Coming into a Monday after a long weekend feels so wrong. Friday's off are usually arranged through vacation time or, cough, a sick day. Last week the veterans made us do it. But it's back to work and it's raining buckets with no sun in sight for the first part of the week. Luckily we've got some great music to keep us going this week. From enduring jazz superstars to indie rockers you might......

Stars deserve an award for Most Improved Band. This year’s Set Yourself On Fire is easily going on Bostonist’s own personal top 5 of the year, at least, and you could do as well to get yourself a copy. Bostonist remembers, however, the twee weakness of Stars’ 2000 debut, Nightsongs, but around 2003’s Heart (which, uh, Bostonist missed) they got good. Perhaps it was the addition of Amy Millan and her sweet, clear voice......