One last bit of news from Boston. The annual WBCN battle of the bands is happening again. Prelims are upstairs at the Middle East, which has grown a bit. Which meant last night that if some metalhead contestants had played the same chord a couple times too often for you, you had your choice of listening to a Mexican folk duo, or watching an electronic dance combo leave the sequencers at home and transform themselves into an Edith Piaf tribute band.

I went with Piaf... but it seems I'm not done with the metalheads. They won this round. Rosenberg got robbed, I tell you. Robbed.

These are things that keep me sane...