Tons of Shows Added, This Weeks Highlights

I finally did some calendar updating and there's a ton of quality shows coming up soon. Some highlights for this coming week.

Say Hi on Wednesday
Formerly named Say Hi to Your Mom, the Seattle indie-pop band will be in Danbury with Jukebox the Ghost. Earlier this year the band released The Wishes and the Glitch, which is a favorite of mine for 2008. Jukebox the Ghost has been gaining adoration lately with their April release Let Live and Let Ghosts. Honestly, Ed, you guys should really do to this. The Dodos are also today and if I haven't seen them live twice already I would definitely be recommending them here too. Say Hi will be in Cambridge, Mass. the day before and Brooklyn the day after.

Downloads:
Say Hi - Northwestern Girls
Say Hi - Toil and Trouble

Tegan and Sara on Saturday
A week from today everyone's favorite twin sister, lesbian indie-pop band (are there any others?) will be Worchester with City and Colour and Girl in a Coma. I'm just really glad they stopped bring that all-girl hip-hop group with them on tour. They were bad.

Tegan and Sara released The Con last year to much praise (from myself included). In fact it ranked at #5 on our Top 20 list. Interesting to look at a year later to see how it held up. We definitely bought into the Radiohead hype a bit too hard. And some are way too high (White Williams, Jamie T) and some too low (LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A.). Anyways, go see Tegan and Sara, they are great.



Speaking of Saturday and female hip-hop, there's a great show that I plan on being at in Brooklyn that day. Menya will be playing at the Asterisk Gallery with Figo. A couple dudes from the Rapture will be DJing (I assume) after the show.

Jenny Lewis on Sunday
Good timing for you Connecticutians. Her second solo album, Acid Tongue, was just released on Tuesday and now you've had enough time to fall in love with it, remember all the lyrics, and creep Lewis out by how well you know it. The A.V. Club gave it a solid B+. I personally have not heard it, but I would definitely take their word on it.