When we last saw Devotchka, they occupied a stage the size of a coffee table, and Bostonist was relieved that TT's didn't collapse under the weight of their sousaphone. Returning to Boston on Sunday night, they brought reinforcements, annexing the Paradise Rock Club with horn players and an actual sit-down, read-sheet-music string section. When frontman Nick Urata wasn't crooning, falsettoing, and shaking his sub-Morrissey quiff, he swapped guitars and bouzouki and, during "Curse Your......

Music -- The ubiquitous cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be lending his talents to the Boston Youth Symphony as they celebrate their 50th anniversary. Symphony Hall, 3:00 pm, $50 to $75. We gasped at the price, too, but 50th anniversaries don't happen every day. -- DeVotchKa and Basia Bulat may not make sense to you as words, but trust us when we say that their equally strange-but-wonderful folk-rock will transport you--maybe even to the point......

Just before midnight on Saturday, Bostonist was surprised to see Annie Clark flanked by people with musical instruments. Marry Me, her first album as the pseudonymous St. Vincent, gave us the impression that she led a cheerful army of synthesizer-wielding robots, but there she was, in the non-synthetic flesh, with a bassist and a drummer and other humans. Her songs about augury and landmines retained that spooky, clear-eyed quality and, when she wasn't singing......