[Boston-Area Action 9/24/2026] Show-Going Plans & New Show Announcements
Posted on September 24, 2026 at 11:37 am | No Comments
So as I was getting ready to write this day-late weekly Boston-centric upcoming shows & announcements post, news of the 2027 edition of the Something In The Way fest over at Roadrunner (with a pre-show at The Sinclair) in early February popped up on my screen. Headlined by The Jesus And Mary Chain, Turnover, & Wednesday, and an undercard with a few faves (including Krill, This Is Lorelei, & Gouge Away), well, my attendance is mandatory. You can register for pre-sale tix, available Monday.
With that particular something out of the way, on to potential imminent plans before getting to other recent announcements. Of which there are some great ones.
Coming up, aside from the ominous possibility of a weekend Nor’easter (my sympathies, Lexington Porchfest :-/), there are choices a’plenty. Tonight (only) you could catch the Pulp concert film at the Landmark in Kendall, Friday (update: was apparently moved to Saturday!) brings a solid bill to Deep Cuts with The Dogmatics, Muck and the Mires, and White Dynomite, and the free, early-evening Hilken & Melissa residency over at Notch Brewing this week features guest Nat Freedberg. Saturday brings a full-band Squirrel flower & Youbet to the Crystal Ballroom, the Smug Brothers to the Midway, and earlier that evening you can catch Elizabeth Steen & Arto Vaun for free at the Project Save Photograph Archive in Watertown.
Sunday afternoon has the Allston Village Street Fair on Harvard Ave with a bunch of bands (storm path dependent, of course), and that night brings the Weezer/Shins/Silversun Pickups tour to the Gahden. Monday night has the Frank-Carter-fronted Sex Pistols at the Royale, and on Tuesday Roger Daltry plays The Chevalier Theatre in Medford with Amy Helm. Lots of other things to do listed below.
Announcement-wise, along with that crazy SITW Fest lineup, the Strange Pains vinyl release show is happening on October 2nd at Deep Cuts, Sleepyhead are playing with Monterey Mountain & Noah Britton at The Square Root in Rozzie the next night, THE BIG GIG was announced for Sunday, October 4th with an ace lineup of locals at Notch Brewing/Charles River Speedway, and Bobcat Goldthwait does a couple nights at the The Comedy Studio in Harvard Square the following weekend.
Also in October: The duo of Beth Kaplan & Chris Brokaw have been added as openers for Roger Clark Miller’s LP release show on 10/14, and Pet Fox will play their own Boston-area album release show at an undisclosed location (dm the band) on the 24th with Key Found and a solo set from Clifford’s Miles Chandler. Further out, other announcements include a date for the annual Q Division holiday party (Dec. 5th, marking their 40th anniversary! this year at Sonia), The Lemonheads at Brighton Music Hall, This Is The Kit at Warehouse XI, and Death Cab for Cutie doing a couple nights at MGM Music Hall.
And that ain’t anywhere near all. Check out the lists below, and the full Almanac right-column run-down for more over there —>. Leave a comment with all the things I’ve omitted (or messed up) that you’re excited about, either approaching plans or newly-revealed dates.
Behold the list-o-mania…
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*** Boston-area events of note this week ***
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Thursday, September 24th
one night only screening
“PULP: What Do You
Do For An Encore?”
concert film
@ Landmark Kendall
Thursday, September 24th
Slothrust
The Velveteers
@ the Royale
Thursday, September 24th
Paris Jackson
The Pretty Reckless
@ the House of Blues
Thursday, September 24th
The Prodigy
Femtanyl
@ Roadrunner
Thursday, September 24th
She & Him
@ the Wilbur Theatre
Thursday, September 24th
Dutch Interior
@ the Somerville Armory
Thursday, September 24th
Charli xcx
Underscores
@ TD Garden
Thursday, September 24th
The Milk Carton Kids
@ the Wilbur
Friday, September 25th
Aaron Lippert & his all-star band
Cujo
@ the Burren Backroom
Friday, September 25th
Anaiis
@ the ICA Boston
Friday, September 25th
Greg Kelley & Yoona Kim (duo)
Mackenzie Kourie Trio
@ SMFA at Tufts
Friday, September 25th
Peaches
@ the Wilbur
Friday, September 25th
Jonas Brothers
@ TD Garden
Friday, September 25th
The Dogmatics
Muck and the Mires
White Dynomite
@ Deep Cuts
Friday, September 25th
Margaret Glaspy
Anna Tivel
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, September 25th
The Hilken Mancini &
Melissa Gibbs Residency
Week 8 with guests
Nat Freedberg
free @ Notch Brewing Brighton
Saturday, September 26th
Artist Hayden Sherman
Legion of Super-Heroes signing!
