Things were looking bleak in Canada yesterday. Leonard Cohen bleak. Down 3-1 after seven innings, the Sox looked like the "feast or famine" roller coaster was about to take another big dip. Then Manny homered to tie it. He's finally off the schnide, and only one behind Miracle Mirabelli now. Then in the bottom of the eighth, Alex Cora survived a tough slide by the Jays' Lyle Overbay to turn a rally-killing double play. Cora,...
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In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. Friday 7/14 They Came Back (Les Revenants) The dead return by the thousands, but they're the French dead: their hunger is existential. (American and Italian zombies, with traditional brain-eating values, will return next weekend.) Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium 6 pm, $10 They Came...
Bostonist had the opportunity to attend the Dresden Dolls show at the Orpheum Friday evening. It was quite the spectacle - a local act returning home after hitting the big-time.
With 2005’s Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff has found his voice. Having already established his band’s American folkternative sound with Down the River of Golden Dreams, Sheff now celebrates the confidence and dexterity to sing his songs with a power already present in his writing. The instrumentation raises similarities to other contemporary artists while distinguishing the record from Okkervil’s previous releases. Compare the gentle strings and lonely narrator of “In A Radio Song” to Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles),” and the sweetness and punctuation of mandolin and trumpet on “A King and A Queen” to Bright Eyes’ “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now.” Themes of isolation and a dark view of the world at times rest BSB in between Arcade Fire’s Funeral and Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide, It’s Morning, while not aiming for the sonic assault of the former, but still bringing more punch and thickness than the latter.
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