Somewhere around here I have a musty and yellowing old 1997 copy of Metroland, the Albany area's alterna-weekly-rag, and buried in the ads for upcoming rock shows you'll find a funny little confluence of what would come to be the Boston scene in the mid-aughts.

At the QE2 was Playfair Roland, a very early and rather tepid version of Scamper fronted by Keith and myself; down the street at Bogie's were The Sterlings, members of which would go on to become The Spaceshots and The Charms; and a few miles up I-87 in Saratoga, a

precocious little sprite named Brett Rosenberg was rocking a 16+ acoustic show at Cafe Lena.

Why the hell am I talking about this? I don't know. But Boston is about to lose one of the good ones when said Rosenberg ups and moves to Nashville this coming April. I'll let The Globe do the talking if you want the Behind the Music balderdash, but you should know that BR will be holding down a farewell residency at Toad every Thursday in February; if you don't go to at least one of them, you have no soul and you no respecty the sound.

Select February shows of note:

• Mon 05 Feb 2007 @ TT the Bear's
  Mikey's brother David Mirabella holds down an "Other Side Of The Bear" acoustic night with Scott Janovitz and Dan Cray
  
  
• Fri 09 Feb 2007 @ The Paradise Rock Club
  WFNX Presents Dear Leader with Taxpayer, Hallelujah the Hills
  
  
• Sat 10 Feb 2007 @ Great Scott
  Harris with Shark & Bear (CD release), Roh Delikat, The Vershok
  
  
• Sat 17 Feb 2007 @ TT the Bear's
  Shaun & Suzi's 14th Annual Mardi Gras Ball
  Not to be missed!
  
  
• Sun 18 Feb 2007 @ The Milky Way
  Okay Thursday w/The Motion Sick, The Channels
  Be warned: If you go to this show, you will assuredly get lost in Jamaica Plain.
  
  
• Fri-Sat 23-24 February 2007 @ TT the Bear's
  The Luxury 2-night CD Release featuring The Appreciation Post, Violet Nine, Hooray For Earth, The December Sound, Appomattox, and some band called Scamper that hasn't played out since November
  $9 single night/$15 two night pass
  
  
• If you can't make night two of that party, though, Saturday the 24th also features Bang Camaro, Damone, and Protokoll at the Paradise. That's the balls. The sweet, sweet sexy balls.