[Boston-Area Action 5/28/25] My Show-Going Plans & New Show Announcements
Posted on May 28, 2025 at 12:05 pm | No Comments
Another Wednesday! New Comic Book Day! No, wait, that’s not it. I mean, it is, but it’s not what I post about every week on this particular morning. I share a list of Boston-area shows I’ll be attending in the next week, along with ones around here that have been newly-announced. Here goes.
Highlights: Release shows! Both the Thalia Zedek Band & Kathy Snax are commemorating new recordings, with TZB’s excellent LP having arrived last week (celebrating Friday at O’Brien’s), and Kathy Snax offering up a new cassette EP at a Lizard Lounge show on Saturday. Both lineups are ace, so get thee to one or both of those. Tonight I’m gonna try to hit up the Silhouette to see some Mill Pond Falls, and I’m tempted to catch Sunday’s tribute show for the sadly-departed Jill Sobule, where Tanya Donelly will be making an appearance.
And in a familiar refrain, there’s a conflict that I wish I could somehow double-dip on: That TZB release show on Friday is up against Orbit & Eldridge Rodriguez & Harris at the Crystal Ballroom at Somerville. Waaaaay on the other side of the river. Oof.
Anyway, here’s my ideal itinerary, followed by a relatively short list of new show announcements (Built to Spill! Oceanator! The Armed!). Did I miss any new show news you’re psyched about? Comment with it. Anything in the next few days you’re looking forward to seeing? Share it. Did I screw something up in the details of this thing? (answer: yes) Set me straight.
The full list of shows on my radar is, as it has been for 25 years (gulp), available over in the right hand column.

My impending show-going plans…
Wednesday, May 28th
Matt Charette & the Truer Sound
Pete Mancini & the Hillside Airmen
Mill Pond Falls
@ the Silhouette Lounge
Friday, May 30th
Thalia Zedek Band
record release show!
with Vivid Bloom
& Harsh Foxing
@ O’Brien’s
Friday, May 30th
Orbit
Eldridge Rodriguez
Harris
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, May 31st
Happy Little Clouds
Girl with a Hawk
Kathy Snax Band (tape release!)
@ the Lizard Lounge
Sunday, June 1st
Jillith Fair – Loving Jill Sobule
benefiting the
It Was A Good Life Foundation
with Vance Gilbert, Tanya Donelly,
Antje Duvekot, Catie Curtis, & more
@ Club Passim
Tuesday, June 3rd
Earfull Series
Writers reading. Songwriters singing.
with authors
Nicole Graev Lipson
& Jennifer Haigh
and musicians
Ava Valianti
& Naseem Khuri
@ Arsenal Branch Line

Next, new Boston-area show announcements
Saturday, June 7th
Will Dailey
@ Club Passim
Wednesday, August 13th
Open Mike Eagle
Oceanator
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Thursday, August 14th
The Armed
Prostitute
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, September 10th
– second show added –
Alex G
Nilüfer Yanya
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, September 18th
The Bouncing Souls
H2O
The Smoking Popes
Jer
@ the Royale
October 15th
Modest Mouse
Built to Spill
@ MGM Music Hall
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