What else we were talking about

The news, video picks and short reviews melophobe posted in the days around August 4. They’re kept as they ran, so some of what they point to is long gone.

2009

100 posts

Tuesday, August 4

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Noisettes + Phantogram - 8/10, Great Scott
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The Warlocks + The Morning After Girls + The Vandelles - 8/12, Great Scott
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Bat For Lashes + Other Lives - 8/13, Paradise Rock Club
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Starlight Mints + Wye Oak - 8/13, Middle East Upstairs
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NOMO - 8/14, Institute of Contemporary Art
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Onyx - 8/14, Harpers Ferry
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De La Soul - 8/19, Showcase Live
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Cam'ron - 8/20, Harpers Ferry
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Lee "Scratch" Perry - 8/22, Harpers Ferry
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Colin Hay - 8/25, Showcase Live
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Larcenist + Static of the Gods + The Shondes + Ian Adams - 8/26, Middle East Upstairs
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The Cool Kids - 8/28, Paradise Rock Club
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The Flaming Lips + Explosions in the Sky + Stardeath and White Dwarfs - 8/30, Bank Of America Pavilion
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Ha Ha Tonka - 8/30, Middle East Downstairs
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Throw Me the Statue + The Brunettes + Nurses - 9/1, Middle East Upstairs
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!!! + Indian Jewelry - 9/3, Middle East Downstairs
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Tigercity - 9/3, Great Scott
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + The Depreciation Guild + Cymbals Eat Guitars - 9/5, Middle East Downstairs
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Murs - 9/9, Paradise Rock Club
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Dead Meadow + Township - 9/10, Middle East Downstairs
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Busdriver + Abstract Rude - 9/14, Middle East Upstairs
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Datarock + Esser - 9/14, Paradise Rock Club
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The Horrors + Crocodiles - 9/15, Paradise Rock Club
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The Weakerthans + Rock Plaza Central + Tomte - 9/16, Paradise Rock Club
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The Cave Singers + Lightning Dust + Old Abram Brown - 9/17, TT the Bear's Place
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The Walkmen + Here We Go Magic - 9/18, Middle East Downstairs
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The Walkmen + Here We Go Magic - 9/19, Middle East Downstairs
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Starfucker - 9/21, Middle East Upstairs
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HEALTH + Pictureplane - 9/22, Harpers Ferry
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Elizabeth & The Catapult - 9/24, TT the Bear's Place
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Wavves + Ganglians - 9/27, Great Scott
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These Arms Are Snakes + DD/MM/YYYY - 9/27, TT the Bear's Place
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Ra Ra Riot + Maps & Atlases + Princeton - 10/3, Paradise Rock Club
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Dinosaur, Jr. + Lou Barlow and Themissingmen - 10/2, Middle East Downstairs
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Dinosaur, Jr. + Lou Barlow and Themissingmen - 10/3, Middle East Downstairs
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Japandroids + The Coathangers - 10/5, Great Scott
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The Twilight Sad + BrakesBrakesBrakes + We Were Promised Jetpacks - 10/7, Great Scott
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Built to Spill - 10/10, Middle East Downstairs
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Built to Spill - 10/9, Middle East Downstairs
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The Most Serene Republic + Grand Archives - 10/10, Great Scott
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Gossip - 10/11, Paradise Rock Club
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Built to Spill - 10/11, Middle East Downstairs
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Sea Wolf + Port O'Brien + Sara Love - 10/13, Paradise Rock Club
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Le Loup + Nurses - 10/13, TT the Bear's Place
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The Dodos + The Ruby Suns - 10/15, Middle East Downstairs
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Youth Group + The States + The Honors + Leo Blais - 10/16, TT the Bear's Place
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Daniel Johnston + Capitol Years - 10/15, Paradise Rock Club
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School Of Seven Bells + Magic Wands - 10/17, Paradise Rock Club
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The Raveonettes + The Black Angels - 10/20, Paradise Rock Club
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Islands + Jemina Pearl - 11/4, Middle East Downstairs
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A Place to Bury Strangers + Dead Confederate + All the Saints - 10/30, Middle East Upstairs
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Mae + Dead Vail - 11/5, Middle East Downstairs
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The Jesus Lizard - 11/14, Paradise Rock Club
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Brother Ali + Evidence + Toki Wright + BK One - 11/8, Paradise Rock Club

