[Track Debut] Andrew Cohen (Silkworm/Bottomless Pit) & Light Coma’s “The Usual”
Never underestimate the impact of a well-chosen analogy. Seems we owe the welcome return of songwriter/guitarist Andy Cohen to a timely turn of phrase from Light Coma drummer Jim MacGregor, who one night caught Cohen in the midst of an existential “should I keep making music or not?” crisis. After more than 25 years of […]
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Stephen MacDonald (The Okay Win)
“Local Divide” LP Release Show!
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Spectramotiv
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Run River North
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Oxbow
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Field Nurse
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Township
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Love Love
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Foreigner,
Cheap Trick, &
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Led Zeppelin Experience
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RIDE
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Thurston Moore Group
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Tristen
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The Alarm
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Ultimate Painting
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Spoon
The New Pornographers
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Toad the Wet Sprocket
@ the Wilbur
Friday, July 21st
Conor Oberst
Hop Along
@ the House of Blues
Saturday, July 22nd
Thalia Zedek Band
Mr. Airplane Man
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Out of the Blue Too benefit
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Cryostasium, Skyjelly
And Then There Was One
Lightning Pill, & Idle Threat
6pm @ OotB Too
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Primus
Clutch
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Slayer
Lamb of God
Behemoth
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Friday, July 28th
Alt-J
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The Head and the Heart
Big Thief
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Blondie
Garbage
Deap Vally
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The Shins
Tennis
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Melvins
Spotlights
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Wednesday, August 2nd
Belle & Sebastian
Andrew Bird
Porches
@ Blue Hills Pavilion
Thursday, August 3rd
The Rationales,
The Curtis Mayflower,
Oldjack,
Red Red Rockit,
Nate Rogers &
the Unreliable Narrators
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Friday, August 4th
Alabama Shakes
Emily King
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Tuesday, August 8th
Mew
@ the Sinclair
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Poptone
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on Tail, Love & Rockets)
with Pow!
@ the Paradise
Friday, August 11th
LO TOM
(Bazan, Walsh, Many, & Martin)
TW Walsh
@ Brighton Music Hall
Sunday, August 13th
Slothrust
Tancred
@ Great Scott
Tuesday, August 15th
Goo Goo Dolls
Phillip Phillips
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Thursday, August 17th
Hallelujah the Hills
@ Charles Hayden Planetarium
@ Museum of Science, Boston
Saturday, August 19th
Waxahatchee (full band!)
@ the Royale
Saturday, August 19th
Mark Lanegan Band
@ Brighton Music Hall
Monday, August 28th
Green Day
Catfish & the Bottlemen
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Monday, August 28th
Washed Out
@ the Royale
Friday, September 1st
Duck & Cover
Silver Screams
The Runouts
@ Koto in Salem
Tuesday, September 5th
Pallbearer
@ Brighton Music Hall
Tuesday, September 5th
Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble
(of Stereolab)
@ Great Scott
Wednesday, September 6th
Warpaint
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, September 6th
Kevin Morby
Shannon Lay
@ The Sinclair
Friday, September 8th
Widowspeak
Clearance
@ Great Scott
Saturday, September 9th
Swervedriver
playing “Raise” & “Mezcal Head”
DJ Carbo
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, September 9th
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
@ the Paradise
Saturday, September 9th
Buffalo Tom
“Let Me Come Over”
25th Anniversary
@ the Royale
Sunday, September 10th
GBH
@ Brighton Music Hall
Monday, September 11th
Roky Erickson
