When actor Ryan Gosling brought his band, Dead Man’s Bones, to Boston's Middle East Club for the opening of its first-ever tour Wednesday night, the place was sold out and every song was whooped, hollered, and ecstatically applauded by the crowd, even though the album dropped just last week. Sycophantic celeb-loving? Or respect for Gosling’s musicianship? Bit of both, seemed like.

Christmas comes earlier and earlier each year it seems. Especially if there's a super-duper stocking stuffer DVD to pimp.

Alt-rock kingpins the Pixies will make their live return to the U.S. this fall!

"I totally know the difference between Boston and Somerville," Annie Clark, a.k.a. St. Vincent, told the crowd at the Davis Square Theater, referring to the small Bean Town suburb and correcting her earlier, "Hello, Boston!" "I used to busk in Davis Square. I made $6 one day," she said.

Call it the luck of the Boston Irish.