[Boston-Area Action 4/16/25] Shows This Week & New Show Announcements
Posted on April 16, 2025 at 10:27 am | No Comments
Busy morning so just going to post this without much preambling/pre-rambling…
Here’s the list of Boston-area shows that I’m attending/may attend/would attend if I had a clone within the next seven days, and then a list of new local show announcements that have happened since last week, or are at least new to my eyes. Check out the full list over in the right hand column —->
My ideal show-going week ahead…
TONIGHT
Wednesday, April 16th
L.S. Dunes
From Indian Lakes
Night Sins
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, April 16th
Trash Sun (solo set)
Donna Revving
Ethan W
@ the Silhouette
Thursday, April 17th
Dead Boys
Burn Kit
Neponset Monastery
@ Deep Cuts
Thursday, April 17th
Corridor
Robber Robber
@ The Rockwell
Thursday, April 17th
Jon King (Gang Of Four)
presents his new memoir
“To Hell with Poverty!” in conversation
with Jim Sullivan & bandmate Hugo Burnham
7pm @ Harvard Book Store
Thursday, April 17th
Mercury Rev
Sandy Bell
DJ Carbo
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, April 18th
Mount Eerie
Hana Stretton
@ the Sinclair
Friday, April 18th
Field Day
The Grownup Noise
Arto Vaun
@ The Square Root
Saturday, April 19th
Hey I’m Outside
Fortune 500
Dogwood Gap
3-6pm @ Remnant Satellite
Saturday, April 19th
BERLIN with Rick Berlin
and The Nickel & Dime Band
WTF!? Album Release
& Rock’s 80th Birthday party!
with many, many special guests
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, April 19th
Wonderful & Strange: A Tribute to David Lynch
with Annie Hart (Au Revoir Simone, TP: The Return),
Julee Cruise Director doing the TP soundtrack,
PLUS a recreated Double R Diner! Damn fine pie
by Feast & the Fable! Killer Bob drag by
Celia Smokinbutts! A Red Room photo booth!
A costume contest & so much more!
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, April 19th
Gang of Four
“The Long Goodbye” farewell tour
playing “Entertainment!” & more
@ The Cut, Gloucester
Sunday, April 20th
Gang of Four
@ the Crystal Ballroom
— Next, new Boston-area show announcements —
Monday, April 28th
Francis Ford Coppola in person
for a screening of “Megalopolis”
@ Coolidge Corner Theatre
Sunday, May 4th
Actor/writer Ed Helms
presents his new book “SNAFU”
@ WBUR CitySpace
Sunday, May 18th
Plight
Bedroom Eyes
The Dreamtoday
Louder Joy (members of
Taxpayer & Mean Creek)
@ O’Brien’s
Friday, May 30th
Thalia Zedek Band
record release show!
@ O’Brien’s
Friday, May 30th
Blonde Redhead
(opening for Bloc Party, replacing Metric)
@ MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Thursday, June 12th
Clutch
@ Lynn Auditorium
Saturday, June 21st
Outloud Music Festival
with Kim Petras, Trixie Mattel (DJ set),
Flo Milli, Rebecca Black, G Flip,
Frankie Grande, Oompa, Hannah Rad,
Big Body Kweeng, MATH3CA
@ Suffolk Downs
Thursday, June 26th
Faster Pussycat
The Supersuckers
The Rumours
The Lonely Ones
@ Koto in Lowell
Wednesday, July 16th
Tripping Daisy
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, August 8th
Stevie Nicks
@ TD Garden
Saturday, November 8th
The Mars Volta
@ House of Blues
[Boston-Area Action 4/9/25] Shows This Week & New Show Announcements
Posted on April 9, 2025 at 12:19 pm | No Comments
Hi. How are you? You don’t have to answer that. Instead, just read this weekly Wednesday list of Boston-area shows I’m hoping to attend over the next week, along with recent announcements of shows that strike my fancy and might strike yours. If there are show announcements, or ones happening this week, that you’re into but I haven’t listed, feel free to toss them in the comments.
I’d be remiss to not call out a show I helped put together that we just announced on Friday, but more on that later: SAVAK, Lupo città, The Whimbrels, & Andy Cohen of Silkworm at O’Brien’s on June 21st.
