[Boston-Area Action 4/9/25] Shows This Week & New Show Announcements
Posted on April 9, 2025 at 12:19 pm | No Comments
Hi. How are you? You don’t have to answer that. Instead, just read this weekly Wednesday list of Boston-area shows I’m hoping to attend over the next week, along with recent announcements of shows that strike my fancy and might strike yours. If there are show announcements, or ones happening this week, that you’re into but I haven’t listed, feel free to toss them in the comments.
I’d be remiss to not call out a show I helped put together that we just announced on Friday, but more on that later: SAVAK, Lupo città, The Whimbrels, & Andy Cohen of Silkworm at O’Brien’s on June 21st.
As always, the full list of shows on my radar is in the right column of the Almanac over there —>>
First, my ideal week ahead, which starts tonight with a show that stretches the definition of Boston-area to the max. And there are like four shows tomorrow that I want to go to, which… just isn’t going to happen. Another brutal conflict: Friday night, with my fave of the Kids in the Hall, Bruce McCulloch, up against Mogwai & Brainiac, up against the first night of the Dark Spring fest. Well, Spring has definitely effin’ sprung…
Tonight
Wednesday, April 9th
Magnetic Fields
play ’69 Love Songs’ (night two)
@ Capitol Center for the Arts, Concord, NH
Thursday, April 10th
Silver Screams
The Winter Brave
Bob Cenci’s Orange Guitar
@ Notch Brewing, Brighton
Thursday, April 10th
Winkler
hey i’m outside
The Croaks
@ Zone 3, Allston
Thursday, April 10th
FACS
Landowner
Major Stars
@ Deep Cuts
Thursday, April 10th
Clem Snide
Abe Partridge
@ Warehouse XI
Friday, April 11th
Bruce McCulloch
(Kids In The Hall)
“Tales of Bravery & Stupidity”
@ the Somerville Armory
Friday, April 11th
Mogwai
Brainiac
@ the Paradise
Friday, April 11th
Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners
EP release party!
@ The Plough and Stars
Friday, April 11th
Dark Spring Boston Festival
Day 1
with Ashes Fallen, Panic Priest,
Ronnie Stone, Mirrored Hell,
Ghost Painted Sky, and
guest DJ Outsider
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Saturday, April 12th
Dark Spring Boston Festival
Day 2
Don’t Get Lemon, Clone,
Lip Smear, Dutch Experts,
Blood Handome, and
guest DJ Dragnet
@ Sonia
Saturday, April 12th
Hot Stove, Cool Music
25th Anniversary Show
Celebrating 25 Years of
Music, Baseball & Giving
ft. Greg Hawkes from The Cars
w/ Eddie Japan doing Cars songs,
plus the Hot Stove All-Stars with
Peter Gammons, Theo Epstein,
Kay Hanley, Bill Janovitz, Will Dailey,
and other MLB & Music Legends
@ the Paradise
Saturday, April 12th
Franz Ferdinand
@ the Orpheum
Sunday, April 13th
EXTC
(Terry Chambers & friends)
@ City Winery
Tuesday, April 15th
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
St. Vincent
@ Agganis Arena
— Next, new Boston-area show announcements —
Thursday, April 24th
Frankie Rose
(added to the Swervedriver show)
@ Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, May 17th
Chris Brokaw (LP release!)
Beth Kaplan
Kathy Snax
@ Streetcar in JP
Sunday, May 25th
Volume
@ the Middle East Up
Saturday, June 21st
SAVAK
Lupo Citta
The Whimbrels
Andy Cohen (Silkworm)
@ O’Brien’s
Thursday, June 26th
Benmont Tench
@ City Winery Boston
Tuesday, July 8th
Lifeguard
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, July 11th
Winona Fighter
@ Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, July 19th
Michael McColgan
& the Bomb Squad
with Badterms and
Nick & the Adversaries
@ the Middle East
Sunday, July 20th
THUS LOVE
Lahnah
@ O’Brien’s
Thursday, July 24th
Kesha
Rose Gray
@ the Xfinity Center
Wednesday, July 30th
TV On The Radio
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, July 31st
New Bomb Turks
The Drowns
@ Sonia
Wednesday, August 13th
Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets
@ The Center For Arts Natick
Saturday, Sept. 6th
SLOW CRUSH
Faetooth
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, Sept. 6th
The 13th Annual JP Music Festival!
@ Pinebank Field in Jamaica Plain
Tuesday, September 9th
Mac DeMarco
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, Sept. 11th
Sparks
@ Berklee Performance Center
Friday, September 19th
George Thorogood
& The Destroyers
@ Lynn Auditorium
Saturday, October 25th
Rufus Wainwright
@ City Winery
Wednesday, October 29th
Herbie Hancock
@ the Wang Theatre
[Boston-Area Action 4/2/25] Shows This Week & New Show Announcements
Posted on April 2, 2025 at 8:58 am | No Comments
It’s Wednesday, when I make a list of Boston-area shows on my radar in the next seven days, then share details on some shows that have just been announced.
A personal highlight: Julie Doiron returns to town on July 1st!
Here goes…
— First, my upcoming week —
Thursday, April 3rd
Alan Sparhawk (Low)
Circuit des Yeux
@ the Sinclair
Friday, April 4th
Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
Bill Ryder-Jones
@ the Orpheum
Friday, April 4th
The Long Wait
Spiller
Speed Teeth
@ O’Brien’s
Sunday, April 6th
Lady Pills
Babe Report
Bus Crush
@ the Rockwell
— Next, new Boston-area show announcements —
Thursday, May 1st
Red Baraat
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Tuesday, June 3rd
EARFULL Series
Writers reading. Songwriters singing.
with authors
Nicole Graev Lipson
& Jennifer Haigh
and musicians
Ava Valianti
& Naseem Khuri
@ the Burren Backroom
Monday, June 9th
Billy Corgan and
the Machines of God
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, June 10th
EARFULL Series
Writers reading. Songwriters singing.
with authors
Ben Shattuck
& Tova Mirvis
and musicians
Chris Harford
& TAS Band Trio
@ the Burren Backroom
Saturday, June 14th
Shawn Colvin
Rodney Crowell
@ the Somerville Armory
Tuesday, June 17th
EARFULL Series
Writers reading. Songwriters singing.
with authors
Michael Farris Smith
& Ernest Thompson
and musicians
Michael Farris Smith
& Samantha Farrell
@ the Burren Backroom
Saturday, Jun 21st
Hallelujah the Hills
DECK release show
with Bongwish and
Choo Choo La Rouge
@ Deep Cuts
Tuesday, June 24th
EARFULL Series
Writers reading. Songwriters singing.
with authors
Jessica Berger Gross
& Jessica Shattuck
and musicians
Tenzin Chopak
& The Starlings
@ the Burren Backroom
Tuesday, July 1st
Julie Doiron
Caged Animals
@ the Middle East
Thursday, July 10th
Wavves
Beach Goons
chokecherry
@ the Sinclair
Tuesday, August 12th
John Moreland
Jared Hart
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, August 16th
Architects
Erra
Holy Water
@ House of Blues
Saturday, August 23rd
Tugboat Annie
Vic Firecracker
Forevers
@ the Burren Back Room
Sunday, September 21st
Shonen Knife
@ Sonia
Sunday, October 12th
The Miki Berenyi Trio
(that’s Miki from Lush)
Gina Birch
The Unreasonables
@ the Sinclair