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tuesday, december 4th
kelly hogan
@ johnny d's
thursday, december 6th
conor oberst
@ converse hall, tremont st.
thursday, december 6th
jason isbell &
the 400 unit
@ the sinclair
friday, december 7th
the weisstronauts 14th
annual holiday jubilee
with guests tsunami of sound
preacher jack, & the derangers
@ the midway cafe, jp
friday, december 7th
caspian
moving mountains
o'brother
@ the sinclair
saturday, december 8th
patrick watson
@ the sinclair
saturday, december 8th
the faint perform
"danse macabre"
trust
icky blossoms
@ the paradise
sunday, december 9th
band of horses
@ house of blues
sunday, december 9th
japandroids
diiv
@ the paradise
wednesday, december 12th
concrete blonde
jim bianco
@ the sinclair
thursday, december 13th
annual boston christmas cavalcade
benefit for the homeless
featuring tons of artists
(see fb event for details)
@ johnny d's
thursday, december 13th
nada surf
eternal summers
@ the paradise
thursday, december 13th
mates of state
in the valley below
@ brighton music hall
friday, december 14th
forgetters (blake from
jawbreaker's band)
& more tba
@ democracy center, harvard square
sunday, december 30th
sufjan stevens
sheila saputo
@ the royale
monday, december 31st
my morning jacket
@ agganis arena
monday, december 31st
deer tick
two gallants
@ the sinclair
monday, january 7th
quicksand
@ the paradise
tuesday, january 8th
hospitality
@ great scott
saturday, january 19th
mission of burma
@ the sinclair
sunday, january 20th
camper van beethoven
cracker
@ the middle east down
sunday, january 20th
soundgarden
@ the orpheum
sunday, january 20th
ra ra riot
@ the paradise
sunday, january 27th
widowspeak
@ great scott
tuesday, january 29th
kathleen edwards
sera cahoone
@ brighton music hall
wednesday, february 13th
yo la tengo
@ the paradise
saturday, march 2nd
unknown mortal orchestra
@ brighton music hall
tuesday, march 12th
tame impala
@ house of blues
thursday, march 14th
jukebox the ghost
matt pond pa
lighthouse and the whaler
@ brighton music hall
tuesday, march 26th
yo la tengo
@ the paradise
wednesday & thursday
april 3rd & 4th
they might be giants
@ the paradise
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New-music-wise, 2009 has been off to a semi-slow start for me, with just a few eagerly-anticipated albums released within this first month, including
Andrew Bird 's "Noble Beast",
Loney Dear 's "Dear John", and just a few days ago,
SPC ECO 's
download-only debut "3-D" (that's Dean Garcia of
Curve 's new band with his daughter Rose on vocals). I'm also semi-obsessed with
The Hush Now 's new one which, while technically available for a couple months, gets its
official release party in a couple weeks (and can be
downloaded for free ). While those four albums have been plenty enough to occupy my ears, things really pick up with February's arrival.
Like
last year , I took some time to pull together a list of discs officially scheduled for release in the year ahead (and some rumored to be) that I'm most excited to hear. This practice makes my
year-end list more interesting by contrast, just to see which bands let me down, and which ones weren't even on my radar. Speaking of that, if there's anything not listed that you think I'd dig, leave a comment (and yes, this is implied permission for promo-people to go nuts). Keep in mind, though, if there's something blatantly conspicuous in its absence, there probably be a good reason.
