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August 09, 2008

Free Grizzly Bear Tickets: Text Us!
By Carly Carioli

The Museum of Fine Arts has just released its fall indie-rock schedule -- killer, as usual -- which includes dates for Why?, the Dodos, Low, No Kids, Jolie Holland, and Au Revoir Simone, among many others. Check back, we'll be doing ticket giveaways for all of 'em. In the meantime, though, we're giving away tix to the MFA's summer-ending indie blowout with Grizzly Bear (the day after they open for Radiohead) and Violens outdoors (weather permitting) in the MFA's courtyard on August 14.

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December 21, 2007

Mp3(s) of the Week: djBC’s Holiday Mash-ups
By Carly Carioli

Yes, boys and girls, it’s time once again for Santastic!, the third-annual installment of holiday mix-and-mash-ups performed and compiled by the redoubtable djBC. (Fresh from snagging the BMA for “Outstanding DJ.”)

As always, this year’s edition is a corker. For kids who’ve been waiting for the red-suited man all December, Divide and Kreate’s “Velvet Santa” sets up a rendezvous between a pre-creepy Michael Jackson and a very naughty Lou Reed on some dingy New York City street

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May 10, 2007

Contest: win the new Arctic Monkeys 12-inch
By Carly Carioli

Pretty stoked about the Arctic Monkeys show this weekend, would be even more stoked if it wasn't happening on Mothers' Day -- or if we didn't have baby-mamas who don't really want to hear us whine please please please let us go hang with the Guns N Roses of Britpunk. Be that as it may, stay tuned next week for the full-court press: interviews, live mpfrees, photos, and more.

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May 04, 2007

Pimping their ride: Dresden Dolls selling band Volvo on eBay to benefit MoveOn.org
By Carly Carioli

Pimping her ride: Amanda prepares to part ways with a longtime friend

So we get this crazy email from a rap group that shall remain nameless, begging us not to blog about Amanda Palmer selling the Dresden Dolls' station wagon on ebay, because they were really hoping to land that ride. Pause, full stop.

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May 02, 2007

Cribs ticket giveaway
By Carly Carioli

The Cribs: "Men's Needs"

It's possible a few of you haven't seen the latest video from UK indie sensations the Cribs, in which the band performs its new single "Men's Needs" while trying to ignore the naked girl stumbling around the set, knocking over their gear and hacking off bandmates' limbs with an axe.

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February 24, 2007

Bad Plus: the winning YouTubes
By Carly Carioli

The Bad Plus, "Physical Cities"

The Bad Plus, "And here we test our powers of observation"

The Bad Plus, documentary excerpt
Thanks to everyone who sent YouTube clips -- the winning ones are above, and those dudes are all headed to the Bad Plus show on Sunday at the MFA.

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February 22, 2007

Win tickets to the Bad Plus at the MFA!
By Carly Carioli
IF YOU GO:
- The Bad Plus
  Sunday, February 25
  Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston
  7:30 pm, $25
  617.369.3300
The Bad Plus may do witty covers of "Smells like Teen Spirit," "Heart of Glass," and the theme song from Chariots of Fire, but it's all backed up by muscular playing and a terrific sense of the strange.

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February 19, 2007

Win ANDREW WK tickets!

By Carly Carioli

OTD's President's Day Ticket Giveaway marathon continues....

Some of you may have heard about Close Calls with Brick Walls, Andrew W.K.'s import-only follow up to The Wolf. If you don't live in Japan, you probably haven't, and you'd be forgiven if you'd assumed that Andrew had fallen off the face of the earth.

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February 19, 2007

Win Under Byen Tickets!

By Carly Carioli

Under Byen, "Af Samme Stof Som Stof"

Pretty stoked for the next leg of the Museum of Fine Arts indie-rock concert series, which kicks off with Denmark's UNDER BYEN. The meticulous orch-pop group, whose name translates as "Below the City," have won a dedicated international following, inspiring the wags at Pitchfork to describe them as "like Björk and Mogwai falling down a well together."

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February 19, 2007

Win CLIPSE tickets!

By Carly Carioli

Oh no they didn't.

Oh yes we did. We had our dude Jef Czekaj, of Nickelodeon Magazine fame, duncecap-and-kazoo us a poster for the most highly anticipated event of the winter: the Clipse's two-night tour-kickoff celebration at the Middle East, brought to you by the Boston Phoenix's "Excuse" concert series, and yours truly.

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Free Grizzly Bear Tickets: Text Us!
Published 8/9/2008 by Carly Carioli
The Museum of Fine Arts has just released its fall indie-rock schedule -- killer, as usual -- whic...

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Mp3(s) of the Week: djBC’s Holiday Mash-ups
Published 12/21/2007 by Carly Carioli
Yes, boys and girls, it’s time once again for Santastic!, the third-annual installment of h...