Archive for ‘October, 2009’

STAFF EDIT: World wild web

Web mogul Google announced Wednesday that its upcoming partnership with social networking giant Twitter will allow Google searchers to see tweets related to their search topics in the list of results. The Google blog referred to the tweets as valuable real-time observations for the searched topic.

The man himself, Daniel Johnston

Despite the dramatic change in the style of his music to something that sounds highly professional on his latest album, Is and Always Was, Daniel Johnston’s fans keep coming back.’ The new style, which is a decided step away from the lo-fi songs he is known and loved for, may have come as a surprise, but Daniel Johnston hasn’t isolated any fans.

Two nights with Railroad Earth

Not quite bluegrass, jam band or rock ‘n’ roll.’ Railroad Earth dips and dodges the listener’s innate desire to cloister a group’s sound within the rigid boundaries of a definable genre. The group, who takes its name from Jack Kerouac’s short story ‘October in the Railroad Earth,’ boasts both a violin and a mandolin player, yet unlike traditional bluegrass music, the band plugs into amps and drums lay down the beat.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Tiffany’s

Right next to Bertucci’s in Central Square is a mysterious storefront ‘-’- painted banana-yellow and with dimly lit windows shut out by thick curtains, it looks like an early 19th-century brasserie, with an oversized, plaster flapper girl beckoning you to see what’s inside.

Paramore comes to Boston

Hayley Williams lost her voice to laryngitis around the same time she went blonde, but from Paramore’s performance at the House of Blues on Monday, no one could really say either one had to do with the other, contrary to conspiracy theories.