The BGN News Archive

GG Allin at Cantones Photo:Blowfish

You might have seen Michael Bowen’s post on The Rat’s Facebook page. He’s writing a book on GG Allin. It’s going to be an oral history like Please, Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain. Bowen is asking for people to contact him if they met GG and have a story to tell.

We talked to Bowen on the phone. He was easy to talk to and knew everything seemingly possible about GG. We have a few photos of GG on one of his first shows in Boston at Cantones. See the photo above. That was before GG dramatically changed his look. Bowen says GG's very first Boston

show was opening for GG’s brother’s band. That would be Thrills with Merle Allin. Michael told us that both Merle and GG auditioned for Thrills and both were picked to be in the band. GG would be on drums. However, GG wanted his own band in the end.

Michael comes from Salem NH and went to the University of NH. He wrote about GG early with a review of GG at the Meri-Mac club in Manchester. It’s a great story to read. There’s so much involved going to a GG show. Here’s the story. There was a movie bio of GG that was announced a few years back. That seems to still be in the beginning stages. Joe Coughlin talked about writing a GG biography and that never happened. There’s little doubt that Bowen will finish his book. He’s pushing hard and knows so much. If you want to add your story to the GG oral history contact Michael Bowen via email.

Bowen also talked to Kenne Highland who has some interesting GG stories- Kenne wants us to let everyone know that his birthday is this week, on Wednesday but he's going to celebrate his birthday on Saturday April 5 at Juliette in Union Square with DJ CheekyCamel. That will be 5-11PM. Come for dinner stay for dancing with Kenne!!

It’s a sign of the times ... three members of the UK Subs were turned back to England at the airport in LA.. The group had a show in Los Angeles at the LA Punk Invasion Festival. They were told their visas were not “proper” and there was an “undisclosed issue”. The agents checked their phones and it’s suspected that might have triggered the action. The story in the Guardian: and on the Punk News website.

The story in the Guardian: and on the Punk News website.

That's not stopping others from touring. The (new) Sex Pistols have announced their first American tour in 20 years. The line up is the one that has been playing Europe to good reviews (except from John Lydon of course): Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock with Frank Carter filling in for John Lydon. The tour begins on Sept. 16. The cities are: Dallas, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Montreal, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Damn no Boston OR NYC!! A short story on the UPI. Some words from Matlock and Jones in this CBS story.

"And Not Done Yet - The Andy Show" will be a Celebration of the Life of Andy Paley in LA on April 19th. Some of the performers include Jonathan Richman, Lenny Kaye, Jonathan Paley, Billy West, Bob Goldthwait, Elliot Easton and many more. It's at the Pico Union Project in LA. Proceeds will support the education fund for Andy's twin sons, Charlie and Jackson. The tickets on Eventbrite.

Soundscape Tours is starting "Tour Boston's Rock and Roll Past & Present" starting on Friday April 18. We reported about Soundscape Tours in August of 2020. The 2020 tour was during Covid times so it was hard to get traction during that period. The tour starts at the Verb Hotel where the David Bieber Archives are on the walls. It proceeds to the Fenway, Back Bay visiting the Rat, Storyville and the Boston Tea Party. The Soundscape Tours website.

Somerville's PorchFest is Saturday May 10 with Sunday as a rain date. Last year's Somerville PorchFest was NUTS!! It was super busy and hard to traverse the streets. We tried! This year Somerville is making sure police and safety vehicles can get move easily where needed. They also want to ensure the safety of Porchfest goers. So they are closing 13 streets to Porchfest; like Highland Ave and Broadway. You can read more on MassLive and here is info on the Somerville Porchfest site.

Guster played Porchfest last year. This year they played the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on Friday 3/28. During the show they brought up the cast of Finn, a LQBTQ musical, which had been cancelled because it's theme of inclusion. Guster Ryan Fisher's friend wrote the songs for Finn. The story on MSN website.

Salem 66 has put together a retrospective album, Salt. For a while the Salem 66 music was not available on streaming media. Soon it will be with the Salt album. The songs were picked by Judy Grunwald and Beth Kaplan. The new album is on Bandcamp now with "Across the Sea" streaming. Their whole catalog of albums is also on Bandcamp. More about this in Paste magazine

We were happy to see that Trophy Lungs and a group we've seen many times (July 2018 December 2013 August 2013), is reuniting for a show. Not just any show but the O'Brien's 40th Anniversary show! The reunion show is on May 2. Also on the bill is Choke Up, The New Warden and Depressors. Actually, all online tickets are SOLD OUT already! About the show on Punksite website.

