Under Byen with Frida Hyvonen and El Perro del Mar will perform at the MFA's Remis Auditorium tomorrow night, March 2, at 7:30. You can get tickets on the MFA's website. The local press has made much of Scandinavia's latest attempt to win the hearts of our indie rockers. We've been skeptical of next-big-nation news, and, besides, didn't we already hear that story when the Hives invaded in their matching suits? And then we checked......

There is only so long that we’re going to be able to hold out before the entire list of the week’s picks will be outdoor venues. Well, that’ll probably never happen until they dome the roof at Paradise and we can rock under the stars. We are, however, ecstatic about the warmer temperatures and the daylight which stretches until late – it helps us gear up for the night’s show. After a weekend of......

Sample these tracks and let us know what's in your iPod playlist this week.Lady Sovereign | UK Hip-Hop Vertically Challenged [Download] UK hip hop phenom Lady Sovereign rocked the Middle East last night- check out her track "Ch-Ching" for a sample of what the future of hip hop has to offer... The Lascivious Biddies | Rock Get Lucky [Download] Bostonist Stefan represents this week with the Lascivious Biddies an all female cocktail pop quartet......

Bostonist has a love for things that are a little quirky. Michel Gondry is a quirky, and we love him for it. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (which he co-wrote and directed) will be at MIT this evening for a presentation. Bostonist has to admit it wasn’t until the second time that we watched "Eternal…" that we really understood what was going on,......

What is about this time of year that makes us so mischievous? Is it just the long standing tradition of April fools jokes? Is it the emergence of somewhat decent weather? Or are we Evil? Maybe these aren't the questions MIT has in mind, but they are holding a summit on the topic of evil all day Sunday. They'll be chatting about ethics, politics, Ted Kaczynski, and the Church of Satan. Some Boston-area bloggers......

Bostonist just pulled True Love Waits, Christopher O'Riley's renditions of Radiohead’s music for piano out of the CD Changer. The passion of O’Riley’s rock-to-classical piano transcriptions left us singing the lyrics to the song in our head, though the arrangements did seem like they would compliment Tori Amos’ trademark lyrics of archetypal subjects like Mother Earth. What’s next for the cross-genre enthusiast? Bjorkestra. Travis Sullivan leads the Bjorkestra, a big-band jazz ensemble playing the......