@ Comicopia, Kenmore Square
Saturday, September 26th
Nitzer Ebb
Josephine Olivia
@ the Middle East Downstairs
Saturday, September 26th
Squirrel Flower (full band show)
youbet
@ Crystal Ballroom
Saturday, September 26th
Smug Brothers
Human Mascot
Merry Brigade
Frogs
@ the Midway Cafe
Saturday, September 26th
Slayyyter
Pearly Drops
@ Roadrunner
Saturday, September 26th
Suitor
Black Beach
Mae Flux
Whyte Lipstick
@ O’Brien’s
Saturday, September 26th
“Archive After Hours”
with Elizabeth Steen
& Arto Vaun
Free @ the Project Save
Photo Archive in Watertown
Sunday, September 27th
Allston Village Street Fair
with performances by
Tree, Catching Hell, Solution,
The New Limits, Futon Lasagna,
Kold Kwan, Verona Rose,
Get Ready, and the Beantown
Music School Show Band
12-6pm @ Harvard Ave.
Sunday, September 27th
canceled due to weather
Rib Fest featuring
Sarah Borges & Mike Oram,
the Albino Mbie Trio,
The Atwoods, & Eric Royer
@ East Cambridge
Sunday, September 27th
Drag Talk
7-11 Jesus
@ the Cantab Lounge
Sunday, September 27th
Militarie Gun
Softcult
Shady Nasty
Dazy
@ the Paradise
Sunday, September 27th
Improvement Movement
The Point.
@ Warehouse XI
Sunday, September 27th
Boy Harsher
@ the Royale
Sunday, September 27th
Weezer
The Shins
Silversun Pickups
@ TD Garden
Monday, Sept. 28th
The Sex Pistols
with Frank Carter
@ the Royale
Tuesday, September 29th
Hannah Cole
Evil Adeline
@ Warehouse XI
Tuesday, September 29th
Slayyyter
Pearly Drops
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, September 29th
Author N.K. Jemisin
@ Boston Public Library, Copley
Tuesday, September 29th
Two Door Cinema Club
STRFKR
Friendly Fires
@ MGM Music Hall
Tuesday, September 29th
Roger Daltry
Amy Helm
@ the Chevalier Theatre
Tuesday, September 29th
Jenny Owens Young
@ Club Passim
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*** Recently-announced Boston-area shows ***
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Friday, October 2nd
Strange Pains
(vinyl release show!)
Ivy Boy
Old Horse
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, October 3rd
Monterey Mountain
Sleepyhead
Noah Britton
@ the Square Root
Sunday, October 4th
The Brighton Bazaar
& Allston Pudding
present THE BIG GIG
Indie Music Fest & Market
with Happy Just To See You,
Emi McSwain, Slo-Anne,
Mozz, Puppy Problems,
& Ivy Boy
@ Charles River Speedway
Friday & Saturday
October 9th & 10th
Bobcat Goldthwaite
@ The Comedy Studio
Saturday, October 10th
Studio 52 Powerhouse Matinee
free show with
Execution Style
Mantooth
Das Muerte
Blatch
@ O’Brien’s
Wednesday, October 14th
Beth Kaplan & Chris Brokaw
added as opener to the
Roger Clark Miller
LP release show
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, October 24th
Pet Fox (LP release show!)
