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The WMBR Rock/Pop/Punk Concert Report

Friday, Aug. 1
• Roolette, Minikin, False Spring, and String Head - O'Briens
• See You at Rogers, Ruby, Saane, and See Love - The Jungle [8PM]
• Clifford, Dino Gala, and Paper Lady - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA all ages [7PM]
• Sharpie Smile - The Rockwell
• The Church - Somerville Theatre
• Lostin the 80's w/ A Flock of Seagulls, Big Country, General Public, The Vapors, Josie Cotton, and The Polecats & more - Boch Center/Wang Theatre all ages [7PM]
• Brett Michaels, Vince Neil, and Stephen Pearcy - MGM Music Hall all ages [7PM]
• Silent Spring, In Contempt, Short Circuit, and more - Arlington VFW [7PM]
• Iron Gag, Latch, Pocket Knife, and Southgate - Moon Base One, Salem, MA
• Oziem - Koto Lowell [9PM]
Saturday, Aug. 2
• The Baxbys, Moravian, Pat Kennedy, and Grand View Point - Middle East Upstairs
• Primitive Romance listening party, Thalia Zedek, and Ghost Painted Sky - O'Briens [1PM]
• Black Thai, Cocked n' Loaded, and Milo's Syndicate - O'Briens
• Robopumpkin, Cat Crash, Lions & Lavender, and Cricket - Midway Cafe [3PM]
• River Sang Wild - Midway Cafe [8:30]
• River Sang Wild, Gold Star Blvd, Verona Rose, and Sound Advice - Midway Cafe 21+ [8:30]
• The Struts, and King Falcon - House of Blues
• Around My Apartment, Botch Job, The Lunch Ladies, and Stop That Man - The Jungle [8PM]
• The FU's, The Humanoids, and Overkillers - Boynton Yards, Somerville [2-10PM]
• Haywire, Death Before Dishonor, and Never Back Down - Lynch Skate Park [noon, free with school supplies]
• Dwarves, Burn Kit, and Scumbari - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
• Neighborhood Sh*t, Firstline, FACA, and Price You'll Pay - Moon Base One, Salem, MA [6PM]
• Spread Eagle, Bad Marriage, and Vale End - Koto Lowell [7PM]
• Pantera, and Amon Amarth - Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA
Sunday, Aug. 3
• Charlie Burg - Middle East Upstairs
• Dark Soft, Eastern Sourvenirs, and Stella Starbox - O'Briens
• Martin/Morell/Fredette, and Nature Machine - Midway Cafe [3PM]
• Moron, Gluebag, ICU, and Neutral Fixation - Cantab [5PM]
• Time and Place, Broken Daisies, and The Only Humans - The Jungle [5PM]
Monday, Aug. 4
• The Muckers, The Gobshites, and Kier Byrnes - O'Briens
• Wulver, and Slow Coyote - Silhouette Lounge
Tuesday, Aug. 5
• Here and Now, Cosmic Triumph, and Binge Magick - Middle East Upstairs
• Academy Order, Battlemode, FEEP, and Woid Bear - O'Briens
Wednesday, Aug. 6
• Elise, and Ella Red - Middle East Upstairs
• Static Ghost, Viva Non, Hexx Head, and Asphodel Ivory - O'Briens
• The Velvet Dirtmunchers, Lenny's Funk Club, and Vyshnavi - Midway Cafe
• Academy Order - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
• The Dollyrots, and Black Widows - Taffeta Music Hall, Lowell
Thursday, Aug. 7
• Plant Fight, Award, Thought Partner, and Black Beach - O'Briens
• Castle Goblin, Divorce Cake, and Circus Battalion - The Jungle [8PM]
• Somergloom Fest w/ Slow Quit, Guhts, Lesotho, and Main Era - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
• Tenue, Unseemlier, KCUF, and more - Moon Base One, Salem, MA
Friday, Aug. 8
• Ista, and Tea Eater - Middle East Upstairs
• Raskol, Cartridge, No Chain, and I.C.B.M. - O'Briens
• Vandoliers, and Nate Bergman - Sonia
• Galaxy Cake, Stop Calling Me Frank, and Orbiter - Square Root
• Loose, Weatherman, and Datura - The Jungle [8PM]
• One Fall, Tired Radio, Cape Crush, and Blame It on Whitman - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• Fruit Bats, and Minor Moon - Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
Saturday, Aug. 9
• Will Killmoore, Lose, Weatherman, and Wildfeuer - O'Briens
• The McGunks, Voice of Dissent, The Graniteers, and Ragz to Stitchez - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• Feliciity's Hubris, The Golden Years of Dutch Pop, Giant Sale, and Christian Champagne - Midway Cafe [8:30]
• Flight Attendant - Sonia
• Endation, Happy Little Clouds, Cold Expectations, and Ex-Hyena - The Jungle
• Cocked n Loaded, Obliterati, and Brownboot - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA all ages [8PM]
• The Lookout Honeys, Tiger Bomb, and Powderhouse - The Burren [6PM]
• Trick Attack - Moon Base One, Salem, MA
Sunday, Aug. 10
• Zyclone, Rejekts, Funeral Spell, City Kings, and Phantom Rider - Middle East Upstairs
• Another One Down, Rocket God, and Plastyc Peachez - O'Briens
• Erlking; Rocket Gods; Already Dead; and Fire, Escape - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• Benches - Sonia
• Circuit Breakers - The Jungle [9PM]
• Anberlin, and The Almost - Paradise
• Aversed, Aluka, and Ingrate - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
• Mountain Goats, and Craig Finn - Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
• She Rides, Skorts, Dead Street Dreamers, and more - Scurvy Dog, Prov. [2PM]
