Hiss & Chambers The Pill Great Scott, 1222 Commonwealth Ave., Allston 10 p.m., 21+, $7 The Pill website | Hiss & Chambers myspace There's a glam element to Hiss & Chambers, the Portland-based four-piece set to headline The Pill's regular festivities at Great Scott tonight. The sound is indie dance at its strongest, full of the driving beats and tight riffs that feel as if they would motivate the creme de la creme indie kids......

Bostonist Pick: Ballermore Has Arrived .::. Shake 'Em Down @ Milky Way (Thurs) Bostonist has some good news for you: this is going to be an easy weekend on the liver. The bad news is that your two days of drinking, dancing and staying up into the wee New England-established hours begins tonight. There are two main events invading our city on the 4th, and first up is Shake 'Em Down, a dance party......

We feel bad about bringing a flash animation set to music to you for the video today. So we’re going to share with you one of the best performances we’ve seen in a while: Gnarls Barkley on Top of the Pops. Fully YouTubable with fair sound quality – but don’t crank it up, it’ll get a little shady. We’ve been watching this video (mostly for the even more stunning live version of the song) by......

New York's HeadQuarters rocks The Pill tonight with DJs Ken and Terence. HQ has that Jam/Kinks sound and the look to boot. Lead by Charles Wallace, the band has a 20 minute short film broadcasting currently on the Sundance channel entitled American Mod.......

Happy Memorial Day, everybody, and Bostonist hopes you celebrate it all proper-like, with hot dogs, not dogs, beer, and some radio blasting Amerie's "One Thing." Anyone read the recent Blender interview with the pretty little thrush? Apparently she was born in 1980 and went to Georgetown in 1996. So she's wicked smart, clearly. C'mon guys, Catherine Zeta-Jones can lie about her age better, yes? Friday there's several awesome shows going on, it just depends on......

Seriously? Bostonist suspects that the earth is safe for geeks at the moment, with the upcoming release of Star Wars 6: Bostonist (a Star Wars virgin, actually) Doesn't Wanna Give Lucas Any More Money. But check the crazy good options for music this weekend. Is there any coincidence to the fact that the geek-rock is out in full force? Friday's actually pretty straightforward--The Good North are playing at Great Scott's The Pill dance-night. A......

Friday: Think of the musical options for tonight in terms of The Cure: if you want to see dreamy local rock bands do their best-pyschedelic Brit-pop thing, check out Stereo Soul Future, The December Sound, the dance-y Cyanide Valentine, and Aloud at the Middle East Upstairs. If you want to dance to ten-minute long Cure remixes, head on over the The Pill at Great Scott and kick it to Suede songs. Finally, if you want......

It's very hard to write a good song about being sorry. Apologetic arias of song have a tendency to be devoid of anything approaching sex, danger, or anything else that makes music exciting, vital and alive. Maybe a soul-man could pull it off, but Bostonist can't recall a specific song that's applicable. Take Ruben Studdard's "Sorry 2004", a draggy effort where the forgotten Idol natters on about how he's sorry for...2004. It just raises......