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MySpace Secret Shows is very pleased to present
Broken Social Scene plays Kevin Drew "Spirit If..."
Tuesday, August 28, 2007. FREE! / All Ages! Doors @ 7:00 PM
At TT The Bears (10 Brookline St. Cambridge, MA 02139-4152 - 617-492-BEAR)

YOU WILL NEED A WRISTBAND - ONE WRISTBAND PER PERSON

Bouncer Lit

PHOTO CREDIT: //www.smother.net/interviews/oxbow.php

Bouncers, those stone-faced guardians of the velvet rope, are known for two things: keeping "order" in your favorite nightclubs, and rearranging the faces of those who bring dischord to their (supposedly) orderly worlds.

Van Halen
At the TD Banknorth Garden
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Tickets are $49.50, $79.50 and $149.50.
Tickets go on-sale Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 10:00 am

Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Amos Lee
at DCU Center, Worcester
Tuesday, October 2 at 7:00PM
Tickets: $69.50, $49.50 & $39.50
ONLINE PRESALE HERE starts October 24 (password: Metro)

Spike Jonze interviews M.I.A.:

Lessons learned: Ketamin-addled Pollacks give weird haircuts; being the ex-wife of a Coppola doesn't make you immune to getting mugged; even Spike Jonze can't get an interesting interview out of M.I.A.

Obey launches MC5 clothing line:

Lessons learned: When some streetwear kid bootlegs your shit, don't sue him, just go into business with him; the White Panther logo looks really fucking cool on a t-shirt, not so much on a doodcap or an army jacket; we will write about anything if you send us records like this as swag.

Apollo Sunshine

Bang Camaro

Band of Horses

Wolf Parade

Neko Case

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Guster

Modest Mouse

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with Apollo Sunshine, Bang Camaro, Wolf Parade, Band of Horses, Neko Case, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Guster, and Modest Mouse

On the 30th anniversary of the King's death on his throne, Lisa Marie broke down and did the Nat-&-Natalie/father-daughter corpse duet thing . . . for charity, of course. It is, of course, a train wreck: Elvis onstage in the '70s, babies playing with handguns, Lisa Marie decked out in zombie eye makeup, her face transformed with faux-religious solemnity as a tear drips slowly down her face.

BIRD FLU: tonight at Enormous Room

Mr. Collipark, eight zillion kids with youtube accounts, four out of five bloggers, and Winnie the Pooh agree: teenage sensation Soulja Boy's "Crank Dat" (a/k/a "Superman That Ho") is officially the viral hit of 2007, has spawned a superhero dance craze that's even more fun than that whole Chicken Noodle Soup thing, and is probably the grimiest-sounding rap vocal ever to become a hit.

DOWNLOAD: Big Digits and DJ Mark E. Moon, "Music is Magic (Live)"

OTD leaked the studio version of this track last year, but if you’re relying on studio recordings to form your impressions of Boston party-rap saviors Big Digits, you’re missing 99.9 percent of the fun. Over the past year they've stepped their live game up considerably by adding Mark E.

It's not exactly news that as he's gotten older, Thurston Moore has found time in his life for more than Sonic Youth. When he's not reviewing noise records with Byron Coley, making noise records with people you've never heard of, or asking his daughter if she knows how to play that Dinosaur Jr song, he's apparently found time to record a proper follow-up to Psychic Hearts, the completely unexpected and awesome-beyond-belief (and recently remastered) solo album that all your Pitchfork-reading friends will tell you is secretly better than the last (insert any number from one to five) Sonic Youth records.