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There are some bands that you can go years listening to their studio albums, but you will never understand the very essence of their existence until you see the live show. It sounds a bit dramatic, but is entirely true of Liars, who've continued to garner either high praise or loathe from the entire scale of music critics - Rolling Stone magazine to the adolescent consumer on a message board. Now stationed in Los Angeles, the Australian foursome released their fourth and eponymous LP, and have arguably collected more acclaim than their well-received debut, They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Mountain On Top from 2002.

The cold weather is no excuse for you not to get out!

Michael Ian Black With Michael Showalter Thursday, November 29, 7:30pm Somerville Theatre 55 Davis Square, Somerville (T: Davis Square) Get tickets Listen to the Interview Here: Unless you've been living under a rock for the last 20 years, then you've seen the work of comedian/writer/actor/director Michael Ian Black. Let's rattle off just a few of his accomplishments: co-creator of "The State," "Viva Variety," and "Stella." You've seen him co-star in NBC's "Ed," as well as...

The internets ungulate more than any other of our friends. There seems to be a new kid on the block every other day with others just disappearing. It’s nice to know that some friends stick around for a while. Exploit Boston officially turned five years old today. That means it was post-boom, pre-web 2.0, and, oh, does any of that nonsense even matter? In the last five years the website has served as an events calendar (with curator Sooz), a pool of event related photographs, a radio station featuring local bands, and monthly game nights. The Exploit Boston presence has spread to a profile on MySpace, HeyLetsGo, Upcoming, and a stream of artists from the radio station tracked on Tourfilter. You can always contribute your Flickr photos to the Exploit Boston photo pool, catch up with a game of Mastermind or Apples to Apples at the game nights (next one is on February 6 at Soul Fire in Allston), or, you can always tune into the radio station and hear good local music. It’s like your very own hype machine – but only for bands in Boston, many of whom you’ll be able to checkout at a live show nearby. The radio station is set to turn four in a couple of months, and that’s more than we can say about some of the FM stations in the area (ahem. Mike?). Happy Birthday Exploit Boston.

Fall seems to have set in, at least for now. the temperatures are dropping and people all over the metro have been forced to put their flip-flops away for some more sensible footwear. At least until it gets warm again in another week. Or so we hope. Music abounds again this week and we're listening. Tuesday, 9/12 Branford Marsalis Quartet Braggtown CD Release Concert Berklee alum Branford Marsalis created Cambridge-based (and Rounder distributed) Marsalis...

Tuesday 9/5

What's going on this week? Everyone is moving. Hipsters are swapping apartments in Allston. Scenesters are invading Cambridgeport. Undergrads and grad students are making their way into the new rental for September. The lucky ones have renewed their lease (or are keeping up with payments on the mortgage). The music you'll be hearing is blaring from the cab of the U-Haul and out of the windows of that f*ing third floor walk-up you offered...

Tuesday 8/22

The season finale has just aired for your favorite TV show. NBC hasn't run Must See TV on Thursdays for a decade. The sun is shining and temperatures will be perfect for showing up jacketless to the next performance. Something to do every night this week – and rock it out for free with the pop tunes from WBOS' EarthFest line up on Saturday, starting at noon. All this and we're tivo-ing the Sox/Yanks games...

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...

Animal Collective, Avalon, 2.21.06

Bostonist will check out the much-hyped (UK: festival appearances/ US: The OC appearance), small-town band The Subways from Britain trying to make the world their garage in the young group’s first stateside tour. Forgoing current angular, dance rock motifs (Franz Ferdinand) and pre-empting the American arrival of their debut album Young for Eternity with a live serving of one-foot-in-the-gutter three-piece pop in Allston, The Subways will face the gauntlet set by a city ravenously devouring the likes of Broken Social Scene, My Morning Jacket, and Franz Ferdinand of late. The live show should flesh out glimpses of Nirvana and Oasis seen on their debut, and, in the hopes of Bostonist, offer more than The Vines.

Bostonist had heard the hype—and the debut LP from Montreal’s Wolf Parade—prior to picking up tickets in time for last Thursday’s show at TT the Bear’s Place in Central Square. One of the latest in a series of bands gaining widespread popularity to pass through Boston/Cambridge in the last year, Wolf Parade is touring on the release of their first full-length, Apologies to the Queen Mary on SubPop. Drawing constant, but due comparisons to The Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse (having toured with both, and getting production help from Isaac Brock of the latter) the album is doused with flammable hit-potential. Bostonist is always interested in a visual performance to ignite the blaze of long-term interest in a newly-discovered band.

Reports, The Carlisle Sound, Clickers, and Night Rally are prepared to rock you five ways until Sunday with some jangle, some pop, and a Fugazi influence, natch. Bostonist has heard nothing but good things about Clickers, respects the tenacity (and floppy hair as seen in photo) of newbie band Reports (reportedly playing tonight despite a bloody finger injury!), and has much love for The Carlisle Sound, having snuck into their shows as a twenty year old youngin’. However, Bostonist is most excited for Night Rally. Named after a great Elvis Costello song (c’mon, sing the chorus: “Night! Rally! Night! Rally!” etc.) but owing a lot more to Fugazi and their ilk, Night Rally compromises three dudes from New Mexico going silly with the pedals and the tense musicianship. Fronted by the charismatic Devin King, a man who is bringing back the handlebar mustache and is kind of mesmerizing to watch onstage, Night Rally put on a damm good live show. Bostonist has seen plenty of bands who can play their instruments really well but what does that matter without stage presence. It’s disheartening to see rockers staring at their shoes (memo to Kevin Shields: not you, baby). So hurray to Night Rally and the fact that they are downright committed to entertaining you. Note: despite the indie competition, this show will probably sell out and it’s in your best effort to go early or to buy your ticket now.

The band alternates between a number of different instruments (acordion, violin, keyboards, big ole drum, tamborines, guitars, etc.) that gives their live performance a constant stream of energy. Their songs with soaring choruses came over great in the Roxy's acoustics. Living up to the expectations is a challenge, but the Arcade Fire pulled it off and everyone was smiling after the encore.