There are some great shows happening around town on and around New Year's Eve. The Deer Tick show at The Sinclair should be a blast. It's sold out, so hopefully you have tickets already...
First Night Boston presents The Magnetic Fields at Symphony Hall (Tanya Donelly opens) and Lee Fields and The Expressions at Jordan Hall (Jenny Dee and the Deelinquents open). Other performers include Cuffs, Cass McCombs, Emily Elbert,Major Stars and Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys.
Girls Guns and Gloryplay their 3rd annual Hank WilliamsHonky Tonk at Lizard Lounge on both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day (eve). Special guests Miss Tess and The Talkbacks open.
If you want to get a jump on the holiday, The Might Mighty Bosstones "Hometown Throwdown" is happening Sat, Sun and Mon at House of Blues. A great pre-holiday double-bill isThe Hold Steadyand Luceroat Royale on Sun, Dec 30.
Here are some shows happening on New Year's eve...
Color Me Obsessed, a film about The Replacements is currently steaming for free on youtube, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Check it out at the link below,if you can. Kinda brilliant, kinda dumb, kinda Replacements
The film contains no footage or interviews with the band. An early recording is included below. The Replacements 'Careless' live at 7th Street Entry 1981
While we're all, you know... waiting for The End of The World. A couple of my favorite songs about the apocalypse. I'd recommend both discs mentioned below, but you might want to get to your local record store quick, just in case. Elvis Costello and the Imposters performing "Waiting for the end of the World", "Radio Radio" and "Mystery Dance" live in Memphis. The original end of the world song appears on the excellent My Aim is True (1977).
R.E.M. performing "It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)" from MTV Unplugged. The original song appears on their excellent Document (1987).
The 121212 Concert had it's moments, but for my money this song is a more fitting tribute to NYC. Donate to the Sandy Relief effort at 121212concert.org
The Lumineers and their song are blowing up,
as they say. They're selling out most shows on their current tour, including Feb 13 at the House of Blues. They got a few mentions on ABC's wildly popular 'Nashville' show last week, as local bands competed to open for them.
Glad I got to see them at Toad last October.
Update: The Lumineers will be the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on Jan 19, 2013
Official trailer for 'Sound City', a documentary on the legendary LA recording studio, by first time director Dave Grohl. The studio operated from 1970 to 2011 and many famous albums were recorded there. More info at soundcitymovie.com
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit is scheduled to play The Sinclair
Cambridge on Thursday, Dec 6. It remains to be seen whether the show will be rescheduled
or moved, due to opening delays at the venue.
Update: The show was moved to Royale on Tuesday, Dec 11
Jason's song "Alabama Pines" was named 2012 Song of the Yearat the Americana Music Association.
