Boston Weekly Picks (Jul 30-Aug 5, 2012)

Our concert picks for the week… (Charli Xcx pictured. Photo by Jesse Jenkins.)
Every week we listen to over 200 bands playing in the Boston area in order to compile our Weekly Picks. Stream the selected bands below. Check back weekly and add the Weekly Picks calendar to your iCalendar or Google Calendar for automatic updates as we add more shows. Subscribe to the Weekly Picks Calendar Add to your Google Calendar Add to your iCalendar application
Monday, July 30
Summer of Aden and Vudu Sister     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Summer%20of%20Aden%20-%20Billy%20Brown.mp3″ text=”Summer of Aden – Billy Brown” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Summer%20of%20Aden%20-%20Fata%20Morgana%20Single.mp3″ text=”Summer of Aden – Fata Morgana (Single” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Summer%20of%20Aden%20-%20Or%20History.mp3″ text=”Summer of Aden – Or History” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Summer%20of%20Aden%20-%20The%20Sky%20Did%20Not%20Fall%20demo.mp3″ text=”Summer of Aden – The Sky Did Not Fall (demo)” dl=”0″] Church
Natural Child     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Natural%20Child%20-%20BG%20PMPN.mp3″ text=”Natural Child – B$G P$MP$N” dl=”0″] Great Scott
Tuesday, July 31
Ben Sollee and Ben Sollee Narrows Center For the Arts
Zeus, Zeus, Spirit Kid, and Bozmo     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Zeus%20-%20Are%20You%20Gonna%20Waste%20My%20Time.mp3″ text=”Zeus – Are You Gonna’ Waste My Time” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Zeus%20-%20Marching%20Through%20Your%20Head.mp3″ text=”Zeus – Marching Through Your Head” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Spirit%20Kid%20-%20My%20Imagination.mp3″ text=”Spirit Kid – My Imagination” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Spirit%20Kid%20-%20Flytrap.mp3″ text=”Spirit Kid – Flytrap” dl=”0″] TT The Bear’s
Wednesday, August 1
Charli Xcx, St. Lucia, and Magic Man     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Charli%20Xcx%20-%20Youre%20The%20One.mp3″ text=”Charli Xcx – You’re The One” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Charli%20Xcx%20-%20Youre%20The%20One%20Blood%20Orange%20Remix.mp3″ text=”Charli Xcx – You’re The One (Blood Orange Remix)” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Charli%20Xcx%20-%20Nuclear%20Seasons.mp3″ text=”Charli Xcx – Nuclear Seasons” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Charli%20Xcx%20-%20Nuclear%20Seasons%20Balam%20Acab%20Remix.mp3″ text=”Charli Xcx – Nuclear Seasons (Balam Acab Remix)” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/St.%20Lucia%20-%20We%20Got%20It%20Wrong.mp3″ text=”St. Lucia – We Got It Wrong” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Magic%20Man%20-%20Polygons.mp3″ text=”Magic Man – Polygons” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Magic%20Man%20-%20Daughter.mp3″ text=”Magic Man – Daughter” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Magic%20Man%20-%20Monster.mp3″ text=”Magic Man – Monster” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] Brighton Music Hall
Amadou And Mariam and Debo Band     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Debo%20Band%20-%20Gedawo.mp3″ text=”Debo Band – Gedawo” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Debo%20Band%20-%20Adderech%20Arada.mp3″ text=”Debo Band – Adderech Arada” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] Paradise
Cuddle Magic     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Cuddle%20Magic%20-%20Moby%20Dickless.mp3″ text=”Cuddle Magic – Moby Dickless” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Cuddle%20Magic%20-%20Disgrace%20Note.mp3″ text=”Cuddle Magic – Disgrace Note” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] Club Passim
Au and Tu Fawning     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Au%20-%20AU-Solid%20Gold%20remix%20by%20Deerhoof.mp3″ text=”Au – AU-Solid Gold remix by Deerhoof” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Au%20-%20AU-Solid%20Gold.mp3″ text=”Au – AU-Solid Gold” dl=”0″] Great Scott
Shores and Empty Orchestra OBriens
Thursday, August 2
The Bright Light Social Hour, Imaginary Cities, and Osaka Street Cutter Middle East Upstairs
Miniature Tigers, Team Spirit, and Pretty and Nice     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Miniature%20Tigers%20-%20Mansion%20of%20Misery.mp3″ text=”Miniature Tigers – Mansion of Misery” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Miniature%20Tigers%20-%20Gold%20Skull.mp3″ text=”Miniature Tigers – Gold Skull” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Team%20Spirit%20-%20Fuck%20the%20Beach.mp3″ text=”Team Spirit – Fuck the Beach” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Pretty%20and%20Nice%20-%20Tora%20Tora%20Tora.mp3″ text=”Pretty and Nice – Tora Tora Tora” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Pretty%20and%20Nice%20-%20Pixies.mp3″ text=”Pretty and Nice – Pixies” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Pretty%20and%20Nice%20-%20Solar%20Energy.mp3″ text=”Pretty and Nice – Solar Energy” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Pretty%20and%20Nice%20-%20Yonkers.mp3″ text=”Pretty and Nice – Yonkers” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] TT The Bear’s
Saturday, August 4
Nightmare Air     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Nightmare%20Air%20-%20Escape.mp3″ text=”Nightmare Air – Escape” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] Great Scott
Sunday, August 5
Magic Magic, Dirty Dishes, and Magic Magic     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Magic%20Magic%20-%20Tsunami.mp3″ text=”Magic Magic – Tsunami” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Magic%20Magic%20-%20Shove.mp3″ text=”Magic Magic – Shove” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Dirty%20Dishes%20-%20Deer%20in%20Headlights.mp3″ text=”Dirty Dishes – Deer in Headlights” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Dirty%20Dishes%20-%20Stolen%20Apples.mp3″ text=”Dirty Dishes – Stolen Apples” dl=”0″ dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Dirty%20Dishes%20-%20In%20the%20Clouds.mp3″ text=”Dirty Dishes – In the Clouds” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] Middle East Upstairs
Chester Endersby Gwazda and The Migs     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Chester%20Endersby%20Gwazda%20-%20World%20Killer.mp3″ text=”Chester Endersby Gwazda – World Killer” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Chester%20Endersby%20Gwazda%20-%20Skewed.mp3″ text=”Chester Endersby Gwazda – Skewed” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/Chester%20Endersby%20Gwazda%20-%20Changing%20Your%20Life%20Future%20Islands%20cover.mp3″ text=”Chester Endersby Gwazda – Changing Your Life (Future Islands cover)” dl=”0″]     [wpaudio url=”https://s3.amazonaws.com/foundwaves/audios/The%20Migs%20-%20When%20She%20Says%20My%20Name%20unreleased.mp3″ text=”The Migs – When She Says My Name (unreleased)” dl=”0″ dl=”0″] Radio