[Nac Faves] My Favorite Music of 2020
No, that is not a typo. It really is supposed to say ‘2020’ up there and not ‘2021’. It’s my laughably late, overlong list of long-players I loved last year. I’d say “embarrassingly” late, but I’m way past caring about timeliness, just that it gets done before the current calendar ends. Besides, “laughably” has that […]
[Nac Faves] My Favorite Music of… last year? Yes, of 2019.
Hey, it’s my laughably late faves list. Even in unexceptional times, no one needs another one of these, especially one this tardy. But my coping mechanisms include distracting myself with tedious, relatively meaningless projects… like this one. I shared last year’s list in… July? Absolutely shameful. I told myself then that I’d never be that […]
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Tuesday, September 19th
Teenage Wrist
Spiritual Cramp
Trauma Ray
@ Sonia
Tuesday, September 19th
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Today Junior
@ the Royale
Tuesday, September 19th
Boris
Melvins
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, September 19th
Gorillaz
with
Kaytranada,
Lil Yachty,
and Remi Wolf
@ Fenway Park
Tuesday, September 19th
Death From Above 1979
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Wednesday, September 20th
Zildjian 400th Anniversary Concert
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, September 20th
OSEES
@ the Royale
Wednesday, September 20th
Death Grips
@ House of Blues
Wednesday, September 20th
Kurt Vile
@ Tree House Brewing, Deerfield
Thursday, September 21st
The Gravel Pit
The Mommyheads
Eggstone (Per Sunding
+ the Mommyheads)
@ the Lizard Lounge
Thursday, September 21st
Bully
@ Crystal Ballroom
Friday, September 22nd
Live Skull
Thalia Zedek Band
@ the Midway
Friday, September 22nd
Minibeast
Valley of Weights
Strange Pains
@ Faces Brewing
Friday, September 22nd
Jawbreaker
Joyce Manor
Grumpster
@ MGM Fenway
Friday, September 22nd
Fiddlehead
Never Ending Game
Praise
Anklebiter
Downtalker
@ the Royale
Friday, September 22nd
Wire Lines
Silver Screams
Oak, Fallen
@ The Square Root
Friday, September 22nd
Tegan & Sara
Carlie Hanson
@ Roadrunner
Friday, September 22nd
Lady Lamb
celebrates 10 years
of "Ripely Pine"
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, September 23rd
Field Day
@ the Jungle
Saturday, September 23rd
Stevie Nicks
Billy Joel
@ Gillette
Sunday, September 24th
The Breeders
Screaming Females
@ the House of Blues
Monday, September 25th
Steve Mason (Beta Band)
@ Brighton Music Hall
Monday, September 25th
Slowdive
@ House of Blues Boston
Monday & Tuesday
September 25th & 26th
boygenius
Palehound
@ MGM Music Hall
Tuesday, September 26th
Dead Boys
Nervous Eaters
The Plimsouls
@ the Middle East
Tuesday, September 26th
Old 97's
John Hollier
@ the Royale
Tuesday, September 26th
Ben Folds
@ the Wilbur
Wednesday, September 27th
Yes
@ Lynn Auditorium
Wednesday, September 27th
Ratboys
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, September 27th
Royal Blood
Bad Nerves
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday & Thursday
September 27th & 28th
Broken Social Scene
"You Forgot It In People"
20th anniversary show
@ the Royale
Thursday, September 28th
Ratboys
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, September 30th
Boyscott
@ Deep Cuts
Sunday, October 1st
Explosions In The Sky
Pet Fox
@ Roadrunner
Monday, October 2nd
Neil Gaiman
@ the Emerson Colonial
Tuesday, October 3rd
Field Medic
Olivia Barton
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, October 5th
Belly
@ the Paradise
Friday, October 6th
Thalia Zedek (solo)
Tyler & the Names
@ the Lizard Lounge
Friday, October 6th
"A Night for Justine: Tribute
Concert For Justine Covault"
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Friday, October 6th
Kingsley Flood
The Shang Hi Los
@ the Burren
Friday, October 6th
Garrison
Orangeisland
Pilot to Gunner
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Saturday, October 7th
Agent Orange
Spice Pistols
@ the Middle East
Tuesday, October 10th
The Good Life
"Album Of The Year"
anniversary tour
@ Deep Cuts
Tuesday, October 10th
Nick Cave with
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
on bass
@ the Wang
Wednesday, October 11th
Young Fathers
@ the Royale
Wednesday, October 11th
Nick Cave
Book Signing
12pm @ Harvard Book Store
Wednesday, October 11th
The Mission UK
The Chameleons
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, October 12th
Drop Nineteens
Greg Mendez
@ the Paradise
Friday, October 13th
Minibeast
@ the Middle East Up
Friday, October 13th
Violent Femmes
performing their debut LP
@ MGM Music Hall
Saturday, October 14th
The Walkmen
Rostam
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, October 15th
Chris Farren
Mo Troper
@ Crystal Ballroom
Sunday, October 15th
Thundercat
@ MGM Music Hall
Sunday, October 15th
Queen
@ the Garden
Monday, October 16th
Chromeo
Ric Wilson
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, October 17th
A Giant Dog
@ the Middle East
Tuesday, October 17th
The Chats
Cosmic Psychos
