It takes some old dudes to make the Middle East shut up. When we arrived at the venue last night to see the Sea and Cake, it was throbbing with conversation to such a degree that we could barely hear the folksy stylings of Death Vessel's Joel Thibodeau, who just might be the lovechild of Bjork and Devendra Banhart, with a little bit of Native American thrown in. We walked to the bar and inched......

The Sea and Cake with Death Vessel and Helms Middle East Downstairs Wednesday, November 12 (tonight) 8pm, $15 The Sea and Cake was pleasant and consistent at the Paradise last year, and there's no reason to expect anything different as the band visits the Middle East tonight. Though the group's new album is titled Car Alarm, it's just as soothingly jazzy as ever--perhaps even more so--with Sam Prekop's gentle vocals and the band's delicate guitar......

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......