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If you're not into traveling all the way to the Tweeter Center for Journey and Def Leopard, check out this week's picks. Even if you are into heading down to the big name act's show you'll need something to do the rest of the week. There's no joking about it this week. Fall is here. By the time the weekend hits it's time to break out the cider and make some pumpkin pie. We're saving that for Sunday, however, the rest of the week is for music.
Now that we're on this eight days a week kick for doing these picks it seems like it might be time for a new graphic. We'll give you a cookie if you design us a new one. Or maybe a Newcastle next time you catch us at the Middle East. Promise. Monday 8/7 The Roots with Talib Kweli It may not be a Brooklyn block party hosted by Dave Chappelle, but it will be...
The rains come again this weekend and there's something that will keep you busy inside. VH1 and MTV won't be showing you non-stop videos like they once did. MTV2 doesn't even seem to have that type of programming – but the internets is not killing the video star. If anything the flame has been reignited (we haven't watched so many videos for years). YouTube plays host to myriad videos; live and production. Everything from Gnarls Barkley's Top of the Pops performance to Boston's More than a Feeling and just about everything in between is out there if you look for it. There have been a couple compendiums made of the available music videos, though none seem to be quite as addictive as the "I Love the 80's Music" list you'll find here. 1,500 videos from the eighties – you'll be busting out your fluorescent headband and rocking big socks pulled up over the cuffs of your jeans in no time. Well, that or watching Shannon sing Let the Music Play, the USA for Africa collaboration of We Are the World, Weird Al Yankovic's Fat, Wilson Philips and…oh, let's leave it at that, it's hard to stop once you’ve started.
The buzz began to hit worldwide when We are Scientists dropped their debut, With Love & Squalor, in the UK back in October, and three months later they brought it home with their January domestic release. The infectious tunes will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars, and addictive melodies. We Are Scientists in fact looks like your stereotypical scientists (or at least 5th grade math teachers) – Chris Cain(bass guitar and backing vocals), Michael Tapper(drums and backing vocals) and Keith Murray(guitar and lead vocals) have the skinny pale guy rocker look down pat. Their rock songs certainly aren't all science – much more emotion. Don't get us wrong, the album isn't a downer - songs about passing out on the floor and hooking up are motivational.
LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other.
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...
Bostonist last saw Camper Van Beethoven in 1990, across the Schuylkill in West Philly. We didn't realize then that the band was about to go on a 12 year hiatus. Having missed the last two CVB reunion shows, Bostonist couldn't wait to see the original line up back at it last Friday night at the Middle East.
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...
With 2005’s Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River’s Will Sheff has found his voice. Having already established his band’s American folkternative sound with Down the River of Golden Dreams, Sheff now celebrates the confidence and dexterity to sing his songs with a power already present in his writing. The instrumentation raises similarities to other contemporary artists while distinguishing the record from Okkervil’s previous releases. Compare the gentle strings and lonely narrator of “In A Radio Song” to Arcade Fire’s “Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles),” and the sweetness and punctuation of mandolin and trumpet on “A King and A Queen” to Bright Eyes’ “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now.” Themes of isolation and a dark view of the world at times rest BSB in between Arcade Fire’s Funeral and Bright Eyes’ I’m Wide, It’s Morning, while not aiming for the sonic assault of the former, but still bringing more punch and thickness than the latter.
Bostonist will readily admit that we’re a sucker for a throwback. Better yet when the throwback is coupled with a sweet deal. All this week the East Coast Grill in Inman Square is celebrating their 20th anniversary, or Birthday Party, as they like to call it. Bostonist has been contemplating the East Coast Grill as destination dining for a while. We’ve heard such good things generally coupled with a mention about the prices. Really, anyone know of a place with “and Raw Bar” in the name that doesn’t also have a couple of $s following it?
Across the river, Zuzu's has their Electrosocial night with Plunge Into Death and Cyanide Valentine, with dancing provided by DJ MicL Pvtn. It's your best bet, and fun is guaranteed. Oh, and of course, there are arty noisy options over at Great Scott, so kick it over there after Hornby-time:We Are Wolves, Coughs, and Where Are You From? Are You In School? (Guess which band is from Boston, Boston.)
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