Here's a photo of the flyer, taken at Saturday's services in Cambridge, for the Billy Ruane Memorial Birthday Bash to be held at the Middle East on Nov. 17, exactly one week after what would have been his 53rd birthday. While the band lineup is still TBA, we'll admit that it would be cool to hear Varsity Drag perform their 2006 tribute song, "Billy Ruane

Last night's Boston Accents loval music show was divided into two parts: the first hour featuring Halloween-appropriate songs, and the last 60 minutes dedicated to the late Billy Ruane, playing an hour of his favorite New England-based performers past and present. Host Dave Duncan also took calls from Aly Spaltro (Lady Lamb The Beekeeper), Sean Slade (Fort Apache) and Mike Gill (Murder Mile & videographer), who shared their Ruane stories and memories live on air.

Yeah yeah, we know, you partied hard most of last week and the weekend, as Halloween pretty much began on Tuesday around Boston. And you did spend most of yesterday on the couch gorging on stale candy corn and leftover Mike-and-Ikes, waiting for the AMC premiere of "The Walking Dead." Tomorrow is Dia de los Muertos for a reason.

Apparently, this was Shirley Manson's character in that Terminator show from a few years ago.

It's not the Belly reunion that the Village Voice is calling for, but Shirley Manson of Garbage has announced that her band is currently recording an LP. A tour will follow.

In discussing this reunion, Stereogum says "It seems like Garbage never comes up on either critical or nostalgia lists of ’90s alt rock bands."

"That's from before your time," Juliana Hatfield tells me Monday night outside Great Scott, moments after she and Evan Dando wrap up their soundcheck for the first of two acoustic shows at the Allston rock club. She's referring to the Real Kids, the Boston garage rock band from the '70s and early '80s, a sudden topic of conversation since she and Dando will cover "Common At Noon" on both nights and dedicating the song to the late Billy Ruane.

On sale Thursday, November 4

OK Go | December 5 at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston | $20 | On sale at noon via ticketmaster.com

On sale Friday, November 5

Amanda Palmer + Tristan Allen | December 12 at the Berklee Performance Center, Boston | $10 | On sale at 10 am via ticketmaster.com

Tokyo Police Club + Two Door Cinema Club | January 19 at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston | $16.

As Boston’s electronic solo projects continue to emerge from bedrooms and DJ booths and onto a rock-club stage near you, the sonic scope of these artists continues to expand. Jimmy Rossi’s Avoxblue has raised the bar with “Dreaming Thru Your Eyes,” a crystal dagger of an underground synth-pop journey with both the ocean-floor depth of a full band and the pop personality often lacking in experimental machine music.

Social Distortion is the ultimate punk rock survivor story. Death, drugs, jail, break-ups, and extended hiatuses ruined SoCal bands like The Germs and Adolescents, but somehow those same trials have made Social D stronger, evident not only in the tightness of Monday’s House of Blues show, but in the approach the group, in particular Mike Ness, has decided to take.

When culture changes, as it always does, there are always those that get pegged as the last of a dying breed. In the case of the '70s style rock star, the case can be made that there are few holding up a bic lighter to the myth of the eternal rocker more powerfully than Dave Wyndorf.

His band, Monster Magnet, may have formed in the late '80s, long after the heydey of both '70s super-rock and '80s glam-hair-metal, but that didn’t stop him and his fellow Magnets from attempting to steamroll over fey indie culture with a sleek turbocharged vehicle made out of long hair, monstrous riffs and dripping sardonic lyrical bluster.

Florence and the Machine, "Dog Days Are Over" (WFNX Ames Acoustic Session) from WFNX on Vimeo.

Yo La Tengo's new tour sounds quite amazing:

We’re going to split our performance into two sets. At the beginning of the night, we’ll bring a Wheel of . . . Fortune? Fate? What ARE those carnival things called? . . . on stage, and spin it. Whatever comes up, that’s what the first 45 minutes will be. Here are the possibilities:

Alert the Common People and break that old Pink Glove out of the closet, as nine days after the 15th anniversary of their Britpop masterpiece “Different Class,” Pulp have announced a reunion. The band will play a handful of European festival dates in 2011, and anglophiles here stateside can only hope the words Coachella, Bonnaroo or Lollapalooza eventually pop up in the itinerary.

Monday morning can only mean one thing -- another recap of the previous night's Boston Accents local music show on WFNX, highlighting the best in New England rock. Listen in at 101.7 FM on the radio dial or streaming online at wfnx.net. Bang Camaro joined host Dave Duncan in the 'FNX studio, and be on the lookout for a Cellars by Starlight column on the Boston rock dudes in Thursday's Phoenix

Saturday's Young Adults' 12-inch release party at Great Scott felt like one of two things, maybe even both: a changing of the guard in the Boston scene, or just a really cool garage rock show where everyone got shithammered and reveled in the notion that all four bands on the bill could have headlined. Doesn't matter, anyway.

The lineup for the Nov. 17 Billy Ruane Memorial Birthday Bash at the Middle East has been revealed, via mideastclub.com and the event's Facebook page (with both warning us that more acts will be announced leading up to the show). Performing next Wednesday are (in no particular order):

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper (photo above by Glenn French)

The neon sign blinked on: THE CLUB IS OPEN

And with that, a visceral bellow of approbation went up from the the well-lubricated crowd packing the sold-out Paradise on Friday night, Nov. 5. At long last, the boys were back in town.

Guided by Voices front man Robert Pollard – tall and rangy, white-haired, but looking fit for man with a noted thirst who'd just turned 53 on Halloween – ambled onstage clutching a bottle of Jose Cuervo and a half-smoked cigarette.

UPDATE: The Mistle Thrush reunion is a part of the 2nd annual Soozapalooza, and advance tickets are abailable here. Also, keep it locked to the Facebook event page for full lineups and more info!

Boston’s ‘90s buzz-band reunion fever will carry over into 2011.

According to Todd Demma out on the west coast, Bedazzled Records’ dream-pop indie-goth darlings Mistle Thrush will reconvene for their first show in eight years on Jan.

With a fresh new album on the way and 1978 classic “Damaged Goods” still firmly entrenched in post-punk dance party playlists ‘round the good green Earth, Gang of Four are coming back to show us what’s up. Well, most of them are, anyway, as the dude with the dred-head up there looks like he was probably born after the release of Entertainment! and just wrapped up siqq prax with Sevendust.

Here are a few things I learned last night at the Middle East, the Central Square site of two pretty fan-fucking-tastic electronic music shows: Canadian synthpop pixie Lights (in the downstairs) and Los Angeles tribal folk-pop project Glasser (on the up and up).

- If you want to feel old, hit up a Lights show.

Things have gotten off to a shaky start for Liam Gallagher as he has officially set off on his post-Oasis career, one where he claimed to be “doing the best record you'll hear for the next 50 years.”

Don’t kids say the darndest things?

Today saw the free download offering of “Bring the Light,” the first single from Beady Eye (a moniker only slightly less lame than Gallagher’s first choice of Oasis 2.