Information Crush: Amy's Show List

On Thursday I'm planning on being at TTs for the Detroit Cobras and Dexter Romweber Duo show. This looks like a great show so I really hope that there are tickets available at the door. If it's soldout, maybe I'll end up at the Plough for the Andrea Gillis Variety Show(could be cool). Friday has a couple of shows that look good. Fiery Furnaces with Hallelujah the Hills and the Bodega Girls at the Middle East are definitely worth a look if you've never seen them before. And if you like Queen, the Lizard is where you want to be, cause local luminaries will be performing Queen hits(and maybe some obscure ones as well). On Saturday, go all golden oldie at the Hatch Shell with Three Dog Night(do you think they'll play Shambala?). Sunday night has too many choices(on a Sunday night, really?). There's Cowboy Mouth at the Paradise and they're always a good time or John Vanderslice at the Middle East or uke master Melvern Taylor at the Plough or even Irishman Luka Bloom at Showcase Live. Definitely too many choices for a Sunday. On Tuesday, I really like Phoenix. I saw them last time they came thru town and they put on a great show. On Wednesday you have the chance to wang chung at night and have fun that night and also see the look of love at the House of Blues with ABC and Wang Chung.

Here's my public service announcement: If you are planning on seeing the Yo La Tengo (sort of anyway) and the Bevis at TTs on 6/21, I say act fast. Tickets are no longer available online so head over to the box office at TTs and get yourself a ticket. So very cool!

And here's another freebie, Burts Bees is giving away free lip balm everyday between now and June 30. Just log onto http://www.burtsbees.com/ between 9a and noon to download a coupon. The time that they open the contest is different everyday so keep trying. Also don't forget, on every Friday starting at 9a, you can go to http://www.realchocolate.com/ and download a coupon for free chocolate be one of the first 250,000 people to get your sweets. If you don't get one on this week, don't worry, this promotion is running every Friday thru September.

So did I miss anything worthwhile? Ifso let me know so I can fix it for next time.

Here are this week's show listings, enjoy!

Thursday, 6/11:

• Melvern Taylor at Toad (early 7p show)
• Junior Brown at Johnny D's
• Sunset Rubdown at the ME
• Andrea Gillis Variety Show at the Plough
• Detroit Cobras and the Dexter Romweber Duo (remember the Flat Duo Jets?) at TTs
• Pink Martini at the Cape Cod Melody Tent

Friday, 6/12:

• Free Chocolate Fridays at http://www.realchocolate.com/
• Pink Martini at the Opera House
• Cover Up Boston - Queen at the Lizard
• Dan Deacon at the ICA
• Fiery Furnaces and the Bodega Girls at the ME
• Jetset, Commandos, and Johnny Coathanger & the Anti Babies at Club Gallery, Providence

Saturday, 6/13:

• Three Dog Night at the Hatch Shell
• They Might Be Giants at Berklee
• Gary Shane and the Detour at the Cantab

Sunday, 6/14:

• Cowboy Mouth at the Paradise
• John Vanderslice and the Tallest Man on Earth (fr Sweeden) at the ME
• Luka Bloom at Showcase Live
• Melvern Taylor at the Plough
• Natalie Portman's Shaved Head at TTs

Monday, 6/15:

• Bill Callahan, Smog and Lights at the Brattle
• Black Dice and Awesome Color at Outside the Lines Gallery
• British and Highly Personal Trash at ZuZu's

Tuesday, 6/16:

• Phoenix at the Paradise

Wednesday, 6/17:

• ABC, Wang Chung, Heaven 17 and the Cutting Crew at the House of Blues
• Freedy Johnston at the Armory, Somerville

And Looking Forward...

6/18 The Low Anthem and Anais Mitchell at the Brattle

6/18 Robin Lane and Johnny Angel at the Plough

6/18 Passion Pit at the Paradise

6/18 Men (featuring members of Le Tigre) at Harper's Ferry

6/19 My Own Worst Enemy, Mars, The Sharp Lads at the Cantab

6/19 Cracker at the ME

6/19 Alejandro Escovedo at the Iron Horse, Northampton

6/19 Andrew Bird and Calexico at the BoA Pavillion

6/19 Jonathan Richman with Vic Chestnut at the Narrows Center, Fall River (what? no Boston/Cambridge show?)

