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Our photo of the day editor was MIA yesterday. The only explanation we got was this photo. It looks like Crane beach.

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...

The debacle that was Hot Stove, Cool Music last week has made us ready for a week of good music. The debacle in that it poured so hard they had to move the whole thing under the bleachers (inside). The sound quality was poor and James Taylor pulled a rock star move and only made the stage for a single song because he didn't have enough space. This week we're looking forward to cooler...

We’re working for the weekend and it's only Monday. Rainy day outside and the sun is reported MIA until Wednesday. Despite the current gloom, things are looking mighty green outside - a good sign of spring. Flowering trees have done their thing and soon we’ll be smelling the lilacs. For now we’re settling for another cup of Stella while we soak up the tunes and the increasing temperatures. Monday 4/24: John Vanderslice mk Ultra...

We live in an iTunes nation. It's easy to pull a track down to your pod for under a buck. Bostonist still longs for cover art, liner notes, and that masterwork that is a multi-track collection of songs we call an album. Listed here is our much discussed, unbiased by payola, top 25 albums of 2005. After the jump you'll find where some of us stand individually on the subject of the years best. (Apparently...

"Sunshowers" was the first M.I.A. track off the 2005 release Arular to make the Bostonist iPod morning playlist; at 8:45 a.m., a good beat and a 70’s disco sample are all one needs to pass up Dunkins without second thought. Bostonist would report into work feeling upbeat, shiny and happy. Admittedly, the lyrics were a bit hard to follow, but that all seemed secondary. When the beat fully saturated the subconscious, the words began to reveal themselves: "He had Colgate on his teeth and Reebok Classics on his feet. At a factory he does Nike and then he helps the family." Ah catchy, might there be a narrative here? But wait, what was that about "Semi-9 and Snipered him" and the "P.L.O."? When it all pieces together "Sunshowers" is about a man murdered for suggested association with Muslims. Suddenly 8:45 a.m. was heavier than expected.

Back in early August, Bostonist advised the timely purchase of tickets to see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, performing at TT the Bears on September 14. Clearly someone was listening because the show has long sold out and a frenzy of desperate Craigslist posts (buying, not selling) has since ensued. The story follows suit for Sufjan Stevens, playing with Laura Veirs at the Somerville Theatre on September 8.

Bostonist just dipped over to the Orpheum to score face value tickets for the Doves show on September 12th at Avalon. The Boston show is the opener of the Doves month long North American tour. The Manchester trio released its latest album "Some Cities" in the spring, after a three year hiatus since the release of the critically acclaimed "Last Broadcast." Kids in Australia go wild for Doves.