[Nac Faves] My Favorite Music of 2018
Well, someone’s gotta be the caboose, right? My total inability to share my annual musical-faves list in a timely manner has resulted in a single goal: To just finish it sooner than I did the year before. (*looks at last year’s post*) April 2nd. Big sigh. Not even close! But hey, at least today is […]
[Nac Faves] My Favorite Music of 2017
Ah, the best laid plans and the most brutal excuses. My honest intention to get this sucker done before the new calendar year hit was derailed by a major bout of holiday pneumonia, then as December disappeared in a fevered haze and I gathered myself to finish in January… enter ye olde influenza! Such an […]
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Tuesday, December 5th
Pussy Riot
Thick
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, December 5th
Eric Andre
@ the House of Blues
Tuesday, December 5th
Bar Italia
Gobby
DJ Carbo
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, December 7th
Wesley Stace
@ the Charles River Museum
Saturday, December 9th
Hilken & Winston (of Fuzzy)
Chris Colbourn (of Buffalo Tom)
Kayde Hazel
@ Streetcar in JP
Saturday, December 9th
Will Dailey & his band
Hayley Reardon
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, December 9th
Scream
Soulside
Urian Hackney
@ Deep Cuts
Tuesday, December 12th
Dogstar
(Keanu Reeves' band)
@ the Paradise
Wednesday, December 13th
A 40th Anniversary Tribute
to the music from "Valley Girl"
with Josie Cotton,
the Plimsouls &
Kurt Baker of the Leftovers
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Thursday, December 14th
Piebald
Weakened Friends
Radio Compass
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Friday, December 15th
Hallelujah the Hills
Eldridge Rodriguez
Aaron & the Lord
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, December 16th
Bird Streets
@ the Village Social Club
Saturday, December 16th
Fiddlehead
Downtalker
@ Gallery X, New Bedford
Saturday, December 16th
Rosecomb
Evelyn Pope
@ the Haven in JP
Saturday, December 16th
A John Waters Christmas
@ Berklee Performance Center
Thursday, December 21st
NOISE FOR TOYS, presented by
The Ash Gray Proclamation
bring a toy, hear some noise
with Dyr Faser, Andy Cohen,
and Strange Pains
@ O'Brien's
Thursday, December 28th
The Felice Brothers
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, December 30th
Spirit Ghost
Black Beach
Regal Seagull
@ O'Brien's
Thursday, January 11th
Rick Maguire (from Pile)
@ the Rockwell
Saturday, January 13th
Dark Spring Boston presents...
The Veldt
Dead Leaf Echo
Iceblynk
The Spearmint Sea
@ O'Brien's
Sunday, January 14th
Lupo Citta
Hidden Fountain
Killer Motorcycle
Pledge Pins
@ O'Brien's
Friday, January 19th
O Positive (O+)
"With A Little Help
From My Friends" Benefit show
@ the Paradise
Monday, January 22nd
The Salt Collective
featuring Stéphane Schück &
Fred Quentin (of Salt), with
Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Mitch
Easter (Let's Active), Chris
Stamey & Gene Holder (the dB's)
Lynn Blakey (Tres Chicas), and
Rob Ladd (The Connells)
with openers Sneakers (!)
featuring Chris & Mitch
@ City Winery Boston
Saturday, January 27th
Torres
@ the Sinclair
Monday, January 29th
Juliana Hatfield
@ City Winery
Tuesday, February 13th
Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy,
Jon Wurster & friends perform
R.E.M.'s "Murmur" and more
@ the Sinclair
Thursday & Friday
February 15th & 16th
Mitski
Tamino
@ MGM Music Hall
Friday, February 16th
Militarie Gun
Pool Kids
Spiritual Cramp
Spaced
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, February 17th
Cat Power sings Dylan
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Wednesday, February 21st
Thursday
Rival Schools
Many Eyes
@ the Paradise
Thursday, February 22nd
Portugal. The Man.
@ Roadrunner
Friday, February 23rd
Matt Pond PA
Alexa Rose
@ Club Passim
Friday, February 23rd
The Kills
@ the Royale
Tuesday, February 27th
Two Door Cinema Club
Joywave
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, February 28th
Mike Viola
@ Club Passim
Saturday, March 2nd
Mary Timony
Birthday Girl DC
@ Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday, March 5th
Porno For Pyros
@ MGM Music Hall
Friday, March 8th
Mclusky
@ the Sinclair
Friday, March 8th
The Beaches
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, March 12th
KMFDM
Morlocks
@ the Royale
Wednesday, March 13th
Cherry Glazerr
@ the Sinclair
Friday, March 15th
Chelsea Wolfe
Divide and Dissolve
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, March 17th
Sleater-Kinney
@ the Paradise
Sunday, March 17th
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Singer Mali
Rong
@ the Sinclair
Monday, March 18th
Ministry
Gary Numan
Front Line Assembly
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, March 21st
Laetitia Sadier
(of Stereolab)
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, March 22nd
Fog Lake
@ the Somerville Armory
Monday, March 25th
Unwound (!)
Cherubs
@ the Paradise
Monday, March 25th
Andy Shauf (solo)
@ First Church Cambridge
Thursday, March 28th
Arlo Parks
Chloe George
@ the Royale
Friday, March 29th
Grouplove
Bully
@ Roadrunner
Friday, March 29th
The Rolling Stones
@ Gillette
Saturday, April 6th
Destroyer (solo)
Lightning Dust
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, April 6th
Colin Hay (Men at Work)
@ the Wilbur
Saturday, April 13th
DARK SPRING BOSTON FEST
with Korine, House of Harm,
Widow Rings, Allie Frost,
Hemlock for Socrates,
Midnight Psychic, the
Spearmint Sea, and more
@ the Middle East
Wednesday, April 17th
Real Estate
Marina Allen
@ the Royale
Friday, April 19th
Drop Nineteens
Greg Mendez
@ the Paradise
Friday & Saturday
April 26th & 27th
The Town & the City Festival
@ various venues in Lowell, MA
Saturday, April 27th
Belle and Sebastian
The Weather Station
@ the Orpheum
Wednesday, May 1st
Ty Segall
@ the Royale
Wednesday, May 8th
Chastity Belt
@ the Sinclair
Friday, May 10th
Quicksand
@ the Royale
Monday & Tuesday
May 13th & May 14th
Mannequin Pussy
Soul Glo
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
May 16th, 17th, & 18th
Jukebox the Ghost
@ the Sinclair
Friday, May 17th
Buck Meek (of Big Thief)
@ Crystal Ballroom
Monday, May 20th
Echo & the Bunnymen
@ the House of Blues
Tuesday, June 4th
Joe Jackson
@ the Wilbur
Monday, June 10th
Bleachers
Samia
@ MGM Music Hall
Sunday, July 16th
Los Campesinos!
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, July 9th
Alanis Morissette
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
Morgan Wade
@ the Xfinity Center
Sunday, July 21st
Foo Fighters
The Hives
Amyl and the Sniffers
@ Fenway Park
Friday, August 2nd
Foreigner
Styx
John Waite
@ Xfinity Center
Wednesday, August 7th
Green Day
Smashing Pumpkins
Rancid
The Linda Lindas
@ Fenway Park
Monday, August 19th
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
@ the Stage at Suffolk Downs
Tuesday, September 3rd
Peter Hook & the Light
doing both the Joy Division
& New Order "Substance" LPs
@ the Paradise
Friday, September 13th
Hoodoo Gurus
@ the Royale
Tuesday, September 24th
Idles
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, October 23rd
OSEES
@ the Royale