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Month: January 2009

Local Natives, The Union Line and Voxhaul Broadcast bring warm, sunny California to the dark and frozen tundra

Better late than never. Work obligations, the oppressive cold bearing down, and all that. But last Sunday, a distant and rapidly fading memory now, I braved the elements (snowy, windy and cold as they were) to see three really great L.A. bands at T.T. The Bear’s Place in Cambridge. And as I so often am at these times that finally inspire me to get my ass off my small island and down from the North Shore into the city, I was cold, lonely and bereft of inspiration, desperately in need of an indie band live music fix. These guys really delivered for me.

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Live in Los Angeles – Four Great Shows* (oh yeah, and a movie)

The Movies @ Spaceland, Dec. 22, 2008

The Movies @ Spaceland, Dec. 22, 2008

[Note that this is culled from a few random scribblings during the shows that I’m trying to decipher now, my fuzzy memory, plus a quick crawl through their MySpace pages. It was the first time I had seen any of these folks, and I was only marginally familiar with some of their music beforehand, so I’m afraid these won’t be terribly intelligent reviews. Nor especially useful in any way. But suffice it to say they were all superb. The one exception may have been “Terrapin,” but that might just be personal preference, since a quick look at their MySpace page tells me they’re quite popular.]

P.S. If you enjoy laughing over other people’s misery, you can read my L.A. trip review.

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Victor & Julie’s not-so-excellent Adventure – Los Angeles, December 2008

View from Mulholland Drive

View from Mulholland Drive

I probably should have realized, as we were sitting on the runway on our United flight from Boston to Los Angeles, and it was announced over the loudspeaker that our pilots were having some problems with the transportation from their hotel, and we would have to wait for them to arrive (obviously), that this was not a good omen for our trip. Over an hour later, we were finally taking off.

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