[Boston-Area Action 6/24/2026] Show-Going Plans & New Show Announcements
Posted on June 24, 2026 at 1:26 pm | No Comments
My music-fan cup runneth over lately, in the best way. An abundance of good-to-great-to-unbelievable shows over the past month that have left me wondering what I did in a past life (or maybe this one) to deserve all this. My post-pandemic “never say no” philosophy is paying serious dividends. And there’s a lot more ahead.
So here’s the weekly Wednesday post where I list Boston-area shows I’m hoping to attend (or would attend, if physically possible) in the next seven days. Or that you might want to know about. After that, I run down interesting area gig announcements that have happened since I did this last time.
Imminent highlights: Well, tonight should be somethin’ special. The monthly Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out show happens in the Burren Backroom this evening, with guests Beth Kaplan & Chris Brokaw, Kameelah, Ted Leo, Toussaint the Liberator, Magen Tracy, and a “surprise band” dubbed… “Damaged Gods.” Now, if you know what legendary 4-piece Mr. Leo is playing in right now, and realize that very band has a run of shows starting in a couple days, well, that ‘surprise’ is kinda easy to figure out. And, uh, wow. While this show sold out awhile ago (they always do, tix are pay-what-you-want), there are typically a handful of spots available at the door if you line up early enough. Fair warning.
Also tonight: The Church at the Somerville Theatre, which I’ll be missing due to that Burren show, but may try to catch the second half. On Friday there’s a solid bill at the Lilypad, with Hidden Fountain, Trabants, & Children of the Flaming Wheel, Silver Screams headline a matinee show at The Jungle on Saturday, and Comedy Bang! Bang! is at the Chevalier in Medford that night. That show’s up against a throwback evening with the Human League, Soft Cell, & Alison Moyet at the Wang. Sunday night has a must-not-miss appearance by Weird Nightmare with Today Junior at Deep Cuts, which I’ve been looking forward to since the day it was announced. Also very psyched about the Tortoise show with BASIC at The Sinclair on Tuesday, which is sadly up against The Bug Club’s night at Deep Cuts. A brutal conflict, that one is.
Announcement highlights: The 33 1/3 event at Brookline Booksmith in a couple weeks, a killer lineup at Sonia on July 11th with the Veldt, Lovina Falls, Vivid Bloom, & Spirit Hotel, and a Robyn Hitchcock book event at Porter Square Books (Seaport location) on July 27th. The Tubs have announced their next record (and first for Merge), and they’ll be hitting Deep Cuts in October.
Alright, I could keep listing things, but my motivation wanes and my day job beckons. Look closely at the lists below, there’s lots to love. If there’s anything missing that you’re excited about, leave a comment. Check out my full list in the right hand column over there —>, and let me know if anything needs fixing/updating.
Off we go…
First, imminent Boston-area shows of (my/your?) interest…
Wednesday, June 24th
Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out
with this month’s guests
Beth Kaplan & Chris Brokaw,
Kameelah, Maverick, Ted Leo,
Toussaint the Liberator, &
special guests “Damaged Gods”
with The Paid Protesters
@ the Burren Backroom
Wednesday, June 24th
The Church
The Singles Tour
(rescheduled from 8/1/25)
@ Somerville Theatre
Wednesday, June 24th
“Summer Sounds” with
Brooke Annibale,
Adeline Hotel & Jackie West,
and the Benji’s
@ Bellforge Arts Center
Wednesday, June 24th
of Montreal
Boyhood
Cormae
@ the Sinclair
Wednesday, June 24th
Sammy Hagar & his band
Rick Springfield
@ the Xfinity Center
Thursday, June 25th
Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Elizabeth Moen
@ The Sinclair
Thursday, June 25th
Spirit Ghost
Hereboy
Doss
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, June 26th
Souled American
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, June 26th
Deer Tick
@ the Royale
Friday, June 26th
Greg Mendez
Scarlet Rae
@ the Sinclair
Friday, June 26th
Hidden Fountain
Trabants
Children of the Flaming Wheel
@ the Lilypad
Saturday, June 27th
Vapors of Morphine
Le Prestige
@ the Regattabar
Saturday, June 27th
Meg Toohey
@ Club Passim
Saturday, June 27th
Silver Screams
Still Sedated
Past Life Crisis
matinee @ the Jungle
Saturday, June 27th
Comedy Bang! Bang!