Death Valley Girls
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, September 13th
Father John Misty
Phosphorescent
@ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
Wednesday, September 13th
Thee Oh Sees
@ the Sinclair
Wednesday, September 13th
Mount Eerie
@ Arts at the Armory
Wednesday, September 13th
Alison Moyet
@ the Royale
Thursday, September 14th
The Afghan Whigs
Har Mar Superstar
@ the Paradise
Thursday, September 14th
Bob Seger & The
Silver Bullet Band with
Nancy Wilson (Heart)
@ the TD Garden
Friday, September 15th
Arcade Fire
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
@ TD Garden
Friday, September 15th
Middle Kids
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, September 16th
Matthew Sweet
Tommy Keene
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, September 16th
Kasabian
@ the Royale
Saturday, September 16th
Sturgill Simpson
@ the Blue Hills Pavilion
Saturday, September 16th
Chameleons Vox (featuring
Mark Burgess of Chameleons UK)
with Soft Kill & Way Out
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Wednesday & Thursday
September 20th & 21st
Gogol Bordello
Lucky Chops
@ the Paradise
Wednesday, September 20th
The Cribs
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Wednesday, September 20th
X (40th anniversary tour)
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, September 21st
The Cranberries
@ House of Blues
Friday, September 22nd
Brian Wilson does “Pet Sounds”
@ the Orpheum
Friday, September 22nd
Alison Krauss
David Gray
@ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
Friday, September 22nd
The Ataris
The Queers
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Saturday, September 23rd
The War On Drugs
@ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
Saturday, September 23rd
Wire
@ The Sinclair
Sunday, September 24th
Saint Etienne
@ the Once Ballroom
Thursday, September 28th
Stiff Little Fingers
Death By Unga Bunga
@ Brighton Music Hall
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October 2nd & 3rd
Pinback
@ Brighton Music Hall
Tuesday, October 3rd
Alvvays
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Wednesday & Thursday
October 4th & 5th
Dinosaur Jr.
Easy Action
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, October 4th
Yes
(including Jon Anderson,
Trevor Rabin, & Rick Wakeman)
@ the Orpheum
Thursday, October 5th
The National
@ the Wang Theatre
Thursday, October 5th
Hundred Waters
Kelsey Lu
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, October 6th
Paul Weller
@ House of Blues
Saturday, October 7th
Sun Kil Moon
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, October 7th
Paramore
Best Coast
@ Boston Opera House
Saturday, October 7th
Broken Social Scene
Frightened Rabbit
@ House Of Blues
Saturday, October 7th
Front 242
@ Brighton Music Hall
Sunday, October 8th
KMFDM
OHGR
Lord of the Lost
@ Brighton Music Hall
Monday, October 9th
Future Islands
@ the Orpheum
Tuesday, October 10th
Against Me!
Bleached
The Dirty Nil
@ the Paradise
Thursday, October 12th
Beach Fossils
Snail Mail
Raener
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, October 14th
Andrew W.K.
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, October 14th
The Psychedelic Furs
“The Singles Tour”
@ the Paradise
Friday, October 20th
Janeane Garofalo
@ ONCE Somerville
Saturday, October 21st
Queens of the Stone Age
Royal Blood
@ Agganis Arena
Wednesday, November 1st
Grizzly Bear
@ the House of Blues
Wednesday, November 1st
Elbow
@ the Paradise
Friday, November 3rd
Human Sexual Response
Unnatural Axe
@ House of Blues
Saturday, November 4th
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile
and the Sea Lice
@ the Orpheum Theatre
Saturday, November 4th
Shout Out Louds
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, November 9th
Bruce Cockburn
@ the Wilbur
Thursday, November 9th
Tegan and Sara
The Con X: Tour
@ the Orpheum
Saturday, November 11th
Iron & Wine
@ Berklee Performance Center
Tuesday, November 14th
Slowdive
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, November 14th
The Black Heart Procession
Sam Coomes
@ ONCE Somerville
Tuesday, November 14th
The Drums
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 17th
Hot Water Music
Big Jesus
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, November 30th
St. Vincent
@ House of Blues
Friday, December 1st
Maximo Park
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, December 7th
Mogwai
@ the Royale
Friday, December 8th
LCD Soundsystem
@ Agganis Arena