The Modern Day Idols are getting things lined up for the release of new material. They'll have four singles released periodically. "The Pleasure of My Company" will be the first in late April. The songs were recorded at 37’ Productions in Rockland, MA. They have a Neve board. Sean McLaughlin produced and mixed the material.

They're having a release show at the Square Root in Roslindale on Friday 4/25. On the bill with them are The Haymakers and the Pleasure Wheel.

Turns out there are Punk Rock Market type events everywhere!! Locally there's a new one - Punk Rock Marketplace at the Ramada Inn in Seekonk, MA on November 1-2. That's on Route 44 not that far from the Old Grist Mill that foodies would know about and not far from Providence. Their Instagram page.

BOOKS......

VIDEOS......

Rat Tales has a big scoop by getting Steve Cataldo in for a interview. They get into Steve's early influences ... and they are varied. He listened to a variety of music at an early age. He was musically inclined from the get go really. He was in rock bands in high school. They played dances and won a Battle of the Bands that got them to a state wide-version where they came in on the top five. For Steve it was Link Wray and the Ventures until the Beatles, when everything changed. How often have we heard that. Later Steve was in the Front Page Review. They were booked by the Surf clubs (Nantasket, Hyannis and Salisbury Beach).

Then he went to New York and managed to record the Saint Stephen album. The next move was back to the North Shore and meeting Jeff Wilkinson, and Rob Skeen and starting the Rhythm Assholes. The band next backs Willie Loco who was playing with just piano around the North Shore. The group changed it name to Nervous Eaters and at that point the Rat was starting, and the Nervous Eaters get in there and became friends with Jimmy Harold.

You know the arc of the story from here. This studio setting is a comfortable place and Steve has loads of stories and insights for all the different turns that mark the long Nervous Eaters career. It's long interview at an hour and a half but still doesn't begin to detail all the ins and outs of all the albums. This is the best interview yet that covers Steve's early influences and the sweep of his career.

The Wynotts have a vid for their song "Nobody Noticed." It was done by Rudy Childs who did the Dogmatics documentary. It's a mash up of two live shows. One at the Square Root and one at the Rockland High Fundraiser by WRPS. We dig that staggered drum riff at the beginning that is repeated a few times during the song.

Cold Expectations now have a vid for "Our Hearts Need Electricity." You get sucked in with the appealing melody but it's the tension inherent in the song that sticks with you. After a few listens you want to run around yelling "our hearts need electricity". The video has electric neon colors that depict electronics and high tension electric wires. Everything is high contrast, nothing dull here.

Smit E Smitty & the Fezztones have a video out for the song "One Most Likely" which came out near Valentine's Day. Smitty is very adept with media and all his vids reflect that. There's lots of color manipulation and smooth fades. With the video we can see him doing a solo in the middle of the song and now know it is a toy piano solo! Smitty's low sonorous voice marks the track.

The Dogmatics have shown how a band can use a documentary to get more and different exposure. Redd Kross is now doing the same thing. The added attention from their documentary Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story got them on the Jimmy Kimmel show. They do the song "Born Innocent".

Do you know your New Wave bands? We know you do, but check out the fun questions on Jeopardy about New Wave band names. Just a minute long.

Check out PBS stations for the documentary America's Lost Band. It's the story of The Remains. It's narrated by Peter Wolf. We have the trailer above. This is a short version of the actual film that was released in 2009. It played in Boston. We saw it in Providence. It's scheduled for April 8 broadcast.

RADIO......

On the Rising show on Tuesday 3/25 Skybar had the band Falsely Accused in for an interview and it was very lively. They talked about living and rocking on the North Shore to which Skybar, a Peabody native, was able to relate. During the course of the interview Skybar played the whole EP. We have that whole interview/music below. If you want to listen/buy the new EP go to the band's Bandcamp page.

Skybar's Rising show is on WMFO 91.5 FM on Tuesdays at 7-9pm. After that go to the WMFO schedule page hit the Rising show at 7-9pm on Tuesday, then hit the 'archive' button.

PODCASTS.........

Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico had Lilli Dennison in for a talk. Lili grew up in Deerborn, MI and then moved to NJ. She grew up loving the 60's rock music. She got into punk in 1978. At the end of 1979 Lilli came to visit a friend in Boston and got a job waitressing at The Rat the day she got to town. Later she worked at the Hoodoo BBQ. What followed was a crash course in Boston punk.

Lilli started managing bands with The Loners as the first group. The Del Fuegos were next. She tells the story where Rick Harte was recording the group but they instead signed with Slash. As the Del Fuegos switched to other management, Lilli went on to manage Scruffy the Cat, Flies and Turbines. Lilli was also booking the Rat. As the Hoodoo ended she decided to book at the Green St. Grill. She was there for eleven years.
She started a new club called Lilli's in Somerville, later known as the 608 club. As that club closed she eventually ended up in New Orleans. She left on the heals of the destruction by Katrina. She has lived in Seattle, WA since then. All that history is told in colorful stories by Lilli. She has lived the rock and roll life.

Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico had two well regarded bands in for his last two interviews. t least once a year.

Elastic Glam show (3/21) had the usual mix of new old and local glam oriented music. New music came from Dagamoor with "Soul Surfer", Ty Segal's "Fantastic Tomb", 20th Century Boys singing "Glory Boys", Bobbie Dazzle's "Lady on Fire" and Gyasi and "Lightning".
The local music was from the original modern glam exponent Gene Dante and the Future Starlets with the scathing "Love Is for Suckers", TELL with the new release "Sweet Proximity", The classic glam was Sparks "Something for the Girl with Everything", Smokie doing "Oh Carol" and Mud "Last Tango in London".

On the 3/28 Elastic Glam show Sethyspice started with a late T.Rex song "Soul of My Suit". It makes you realize how much more Marc Bolan had to give. The new glam artists this week were Wooze doing "Sabre Tooth Spider", Hello with "Star Studded Sham", Art d'Ecco playing "The Traveler" and Gysai with "Bang Bang".
The local songs by TELL and Looking Glass War sounded so good in the mix. The classic glam came from Marmalade, Mud, Racey ('Some Girls") and Live Slade performing "Here Me Calling" . Sethyspice says the Live Slade album went to Number 2 on the UK charts in 1972 and stayed there for 58 weeks!

Sonic Overload on 3/17 was a continuation of the 25th anniversary of Sonic Overload show. Al Quint is using the celebration to play the best hardcore of the twenty first century. For hardcore lovers this is a show not to miss. It is three and a half hours long, the longest Sonic show ever. We are just going to give you a little taste of the show. There's no replacement for getting in and listening.

Here's four representative hardcore raggers. The first song is "War Against!" by the Nerve Agents. We like that last section of yelling "let me go". Then it's some NY hardcore with Hank Woods and the Hammerheads doing "It's Murder". The next group is R'N'R and the song is "What's Your Damage". The final song is "Read Yellow" by Western Mass band Read Yellow.

On the 3/24 Sonic Overload show Al did a segue that wouldn't happen on most shows. He played the Standells song "Riot on Sunset Strip" in memory of Larry Tamblyn who died this week and followed it up with "Motherfucker" by The Dwarfs. Wrap your mind around that. We have it to hear below.

Later he played Tracks with "Brakes on You" which is one of the great early singles from the Boston scene. We have that embedded below because you don't often get to hear that. That was in a set with an Avengers song because they were in town recently.
One song that stood out to us, and we have embedded below, was "Das Reich" by No Hope for the Kids. They are singing about 1943 and they have actual foot stomping in it, that's scary to us. We kept the follow up song with it which was Funeral Oration performing "Slipping Out" because it fit well. You can hear the whole show on the Sonic Overload web page

NEW MUSIC/CDs......

Looking Glass War have a new EP - Saints of the Lost and Found. They have "Séance by the RCA" on Bandcamp now as a teaser. The song is about that period where Houdini was exposing fake mediums. The séance written about in the song happened on Beacon Hill. The lyrics tell a tale and Looking Glass War has one of the few singers, Goddam Glen, that we think could traverse the ins and outs of the telling. The group is comprised of excellent players also which makes for an enriching listen.

Releasing a string of digital singles before an album has become common in the last few years. Now, the new thing seem to be releasing a split single with two groups switching songs. That's what's Rob Moss and Skin-Tight Skin have been doing. The latest has Rob Moss covering the Amplifier Heads song "GlamOrama" and The Amplifier Heads playing Moss' "We Just Don't Know".

