[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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Thursday, October 10th
Gene Loves Jezebel
Sumthing Strange
@ the Middle East Down
Thursday, October 10th
Boyscott
Raavi
Lily Konigsberg
@ the Somerville Armory
Thursday, October 10th
Low Cut Connie
Will Dailey
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, October 10th
Johnny Marr
James
@ the Orpheum
Friday, October 11th
Time & Place
Tigerman Woah
Christians and Lions
@ Faces Brewing
Friday, October 11th
Chinese Football
@ the Rockwell
Friday, October 11th
Eldridge Rodriguez
Bird Language (release show!)
Bad at Drawing
Pleasure Island
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, October 11th
Amy Rigby
@ City Winery Boston
Friday, October 11th
Yard Act
@ the Sinclair
Friday, October 11th
Billie Eilish
@ the Garden
Saturday, October 12th
Chris Brokaw Rock Band
(Brokaw/Conley/Gray)
with Sky Furrows
@ the Lilypad
Sunday, October 13th
Kathy Snax
Rams Montero
Frissons
@ O'Brien's
Sunday, October 13th
Fontaines D.C.
Been Stellar
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, October 13th
Wesley Stace
@ Club Passim
Sunday, October 13th
OMD
@ the House of Blues
Monday, October 14th
Billy Bragg
Steven Page
@ the Chevalier
Monday, October 14th
"Fight for the Right:
A Benefit for Kamala Harris"
with Amanda Palmer,
Gail Ann Dorsey,
Melissa Ferrick,
and Ali McGuirk
@ City Winery Boston
Monday, October 14th
Tigers Jaw
@ the Royale
Tuesday, October 15th
Air
playing "Moon Safari
@ MGM Music Hall
Wednesday, October 16th
Illuminati Hotties
Daffo
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, October 16th
Empress Of
@ the Paradise
Wednesday, October 16th
The Dead Pixels
Glass House
Thrust Club
Reklema
@ the Silhouette
Wednesday, October 16th
Orville Peck
Nikki Lane
Vincent Neil Emerson
@ MGM Music Hall
Wednesday & Thursday
October 16th & 17th
Nick Lowe with
Los Straitjackets
@ Brighton Music Hall
Thursday, October 17th
Tanukichan
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Thursday, October 17th
Maggie Rogers
Ryan Beatty
@ the Garden
Saturday, October 19th
Kingsley Flood
Magen Tracy &
the Missed Connections
@ the Burren Backroom
Saturday, October 19th
John Douglas
(of Trashcan Sinatras)
Lauren Calve
@ City Winery
Saturday, October 19th
The The
@ the Orpheum
Saturday, October 19th
Rival Schools
Webbed Wing
Hollow Suns
Twowayradio
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, October 19th
Todd Rundgren
@ the Lynn Auditorium
October, October 20th
Julie
They Are Gutting a Body of Water
Her New Knife
@ the Paradise
Monday, October 21st
Boris
Starcrawler
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, October 22nd
EARFULL
Writers reading.
Songwriters singing.
with authors
J Courtney Sullivan
& Marianne Leone
and performers
Naomi Westwater
& Kris Delmhorst
@ the Burren Back Room
Tuesday, October 22nd
MJ Lenderman & the Wind
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
@ the Royale
Wednesday, October 23rd
Beach Weather
@ The Sinclair
Wednesday, October 23rd
Slift
Meatbodies
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, October 23rd
OSEES
@ the Royale
Wednesday, October 23rd
Massive Attack
(with Liz Fraser!)
DJ Milo
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, October 24th
Otis Shanty
Lost Film
Small Pond
Night Moth
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Friday, October 25th
Trace Mountains
Long Beard
Lake Saint Daniel
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, October 25th
Moving Targets
The Long Wait
Spiller
@ the Middle East Up
Saturday, October 26th
Fog Lake
Foxes in Fiction
@ the Lilypad
Saturday, October 26th
Cyndi Lauper
farewell tour
@ MGM Music Hall
Saturday, October 26th
Halloween Show! featuring...