I also threw in some other random events and releases at the bottom that have me very much looking forward to the remainder of the year ahead...
fyi, I'll be updating this list randomly with schedule changes and new releases as I find out about them. February Heartless Bastards - "The Mountain"Fat Possum )The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - self-titled debutSlumberland )Travels - "The Hot Summer" "Dark Was The Night" - A Red Hot benefit compilationon 4AD / listening party on Feb. 16th at River Gods ) Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 : "Goodnight Oslo"Yep Roc )Asobi Seksu - "Hush"Polyvinyl )Beirut - "March of the Zapotec"Ba Da Bing )M. Ward - "Hold Time"Merge )Circle Of Buzzards - debut EPhere )March Erik Blood - "The Way We Live"Bishop Allen - "Grrr..."Dead Oceans )Bell Orchestre - "As Seen Through Windows"Julie Doiron - "I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day"Jagjaguwar )Bonnie Prince Billy - "Beware"Drag City )Superdrag - "Industry Giants"Decemberists - "The Hazards of Love"Capitol )Adam Franklin - "Spent Bullets"Second Motion Records )Kristin Hersh - "Speedbath"demos downloadable now )The Sea Navy - self-released sophomore albumApril Bill Callahan (Smog) - "Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle"Drag City )Boy In Static - "Candy Cigarette"Camera Obscura - "My Maudline Career"4AD )Bob Mould - "Life and Times"Anti )Grand Archives - TBASub Pop )Silversun Pickups - "Swoon"Dangerbird )Trashcan Sinatras - "In The Music"Sometime in Spring? Dylan In The Movies - debut full-lengthhere )50 Foot Wave - "Power + Light" EP (on vinyl - stream it here )The Long Winters - TBAYou Can Be A Wesley - debut full-lengthThe Wooden Birds (Andrew Kenny of AmAnSet / David Wingo of Ola Podrida ) - "Magnolia"here )Elsewhen in '09? The Album Leaf (Fall '09)Autolux David Bazan 's Black CloudBon Savants - sophomore albumBuilt to Spill - "There Is No Enemy" (Fall)Caspian (September)Chatelaine (Toni Halliday of Curve)The Cure (that supposed 'darker' companion album to ""4:13 Dream)Clogs - Possibly in MayHallelujah the Hills - "Colonial Drones" (on Misra)Idaho A Will Johnson /Jason Molina collaboration album (October on AK/Misra) Kings of Convenience - "Quiet is the New Loud"Magnolia Electric Co. - "A Map of the Falling Stars"The One AM Radio - TBA (Fall / Demo here )Joe Pernice - "It Feels So Good When I Stop" (covers album, soundtrack to his book)Joe Pernice - "Murphy Bed" (all original, sometime in '09)Pow Wow (Mary Timony, Jonah Takagi, & Winston Yu)Sea Wolf Six Finger Satellite Snowden Sonic Youth - "The Eternal" (June on Matador )Radio Dept. - "Clinging to a Scheme" (on Labrador , of course)Wheat - "White Ink, Black Ink" (demo here )Maybe? New material in progress?... Bottomless Pit (update here )The Broken River Prophet (hitting the studio soon)Explosions in the Sky Midlake - "Courage of Others" (tentative title)The In Out The Jesus and Mary Chain MBV (I'll list this every year until it happens)The National Rival Schools (look here )Summer at Shatter Creek - sophomore albumTed Leo & the Pharmacists Tristeza Other random happenings I'm looking forward to in '09 The Merge Records 20th Anniversary Fest in July... ... and my Merge Score! subscription , all year long Swirlies live at the Middle East in March Throwing Muses with 50 Foot Wave at the MidEast in March, too Kristin Hersh 's auto-biography The live return of The Jesus Lizard (fingers crossed for a Boston show) The return of Versus ("we'll be back in 2009 ") The Wedding Present "Bizarro" album 20th anniversary tour (so sayeth Gedge) Michael Showalter & Michael Ian Black 's new sketch show on Comedy Central The fall debut of "Stargate: Universe" More bands I like getting added to the ATP New York 2009 lineup The loooong-awaited next George RR Martin novel, "A Dance With Dragons" And lastly, hopefully, the very last issue of Ellis & Cassaday 's "Planetary" Yes, those last three are very wishful thoughts, but I remain optimistic...
neil halstead live in cambridge, ma on november 14th, 2008 previously:
joy formidable - boston 2011
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