6/19 Berlin at the House of Blues

6/19 The Blackjacks Reunion Show with The Gravel Pit and the Outlets at TTs

6/20 The Blackjacks Reunion Show with Mark Lind at TTs

6/20 The Mermaid Parade at Coney Island http://www.coneyisland.com/mermaid.shtml

6/20 Life is Good Festival with the Blind Boys of Alabama (on the Common)

6/20 No Doubt at the Comcast Center

6/20 Better Than Ezra at the Paradise

6/20 Little Joy at Cafe 939

6/20 Shepardess and Grammercy Arms Band at the Plough

6/20 Girls, Guns and Glory Harbor Cruise

6/21 WMBR Jon Bernhardt's 25th Anniversary with Condo Fucks (all 3 members of Yo La Tengo), The Bevis Frond (solo) and Sleepyhead at TTs (Wowie! what a great show)

6/21 Patrick Wolf, The Living Things and the Plasticines at the ME

6/21 Cotton Jones, The Antlers at the ME

6/22 The Coachmen at Atwoods

6/23 Hayride with Jimmy Ryan at Atwoods

6/23 Kepi Ghoulie Electric! at Church (formerly of the Groovy Ghoulies)

6/23 Wooden Birds at TTs

6/23 Stupidity (fr Sweeden) and Skinny Mike at the Plough

6/23 Van Der Graaf Generator and the Strawbs at the Regent

6/23 Tom Jones at Pines Theatre in Florence, MA

6/24 Johann Johannson at the Cambridge YMCA in Central Square

6/24 Bettye Lavette at the MFA

6/24 The Most Serene Republic at Great Scotts

6/25 Barrence Whitfield & the Savages and 4 Piece Suit at the Armory, Somerville

6/26 Camera Obscura at the Somerville Theater

6/26 Buffalo Tom at the Paradise

6/26 The Swinedells, Jordan Valentine & the Sunday Sinners, and Jenny Dee & the Delinquents at Church

6/27 Three Day Threshold at Atwoods

6/27 Children Collide with Nica Vega at Harpers Ferry

6/27 Los Lobos at Boarding House Park, Lowell

6/27 The Coachmen at the Plough

6/27 Versus, Rebecca Gates (fr The Spinanes) at Church

6/28 New York Dolls and Black Joe Lewis at the Paradise

6/30 Uncle Monk at the Cantab

6/30 Cheap Trick, Def Leopard and Poison at the Comcast Center

7/1 Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine at the House of Blues

7/1 The Germs at Harpers Ferry

7/1 Digney Fignus at Johnny D's

7/2 The Wandas at Great Scotts

7/2 Butcher Holler (Loretta Lynn Tribute) at the Lizard

7/2 The Church at Showcase Live

7/3 The Church at Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH

7/3 Deleted Scenes at TBA

7/4 Neil Diamond with the Boston Pops at the Hatch

7/6 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Pants Yell! at TTs

7/6 Handsome Furs at Great Scotts

7/7 Reel Big Fish, English Beat and Hepcat at House of Blues

7/7 The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players at Harpers

7/8 Hey Monday (power pop) at Harpers Ferry

7/8 stellstarr* at WFNX show TBD

7/9 The Orb at the Paradise TOUR CANCELLED

7/9 Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears at the ME

7/9 Peter Murphy at Showcase Live

7/10 The Offspring at Tsongas Arena

7/10 Jenny Dee and the Delinquents at the ME

7/10 Bellevue Cadillac Harbor Cruise

7/11 Temptations at the Hatch

7/11 Wilco at Lelacher Park in Lowell

7/11 Free 7 oz Slurpee at 7-11

7/11 The Damnwells at TTs

7/12 Bowerbirds at TTs

7/12 The Japanoids at Great Scotts

7/13 Speck Mountain at ZuZus

7/15 Dave Alvin & the Guiltymen at the Regattabar

7/15 King Sunny Ade at the MFA

7/15 Mannequin Men at Church

7/16 Micachu and the Shapes at Great Scotts

7/17 The Datsuns, Future of the Left at TTs

7/17 The Magnolia Electric Company at the ME

7/17 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy at Showcase Live

7/17-18 Somerville's Art Beat with Jenny Dee & the Delinquents and the Dirty Truckers

7/18 Dead Weather (Jack White's new band) at the House of Blues

7/18 Aimee Mann at Boarding House Park, Lowell

7/19 Grand Duchy (with Frank Black) at the ME

7/20 Green Day at the Garden

7/20 Casper and the Cookies at the ME

7/20 Talbot Tagora at Harpers

7/21 Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby with Jimmy Ryan at TTs

7/21 Mark Eitzel and Marc Capelle (of American Music Club) at the Lizard

7/21 The Warped Tour at the Comcast Center

7/22 Slim Cessna's Auto Club at TTs

7/22-26 Provincetown Festival with the Presidents of the United States, The Neighborhoods, The Upper Crust and more