Wednesday, August 5

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Jay-Z Covers "No Sleep til Brooklyn"
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BOAT + New Century Schoolbook + Peacock & Labeau - 8/8, Backspace
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Casiokids - 8/11, Doug Fir Lounge
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Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek (Reflection Eternal) + Slum Village + Slaughterhouse + Raekwon + Supernatural + Pete Rock - 8/15, Roseland Theater
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Experimental Dental School + Wax Fingers + Swim Swam Swum + Mighty Tiger - 8/15, Doug Fir Lounge
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Nice Nice + Nudge + Gulls - 8/19, Holocene
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Flaming Lips + Built To Spill + Stardeath and White Dwarfs - 8/20, Edgefield
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Xavier Rudd - 8/20, Crystal Ballroom
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The Fruit Bats + Johnny & The Moon + Panty Lions - 8/22, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Dead Weather - 8/23, Roseland Theater
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Fleshtone + Guidance Counselor + Wampire + Grand Lake - 8/27, Holocene
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Ramona Falls - 8/29, Doug Fir Lounge
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Mos Def + Jay Electronica + Lilla D'Mone - 8/29, Roseland Theater
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Orgone - 8/31, Peter's Room
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Elvis Perkins In Dearland - 9/3, Doug Fir Lounge
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Kid Koala + Anomie Belle - 9/2, Doug Fir Lounge
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De la Soul + Animal Farm - 9/4, Roseland Theater
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Akron/Family - 9/8, Bagdad Theater & Pub
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Starfucker (Day and Night shows) - 9/4, Doug Fir Lounge
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Rena Jones + Helios + Evac - 9/13, Doug Fir Lounge
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Deer Tick - 9/15, Olympic Club Hotel & Theater
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MFNW! (Ah Holly Fam'ly, The Dirty Three, Explosins in the Sky, The Twilight Sad, Frightened Rabbit, Girl Talk, Passion Pit, The Helio Sequence, more) - 9/17, All over Portland
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MFNW! (The Shaky Hands, What's Up?, Copy, Atole, We're From Japan, Japanther, Monotonix, Bad Brains, Micachu & the Shapes, Chairlift, Common Market, Sunny Day Real Estate, more) - 9/18, All over Portland
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MFNW! (Drug Rug, Titus Andronicus, Beach House, John Vanderslice, Langhorne Slim, The Builders and the Butchers, Loch Lomond, The Get Up Kids, Fucked Up, Pretty & Nice, more) - 9/19, All over Portland
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MFNW! (Modest Mouse, Love as Laughter, Mimicking Birds, more) - 9/20, All over Portland
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Modest Mouse - 9/21, Crystal Ballroom
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Modest Mouse - 9/22, Crystal Ballroom
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Grand Archives + The Most Serene Republic - 9/23, Doug Fir Lounge
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Modest Mouse - 9/23, Crystal Ballroom
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Mimicking Birds + The Beautiful Train wrecks - 9/26, White Eagle Saloon
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Loney Dear + Asobi Seksu + Anna Ternheim - 10/3, Doug Fir Lounge
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Datarock + Esser + Kav - 10/2, Holocene
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Mono + Maserati - 10/10, Doug Fir Lounge
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Sleepy Sun + Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound + This Blinding Light - 10/4, Doug Fir Lounge
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Grizzly Bear - 10/15, Crystal Ballroom
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Bob Mould + Spiral Stairs - 10/16, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Jesus Lizard - 10/22, Crystal Ballroom
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Le Loup + Nurses - 10/25, Doug Fir Lounge
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Dan Deacon + Nuclear Power Plants - 10/23, Holocene
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Airborne Toxic Event + The Henry Clay People + Red Cortez - 10/31, Roseland Theater
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Broadcast + Atlas Sound + The Selmanaires - 11/1, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Raveonettes - 11/7, Doug Fir Lounge
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The Black Crowes + Truth & Salvage Co. - 11/20, Roseland Theater