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Mew started their short tour to promote their new album No More Stories Saturday in Boston at the Paradise Rock Club.  Mew opened with New Terrain, which was astonishing to see performed live, then played seamlessly into Introducing Palace Players.  It was a wall of sound that is rarely heard.  The layering of sound was incredible.  Mew played for the next hour and twenty minutes covering their entire catalog.  Like previous Mew shows, they included a video projector synced to the music, including cats and rabbits playing violins.  One of the great moments in the background video is during Sometimes Life Isn’t Easy where they have guys dancing synced to the clapping and stopping their feet, then it changes to kids singing the chorus.  As always Mew is an amazing sight to see live and I’ll always see them if they are playing.
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Living without cable makes you do many things, including catch up on television shows you never paid attention too.  I finally decided to check out Battlestar Galactica this weekend, starting with the mini-series and then onto Season 1 and the start of Season 2.  I love something with a sci-fi theme, and BSG holds up pretty well.  The characters are pretty good, the story is pretty strong, and the interrelationships between characters has pulled me in.  I hope it keeps up and stays strong.  Don’t spoil it for me!

Mew is set to release their new album No More Stories… next week in the United States, and they happening to be playing Boston this weekend at The Paradise. I have seen Mew twice back in Seattle, and they put on an amazing visual and audio show. I am pretty excited as Mew is only doing a handful of shows before the release of the albums in the States. Check out the first video from the new album

I got an iPhone 3GS a couple of days ago and I found an application to post to my blog. So here is the test!

As you can probably see I am tweaking the theme of the good old WordPress site. Exploring new themes and plugins to best have the info I want to display. Stay tuned.

Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head were in town tonight playing T.T. the Bear’s Place over in Cambridge. I decided to go check them out from all my Seattle peeps telling me their live show was pretty darn fun, and they were right. A youthful explosion of moog dance rock. Nice crew too. Great seeing bands from Seattle getting some national attention.

Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band returned to Boston and played the Middle East Upstairs this time. They played some new songs coming from their second album, which they anticipate coming out next next year sometime.

Bee Gees Metal Tribute Band? What in the world? Who would do such a thing? Well someone did and it is awesome. I heard about Tragedy about six months ago when I lived in Seattle. I thought they were a too funny, great tunes, to some classic songs. I never thought I’d get a chance to see them live though because they are the #1 Bee Gees Metal Tribute Band in the Northeast Corridor. To my luck moving to Boston and some surfing on Boston.com, I find them playing last Saturday night at Harper’s Ferry. Well I can’t pass this opportunity up! Well I was totally decimated from their show. Absolute blast! One of the more entertaining shows I have gone too in ages. Well worth checking out if they come to your town.

Rock Band has been out for a while now with expansions and the sequel and a nice constant stream of downloadable content, yet the albums aren’t being released very frequently.  There are some albums out there that would make for some awesome drunken Rock Band enjoyment, and here are a couple albums I think should at some point be released on Rock Band.

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