[Boston-Area Action 6/11/25] My Show-Going Plans & New Show Announcements
Posted on June 11, 2025 at 3:24 pm | 1 Comment
Another Wednesday already, so time to make a Boston-area shows post. I was in no mood to post last week, and while I’m slightly better now, it’s hard to think about much other than the in-progress march towards martial law happening on the other coast. Allow me to get out my fiddle while…
So, yeah, in case this is your first time seeing this, every Wednesday I mention Boston-area I’m hoping to attend in the next seven days (though not necessarily the only shows I’ll end up at), along with recent local show announcements.
I have a bunch of non-music stuff happening this weekend, so I’m extremely light on the personal show-plans, but the one I’ve got is quality (Karate & Hilken!), and as far as the announcements go, one blows my mind: Freakin’ Team Dresch returns! Also: I can’t make it, but check out the Lovina Falls single release show at Deep Cuts on Friday with The Daylilies & Roser. The full list of shows that stand out for me is over in the right hand column.
My impending show-going plans…
Sunday, June 15th
Karate
Hilken Mancini Band
@ The Sinclair
Next, new Boston-area show announcements
Saturday, July 12th
Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys
with Eight Foot Manchild
& Lovina Falls
@ the Sinclair
Saturday, July 26th
The Dogmatics
(record release party!)
with Black Cheers,
Jay Allen & The Archcriminals
Last Stand, Gypsy Moths
Tom Baker & The Double Down
Stop Calling Me Frank, Band 19
3:30pm @ the French American
Victory Club in Waltham
Sunday, August 3rd
Clipse
EARTHGANG
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
August 7th, 8th, & 9th
Somergloom Festival V
with Sumac, Body Void,
The Keening, Morne, Chepang,
Moths, Cowardice, Slow Quit,
Vudu Sister, Guhts, Lepra,
Lesotho, A Monolithic Dome,
Main Era, Chainlacing, &
Tears From A Grieving Heart
@ Deep Cuts &
@ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, September 10th
Robbie Fulks,
@ Club Passim
Saturday, September 20th
TURNSTILE
MANNEQUIN PUSSY
SPEED
Jane Remover
@ Suffolk Downs
Sunday, September 21st
Marina
Mallrat
@ Roadrunner
Friday, September 26th
The Front Bottoms
Sincere Engineer
@ Roadrunner
Sunday, September 28th
An Evening with author
Samin Nosrat discussing
her cookbook “Good Things”
with Hrishikesh Hirway
@ Emerson Colonial Theatre
Wednesday, October 1st
Bad Suns
YOT Club
@ the Royale
Friday & Saturday
October 3rd & 4th
David Byrne
@ the Wang
Wednesday, October 8th
Water From Your Eyes
Her New Knife
Editrix
@ the Sinclair
Thursday, October 9th
Team Dresch
Vitapup
@ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday, October 15th
Disclosure (Live)
Fcukers
Villager
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, October 18th
Patty Griffin &
Rickie Lee Jones
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Sunday, October 19th
Ruston Kelly
Sam MacPherson
@ the Sinclair
Monday, October 20th
Leisure
@ the Royale
That’s it. Until next week. Resist.
[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