Suede announce more live shows...

... in their playground of Europe, of course. But the 12/7 O2 Arena show isn't that far off a possibility. From an email received this Patriots' Day morning:


'Suede were and are everything a band should be... the best British punk, rock 'n' roll, sex-pop-glam band of the past 20 years' - NME

New shows just announced

smukfest, skanderborg, denmark.
7 august 2010
tickets: www.smukfest.dk / www.billetlugen.dk

the O2 arena, london, uk.
7 december 2010
pre-sale tickets - on sale 9am, Wednesday 21st April: www.gigsandtours.com
general on-sale tickets - on sale 9am, Friday 23rd April: www.gigsandtours.com
24hr cc hotline: 0871 2200 260 / O2 box office: 0844 856 0202

DOM tonight in Allston (Great Scott)

A few weeks ago the friend who tipped me off to Cold Cave this time last year came through with another unsolicited recommendation: Worcester sparkle-synth trio Dom, who he pretty much described as the next Passion Pit but without Michael Angelakos' acquired-taste falsetto vocals.

I instantly dug "Living In America" -- Pitchfork Media did too, apparently, and they have the track streamable -- and now Dom's at Great Scott tonight for a BU Radio fundraiser. If this song led off the new MGMT album, it'd be everywhere already. With the summer around the corner and this jam more infectious than the clap at Denby Street, it's already on its way. Pitchfork says we'll get an official Dom release next month.

Also on the bill is the moody garage-psych of Quilt, who I included in my 10 Bands to Watch in 2010 list for the Boston Herald. Excellent Sunday night ahead in Allston, but not before Rays-Sox at 1pm and Devils-Flyers at 6. Today could be legendary.

Today's French Kiss-a-Thon postponed

What, you can't snog in the rain? From Boston Babydolls this morning:

Hi all:

Due to the inclement weather, the French-Kiss-a-thon scheduled for today at 5 p.m. has been moved to NEXT Saturday.

We'll see you all at 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 24 in Winthrop Park, Harvard Square (in front of UpStairs on the Square and Grendel's Den).

Celebrate spring, your love, and our upcoming show French Kiss with our version of The Boston Marathon. The rules are simple: any couple is welcome to enter, and the twosome that can remain in liplock the longest wins some fabulous prizes (plus everyone who enters gets a gift from The Boston Babydolls).

Win tickets to French Kiss, coffee from Peet's, a gift certificate to Eastern Standard, and more!

'til then, practice your puckering!

Boston Babydolls, P.O. Box 240369, Boston, MA, 02124 (617) 869-2000

Saturday Night Fever: OMFG vs Videodrome

Heading over to Good Life to catch an early side of OMFG (like the pill, nominated for "Best Club Night [Dance]" in the Best Music Poll, but I hope to be back in the ARC to get some Bonnie Tyler and Lady Gaga action down at that surviving bastion of hip vintage pop, Videodrome Discotheque

NME: Thom Yorke covers Joy Division

Tip of the cap to the NME, which reported that Thom Yorke and his Atoms For Peace band surprised fans with a cover of Joy Division's classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" last night at a pre-Coachella show in Cali. Further proof that you just simply can't fuck this song up.

Pepercut Zine Library re-opens Sunday

You know, for people who like reading, community pride and Somerville.

VIDEO: Mystery Roar's "Mayhem"

Boston dance-cult risers Mystery Roar have all sorts of ill shit going for them: Their Dopamine Records release party is next Saturday April 24 at Great Scott (sick lineup), they get awesome shows with bands like Neon Indian and Delorean, and now great Caesar's ghost they have a video. A fancy ass pretty-as-a-penny video. This is rad stuff right here...

