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Freelance Whales: Show Preview (Paradise: 05.06.2010)
Freelance Whales is what happens when the cobbler sleeps. Their lush pop sound seems to sneak in on listeners through broken locks and late nights. Like an elaborate musical heist or collaborative instrumental caper, Freelance Whales steal everything from banjos to rousing group vocals from any genre available…
Yeasayer: Show Preview (Paradise: 05.03.2010)
Like aloof prospectors looking for a creative source but unaware of the enormity of the well flowing beneath their feet, Yeasayer spent years toiling before finally finding brilliance on their second album, Odd Blood. Exploding from the underground experimental scene like an acid-heavy oil geyser, Oil Blood soaks the members of Yeasayer and everyone who hears it in psychedelic, musical gold…
MayFair 2010: Oranjuly, Action Verbs, John Shade, and more
The 27th annual MayFair is coming to Harvard Square this weekend. On Sunday, May 2nd, swing by the Square between noon and 6pm to catch performances, Chalk on the Walk, beer gardens, hot air balloon rides, and much more. Of course, a big highlight of MayFair is the awesome live music and dance shows happening on six stages throughout the day…
The Everyday Visuals: Show Preview (TT The Bear’s: 04.30.2010)
There is something immediately arresting about the folk-y pop tunes of The Everyday Visuals and their ghostly whispered harmonies. Maybe it’s that the songs smell of freshly mowed grass, with delicate tambourine and keyboard accents as refreshing as summer dew…
Sea Wolf: Show Preview (Paradise: 04.30.2010)
Sea Wolf’s album, White Water, White Bloom, seems to echo from the walls of weathered and abandoned castles. It is a sound that is delicate and clear, but with lyrical themes that recall epic moments; like a fortress that is now deserted, but has seen much. Some of the songs bring to mind the stories cemented between the ancient stones, while others conjure up the surrounding grass valleys refreshed and regrown over decades…
Maps And Atlases: Show Preview (Paradise: 04.29.2010)
Featuring a protagonist in the form of a scratchy, bluesy voice, Chicago’s Maps & Atlases is a fable set in an intricate, indie-pop landscape. Always on the move, the protagonist begins at dawn on a European cobblestone street in “Solid Ground.” From there, the journey continues on a bumping bicycle ride down angular paths of a shifting, surreal landscape…