with Scott Aukerman,
Paul F. Tompkins, &
the CB!B! All-Stars
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Saturday, June 27th
The Human League
Soft Cell
Alison Moyet
@ the Wang
Saturday, June 27th
Jesca Hoop
@ City Winery Boston
Saturday, June 27th
Slo-Anne
The Orrs
Lesser Birds
@ Remnant Satellite
Saturday, June 27th
The Displayers
Elisa Smith
Lonely Leesa & the Lost Cowboys
@ The Square Root
Sunday, June 28th
Weird Nightmare
Today Junior
@ Deep Cuts
Monday, June 29th
Santana
The Doobie Brothers
@ the Xfinity Center
Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday
June 29th, 30th, & July 1st
Lyle Lovett
@ City Winery Boston
Tuesday, June 30th
Tortoise
Basic
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, June 30th
Allston Pudding’s
Spring Concert Series
with
Haasan Barclay (release show!),
ET, & Valeria Orrantia
@ Zone 3, Lower Allston
Tuesday, June 30th
Steve Earle
@ Groton Hill Music Center
Tuesday, June 30th
The Bug Club
@ Deep Cuts
Tuesday & Wednesday
June 30th & July 1st
Goose
@ the Pavilion
And now, recently announced Boston-area shows…
Tuesday, July 7th
“Discussing 33 1/3” with
authors Kevin Dunn
(Stiff Little Fingers’
Inflammable Material),
Michael T. Fournier
(The Minutemen’s Double
Nickels on the Dime),
Michael Stewart Foley
(Dead Kennedys’ Fresh
Fruit for Rotting Vegetables),
& special guest Nancy Barile
@ Brookline Booksmith
Saturday, July 11th
The Veldt
Lovina Falls
Vivid Bloom
Spirit Hotel
@ Sonia
Wednesday, July 15th
Bellwire
@ the Rockwell
Monday, July 27th
Robyn Hitchcock
presents his new book
@ Porter Square Books
Seaport/Boston location
Friday, July 31st
Thalia Zedek Band
Sarah Borges
Field Day
@ the Lizard Lounge Cambridge
Sunday, August 9th
Pile
@ John Ives House, Salem
Thursday, August 13th
Save Ferris
@ Taffeta Music Hall
Sunday, August 30th
Mike D
@ the Royale
Wednesday, September 2nd
The Fixx
Colin Blunstone (the Zombies)
Peter Asher
@ the Somerville Theatre
Wednesday, September 23rd
Brandon Flowers
@ Roadrunner
Wednesday, September 23rd
Mike Campbell & the Dirty Knobs
@ the Cabot
Thursday, September 24th
Slothrust
The Velveteers
@ the Royale
Wednesday, September 30th
Pennywise
Circle Jerks
H20
DFL
@ the House of Blues
Thursday, October 1st
Russian Circles
Pelican
@ the Royale
Friday, October 2nd
Stanley Simmons
@ City Winery
Monday, October 5th
Chelsea Wolfe
Jonathan Hulten
@ the Shubert Theatre
Friday, October 16th
The Tubs
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, October 23rd
Author Neal Stephenson
@ First Parish Church, Cambridge
Saturday, October 24th
The Jayhawks
@ the Shubert Theatre
Friday, November 6th
Hovvdy
Christian Lee Hutson
@ the Royale
Wednesday, November 11th
Marshall Crenshaw
@ City Winery Boston
Thursday, November 12th
Sleep
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, November 14th
Small Brown Bike
The Casket Lottery
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, November 14th
BoDeans
@ City Winery Boston
Sunday, November 15th
Senses Fail
Koyo
Initiate
@ Big Night Live
Monday, November 16th
The War and Treaty
@ the Sinclair
Support your local & touring musicians. Hit a show, buy some merch, tell ’em you love ’em.
[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.