Rob Moss Skin-Tight Skins' version of "GlamOrama" sounds even more glam than the original, it's the guitar sound. They also throw in a few calls of "Ooga Chuka, Ogoga Chuka" from the Blue Swede classic "Hooked on a Feeling", at the beginning. We had to laugh at that clever move.

Sal Baglio of The Amplifier Heads changes the whole dynamics of "We Just Don't Know". Sal begins the song in a hush with acoustic guitars. He sings "we just don't know" with acceptance. As the list of unknown things grow and the idea that there some unknowns keeping them in the dark, the panic and anger grow. It's a great arrangement and performance that gives the song a whole new perspective.

We're still mentally checking off groups that we see have made it through the Covid era. We can now make a mark next to Sternman (formally Rawstrum) who have a four song self titled EP just released. Sternman are described with different labels. We think of them as just very hard rock, without being hardcore. Think Kilsug.

It's never just about volume, Sternman get intense and deep. We saw them live and saw how the singer, Jimmy Chandler, puts it all into the vocals. It's like he's either exorcising or evoking demons. All of that can be heard on the EP. Even songs that start soft slowly increase the tension Chandler will end up with some bloodcurdling yelps. Our fave song is "Rodeo". That short song does a lot. Save this for when you need the hard stuff.

We heard the latest by Corin Ashley on Skybar's Rising show on 3/25. Corin is now on Sound Cove records. I hope that means he will be recording and releasing more of his sophisticated pop material. We miss it.

"Empathy Centre" has an elaborate arrangement that evokes the Beatles from their most ornate period. He takes your ears on a trip. Corin had a stroke and had to relearn the guitar. Judging by the solos on this song he got that done. The song treats one's empathy response like a complicated bureaucracy. Empathy seems to be having it's day recently.
The song was mixed by the much missed Ducky Carlisle and mastered at Abbey Road, London.

Rum Bar Records has adopted 'swagger' as their point adjective. The best music should have swagger! Their latest 28 cut album is titled Swagger: Second Shot. Malibu Lou has picked his groups well. All the Rum Bar samplers hold up. We always think - what if you weren't familiar with these groups at all? You would have a great listening party.

A few songs on here were not released on Rum Bar (yet). There's The French Girls with "Independent Woman". That was a good find. The song was released in 2021. Here's their Bandcamp page. "Rock and Roll Crime" is by Foxy. We think this is a future Rum Bar artist. The rest of the album is songs we know, and many we reviewed. We loved listening to all of them. You will too.

Motorbike from Cincinnati are another band that seems like they must tear things up live. The new album is titled Kick It Up. The recording is so immediate, it sounds as vibrant as playing live. People would die to be able to do that at will. You can almost see the recording meters red lining.
On one level it doesn't even matter what the songs are because the energy the band has carries everything along. No matter where you drop the needle (fugitively) on this baby, it's rocking like hell.

The band pegs itself as punk and pop, but we hear garage and even some rockabilly. The song that got us hooked was "Cold Sweat". That has a fuzzed up guitar line that reminds us Dave Allen & the Arrows. That's appropriate because Allen did soundtracks for motorcycle exploitation movies.

Classy, confessional, contemplative and a little country too. That's Adam Sherman's new EP Nowhere But Here we're talking about. Adam has ended up in a very creative and productive place. He beat the Covid limitations with the Back Porch Carousel collective being active during the shutdown years. He had a stint with the Nervous Eaters and his songs were on their last album.
This new release puts his Bandcamp releases at 30. Not to forget he does all the cover art himself.

Nowhere But Here displays the deep feelings that Adam can mine. One of its strengths is that it sustains its tone of introspection and lyrics of personal strength throughout. That makes for a powerful musical statement. He has some tasteful players backing him and then Robin Lane helping on vocals.

Glitter Fast is a Japanese band with a new EP out with Slovenly records. Just one song is streaming now. "Japanpunk" is a solid piece of old school punk. The only word you can understand is "Japanpunk" but the language of punk is universal. They prove that here.

