Archive for September, 2007
29-Sep: Andrea Gillis at the Plough & Stars
And then after Craigie Street, we went to see Andrea Gillis at the Plough & Stars. Her band is better than ever. I haven’t followed her closely (except for seeing the Rudds when they play in Cambridge), but I think there have been some lineup shifts: Lead guitarist switched within the last 18 months? Or […]
29-Sep: Craigie Street Bistrot
Last night I took Julie to the Craigie Street Bistrot, which has been getting a lot of praise lately… For her birthday.
The food was fantastic. The menu is French, with a significant emphasis on locally available ingredients. A notable aspect of the restaurant is that the wine list comprises only French wines, and it was […]
22-Sep: The Sound of Our Town show
Brett Milano’s book The Sound of Our Town: A History of Boston Rock & Roll is out, and there was a big show for the book last night downstairs at the Middle East. Unfortunately I got there at around 9:30 / 9:45 and missed favorites Muck & the Mires and Robin Lane and the Chartbusters […]
Funny weird or funny haha?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4uieqi8K8A
8-Sep-2007: Hoodoo Gurus, Downbeat 5
I am normally not one to wax nostalgic, but when I saw that the Hoodoo Gurus were playing at the Middle East, I had to go. They were one of the few major label pop bands in the 80s that sounded remotely like “garage rock” (I suppose the other example would be the Fleshtones, but […]
Will the 60s generation ever shut up?
One of my pet theories is that for every year you’re in graduate school, you age just 1/2 year emotionally. I was in harness for about 10 years. While my birth year would put me at the very end of the baby boom, this significant emotional retardation makes my “true” generational cohort something more like […]