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August 28, 2012 | Beirut at the House of Blues

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

Front man Zach Condon may have named his indie-folk outfit Beirut, but the band actually draws on the sounds of many far-flung locales (Lebanon not included). Balkan folk rhythms drove Beirut’s 2006 d…

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August 29, 2012 | Red Baraat at the Museum of Fine Arts

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

The words “wedding music” don’t conjure pleasant associations for most of us. (We’d prefer that the Village People, the Black Eyed Peas, and Celine Dion were permanently stricken from the guest list, …

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August 31, 2012 | The Face at the Boston Conservatory Theater

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

When you’re fantasizing about the dream casting for a big-screen adaptation of your life, it’s easy to forget just how unsettling the viewing experience might actually be. That’s the scenario explored…

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September 2, 2012 | Crash Kings at Great Scott

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

Given their penchant for arena-ready tunes, it may seem strange that Crash Kings set out to create a big rock sound strictly sans guitar. Yet with distinctive hits like “Mountain Man” and “1985,” the …

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September 4, 2012 | Cambridge Footlights at Improv Boston

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

What do Monty Python’s John Cleese, late Hitchhiker’s Guide scribe Douglas Adams, House star Hugh Laurie, and Oscar winner Emma Thompson have in common (besides Britishness)? They’re all alums of the …

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September 5, 2012 | Champions of Champions at the Middle East Corner

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

For a while, we assumed our nights of bar trivia had gone the way of keg stands and naked quad runs. But we’re happy to admit that hosts James Lindsay and Richard Hawke have proven us wrong with their…

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September 6, 2012 | Frank Turner at Royale

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

At this point in his career, Frank Turner might be accustomed to stadium-style glory: after all, the folk-punk singer-songwriter and former front man of post-hardcore band Million Dead just played to …

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September 7, 2012 | Around the World in 80 Sips at the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

Usually, a trip to the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse (1 Courthouse Way, Boston) is preceded by night sweats and frantic phone calls to a cousin’s friend at Harvard Law. But we expect the courthous…

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September 8, 2012 | Shea Rose at Brighton Music Hall

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

You might have caught Shea Rose steaming up the pages of our Boston’s Sexiest issue this past spring; evidently, the rest of Boston has taken notice. The Braintree-born, Berklee-educated soul siren ha…

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September 10, 2012 | Bob Mould at the Paradise Rock Club

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

Bob Mould is now old enough to have fathered much of our staff, but when he plugs in his Stratocaster, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar mastermind still towers above most axe-handlers of our generation. And no…

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September 24, 2012 (moved from August 30) | Swagger Up My Style! at Eastern Standard

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

As history has proven time and time again, a man’s wardrobe can be his Achilles heel. (Rick Santorum lost the Republican presidential nomination for many reasons, but we’re pretty sure his sweater ves…

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September 1, 2012 | Marie Antoinette at the Loeb Drama Center

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

Okay, Marie Antoinette probably never uttered the phrase “Let them eat cake.” But that hasn’t stopped her from becoming pop culture’s poster child for the one percent — and no wonder, given her marath…

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September 3, 2012 | Boston Tattoo Convention at the Sheraton Boston Hotel

25 August, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard, Luke Milardo, and Hilary Milnes

The beach isn’t the only place to see some skin this Labor Day. Monday marks the closing day of the 11th annual Boston Tattoo Convention, a four-day fest that’s bringing ink experts and enthusiasts to…

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July 31, 2012 | Zeus at T.T. the Bear's Place

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

If your band decides to borrow the name of Greek mythology’s most fearsome god, one thing is certain: you’d better sound good. Thankfully, we’d imagine even the Big Guy himself would be tapping his sa…

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August 1, 2012 | Animal Hospital Ensemble at the Museum of Fine Arts

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

We’ve got a hunch that Kevin Micka, the brain behind Animal Hospital Ensemble, spent much of his childhood wandering the zoo. Like Mother Nature with her menagerie of bleating beasts, the colorful com…

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August 2, 2012 | Aesop Rock at Paradise Rock Club

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

Literature has Aesop, the (supposed) storyteller behind dozens of fables with pretty clear-cut morals. (“The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs”? Greed equals bad. We get it.) But rap has Aesop Rock, an …

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August 3, 2012 | Floorlords’ 31st Anniversary at Hibernian Hall

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

We may have tweaked our neck vertebrae at yoga class, but after one look at the Floorlords’ 31st Anniversary contestants and their gravity-defying moves, the physical dangers of downward dog suddenly …

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August 5, 2012 | Be A Good Little Widow at Davis Square Theatre

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

We went into mourning when Lost went off the air in 2010. (No more distraction from crash-surviving castaways? We’ll have to fold laundry!) But our loss pales in comparison to the tragedy suffered in …

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August 4, 2012 | Brazilian Style at Ocean Club at Marina Bay

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

We don’t remember much of our last visit to Rio, other than waking up naked on a beach with a pounding headache and a collection of new piercings that even Lady Gaga would consider “a bit much.” So th…

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August 6, 2012 | Makka Monday at Phoenix Landing

23 July, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

If there’s one thing you can count on August to yield, it’s a downpour of down-home reggae beats. Late summer is already stacked with soulful gatherings for genre fans, from Colorado’s Reggae on the R…

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