Chemo-Kitty Our cancer-stricken cat, Jan, started her chemotherapy treatment yesterday. Supposedly she’ll lose a little hair around her neck, and Amie thinks it’s already starting. Four visits and then we see if there’s a chance of remission. Oh, sweet chemicals, work your magic. Give us some more Jan-time, ok? Five by Five Live I could […]
Holy Freakin’ Fireball! So last night at our place on Franklin St., where we took shelter from the storm with television (boston sports teams in the bedroom, cheezy reality tv in the livingroom), we briefly lost power. No big deal… as it only lasted about 10 seconds and did nothing more than reset all our […]
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Friday, August 30th
Coral Moons
Chalk Talk
Lady Pills
@ the Sinclair
Friday, August 30th
The Sheila Divine
Arto Vaun
Dyr Faser
@ Deep Cuts
Sunday, September 1st
Ex-Hyena
Velvet Dreaming
Proles
Free @ State Park
Sunday, September 1st
The Roots
Arrested Development
Digable Planets
@ MGM Music Hall
Sunday, September 2nd
Stars
The "Set Yourself On Fire"
20th Anniversary Tour
@ the Royale
Tuesday, September 3rd
King Buzzo (Melvins)
Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle)
JD Pinkus (Melvins/Butthole Surfers)
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, September 3rd
Male Tears
Ronnie Stone
Ex-Hyena
@ O'Brien's
Tuesday, September 3rd
Peter Hook & the Light
doing both the Joy Division
& New Order "Substance" LPs
@ the Paradise
Wednesday & Thursday
September 4th & 5th
Built to Spill
play "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
in full, with cello
@ the Paradise
Thursday, September 5th
St. Vincent
@ MGM Music Hall
Friday, September 6th
Charley Bliss
@ the Royale
Friday, September 6th
Rob Zombie
Alice Cooper
Ministry
Filter
@ the Xfinity Center
Friday, September 6th
Lady Lamb
@ the Somerville Armory
Saturday, September 7th
Marika Hackman
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, September 8th
Paul Weller
@ House of Blues
Tuesday, September 10th
Buzzcocks
@ Big Night Live
Tuesday, September 10th
Weezer (performing the Blue Album)
with Dinosaur Jr.
& The Flaming Lips
@ the Garden
Wednesday, September 11th
Monterey Mountain
Sleepyhead
@ the Square Root
Wednesday, September 11th
Megadeth
Mudvayne
All That Remains
@ the Pavilion
Thursday, September 12th
Band of Horses
City and Colour
@ Treehouse Brewing, Deerfield
Thursday & Friday
September 12th & 13th
The Lemonheads
@ the Paradise
Friday, September 13th
Beabadoobee
Hovvdy
@ MGM Music Hall
Friday, September 13th
Janes Addiction
Love & Rockets
@ the Pavilion
Friday, September 13th
Squeeze
Boy George
@ the Wang Theatre
Friday, September 13th
Hoodoo Gurus
@ the Royale
Saturday, September 14th
Polaris
Blessthefall
Thousand Below
Nerv
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, September 15th
Belly
in Lowell, MA
Sunday, September 15th
Pet Fox
@ Deep Cuts
Sunday, September 15th
Badflower
Slothrust
@ the House of Blues
Monday, September 16th
Spoon
Phantogram
@ MGM Music Hall
Monday, September 15th &
Sunday, September 17th
Pearl Jam
@ Fenway Park
Monday, September 18th
PJ Harvey
@ MGM Music Hall @ Fenway
Monday, September 18th
Ringo Starr & his All-Starr Band
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Tuesday, September 19th
Pansy Division
The Fatal Flaw
Gene Dante & the Future Starlets
@ Faces Brewing
Saturday, September 21st
The Rat Reunion: Celebrating The
50th Anniversary of The Rathskeller
@ the Bellforge Arts Center
Sunday, September 22nd
Sisters of Mercy
Blaqk Audio
@ MGM Music Hall
Monday, September 23rd
X
the farewell tour
@ the Wilbur
Monday, September 23rd
Electric Light Orchestra
The "Over and Out" Tour
@ the TD Garden
Tuesday, September 24th
EARFULL
Writers reading.