As always, the full list of shows on my radar is in the right column of the Almanac over there —>>
First, my ideal week ahead, which starts tonight with a show that stretches the definition of Boston-area to the max. And there are like four shows tomorrow that I want to go to, which… just isn’t going to happen. Another brutal conflict: Friday night, with my fave of the Kids in the Hall, Bruce McCulloch, up against Mogwai & Brainiac, up against the first night of the Dark Spring fest. Well, Spring has definitely effin’ sprung…
Tonight
Wednesday, April 9th
Magnetic Fields
play ’69 Love Songs’ (night two)
@ Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord, NH
Thursday, April 10th
Silver Screams
The Winter Brave
Bob Cenci’s Orange Guitar
@ Notch Brewing, Brighton
Thursday, April 10th
Winkler
hey i’m outside
The Croaks
@ Zone 3, Allston
Thursday, April 10th
FACS
Landowner
Major Stars
@ Deep Cuts
Thursday, April 10th
Clem Snide
Abe Partridge
@ Warehouse XI
Friday, April 11th
Bruce McCulloch
(Kids In The Hall)
“Tales of Bravery & Stupidity”
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, April 11th
Mogwai
Brainiac
@ the Paradise
Friday, April 11th
Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners
EP release party!
@ The Plough and Stars
Friday, April 11th
Dark Spring Boston Festival
Day 1
with Ashes Fallen, Panic Priest,
Ronnie Stone, Mirrored Hell,
Ghost Painted Sky, and
guest DJ Outsider
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Saturday, April 12th
Dark Spring Boston Festival
Day 2
Don’t Get Lemon, Clone,
Lip Smear, Dutch Experts,
Blood Handome, and
guest DJ Dragnet
@ Sonia
Saturday, April 12th
Hot Stove, Cool Music
25th Anniversary Show
Celebrating 25 Years of
Music, Baseball & Giving
ft. Greg Hawkes from The Cars
w/ Eddie Japan doing Cars songs,
plus the Hot Stove All-Stars with
Peter Gammons, Theo Epstein,
Kay Hanley, Bill Janovitz, Will Dailey,
and other MLB & Music Legends
@ the Paradise
Saturday, April 12th
Franz Ferdinand
@ the Orpheum
Sunday, April 13th
EXTC
(Terry Chambers & friends)
@ City Winery
Tuesday, April 15th
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
St. Vincent
@ Agganis Arena
— Next, new Boston-area show announcements —
Thursday, April 24th
Frankie Rose
(added to the Swervedriver show)
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, May 17th
Chris Brokaw (LP release!)
Beth Kaplan
Kathy Snax
@ Streetcar in JP
Sunday, May 25th
Volume
@ the Middle East Up
Saturday, June 21st
SAVAK
Lupo Citta
The Whimbrels
Andy Cohen (Silkworm)
@ O’Brien’s
Thursday, June 26th
Benmont Tench
@ City Winery Boston
Tuesday, July 8th
Lifeguard
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, July 11th
Winona Fighter
@ Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, July 19th
Michael McColgan
& the Bomb Squad
with Badterms and
Nick & the Adversaries
@ the Middle East
Sunday, July 20th
THUS LOVE
Lahnah
@ O’Brien’s
Thursday, July 24th
Kesha
Rose Gray
@ the Xfinity Center
Wednesday, July 30th
TV On The Radio
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, July 31st
New Bomb Turks
The Drowns
@ Sonia
Wednesday, August 13th
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets
@ The Center For Arts Natick
Saturday, Sept. 6th
SLOW CRUSH
Faetooth
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, Sept. 6th
The 13th Annual JP Music Festival!
@ Pinebank Field in Jamaica Plain
Tuesday, September 9th
Mac DeMarco
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, Sept. 11th
Sparks
@ Berklee Performance Center
Friday, September 19th
George Thorogood
& The Destroyers
@ Lynn Auditorium
Saturday, October 25th
Rufus Wainwright
@ City Winery
Wednesday, October 29th
Herbie Hancock
@ the Wang Theatre