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Bostonist had a sudden urge to saunter over to PA's Lounge tonight, and we're so glad we did. Not only did they have the Pats game on in the bar side, so we could stay updated on the football front, but they also had an evening of sweet (mostly) local sounds on the music side of the venue. Though we (sadly) missed opener Elizabeth Butters, we were able to catch The Battle of Land and Sea, Baba Yaga, and Tiger Saw, all of which put on remarkably simple yet compelling sets that restored our faith in seeing music.

With the oppressive pseudo-summer turning back to comfortable spring for a few days before summer actually begins, Bostonist's thoughts are turning to the weekend and to upcoming holidays and events. (Ordinarily, we would say that the beginning of summer is a good reason to celebrate, but we have the impression that everyone's pretty much fed up with summer for now.) If you work in Suffolk County, you probably have Friday off in honor of Bunker Hill Day, which commemorates, oddly, a loss by the revolutionary army to the hated redcoats. Why do we celebrate a loss? Well, for the same reason that Bostonist's softball team thinks fondly of the game three weeks ago in which we were defeated 17-12: it was a close loss and showed we could actually play (unlike our other three losses, which featured the invocation of the mercy rule). The Battle of Bunker Hill (which, as third-grade history teachers are surely reminding us right now, was actually fought on Breed's Hill) showed the British that the Americans had some fight in them and were not going to be easily defeated. (It was also the occasion on which General William Prescott is said to have advised his troops, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes," which is somehow evocative of underdog toughness.) If that strikes you as insufficient motivation for a day off, you clearly aren't well acquainted with Boston's special relationship with paid holidays.