Songwriters singing.
with authors
Lynn Schmeidler &
Catherine Newman
and performers
Dave Derby &
Hilken Mancini
with Melissa Gibbs
@ the Burren Back Room
Tuesday, September 24th
Idles
English Teacher
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, September 25th
Deerhoof
@ the Somerville Armory
Wednesday, September 25th
The Hives
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, September 26th
The Armed
HO99O9
Kumo 99
DJ Haram
@ the Royale
Wednesday, September 27th
Tugboat Annie
Arto Vaun
Drew O'Doherty
@ Faces Brewing
Wednesday, September 27th
Laura Cantrell
@ Club Passim
Saturday, September 28th
Queens of the Stone Age
The Kills
@ MGM Music Hall
Saturday, September 28th
Eddie Japan
Lovina Falls
Rozy and the Crisis
@ Faces Brewing
Saturday, September 28th
Basement
Narrow Head
Ovlov
Snooper
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, September 29th
Hotline TNT
Disq
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Sunday, September 29th
Soul Coughing
@ Roadrunner
Monday, September 30th
The Softies
Jeanines
Zowy
@ Crystal Ballroom
Monday, September 30th
Death From Above 1979
Teen Mortgage
@ The Sinclair
Monday, September 30th
Brittany Howard
Michael Kiwanuka
Yasmin Williams
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, October 2nd
Chromeo & the Midnight
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, October 2nd
The Psychedlic Furs
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Frankie Rose
@ the Orpheum
Thursday, October 3rd
Graham Nash
Judy Collins
@ the Shubert Theater
Thursday, October 3rd
The Lemon Twigs
@ Crystal Ballroom
Thursday, October 3rd
The Get Up Kids
"Something To Write Home About"
25th anniversary tour
with Smoking Popes
@ Big Night Live
Thursday & Friday
October 3rd & 4th
Sofi Tukker
@ Roadrunner
Friday, October 4th
Sting (trio)
@ MGM Music Hall
Friday, October 4th
Loveless
Beauty School Dropout
Julia Wolf
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, October 5th
Everclear
Marcy Playground
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, October 5th
Duster
Dirty Art Club
@ the House of Blues
Saturday, October 5th
Nada Surf
Office Dog
@ the Paradise
Saturday, October 5th
Neko Case
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Sunday, October 6th Lupe Fiasco
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, October 9th
Los Lobos
@ the Cut
Thursday, October 10th
Boyscott
Raavi
Lily Konigsberg
@ the Somerville Armory
Thursday, October 10th
Low Cut Connie
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, October 10th
Johnny Marr
James
@ the Orpheum
Friday, October 11th
Chinese Football
@ the Rockwell
Saturday, October 12th
Chris Brokaw Rock Band
(Brokaw/Conley/Gray)
with Sky Furrows
@ the Lilypad
Friday, October 11th
Yard Act
@ the Sinclair
Friday, October 11th
Billie Eilish
@ the Garden
Sunday, October 13th
Fontaines D.C.
Been Stellar
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, October 13th
Wesley Stace
@ Club Passim
Sunday, October 13th
OMD
@ the House of Blues
Monday, October 14th
The Hypos
Sloppy Heads
Daughter of the Vine
@ The Rockwell
Monday, October 14th
Tigers Jaw
@ the Royale
Tuesday, October 15th
Air
playing "Moon Safari
@ MGM Music Hall
Wednesday, October 16th
Illuminati Hotties
Daffo
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, October 16th
Empress Of
@ the Paradise
Wednesday, October 16th
Orville Peck
Nikki Lane
Vincent Neil Emerson
@ MGM Music Hall
Wednesday & Thursday
October 16th & 17th
Nick Lowe with
Los Straitjackets
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, October 17th
Tanukichan
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Thursday, October 17th
Maggie Rogers
Ryan Beatty
@ the Garden
Saturday, October 19th
Kingsley Flood
Magen Tracy &
the Missed Connections
@ the Burren Backroom
Saturday, October 19th
John Douglas
(of Trashcan Sinatras)
@ City Winery
Saturday, October 19th
The The
@ the Orpheum
Saturday, October 19th
Rival Schools
Webbed Wing
Hollow Suns
Twowayradio
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, October 19th
Todd Rundgren
@ the Lynn Auditorium
October, October 20th
Julie
They Are Gutting a Body of Water
Her New Knife
@ the Paradise
Monday, October 21st
Boris
Starcrawler
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, October 22nd
MJ Lenderman & the Wind
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
@ the Royale
Wednesday, October 23rd
Beach Weather
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, October 23rd
Slift
Meatbodies
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, October 23rd
OSEES
@ the Royale
Wednesday, October 23rd
Massive Attack
(with Liz Fraser!)