Key Found
Clifford (solo)
@ secret spot / dm the band
Saturday, October 24th
Fib
Wiring
Pew Pew
@ Deep Cuts
Thursday, October 29th
Shapiro Celebrity Lectures
series presents
Uzo Aduba:
“Owning Your Identity”
@ the MFA’s Remis Auditorium
Wednesday, November 11th
Hamilton Leithauser
Rotsam
@ the Somerville Theatre
Thursday, November 12th
Rachael Yamagata
@ City Winery
Sunday, November 15th
Gnarls Barkley
@ the House of Blues
Wednesday, November 18th
Tune-Yards
Rituals of Mine
@ the Paradise
Sunday, November 29th
Jason Bonham’s
Led Zeppelin Evening
@ Lynn Auditorium
Saturday, December 5th
Q Division 40th Anniversary Party
@ Sonia
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday
February 4th, 5th, & 6th
Something In The Way Fest
with
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Turnover, Wednesday, Trapped
Under Ice, Meat Puppets,
This Is Lorelei, Incendiary,
Jejune, Nothing, Model/Actriz,
Gouge Away, YHWH Nailgun,
Armlock, Knumears, Trauma Ray,
Wellness, Racecourse, Krill,
Holder, & Dream Fatigue
@ Roadrunner
plus a pre-show with
Bren Lukens, Wicca Phase Springs
Eternal (acoustic), & Georgia Maq
@ the Sinclair
& then a to-be-announced after-show
Wednesday, February 10th
The Lemonheads
@ Brighton Music Hall
Wednesday, February 24th
Hans Zimmer
@ TD Garden
Thursday, February 25th
Thao
@ the Paradise
Thursday, February 25th
Shapiro Celebrity Lectures
series presents an evening
with Rachel Dratch
@ the MFA’s Remis Auditorium
Tuesday, March 16th
Anna Shoemaker
@ the Middle East Upstairs
Thursday, March 25th
This Is The Kit
@ Warehouse XI
Saturday, March 27th
Red Baraat
@ Crystal Ballroom
Wednesday & Thursday
April 7th & 8th
Death Cab for Cutie
MGM Music Hall
Sunday, May 2nd
The Amy Winehouse Band
@ the Wilbur
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[Boston-Area Action 9/16/2026] Show-Going Plans & New Show Announcements
Posted on September 16, 2026 at 10:01 am | No Comments
Hey, it’s a weekly-Wednesday-Boston-area shows post on an actual Wednesday. Been awhile. I’ve gotten myself correct enough to pull this off in a timely manner, though I should really be organizing the cluttered mess that surrounds me here in my Lower Allston nerd-cave. It’s starting to resemble the inside of my skull.
After the whirlwind of my Scotland-Cure-Slowdive trip into the wonderfully overwhelming DromFest weekend, I find myself in a bit of a personal show-going lull. Semi-intentional, and much-needed. Not saying I won’t show up at random gigs from the first list below (there are a ton of great things happening in the next 7 days), but it’s nice to have an unmapped stretch. Taking my kid to the Undertale concert on Saturday (iykyk), but otherwise, nothing solid booked until Luna on Tuesday at the The Wilbur (which sadly conflicts with THREE other shows: The Charlatans & Frankie Rose at the Paradise, Bikini Kill & Downtown Boys at Roadrunner, and Wesley Stace with Eugene Mirman at Passim :-/). Will probably swing by this week’s free Friday Hilken & Melissa residency at Notch Brewing in Brighton with guest Emily Grogan), and catch some of the Roslindale Porchfest on Saturday. Other excellent impending options are in the first list below, but if there’s anything I missed, leave a comment. I’m open, and things always slip through the cracks.
Recent-announcements-wise, the openers for the two Superdrag shows at Brighton Music Hall have been announced (The Gravel Pit! The Hilken & Melissa Band!), Guillermo Sexo are reuniting for a show at Deep Cuts with some ace openers, Lily Seabird will be playing there in December, and yeah, those Oasis hints did indeed point in Gillette’s direction. Fvck that venue & its owner, though.
