The temperature in Boston was definitely below freezing last night (Dec. 5), but noise-rock oddities Dirty Projectors blasted their hot, raucous tunes to a packed audience at the Middle East club. Deer Tick warmed things up at the start with a goosebump-inducing rendition of

Still swooning over the Red Sox's World Series victory, Beantown music fans welcomed Swedish songster Jens Lekman with open arms last night (Oct. 29) at the Paradise. With his colorful, witty personality, Lekman and his band composed chiefly of ladies, slid onstage collectively clad in white robes, each with a red flower or design on

Who? Amidst carving out a solo career in the mid-2000s, notably with 2005's Birds & Rain, singer/songwriter Carter Tanton made the short move from Baltimore to Boston and quickly realized his inkling to form a full band. Tanton soon collected Greg Hatem (drums), Marc Pinansky (guitarist), and Erik Wormwood (bassist); voilà Tulsa. The group issued their first digital

Who? When Switches frontman Matt Bishop (guitar/vocals) was just a wee lad, he was already impressing his nursery school classmates with his self-taught guitar skills on an electric guitar built by his Dad. By the time he reached university in Guilford, England in 2002, Bishop met Ollie Thomas (guitar), Jimmy G (drums) and Max Tite (bass), and Switches was born.