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Going on sale: January 5, 2007

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By GOING ON SALE | January 2, 2007

Sparta

SPARTA + MEWITHOUTYOU + ALOHA | March 13 downstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $13 | on sale Friday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE | February 22 at Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH | $29.25 | on sale Saturday at 10 am | 617.931.2000 | “A CAST PARTY FOR THE ONION CELLAR” with HUMANWINE + SLEEPSHELL+ CASEY DIENEL | January 12 downstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $10 | 617.931.2000 | TOWNSHIP + OCTAVE MUSEUM + AGE RINGS | January 27 upstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $9 | 617.931.2000 | CHRISTIANS & LIONS + MUY CANSADO + JOSHUA ENGLISH | January 31 upstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $9 | 617.931.2000 | SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB |March 16 upstairs at the Middle East, Cambridge | $9 | 617.931.2000

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Guest lists
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
Designer imitation
No doubt their mimeographed postpunk is about as fresh as a tray of Shaw’s sushi. And yet Editors are well aware that they can be past expiration date and still come through with the upper hand. Slideshow: Editors at the Paradise, July 30, 2006
Shreddin’ heaven
By now, Guitar Hero has achieved a level of cultural penetration that most games can’t even dream of.
Going on sale: May 18, 2007
Under Byen, Blanks 77, Polyphonic Spree, and more
The Big Hurt: Aussie asses sued off
MEN AT WORK — best known for their 1983 hit "Down Under" — have just had their pants sued off by a dead schoolmarm and her 78-year-old Girl Scout song.
The big hurt: Music news in brief
Those of us still chuckling over DMX's “your momma ain’t name you no damn Barack” diatribe are in for another dose of ill-informed rapper cuteness.
AFI
AFI's high-gloss, higher-energy Decemberunderground is like a Rocky Horror Picture Show for screamo kids. AFI's "Kill Caustic" (Windows Media Player)
Emo corps?
The familiar sounds of Nirvana’s Nevermind are wafting out over the PA inside Fuse’s midtown-Manhattan studio, but few of the fresh-faced kids gathered on this April afternoon for a taping of the music-video network’s 7th Avenue Drop seem to recognize the songs.
Mammoth metal
The big story in heavy music right now is mammal metal, a blood-and-guts strain of post-thrash brutality lorded over at the moment by Lamb of God and Mastodon, two loud-and-proud Southern bands with new major-label discs out.
Big business
Now that the music biz has licked its wounds from a nasty 2005, things are finally starting to heat up, and an indie-heavy winter is giving way to a more major spring.
Saosin
Love second-wave emo but can’t make it to New York this weekend for either of Texas Is the Reason’s sold-out reunion shows at Irving Plaza? Saosin, "Seven Years" (mp3)
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