There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with...
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April Fool's Day is on the Horizon, but we ain't foolin this week. A solid line up of shows – starting with the Tourfilter DJ Night at River Gods – is ahead. It's mid-week heavy this time around so kick it like a rock star and be thankful you can sleep in on Saturday. Monday, 3/26 TourFilter Mixtape Tourfilter founder Chris Marstall will be at River Gods in Cambridge equipped with an evening full...
Goofiness aside, Okkervil River are a fantastic band and they just keep getting better--Bostonist would wholeheartedly recommend 2003's Down The River Of Golden Dreams and Black Sheep Boy is stunning. Black Sheep Boy is loosely centered around British 60s folkie Tim Hardin's titular song about a prodigal son, and the band builds upon that concept by writing murder ballads and love songs about stones in complex song. (For those of you keeping track, awesome Swede Nicolai Dunger has written a song called something like "Ballad For Tim Hardin") Sheff is one of the more interesting lyricists around--his songs are prose poems and they demand unpacking, while his singing voice is one that can be nuanced and sweet or thrillingly desperate, while the band is tight, playing country-tinged rock featuring a multitude of instruments, particularly killer keyboards, and soul. Bostonist can't really gush enough, it's a fantastic album in an ipod world. They've gotten lumped in with their tourmates The Decemberists recently as "literate rock" but Bostonist would argue that Okkervil River leave more of a mark. The Black Sheep Boys play TT the Bears' tonight and what is galvanizing on record should be fantastic live. Bonus: the album has gorgeous artwork by William Schaff, which is kind of confusing, eh?
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