[Boston-Area Action 6/17/2026] Show-Going Plans & New Show Announcements
Posted on June 17, 2026 at 1:46 pm | No Comments
The longer I keep doing these regular mid-week ‘Boston-area shows’ posts, the more repetitive the preambles are going to become. I should just get down to business. So I will!
Here are a couple of lists: First, local-ish shows that are coming up within the next seven days that are either in my taste wheelhouse, or might be in the wheelhouse of show-going friends & acquaintances. Many (but definitely not all) of which I’ll be attending. After that, a run-down of Boston-area gig announcements that have happened since I did this last week, or that I just found out about.
Personal picks from the imminent shows: Dave Herlihy is playing this evening with some of his O Positive bandmates for free on the corner of Boston Common as part of WERS’s 6-1-7 Day, The Breeders play in Beverly on Friday, and I’m hoping to double-dip on Saturday night by catching Girls Against Boys do an opening set at MGM before cruising over to Deep Cuts for Neptune, Lupo città, & There. We’ll see how that plan plays out. There are also a couple of Undertow-presented house shows that I’ll be ‘attending’, but I won’t plug those as they’re very sold out and you’d just be bummed.
Highlights, announcement-wise? Two nights of Built to Spill in October! With Quasi & Melanie Radford! So psyched. And you should definitely reserve a (free) spot for that Fenway Recordings anniversary show in August, and not just because it features the surprise return of the amazing Consonant (!).
A side note of sadness: The Plosivs/Hammered Hulls show scheduled for September was canceled. :-/ Here’s hoping Rob Crow can find a way to ease his tinnitus. The worst.
Alright, on to the lists. Got any suggestions? Leave a comment. Did I screw up any details? Let me know that, too. Be my QA team. Check the Almanac’s right hand column over there for shows beyond this upcoming week, too.
First, imminent Boston-area shows of (my/your?) interest…
Wednesday, June 17th
Lambrini Girls
Big Girl
@ the Paradise
(rescheduled from April)
Wednesday, June 17th
Rotsam
Henry Soloman
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, June 17th
WERS 6-1-7 Day
starts at 12pm and includes…
Dave Herlihy (from O Positive)
& his band at 7:45pm
@ Emerson Uncommon Corner
@ Boston Common
Thursday, June 18th
Todd Thibaud & his band
welcome back from tour show
playing their “Alchemy” LP in full
@ Q Division Studios
Thursday, June 18th
Jesus The Dinosaur
Puppy Problems
Lake Saint Daniel
@ Deep Cuts
Thursday & Friday
June 18th & 19th
Pedro The Lion
(duo house shows)
in Allston & Cambridge
Friday, June 19th
Bands on the Run: a celebration
of the music of Paul McCartney
with Glowbox, Corin Ashley, &
many special guests
@ the Magic Room, Norwood
Friday, June 19th
Crystal Lizard
(record release show!)
@ the Lilypad
Friday, June 19th
The Breeders
Sean Solomon
@ The Cabot
Saturday, June 20th
Stop Calling Me Frank
Girl with a Hawk (release show!)
Tad Overbaugh & the Late Arrivals
@ Midway
Saturday, June 20th
Neptune (LP release show!)
Lupo città
There
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, June 20th
Young the Giant
Cold War Kids
Almost Monday
@ the Pavilion
Saturday, June 20th
Sidewalk Driver
Black Helicopter
Miskatonic
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Saturday, June 20th
Jimmy Eat World
“Bleed American” 25th Anniversary
Thrice
Girls Against Boys
@ MGM Music Hall
Sunday, June 21st
The Animeros
The Weisstronauts
@ Deep Cuts
Sunday, June 21st
The Samples
@ City Winery
Monday, June 22nd
Mumford & Sons
Lord Huron
Dylan Gossett
@ Fenway Park
Tuesday, June 23rd
Allston Pudding’s
Spring Concert Series
with
The Michael Character,
( T – T ) b, and Miss Bones
@ Zone 3, Lower Allston
Tuesday, June 23rd
The Earfull Series
writers reading,
songwriters performing.
with authors
Authors Keith O’Brien
& Charlie Pierce
and musicians
Bronson Arroyo
& Gompson
@ Branch Line, Watertown
Tuesday, June 23rd
Bounce House
Puke Pisstols
DJ Kathy Snax
@ Deep Cuts
Tuesday, June 23rd
Wolfmother
@ House of Blues
And now, recently announced Boston-area shows…
CANCELED:
Sunday, September 13th
Plosivs
Hammered Hulls
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, July 10th
Youbet
Warmachine
Pew Pew
@ the Lilypad
Friday, July 10th
Other Brother Darryl
(LP release!)
Hey I’m Outside
@ the Burren
Saturday, July 18th
Kristin Hersh
@ Payomet Performing Arts Center
Saturday, July 25th
Frances Forever
@ Warehouse XI
Saturday, July 25th
Lisa Bastoni
Sean Staples
@ the Rec Room
Thursday, July 30th
WOMPS
Loen Trout
ODACOVA
@ Soundcheck Studios
Friday, August 14th
Celebrating 25 Years
of Fenway Recordings
Consonant (reunited!)
Roger Clark Miller
BigTime
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, August 15th
North West
Molly Santana
@ House of Blues
Wednesday, September 16th
YHWH Nailgun
Nuda
@ Sonia
Thursday, October 1st
Ceremony
Iron Lung
Poison Ruin
@ the Sinclair
Friday, October 23rd
Arrested Development
@ the Cabot
Tuesday & Wednesday
October 27th & 28th
Built to Spill
Quasi
Melanie Radford
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, October 31st
Jeff Tweedy
Case Oats
@ Groton Hill Music Center
Sunday, November 1st
Vince Staples
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, November 14th
Carbon Leaf
@ the Sinclair
Wednesday, December 2nd
We Are Scientists
@ the Sinclair
Saturday & Sunday
December 12th & 13th
CONVERGE presents
“Saddest Day 2026”
with Saturday guests:
Converge, Cave In,
Emma Ruth Rundle, Pig Pen,
Deaf Club, Final Gasp,
& more TBA
and Sunday guests:
Converge, Chat Pile, Baroness,
Agriculture, Reveral of Man,
Habak, & Fuming Mouth
@ Roadrunner
Ok, see you out there, I hope. Say hello if you think it might be me. Or just make vaguely awkward eye contact if you’re not sure. But it probably is.
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