Read on for imminent Boston-area shows followed by a short list of announcements that have jumped out at me. As I always say, not even close to a comprehensive list, just things on my own radar, and potentially on those of friends & show-going acquaintances. Drop a comment with missing suggestions, corrections, curses, compliments, or just general enthusiasm.. For the full list, check the right hand column over there –>
First, imminent Boston-area shows of (my/your?) interest…
Wednesday, September 16th
In The Pines
Feep
Daughter of the Vine
@ Deep Cuts
Wednesday, September 16th
YHWH Nailgun
Nuda
@ Sonia
Wednesday, September 16th
The EARFULL series
writers reading,
songwriters performing.
with authors
Jennifer Belle & Peter Wolf
and musicians
Eric & Hazel Royer
and Kenny White
@ the Regattabar
Wednesday, September 16th
Damien Jurado
St. Yuma
@ the Sinclair
Wednesday, September 16th
Ear
Oral
@ the Somerville Armory
Wednesday & Thursday
September 16th & 17th
Twin Peaks:
Conversation with the Stars
@ Center for the Arts, Natick
Thursday, September 17th
(rescheduled from 9/3)
The Grownup Noise
@ the Condon Shell, Medford
Thursday, September 17th
Passim Presents
Melissa Ferrick
@ Crane Estate, Ipswich
Friday, September 18th
The Hilken Mancini &
Melissa Gibbs Residency
Week 7 with guest
Emily Grogan
free @ Notch Brewing in Brighton
Friday, September 18th
Harvard Bookstore presents
actor/author Ke Huy Quan
presents his new memoir
in conversation with
Emiko Tamagawa
@ First Parish Church, Cambridge
Friday, September 18th
Id M Theft Able
Drew Wesley
Kelly Bray & Jacob Hiser
(duo cd release show)
Noell Dorsey
@ Washington Street Art Center
in Somerville
Friday, September 18th
Paula Cole
Will Dailey
@ the Wilbur
Friday, September 18th
Alex Cameron
@ Warehouse XI
Friday, September 18th
Mon Rovia
Sarah Julie
@ Roadrunner
Friday, September 18th
Sparta
Public Opinion
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, September 19th
Roslindale Porchfest!
including a show with
The Specific Heats & Frisson
@ Roslindale, duh
Saturday, September 19th
Doss
Moon by Moon
Birdbath
Intac (solo)
@ somewhere in Brighton
(ask a punk)
Saturday, September 19th
Perennial
Sinaloa
Miracle Blood
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, September 19th
The KLYAM Retirement Party!
with
Andy California, Nice Guys,
The Swettes, Kremlin Bats,
Pledge Pins, Honey Cassette,
Schooner, MR, Mickey Bliss
1pm @ Lou Ann David Park
in Somerville
Sunday, September 20th
Convinced Friend
Jake McKelvie
Tiberius
@ Deep Cuts
Sunday, September 20th
Cheekface
Apes of the State
@ Brighton Music Hall
Sunday, September 20th
Esther Rose
@ the Crystal Ballroom
Monday, September 21st
Cabaret Voltaire
I Speak Machine
@ the Wilbur
Monday, September 21st
Liz Phair
Sleater-Kinney
Frankie Cosmos
@ MGM Music Hall
Tuesday, September 22nd
Bikini Kill
Downtown Boys
@ Roadrunner
Tuesday, September 22nd
The Charlatans UK
Frankie Rose
@ the Paradise
Tuesday, September 22nd
Luna
Daughter of the Vine
@ the Wilbur
Tuesday, September 22nd
Wesley Stace
Eugene Mirman
@ Club Passim
And now, recently announced Boston-area shows…
Friday & Saturday
October 9th & 10th
openers announced for
the Superdrag shows:
The Gravel Pit (on Friday) &
Hilken & Melissa Band (on Sat)
@ Brighton Music Hall
Friday, November 13th
Colleen Green
@ Deep Cuts
Saturday, November 21st
Guillermo Sexo
Harsh Foxing
Tequila Sirens
@ Deep Cuts
Thursday, December 3rd
Lily Seabird
Eliza Niemi
@ Deep Cuts
Tuesday, Friday, & Saturday
August 10th, 13th, & 14th
Oasis
@ Gillette Stadium