Ghostland Observatory come into their live show at a disadvantage. Unlike other touring electronic acts such as Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco and MGMT, their songs as they appear on the album are kind of awful. They sound like they dragged Daft Punk beats through a B-horror movie set in Transylvania and stuck singer Aaron Behrens’ Zack De La Rocha meets Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At The Drive-In/The Mars Volta) wail in front of it. The voice…

Happy first weekend of September – and happy Labor Day weekend, too, for our American cities! Let’s take a look at what’s been happening around the Ist-a-verse. The deaths of two firefighters shook Bostonist this week. Boston’s firefighters bent over backwards all week long – first, they fought flames pouring from the Boston Tea Party museum, and then a restaurant fire killed two and injured many more. Their efforts make everything else – like Tom…