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...this year compared to previous years. Fortunately, there's a host of talented lesser-known faces arriving. Elliott Smith comes into town tomorrow, while Lockgroove, who headlined last year's Crimson-Advocate band showcase Blast!, performs at the Wheeler-Lynch Gallery. On Monday, alt-metal band Slipknot comes to Avalon while sensation Jill Scott sings at the Paradise. Jill Scott is, of course, part of that same amazing revival of Philly R&B and soul that produced the Roots. (Indeed, Scott wrote the Roots' slinky hit "You Got Me.") Next Friday, Badly Drawn Boy (ne Damon Gough) comes...
Finally, the ever-useful concert news. One of my favorite bands, the Beautiful South, are in town this upcoming week. They're playing Avalon on October 22, to be precise. It's always a source of mystery to me that the Housemartins broke up and spawned such disparate sounds as the Beautiful South's masterful ironic pop and Fatboy Slim's. More famous bands coming into town are: Hootie and the Blowfish (October 25, Avalon), Ani DiFranco (October 26-27, Orpheum) and, inevitably, the Squirrel Nut Zippers (October 27, the Roxy...
...concert is hipster du jour Moby, performing at Avalon on Thursday. I would try to be excited, but since I'm instinctively anti-hype and since I think Moby is pretentious, I'm feeling blas about the whole thing. Plus, I'm getting tired of people proclaiming Play to be "the greatest electronic music album ever." But now you know...
...Saturday, the Push Stars turn up, while Elastica (led by the inimitably cool Justine Frischmann, left), perhaps the best of the groups of the so-called Britpop invasion of the mid-'90s, will perform at Avalon. (Incidentally, the version of Trio's '80s hit "Da Da Da" that closes The Menace, Elastica's latest album, is pure genius...
...investigators from the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC) posed as store vendors and casual observers at five shops and clubs in the Fenway area of Boston, catching the students as they were trying to purchase alcohol. Jillian's, Huntington Wine and Spirits, Costello's Liquor Store, Choice Mart and Avalon participated in the sting...