Mp3s: Midlake live in Cambridge, MA
Y’know, I almost missed this one. Last Wednesday I was home after a pretty stressful workday, my mind already dead set on a restful evening, when an email arrived reminding me that the Denton, Texas band Midlake was playing across the river at TT the Bears in Cambridge. I’d heard a couple of their songs, […]
Mp3s: Camera Obscura live in Allston
Scottish sextet Camera Obscura are at the tail end of a North American tour that brought them to Allston’s Great Scott a couple weeks back, and the packed room was more than happy to have ’em. Reviewers can’t seem to resist referencing Belle & Sebastian when they write about them, thanks to their shared homeland, […]
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Sunday, September 1st
Ex-Hyena
Velvet Dreaming
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Free @ State Park
Sunday, September 1st
The Roots
Arrested Development
Digable Planets
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The "Set Yourself On Fire"
20th Anniversary Tour
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Tuesday, September 3rd
King Buzzo (Melvins)
Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle)
JD Pinkus (Melvins/Butthole Surfers)
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Tuesday, September 3rd
Male Tears
Ronnie Stone
Ex-Hyena
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Tuesday, September 3rd
Peter Hook & the Light
doing both the Joy Division
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Wednesday & Thursday
September 4th & 5th
Built to Spill
play "There's Nothing Wrong With Love"
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Thursday, September 5th
St. Vincent
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Rob Zombie
Alice Cooper
Ministry
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Friday, September 6th
Lady Lamb
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Saturday, September 7th
Marika Hackman
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Paul Weller
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Tuesday, September 10th
Buzzcocks
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Tuesday, September 10th
Weezer (performing the Blue Album)
with Dinosaur Jr.
& The Flaming Lips
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Wednesday, September 11th
Monterey Mountain
Sleepyhead
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Megadeth
Mudvayne
All That Remains
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Band of Horses
City and Colour
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September 12th & 13th
The Lemonheads
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Beabadoobee
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Janes Addiction
Love & Rockets
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Friday, September 13th
Squeeze
Boy George
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Hoodoo Gurus
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Polaris
Blessthefall
Thousand Below
Nerv
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Belly
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Sunday, September 15th
Pet Fox
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Sunday, September 15th
Badflower
Slothrust
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Spoon
Phantogram
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Sunday, September 17th
Pearl Jam
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Monday, September 18th
PJ Harvey
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Ringo Starr & his All-Starr Band
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Tuesday, September 19th
Pansy Division
The Fatal Flaw
Gene Dante & the Future Starlets
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Saturday, September 21st
The Rat Reunion: Celebrating The
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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
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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
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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
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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