DJ Milo
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, October 24th
Otis Shanty
Lost Film
Small Pond
Night Moth
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Friday, October 25th
Moving Targets
The Long Wait
Spiller
@ the Middle East Up
Saturday, October 26th
Fog Lake
Foxes in Fiction
@ the Lilypad
Saturday, October 26th
Cyndi Lauper
farewell tour
@ MGM Music Hall
Sunday, October 27th
Foxing
@ the Sinclair
Monday & Tuesday
October 28th & 29th
Clairo
Alice Phoebe Lou
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, October 29th
Robyn Hitchcock
Imogen Clark
@ City Winery
Wednesday, October 30th
Gang of Four
with the Mini-Mekons
(Sally Timms & Jon Langford)
Wednesday, October 30th
André 3000:
New Blue Sun Live In Concert
@ the Wang
Wednesday, October 30th
The Go! Team
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 1st
The Dresden Dolls
Gogol Bordello
Johnny Manchild
& the Poor Bastards
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, November 2nd
The Dresden Dolls
Gogol Bordello
Emperor Norton's
Stationary Marching Band
@ Roadrunner
Friday through Sunday
November 1st - 3rd
Buffalo Tom's
"Please Come To Boston" minifestival
@ the Somerville Armory
Sunday, November 3rd
The Juliana Hatfield Three
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, November 3rd
Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
@ the ICA
Sunday & Monday
November 3rd & 4th
Leon Bridges
Hermanos Gutiérrez
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, November 6th
Cursive
Gladie
@ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, November 6th
The Wallflowers
@ the Wilbur
Friday, November 8th
Hilken Mancini Band
(record release party!)
with The Cujo (ft. Jen Trynin)
& Mary Lou Lord with
special guests to be announced!
@ Sonia
Saturday, November 9th
Greg Hawkes (of the Cars)
with Eddie Japan
performing the songs of
The Cars
@ the Cut
Saturday, November 9th
TRAITRS
Dead Leaf Echo
Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Sunday, November 10th
Judge John Hodgman: Road Court
@ Coolidge Corner Theatre
Sunday, November 10th
David Cross
Sean Patton
@ the Royale
Sunday, November 10th
Slow Pulp
Free Range
@ the Paradise
Tuesday & Wednesday
November 12th & 13th
Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief)
@ the Shubert Theatre
Friday, November 15th
Hallelujah the Hills perform
"I'm You" in its entirety
with
Upper Wilds & Sidebody
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, November 15th
Ratboys
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, November 16th
Kal Marks
Paper Lady
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, November 16th
Tokyo Police Club (the final tour)
@ the Paradise
Sunday, November 17th
Chat Pile
Mamaleek
Trainlodge
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, November 19th
Modest Mouse
@ MGM Music Hall
Thursday, November 21st
Horse Jumper of Love
Spencer Radcliffe & Everything
Primal Rat Screw
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 22nd
Dawes
Winnetka Bowling League
@ Roadrunner
Friday, November 22nd
Amy Helm
(full band show)
@ the Cut
Friday, November 22nd
Yoke Lore
Runnner
@ the Royale
Saturday, November 23rd
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Alan Sparhawk (of Low)
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, November 23rd
J Mascis
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, December 1st
Interpol
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, December 1st
Gillian Welch &
David Rawlings
@ the Wilbur
Friday, December 6th
Mike Viola
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, December 6th
BEAT plays the music
of 80s King Crimson
featuring Adrian Belew, Steve Vai,
Tony Levin, & Danny Carey
@ the Lynn Auditorium
Thursday, December 12th
The Jesus Lizard
@ Roadrunner
Friday, December 13th
Suki Waterhouse
Bully
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, December 15th
Tiny Moving Parts
Action/Adventure
Greywind
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday, December 31st
Aerosmith (farewell tour)
with the Black Crowes
@ TD Garden
Friday, January 31st
Half Waif
See You At The Maypole
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, January 31st
Frank Black & his band
play "Teenager of the Year"
@ the House of Blues
Saturday, February 15th
Travis
@ the Royale
Friday, February 28th
The Bevis Frond
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Thursday, March 20th
Neil Degrasse Tyson
@ the Wilbur
Friday, April 18th
Bright Eyes
@ House of Blues
Monday, July 7th
OMD
@ House of Blues