Audrey, Karina, Justin, & Ben
as Cyndi Lauper,
Talk Chalk as The B52s
The Kremlin Bats as The Cars
& Toby Tantrum as The Stooges
@ the Loft, Somerville
Sunday, October 27th
Foxing
@ the Sinclair
Monday & Tuesday
October 28th & 29th
Clairo
Alice Phoebe Lou
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, October 29th
Jean Paul Jean Paul
M.G. Lederman
Cameron Keiber
@ O'Brien's
Tuesday, October 29th
Robyn Hitchcock
Imogen Clark
@ City Winery
Wednesday, October 30th
Gang of Four
with the Mini-Mekons
(Sally Timms & Jon Langford)
Wednesday, October 30th
André 3000:
New Blue Sun Live In Concert
@ the Wang
Wednesday, October 30th
The Go! Team
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 1st
The Dresden Dolls
Gogol Bordello
Johnny Manchild
& the Poor Bastards
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, November 2nd
The Dresden Dolls
Gogol Bordello
Emperor Norton's
Stationary Marching Band
@ Roadrunner
Friday through Sunday
November 1st - 3rd
Buffalo Tom's
"Please Come To Boston" minifestival
@ the Somerville Armory
Sunday, November 3rd
The Juliana Hatfield Three
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, November 3rd
Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn
@ the ICA
Sunday & Monday
November 3rd & 4th
Leon Bridges
Hermanos Gutiérrez
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, November 6th
Cursive
Gladie
@ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, November 6th
The Wallflowers
@ the Wilbur
Saturday, November 9th
Greg Hawkes (of the Cars)
with Eddie Japan
performing the songs of
The Cars
@ the Cut
Saturday, November 9th
Silver Screams
Black Helicopter
Jay Allen & The Archcriminals
@ the Square Root in Rozzie
Saturday, November 9th
TRAITRS
Dead Leaf Echo
Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Sunday, November 10th
Judge John Hodgman: Road Court
@ Coolidge Corner Theatre
Sunday, November 10th
David Cross
Sean Patton
@ the Royale
Monday, November 11th
James Vincent McMorrow
Young Jesus
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday, November 12th
Lucinda Williams & her band
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Sunday, November 10th
Slow Pulp
Free Range
@ the Paradise
Tuesday & Wednesday
November 12th & 13th
Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief)
@ the Shubert Theatre
Friday, November 15th
Hallelujah the Hills perform
"I'm You" in its entirety
with
Upper Wilds & Sidebody
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, November 15th
Ratboys
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 15th
Rob Sheffield presents
his new Taylor Swift
book "Heartbreak Is The
National Anthem"
7pm @ First Parish Church
Friday, November 15th
Trash Sun
@ the 4th Wall
Saturday, November 16th
Kal Marks
Paper Lady
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, November 16th
Tokyo Police Club (the final tour)
@ the Paradise
Sunday, November 17th
Chat Pile
Mamaleek
Trainlodge
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, November 19th
Modest Mouse
@ MGM Music Hall
Wednesday, November 20th
A.C. Newman (New P0rnographers)
celebrates the 20th anniversary
of his LP "The Slow Wonder"
@ City Winery
Thursday, November 21st
Horse Jumper of Love
Spencer Radcliffe & Everything
Primal Rat Screw
@ the Sinclair
Friday, November 22nd
Dawes
Winnetka Bowling League
@ Roadrunner
Friday, November 22nd
Amy Helm
(full band show)
@ the Cut
Friday, November 22nd
Yoke Lore
Runnner
@ the Royale
Saturday, November 23rd
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Alan Sparhawk (of Low)
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, November 23rd
J Mascis
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, December 1st
Interpol
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, December 1st
Gillian Welch &
David Rawlings
@ the Wilbur
Wednesday, December 4th
The Ladybug Transistor
Lightheaded
Mark Robinson (Unrest/Air Miami)
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, December 6th
Basic
Chris Brokaw
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Friday, December 6th
Mike Viola
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, December 6th
BEAT plays the music
of 80s King Crimson
featuring Adrian Belew, Steve Vai,
Tony Levin, & Danny Carey
@ the Lynn Auditorium
Saturday, December 7th
Ted Leo & Aimee Mann's
The Christmas Show!