Monday, Aug. 11
• Mile 57, Escape Durgin, Jermaine Kelly, and Lucky Gold Jr. - O'Briens
Tuesday, Aug. 12
• Ani Mari, Goes East, Anna Gurl, and Reid Duran - Middle East Upstairs
• The Massacred, Gossip Collar, Sympathy Flowers, Sin Offering, and Uniformed Service - O'Briens
• Challenger Deep, and Four Stroke Baron - Sonia
• State of Nature, Raspberry Jam, and Jamwich - The Jungle [6PM]
Wednesday, Aug. 13
• Open Mike Eagle, Oceanator, and Esh & the Isolations - Middle East Upstairs
• MX Lonely, War Machine, and Main Era - O'Briens
• Fully Celebrated Orchestra, New Mexican Standoff, and Pop into the Chemist - Midway Cafe
• 0 Miles Per Hour, Dowsing Rod, and The Dreamtoday - Silhouette Lounge
• David Lee Roth - Hampton Beach Ballroom [8PM]
Thursday, Aug. 14
• Conor James, Talk Bazarre, and Tori Tori - Middle East Upstairs
• Karios Creature Club, Komodo Rojo, and Salty Greyhound - O'Briens
• Ocean Sleeper, and Garzi - Sonia
• The Armed, and Prostitute - Sinclair
• Johnnie & The Foodmasters, K.O. Queen, and Electric Street Queens - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
Friday, Aug. 15
• Tree, The Outlourdes, and Mollusk - Middle East Upstairs
• Tetchy, Gut Health, Mingko, and Marcy the Baptist - O'Briens
• Way of the Headband, and War Bunnies - Midway Cafe [9:30]
• Dennett - Sonia
• Glove Balks, Scrivener, Ruby, and Indoor - The Jungle
Saturday, Aug. 16
• Carver Commodore, and Ruby Plume - Middle East Upstairs
• Billy, Peacebreaker, Pocketknife, Outnumbered, and No More Youth - O'Briens
• Toby, Music Farm, Float Stanley, and Bury Sweet Embers - The Jungle [8PM]
• Ol Brandon, Lost My Balance, Tusken and the Raiders, and Big Rav - Midway Cafe
• Black Keys, and Gary Clark Jr. - MGM Music Hall
Sunday, Aug. 17
• Ringside Tonic, Human Fade, Declaw, and Jude Ivy - O'Briens
• Trick Attack, Around My Apartment, Isaac Groove, and Burrows - Midway Cafe
• Oliver Francis, and Jordan Bell - Sonia
• Eyehategod, Crowbar, and Colin of Arabia - Brighton Music Hall
• Worst Party Ever, Camp Trash, and Perinneal - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA all ages [7PM]
• Through and Throu, Utility, and more - Attleboro American Legion
Monday, Aug. 18
• Midrift, and I Promised the World - Sinclair
• Bonny Doon - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
Tuesday, Aug. 19
• Joe Perry Project featuring Chris Robinson - Boch Center/Wang Theatre all ages
Wednesday, Aug. 20
• The Front Desk, and Nearest Neighbor - Middle East Upstairs
• Truckfighters, and Restless Spirit - Sonia
Thursday, Aug. 21
• Girl Ultra, and Petite Amie - Middle East Upstairs
• Hyperfix, Gunklung, Stars in Debt, and Dry Fraser - The Jungle [8PM]
• No Lights, Unseemlier, Bed Time Magic, and Teardrops - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA [8PM]
Friday, Aug. 22
• Cave In - Sinclair
• Burly Girlies, Last Second Dropout, Universal Union, and NOTADOG - The Jungle [8PM]
• Mobius Trip, Miss Christine, and The Lo-I - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
• Hell Beach, Royal Dog, Boderlines, and MK Naomi - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA all ages [8PM]
• Catching Hell, The Long Wait, and Sonic Bomb - Koto, Lowell
Saturday, Aug. 23
• Mortician, Gruesome, and more - Middle East Downstairs
• The Starting Line, and Oso Oso - Paradise
• Camp Creep, The Makeshift Kings, The Koiis, and Past Life Crisis - The Jungle [8PM]
• Dreadnoughts, and Apes of State - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
• The Acacia Strain, On Broken Wings, Bodysnatcher, and more - Palladium, Worcester, MA [5PM]
• Billy Idol, and Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA all ages [8PM]
Sunday, Aug. 24
• Beauty, City Kings, Fools Gold, and Flavour - O'Briens
• Hustle Killer - The Jungle [9PM]
• Sadurn, and Mary St. Mary - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
• Portraits of Past, and Kathryn Mohr - Sinclair
• Sadurn, and Mary St. Mary - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
Tuesday, Aug. 26
• Figament, Forest Floor, and Julien Orlando - The Jungle [6PM]
Thursday, Aug. 28
• Scrawl, Chris Brokow Rock Band, and Phantom Tollbooth - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
• Too Fat To Fly, 26th Hour, PV, and Lost Project - The Jungle [8PM]
• The Murder Junkies, Scumbari, Moose Knuckles, and Troll Milk - Alchemy, Providence, RI
Friday, Aug. 29
• Paradox, Freak Pit, Boymom, and MC Lost Cat - The Jungle [8PM]
• Simiple Plan, and Bowling for Soup - MGM Music Hall
• Risk, Soulless, Clock Out, and more - Ralph's Diner, Worcester, MA
Saturday, Aug. 30
• The Lunch Ladies, Free Beer, The Sleds, and Village Idiots - The Jungle [8PM]
• Chad Price Peace Coalition, and Lenny Lashley - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA all ages [8PM]
• Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, and Foxing - MGM Music Hall
• Dysentery, