Plus more shows coming up down the road.
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Blogs: Beatdown
Taking on music one pimp-slap at a time.
On sale this week: Sarah Brightman at Amway Center
Andrew Bird tonight at House of Blues
Bird’s latest offering, Break It Yourself, scours the murk and the whimsy of late nights in graveyards to cryptically divine a sense of absolute self – typically the lonely kind, minus that therapeutic wash.
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The Jealous Sound offer a mature take on emo at the Social
Now, the Jealous Sound is back in action with their first new album in nine years, A Gentle Reminder, and by all accounts, it’s a more mature variation on the emo sound the band first embraced.
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Texas’ Riverboat Gamblers ready to rock the Social
And with all the fist-pumping gusto and group chants throbbing in their life-affirming denim anthems, this is a band worth getting wild with in person.
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Miami’s outstanding Young Circles release new free song
Fascinating but little-known Miami psych-rock band Young Circles made one of 2011′s TOP 5 records (According to OW’s list - specifically, me). Here’s what I said about it: “This stunning Miami debut came from seemingly nowhere with droning, futuristic psych-rock rimmed with gripping, unexpected details. Like Clinic and occasionally Suuns, only with more scruffy humanity...
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On sale this week: Pink at Amway Center
Plus more shows coming up down the road.
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Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at the Beacham: Sold Out
Even if you don’t follow this band, you’ve probably at least heard this song: The band’s enigmatic hipster-meets-hippie-looking frontman is 34-year-old Alex Ebert, who founded this ragtag group of country/folk fusioneers after departing his former band, electronic-pop act Ima Robot. After Ima Robot, the hard-partying Ebert had to get sober – he enrolled...
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Negative Approach tonight at The Social
That first Negative Approach 7-inch ... holy shit, right? Totally legend.
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Canadian act Metric perform at Hard Rock Live
Whether sinking into an emotional abyss, triumphantly raising a fist or standing in for the Clash at Demonhead in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Haines’ style is what Dan Savage might call GGG: Good, giving and game.
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No Babies offer a lo-fi garage sound at Will’s Pub
Who knew something so ugly sounding could be so beautiful?
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