with Paul F. Tompkins,
Nellie McKay, Josh Gondelman,
& "other fun stuff"
@ the Cabot, Beverly, MA
Monday, December 9th
Joyce Manor celebrating
10 years of 'Never Hungover Again'
with Algnernon Cadwallader
& the Ergs
@ the Royale
Thursday, December 12th
Wednesday (solo)
Cryogeyser (solo)
@ the Somerville Armory
Thursday, December 12th
The Jesus Lizard
Pile
@ Roadrunner
Friday, December 13th
Suki Waterhouse
Bully
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, December 15th
Tiny Moving Parts
Action/Adventure
Greywind
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday, December 31st
Aerosmith (farewell tour)
with the Black Crowes
@ TD Garden
Saturday, January 4th
The Sheila Divine
Baabes
Teardrops
@ the Sinclair
Sunday, Monday, & Tuesday
January 19th, 20th, & 21st
Robert Glasper
two shows each day
@ City Winery
Saturday, January 25th
Stereo MC's
@ the Sinclair
Friday, January 31st
Half Waif
See You At The Maypole
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, January 31st
Jamie XX
@ Roadrunner
Friday, January 31st
Frank Black & his band
play "Teenager of the Year"
@ the House of Blues
Saturday & Sunday
February 1st & 2nd
The Bowery Presents &
Run For Cover Records
present "Something In The Way"
with
Slowdive, Balance & Composure,
Soccer Mommy, American Football,
Fiddlehead, Mannequin Pussy,
Militarie Gun, Sweet Pill, Anxious,
One Step Closer, Ovlov, Glare,
Enumclaw, Sadurn, Gouge Away,
Mini Trees, Great Grandpa, Dazy,
Wishy, My Fictions, Women in Peril,
& more TBA
@ Roadrunner
Friday, February 7th
Rubblebucket
Hannah Mohan
@ Big Night Live
Monday, February 10th
Tim Heidecker
DJ Douggpound
@ the Royale
Saturday, February 15th
Travis
@ the Royale
Thursday, February 27th
Pom Pom Squad
Caroline Kingsbury
@ the Sinclair
Friday, February 28th
The Bevis Frond
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Friday, March 7th
Michael Shannon, Jason Narducy,
& friends mark the 40th anniversary of
R.E.M.'s "Fables of the Reconstruction"
(and more) with opener Dave Hill
@ the Royale
Friday, Saturday, & Sunday
March 14th, 15th, & 16th
Dropkick Murphys
@ MGM Music Hall
Saturday, March 15th
Dream Theater
40th Anniversary Tour
@ the Wang
Wednesday, March 19th
Quicksand
@ the Paradise
Thursday, March 20th
Neil Degrasse Tyson
@ the Wilbur
Sunday, March 23rd
Ida & Tsunami!
the Coin-Flip tour!
@ Crystal Ballroom
Thursday, March 27th
José González
@ the Cabot in Beverly
Saturday, March 29th
Maya Hawke
Katy Kirby
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, April 5th
Snow Patrol
@ MGM Music Hall
Saturday, April 5th
Franz Ferdinand
@ the Orpheum
Tuesday, April 8th
Deftones
The Mars Volta
Fleshwater
@ TD Garden
Wednesday, April 9th
Kylie Minogue
@ the Garden
Friday, April 11th
Mogwai
@ the Paradise
Sunday, April 13th
Heart
@ Agganis Arena
Tuesday, April 15th
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
St. Vincent
@ Agganis Arena
Friday, April 18th
Bright Eyes
@ House of Blues
Sunday, April 20th
Gang of Four
"The Long Goodbye" farewell tour
playing "Entertainment!" & more
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Friday & Saturday
April 25th & 26th
The Town and the City Festival!
@ various venues in Lowell
Friday, May 30th
Teddy Swims
@ Suffolk Downs
Tuesday & Wednesday
June 10th & 11th
Queens of the Stone Age
@ MGM Music Hall
Monday, July 7th
OMD
@ House of Blues
Tuesday, July 14th
Weird Al Yankovic
@ the Wang