics and a wide range of dudes with beards, or (as one reviewer phrased it) "struck a chord with both hipster and metal-head douche bags." Their most recent album, The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, was named one of 2005's best by the extreme douches at Terrorizer.
Middle East Downstairs
18+, 8 pm, $14
web site | Mammoth.mp3

Michael Walker, C. Fernsebner, Matt Durutti, and Christina Linklater contributed to this list