Sex Scenes is a Milwaukee band that have been together since 2016. There next album, Everything Makes Me Sick will be out on May 2. The preview single "Nothing" is on Bandcamp now. The words are what really hooked us. It's about the transitory quality of life. Something we think more and more of as we grow older.
"I spent my whole life accumulating shit," they now realize. "Nothing is left/ Nothing, not less/ Nothing, " is the truth of it. "We go out of this world utterly alone," is the bleak and bare truth. This is sung by Sarah Turbo in punk fashion.

The music is hardcore/punk. It's very short at 2:14 which is good because it's easy to repeat listen which helps you to hear how Sarah delivers the lyrics. Those lyrics are on the Bandcamp page.

The Slow Death are from Minneapolis. We didn't know of them before hearing this ripper titled "I'll Be Fine". We were grabbed by the intensity of the playing at the beginning and it never lets up.

The guitars bang on a simple but energetic progression with the organ adding even more to the heavy mix. What a powerful voice the singer has. He hammers home the lyrics. We're thinking, 'live, this is got to be great". As it turns out the band is at Faces in Malden on June 14.

We saved…the best?...for last. "Shit My Pants" …are you still with us?...is by The Pingers from Australia...hanging in there still? The song is about someone shitting their pants. They repeat that a lot, although they do get into details just a bit. It's only two minutes long but honestly seems three times as long.
Actually it's funny…shitty, but funny.

Here's some good shows coming up .....

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) Spiller, Speed Teeth, The Long Wait at O'Brien's FB page

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) The Stitches, Chain Whip, Duck & Cover Middle East Up

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) Baabes, Linnea's Garden, Jackie and The Idiots, Pyramid Scheme at  The Jungle 

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) Weigh Boat, RoseR, American Ocelot, Jennifer Tefft and The Strange at The Midway

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) The FU's, The Ungraded, The Woods, The Haymakers at KOTO Lowell

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) Gossip Collar, Pilgrims of Yearning, DJ Faust at AS220 Provi RI

April 5, 2025 (Saturday) Tree, Inverter, Kings Never Die, Sonic Bomb at Ralph's in Worcester - FB page

April 6, 2025 (Sunday) Martin / Morell / Fredette, John Hovorka Band, Satch Kerans 3PM matinee at The Midway

April 6, 2025 (Sunday) Knock OverCity, PWRUP. Oh The Humanity!, Pink Slip, First Pick, at Thirsty First in Lowell

April 10 (Thursday) Silver Screams, The Winter Brave, Bob Cenci's Orange Guitar w/Ramona (Crow Follow) on drums at The Notch Taproom Brighton

April 10 (Thursday) FACS, Landowner, Major Stars at Deep Cuts Medford

April 11 - 13, 2025 (Friday-Sunday) Dark Spring Festival at The Middle east Up - check out the Event page here.

April 12, 2025 (Saturday) Musclecah, Mass Spy, Bobby Oakes and the TV Models, The McGunks - This is an ALL AGES show at The Raven Worcester - FB page

April 12, 2025 (Saturday) Zygote Theory, TJ Welch and the Wasted, Scotty Saints and the True Believers, Oyer and Terminer at Koto Salem

April 12, 2025 (Saturday) J Prozac and the Other Guys, Seeing Snakes (PHILLY), The Stress Balls, Dave Strong, The Villains - at the Starlite, Southbridge MA, All ages 7PM

April 13, 2025 (Sunday) Wirelines, The Phoenix Within, 99 Shots at Koto Lowell, Event Page.

April 16, 2025 (Wednesday) Your Pest Band "Japan's best garage power-pop punkers", Zip-Tie Handcuffs, Wicked Dead at Faces Brewing, Malden. Your Pest Band has been at it for almost 15 years. Check 'em out!

April 16, 2025 (Wednesday) Temptress, Psycho, Larry and the Bats at Koto Lowell - FB page

April 17, 2025 (Thursday) Plymouth Punk Rock Market at Mayflower Brewing Company 6-8PM Event Page

April 17, 2025 (Thursday) Dead Boys with Richard Lloyd (Of Television) at Deep Cuts, Medford, MA, 7pm

April 17, 2025 (Thursday) Nasalrod with Minibeast and The Ghouls at Koto Salem FB page

April 18, 2025 (Friday) WORM, C.O.B., Witches Tears, Hardwire, Far Above the Ground at The C Note Hull TIX

April 18, 2025 (Friday) Joe Zippo Memorial 2025 with Scumbari, Mosse Knuckle, Sadplant at Moon Base One Salem

April 18, 2025 (Friday) Nasalrod with Minibeast and Grip Bite at The Parlour, Prov. RI FB page.