More Endless Wave promo: Stuff @ Night

... aaaaand I know it's just called "Stuff" now, but I'm old-school and I still call my newspaper the Herald-American. Anyway, they gave Endless Wave some Friday-night-pick lovin':

GET OUT: Endless Wave
We don't like to brag about family, but our sister publication the Boston Phoenix has a pretty good knack for recognizing local bands that won't bring back memories of sitting through your high school boyfriend's garage jam (ugh... he was so cute until the first note). That they named Cambridge-based trio Endless Wave one of the select local "bands to watch" in 2010 is another tribute to their seen-it-coming musical foresight. A rock undertow keeps the band's dreamy, ethereal shoe-gazing soundtrack from floating too far afield in the ethereal abyss. To hear for yourself, sail over to their show tonight at Great Scott (1222 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, 617.734.4502). Cover is $5, and doors open at 9 p.m.)

More Endless Wave promo: Stuff @ Night

... aaaaand I know it's just called "Stuff" now, but I'm old-school and I still call my newspaper the Herald-American. Anyway, they gave Endless Wave some Friday-night-pick lovin':

GET OUT: Endless Wave

We don't like to brag about family, but our sister publication the Boston Phoenix has a pretty good knack for recognizing local bands that won't bring back memories of sitting through your high school boyfriend's garage jam (ugh... he was so cute until the first note). That they named Cambridge-based trio Endless Wave one of the select local "bands to watch" in 2010 is another tribute to their seen-it-coming musical foresight. A rock undertow keeps the band's dreamy, ethereal shoe-gazing soundtrack from floating too far afield in the ethereal abyss. To hear for yourself, sail over to their show tonight at Great Scott (1222 Commonwealth Avenue, Allston, 617.734.4502). Cover is $5, and doors open at 9 p.m.)

Tonight 04.16.10 : Endless Wave @ the pill

Insanely excited about tonight's dance party @ the pill, with both Endless Wave performing live and the fallout from being named Boston's Best Dance Night" in the Phoenix. Been all about EW since Mad Andre Obin passed along some early demos late last year, and next month's "City Walls" EP is going to drop-kick an already UK-indie mad Boston. Promo from the pill boston dot com:

friday april 16:
Endless Wave
a pop needle piercing a shoe gaze satellite

Upon this tidal rave of young blood comes a blistering jolt from the past, one not steeped in rehashed retro sounds or formulaic resurrections but one that arches a sonic lineage to a cherished but short-lived era crystallized by its own ambition and limitation.

Boston trio Endless Wave chips away at the past and makes their pill debut this week, taking an energized approach to shoegaze’s extended wall of reverb sound and juxtaposing it against a backdrop of pitch-perfect pop brilliance. In a concise aural bullet where elements of early Smashing Pumpkins and Catherine Wheel are splashed across the front-page praise for early ‘90s UK heaven-stormers such as Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine and Ride (the last eyed as a potential Endless Wave subject for the pill’s 8th annual Halloween Show this fall).

But where the previous millennium’s shoegazers hopelessly looked down, Endless Wave stares forward and launches past the restrictions of its forefathers. Call it evolutionary exercise.

Said the Boston Phoenix in its five Bands To Watch 2010 preview: “Imagine if the Verve, Slowdive or My Bloody Valentine went jogging on a regular basis… There’s a bit more rock thrust to these songs than is often found up the nu-gaze tree, and it’s a welcome alternative to the increasingly overcrowded raft of NyQuill-core.”

Led by the brilliant musical mind of Matters & Dunaway’s “Mad Andre” Obin on dream-pop vocals and seismic bass; the swirling, towering guitar downpour of Tim Ryan; and the paced attack rhythm of drummer Tucker Dawson, the ever-yearning sound of Endless Wave is crafted without the aid of synthesizers, keyboards or computers (we leave that to Obin’s “Soviet bloc techno” solo project).

Before the “City Walls” EP drops next month and aims to redefine the sound of a city’s non-electronic underground, join us Friday at Great Scott as Endless Wave crashes down in a live pill debut set for the ages.

We’ve been playing Endless Wave tracks each night early on at the pill since Mad Andre first passed along their demos, but you can get properly acquainted with one of Boston’s finest new acts at myspace.com/endlesswavemusic. Before and after the band, DJ Ken & Michael V spin the best in Britpop, Modern Indie & Beyond. Look sharp. xo the pill