Sunday, November 29, 2009
Fresh off a collaboration with John Vanderslice, prolific, serial singer-songwriter John Darnielle is back with his folk-rock trio Mountain Goats to support their Bible-inspired albumThe Life of the World To Come. Owen Pallett's Final Fantasy join the Goats at the Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston | 7:30 pm | $22.50 | http://www.ticketmaster.com.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
All you haters who think technology eliminates creativity: consider
Chiptune 2. Chiptune is a form of electronic rock or dance music made exclusively from ancient video-game hardware. Sega, TurboGrafx, Nintendo, and more are retrofitted onto synthesizers and tweaked to create great music with (relatively) primitive noises. Staged by the appropriately named Boston8BIT, tonight's retro/future dance party features Active Knowledge, Disasterpeace, Br1ght Pr1mate, and Cathode Rays, at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | free |
http://boston8bit.com.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
For the ongoing "Berklee Artists Series" at Scullers, one of the school's voice professors, the powerhouse jazz/pop/R&B singer (and songwriter - see Chaka Khan's "You Can Make the Story Right") Gabrielle Goodman, jams with some of her best students. That's in the DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston | 8 pm | $18 | 617.562.4111 or http://www.scullersjazz.com.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Every kid sitting in Detroit or Los Angeles planning that rap/rock/punk hybrid got a new king to dethrone when P.O.S. dropped his Never Better (Rhymesayers Entertainment), the best yet for the clever and dexterous MC, whose percussion-fueled beats seem to bear themselves aloft. He gives one of the better performances in the game, so his tour with post-hardcore rockers Saosin is sure to keep you on your toes, never mind your feet, when it arrives at the House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston | 7 pm | $16.50-$18 | http://www.hob.com.
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
They're on their second trek through the city in less than four months, so you have to think Danish art-rockers Mew must love Boston. Not that we're complaining - their 2003 release Frengers cemented their reputation as Scandinavia's answer to . . . well, we're not quite sure, but we liked it a lot. Their sound is not easily explained - we'd call it a proggy spin on a Muse/Sigur Rós mash-up, but even that's not quite right. You can try to describe the songs from Mew's verbose August release, No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away, for yourself when they hit the Paradise, 967 Comm Ave, Boston | 8 pm | $16.50 | http://www.livenation.com.
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
In what will be pretty much your last opportunity to hear non-holiday classical music this year, Hungarian guest conductor Christoph Von Dohnányi leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an unusual "Mittel-Europa" program - Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's Divertimento for String Orchestra, Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's Violin Concerto No. 2, with German soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Czech composer Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 8 - in Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston | December 3 + 5 @ 8 pm; December 4 @ 1:30 pm | $29-$115 | 617.266.1200 or http://www.bso.org.
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
If all instru-metal bands secretly want to be described as epic, that's because they want to sound like Pelican, whose moody, sweeping, voiceless hard rock will transcend (but still be housed by) Harpers Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston | 8 pm | $12-$14 | http://www.greatscottboston.com.
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