Restless Leg Syndrome


November Calendar by EMMA
November 3, 2010, 1:47 pm
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November’s here and the time is right for… dancing in the streets? Well, no, not really. It’s getting too cold.
If your political leanings are like ours (and we assume they are if you’ve found this blog… pretty sure whoever you guys are out there are not Tea Partiers) election night was a bummer almost everywhere except inside the Deval Patrick headquarters. But fear not! Boston, like the still democrat-dominated Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is continuing to rock this month.
We apologize that this calendar is a couple days late. We drove our restless legs to D.C. this weekend to restore some sanity, and got back exhausted and singing Autotune the News too many times to think of any REAL music… speaking of which, watch this, if you haven’t already.
Nov. 3 – Land of Talk, Suuns @ TT the Bear’s
This is tonight! Short notice, I know, but read this review from way back in August (remember August? It was HOT then. Give me a brutal Somerville summer, indeed) in which I gush about LoT and hopefully you’ll be convinced to go swoon to the sound of Elizabeth Powell’s voice.
Nov. 6 – Dawes @ Royale
Again, I will refer to something else written here so as to not repeat myself. I saw Dawes at Newport Folk in August and they were fantastic: Definitely my favorite from the festival. Their album North Hills is pretty good too, but to see them live is to love them.
Nov. 7 – Mighty Tiny @ Wadzilla Mansion
Wadzilla is a new-ish installment to the Boston house concert scene which we love so dearly, opening itself for a more diverse DIY scene. Mighty Tiny will bring their venetian masked-awesomeness to get down in Allstontown. It’ll be a treat. You should go… if you can find it. Oh, the suspense. It’s killing me.
Nov. 9 – Slim Cessna’s Auto Club and Joe Fletcher @ Great Scott
Deranged cowboys from Denver and some old school folky blues.
Nov. 9 – Glasser, Violens and Axox Blue @ Mid East Upstairs
Dreamy trancey electropop. Catch Glasser before she explodes!
Nov. 9 – The Morning Benders with Oberhofer @ Paradise
Guaranteed to be a great show. Come get your indie on.

Nov. 11 – Pretty and Nice, Oranjuly, Spirit Kid, Hot Protestants @ Mid East Upstairs

Nov. 11 + 12 – Sufjan Stevens @ Orpheum
Have you listened to Age of Adz yet? Stevens’ latest is dark, uncertain, and electronically-inclined, but so is our world, right? Fans who know him for his ambitious folksy Americana projects (Say Yes! to Michigan, Illinoise) might be confused, but rest assured, this incarnation is no less ambitious or beautiful. I’m not usually the biggest fan of the Orpheum because a seated venue booking danceable bands is such a waste of potential, but this is the perfect act to see there. Sit back, feel your jaw drop at the ridiculous amount of talent happening on stage, and let yourself be moved (quietly).
Nov. 12 – The Beatings @ Mid East Upstairs

Nov. 13 – The Joy Formidable @ Great Scott
If you missed out on Blood Red Shoes last month, you best not miss this NEXT British indie pop band. The Joy Formidable is like… Metric, but with an accent.  They are also great enough to not need a comparison… and on the verge of being co-opted by Gossip Girl’s soundtrack… not that I watch Gossip Girl enough to have noticed their song “9669” played in the premier episode this year. Not at all.
Nov. 14 – You Can Be a Wesley and Magic Magic @ Paradise

Nov 14 – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti & Os Mutantes @ Royale
Chillwave? Psychedelic? Delicious? Like a hallucinatory cupcake!
Nov. 16 – No Age @ Mid East Down

Nov. 18 – Brown Bird @ Audrey’s Loft?

Nov. 20 – Delorean @ Mid East Down

Nov. 21 – Peelander-Z @ Mid East Upstairs
Peelander-Z is a crazy J-pop band. Their new album is ridiculous. It’s made for children, they sing-yell in Japanese over a xylophone and dress like comic book heros, at least on their cartoon album cover. If that doesn’t intrigue you, I just don’t know what will.
Nov 21 – Small Black w/ Class Actress @ Great Scott
Get your chillwave on.

Nov. 23 – Free Energy @ Paradise
SO MUCH ENERGY. Nineties-style genuine pop-punk at its finest. Spent all summer dancing to this in cars and living rooms. It’s colder now and we’re all getting stressed and sulky but these guys will make you forget all that.
Nov. 30 – Warpaint @ Great Scott
BLOGOSPHERE ZEITGEIST. “Undertow” is a damn fine song. I bet they have more.

Also – not featured here: If you have not begun following along with the Boston Counter Cultural Compass, find it here and look out for all the underground goodness that is sometimes hard-to-find out about in this fair city compiled in one (or two) easy-to-read sheets.

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