Friday, March 13, 2009


I've got some good news and I've got some bad news. Bad news is I'm going to have to miss this show my friend Bryan is putting on in Pittsfield - Masshysteri (Swede punk), Mudlark (stompin' posse), Prick Bastard ("70s rock suckerpunch"), and Screaming Females ("The last three "guitar heroes" I saw were women: Marnie Stern, Kaki King, and Marissa Paternoster of the Screaming Females" - Sasha Frere-Jones, via brooklynvegan). Check out the flyer here and go to the show if you can cos, in the words of Bryan, "You have nothing else to do."


The good news is I'm going to Boston tonight and tomorrow will be catching The New Pornographers' A.C. Newman and the hyper-Friendship-Bracelet-approved Dent May (surely with His Magnificent Ukulele) at the Paradise Rock Club. Newman's recently released record Get Guilty is a solid piece of guitar power pop. My favorite track I remember from it is "Like a Hitman, Like a Dancer," which you can download here (via Can You See the Sunset). Also, check Mr. May's cover of Prince's "When You Were Mine" from his A Brush With Velvet EP here (via Chocolate Bobka).

Then, Sunday is the Saint Patrick's Day parade in Boston, which should be culturally enlightening.

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Unrelated:

I love this time of year.

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