April 19, 2025 (Saturday) Gang of Four at The Crystal Ballroom, Somerville. Tickets.

April 19, 2025 (Saturday) The Instamatics, American Ocelot, Yes Nanny, Peter Buzzelle at The Midway FB page

April 24, 2025 (Thursday) Christian Death at Deep Cuts Medford 7-11PM

April 25, 2025 (Friday) Sidewalk Driver, Rice Edmonston and Talk Chalk at Deep Cuts Medford. Facebook event page

April 26, 2025 (Saturday) The Dogmatics, Stop Calling Me Frank at The New World Tavern Plymouth - FB page.

April 26, 2025 (Saturday) Kill Lincoln, Hell Beach, The Prozacs at Hutghi's At The Nook ( 8 Franklin St Westfield MA) FB page

April 27, 2025 (Sunday) Stray Bullets, Nick And The Adversaries, Hell Beach, Static Friction 3PM Matinee at The Midway FB page

April 29, 2025 (Tuesday) The Bellrays, Muck and the Mires, The Downhauls at Deep Cuts

April 30, 2025 (Wednesday) The Bellrays, Muck and the Mires, The Downhauls at Deep Cuts $20 advance / $25 day of

May 2, 2025 (Friday) Gossip Collar, The Stress Balls, Neponset Monastery, Bastard Leg - Thirsty First, Lowell, 21+ 9pm

May 9, 2025 (Friday) One Fall, DNA's Evolution, Type 66, The Mighty Suicide Squirrels at The Middle East UP

May 9, 2025 (Friday) Hilken Mancini Band, The Cujo, Mary Lou Lord at Sonia

May 10, 2025 (Saturday) The Villains, The Rejekts, The Stress Balls, and more TBA -Cambridge Community Center - All Ages -2pm

May 10, 2025 (Saturday) Koto Salem's Annual Pancreatic Cancer benefit show with Acoustic sets starting at 730 - Pink Acoustic Rock n Roll, Keith Bennett - Bands starting at 930 - Gravewraith, Swarm of Eyes, Scuzzy Yeti, Worshipper - All proceeds go directly to Pancan.org

May 11, 2025 (Sunday) The Queers at The Middle East UP

May 11, 2025 (Sunday) The Thigh Scrapers, M.O.T.O., The Stigmatics, The Ballbusters at The Midway for a 3PM matinee

May 16, 2025 (Saturday) The FUs, Arctic Horror, The Angry La's (Formerly GIVE UP!) at KOTO Underground, Salem:

May 24, 2025 (Saturday) Neighborhood Shit, The Promised End, Fracture Type, Knock Over City at The Midway 3PM Matinee!

May 29, 2025 (Thursday) Major Stars, Gossip Collar Notch Taproom Brighton

June 14, 2025 (Saturday) ShaggahS, The Cynz, Stop Calling Me Frank, at the Burren, Somerville 7pm The Burren

June 14, 2025 (Saturday) The Slow Death are at Faces Malden

June 27, 2025 (Friday) The Gruesomes (legendary Canadian garage punk band a) , Muck & The Mires, The Chelsea Curve at The Middle East UP EventPage

June 27, 2025 (Friday) Rockin Bob Punk Band, Color Killer, The F.U.’s and from California, Stay Out at the Middle East UP, 8pm

June 28, 2025 (Saturday) TREE and Incendiary Device at Brighton Music Hall - 6PM - TIX

June 29, 2025 (Sunday) Frenzy Of Tongs, Scumbari, The Stress Balls, Angry Red Planet -at The Cantab, 21+ 8pm

July 29, 2025 (Saturday) The Wynotts, The Haymakers, American Ocelot at the Square Root, Roslindale 8pm

July 31, 2025 (Thursday) The New Bomb Turks, The Drowns at Sonia

September 7, 2025 (Sunday) Rock and Roll Yard Sale in Somerville Union Square FB page for more info vendors etc

September 19, 2025 (Friday) Marc Valentine Band, Chelsea Curve, Glimmer Stars at The Burren

September 27, 2025 (Wednesday) The Grip Weeds, Tiger Bomb, at The Burren

October 30, 2025 (Thursday) Stupidity, Chelsea Curve, Little Billy Lost, at The Burren

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