7/24 Paolo Nutini at the House of Blues

7/25 Mente at the Provincetown Festival

7/25 The Beach Boys at the Hatch

7/25 Tom Jones at the BoA Pavillion

7/25 Bob and the Dickheads at the Cantab

7/25 Harvey Milk and Torche at the ME

7/26 Tom Jones at the Cape Cod Melody Tent

7/26 Pete Yorn at the House of Blues

7/27 Oneida at Outside the Lines Gallery, Medford

7/28 AC/DC at Gillette

7/28 Rancid at the House of Blues

7/29 Rancid at the House of Blues

7/29 Alex Cuba at the MFA

7/29 Chris Isaak at the Newport Yachting Club

7/29 Foreign Born and the Veils at TTs

7/30 Birdsongs of the Mesozoic at Johnny D's

7/31 Cage at Harpers Ferry

7/31 Depeche Mode with Peter, Bjorn and John at the Comcast Center

7/31 -8/2 Newport Folk Festival featuring The Decemberists, Avett Brothers, Fleet Foxes, Neko Case, Elvis Perkins and more

8/1 Builders & Butchers and Illonois at TTs

8/1 Wheat at Great Scotts

8/1 The B52s at Cape Cod Melody Tent

8/2 The B52s at the South Shore Music Circus

8/3 Tinted Windows at the Paradise

8/3 Coldplay at the Comcast Center

8/3 Langhorne Slim and the War Eagles at TTs

8/3 Cursive at the ME

8/4 Eagles of Death Metal at House of Blues

8/4 Sugar Ray at the Paradise

8/5 Joe Pernice and the Walsh Bros at the Brattle

8/5 Old Crow Medicine Show with Gillian Welch at the House of Blues

8/7 California 66 Tour with the Seeds, The Electric Prunes and Love (sort of) at the ME

8/7-9 Newport Jazz Festival

8/8 Blondie and Pat Benatar at the BoA Pavillion

8/8 Drug Rug at the ME

8/10 California 66 Tour with the Seeds, The Electric Prunes and Love (sort of) at Showcase Live

8/12 The Script and Parachute at the Paradise

8/12 The Warlocks at Great Scotts

8/12 The Pretenders and Cat Power at the BoA Pavillion

8/12 Robert Gordon, Chris Spedding, Slim Jim Phantom and Glen Matlock at Showcase Live

8/13 Bat for Lashes at the Paradise

8/14 The Wallflowers at Boarding House Park, Lowell

8/15 The Radiators at Harpers

8/16 Trashcan Sinatras at TTs

8/17 Tori Amos at the BoA Pavillion

8/20 Loggins & Messina at the Cape Cod Melody Tent

8/21 The Electric Six and Les Sans Cullotes Rock On Concert Cruise

8/28 Mardi Gras Mambo with The Neville Bros and Dr John at the House of Blues

8/28 The Hothouse Flowers at Showcase Live

8/29 Lewis Black at Citi Performing Arts Center

8/29 The Hothouse Flowers at Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH

8/30 The Hothouse Flowers at Tupelo Music Hall, Londonderry, NH

9/4 The Killers at the Garden

9/5 Pet Shop Boys at the House of Blues

9/10 Autolux at the Paradise

9/11 Kings of Leon and Glasvegas at the Comcast Center

9/12 The Cult at the House of Blues

9/13 Hugh Cornwell (from the Stranglers) at TTs

9/15 The Horrors at the Paradise

9/18-20 Luau at the Lake in Lake George, NY http://www.luauatthelake.com/ (It is never too soon to start planning for tiki weekend!)

9/19 Steeleye Span at the Somerville Theater

9/19 Lebowski Fest Movie Party at the House of Blues

9/20 Maximo Park at the Paradise

9/20 U2 with Snow Patrol at Gillette Stadium SOLDOUT

9/21 U2 with Snow Patrol at Gillette Stadium SOLDOUT

9/22 Son Volt at the Paradise

9/24 Free Ice Cream Treat at Coldstone Creamery (with a donation to the Make a Wish Foundation)

9/24 Peter Mulvey at the Lizard

9/25 Charlatans UK at the Paradise

9/26 Fluff-Fest at Union Square, Somerville

9/26 KMFDM at the House of Blues

9/30 Mono at the ME

10/2 Graham Parker at Bull Run

10/4 Loudon Wainwright III and Richard Thompson at Sanders Theater

10/7 Bob Mould at the Paradise

10/7 Howard Jones at Scullers

10/8 Howard Jones at Scullers

Any other suggestions? Let me know. Also please excuse any typos, I try to keep them to a minimum but I'm only human.