Schizophonics
Gymshorts
@ House of Blues
Wednesday, October 18th
Palehound
Empath
@ the Sinclair
Wednesday, October 18th
Christine and the Queens
@ House of Blues
Thursday, October 19th
The State:
The Breakin' Hearts &
Dippin' Balls Tour
@ the Chevalier, Medford
Friday, October 20th
Ruby Rose Fox
@ the Rec Room, Belmont
Friday, October 20th
Faye Webster
@ Roadrunner
Friday, October 20th
Lewsberg
Chris Brokaw
Minibeast
@ the Middle East
Saturday, October 21st
A. Savage (Parquet Courts)
Annie Hart
@ Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, October 21st
Lucinda Williams
@ the Orpheum
Friday & Saturday
October 20th & 21st
Jonathan Richman
with Tommy Larkins
@ Somerville Theatre
Saturday & Sunday
October 21st & 22nd
Gregory Alan Isakov
The Milk Carton Kids
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, October 22nd
Milly
@ O'Brien's
Monday, October 23rd
Pile
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, October 24th
Squirrel Flower
Truth Club
Knifeplay
@ Brighton Music Hall
Tuesday, October 24th
M. Ward
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, October 24th
My Morning Jacket
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, October 26th
Hiss Golden Messenger
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, October 26th
The Zombies
@ the Cabot
Thursday, October 26th
Mudhoney
Hooveriii
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, October 28th
Spencer Krug
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, October 28th
Jethro Tull
@ MGM Music Hall
Monday, October 30th
Porno For Pyros
@ MGM Music Hall
Tuesday, October 31st
Depeche Mode
DIIV
@ the Garden
Wednesday, November 1st
Nick Lowe & Los Straightjackets
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, November 1st
The Hives
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, November 2nd
Henry Winkler
@ First Parish Church
Friday, November 3rd
Runnner
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Friday, November 3rd
Slow Pulp
Babehoven
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
November 3rd, 4th, & 5th
Bob Dylan
@ the Orpheum
Saturday, November 4th
Quicksand
playing their "Slip" LP
@ the Royale
Saturday, November 4th
Blonde Redhead
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, November 4th
Amyl and the Sniffers
Die Spitz
@ Roadrunner
Monday, November 6th
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Sasami
@ MGM Music Hall
Monday, November 6th
Judge John Hodgman
@ the Wilbur
Monday, November 6th
Into It. Over It.
(playing "Intersections")
Kevin Devine
Queen of Jeans
@ Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday, November 7th
Lucero
Jason Boland & the Stragglers
@ Big Night Live
Wednesday, November 8th
Rosie Tucker
@ Rockwood Music Hall
Wednesday, November 8th
Codeine
Barbara Manning
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 10th
The Menzingers
Microwave
Cloud Nothings
Rodeo Boys
@ Roadrunner
Friday, November 10th
Couch
@ Royale
Saturday, November 11th
Dexys (Midnight Runners)
@ the Emerson Colonial Theatre
Sunday, November 12th
Slaughter Beach, Dog
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, November 12th
The 1975
@ the Garden
Wednesday, November 15th
Future Teens
@ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, November 15th
Tool
@ the Garden
Thursday, November 16th
Slaughter Beach, Dog
@ Roadrunner
Friday & Saturday
November 17th & 18th
Letters To Cleo
celebrating the 30th anniversary
of their "Aurora Gory Alice" LP
with the Gigolo Aunts
@ the Paradise
Saturday & Sunday
November 18th & 19th
The Hotelier
& Foxing
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, November 19th
Men I Trust
Tops
@ Roadrunner
Monday, November 20th
Beach Fossils
Turnover
@ House of Blues
Tuesday, November 21st
Liz Phair
Blondshell
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, November 22nd
The Sheila Divine
Orbit
Dirty Bangs
@ Brighton Music Hall
Tuesday, November 28th
Deafheaven
Touche Amore
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, November 28th
Baroness
@ the Royale
Thursday, November 30th
Nation of Language
Miss Grit
@ the Sinclair
Friday, December 1st
Allman Betts Family Revival
@ the Orpheum
Saturday, December 2nd
Buffalo Tom
@ the Paradise
Saturday, December 2nd
The Hammer Party
Black Helicopter
Spiller
George Tsiaras
@ the Midway
Tuesday, December 5th
Pussy Riot
Thick
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, December 5th
Eric Andre
@ the House of Blues
Tuesday, December 5th
Bar Italia
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, December 7th
Wesley Stace
@ the Charles River Museum
Tuesday, December 12th
Dogstar
(Keanu Reeves' band)
@ the Paradise
Friday, December 15th
Hallelujah the Hills
Eldridge Rodriguez
Aaron & the Lord
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, December 16th
A John Waters Christmas
@ Berklee Performance Center
Sunday & Monday
March 24th & 25th
The Magnetic Fields
perform "69 Love Songs"
over two nights
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, May 1st
Ty Segall
@ the Royale