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I will start off this Monday morning with a kitten. ZOMG. After seeing an ad for it in the latest Razorcake, I picked up Side B: The Music Lover's Comic Anthology at Newbury Comics. It's pretty great! It features a several page comic by Mitch Clem ( rainofbastards) depicting his interpretation of the Mr. T Experience's song "Checkers Speech," along with comics by Jim Mahfood ( GRRL Scouts, "Stupid Comics," the Clerks comic books, etc.), Megan Rose Gedris ( Yu+Me, Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space), and many others. I recommend checking it out. Tony, from the Boston Jolly Pirates, hooked us up with a leak of the new Big D and the Kids Table album, Fluent in Stroll, recently. It's... different. A lot different. They had said at some point that the new album would be similar to their Shot by Lammi split full-length, but I don't know what they're talking about. Maybe it was opposite day at the time. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. Their live show is going to be interesting. They really seem to be moving away from the ska-punk sound that dominated their early (read: pre- Strictly Rude) albums. Which is a bummer, since they don't do the Westbound Train thing all that well. Tunes: MTX - Book of Revelation
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First, the Amanda Palmer show was so freaking good. Great, intimate setting; a fairly new recording studio on Mass Ave toward the Alewife Brook Parkway. She had the Army of Broken Toys opening, and they were cool. She took requests, played some new songs, and answered questions from the crowd. All in all, really great show. Crappy pictures are here!Second, someone from the Bosstones forum just posted this video: The Bosstones performing their cover of Slapshot's "What's At Stake" from last year's Hometown Throwdown 11, with Choke (Slapshot's vocalist). Observe Choke bleeding from the head, due to an accident involving a mic stand during his own band's opening set. Tunes: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - What's At Stake (live, feat. Choke)
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Some shows you should know about: 8/14 The Phenomenauts, The Re-Volts Middle East (upstairs) 18+ $9adv/$10door AND! 9/5 The Pet Shop BoysHouse of Blues $39.50 Shows that you don't care about (but should): ( Read more... )Go see some live music. Tunes: Dead to Me - Special Professional
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Hi kids! Last night I saw Lemuria at Great Scott. Jeff was supposed to come, but got so involved in his personal statement, he failed. Alas! At any rate, the show was good. I didn't watch the first band, Bread & Roses. The second band, Movers & Shakers, were fun. I kinda wish I had bought their album. Alas! The Serious Geniuses continue to be better live than recorded, but are still pretty meh. They always remind me of a cut-rate version of a band I like better; last night, I felt comparisons to the Menzingers, for some reason. (btw, the Menzingers' A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology is awesome. Check it out) Finally, Lemuria took the stage. There was a part of the crowd who really didn't appreciate the more rambunctious members of the audience bumping into their with their excited dancing. To those lame-os, I say suck it! The band put on a great, energetic show that seemed to favor their older (non- Get Better) material. Though I was sad to not hear "Origamists, Too." They rocked our faces clean off with "In a World of Ghosts..." and "Beespit." Like just about everyone else there, I have a crush on Sheena Ozzella. While looking up that link, I saw the banner for this site on Mitch's site: Punkmatch.com, a dating site for punks. Tunes: The Ergs! - See Him Again
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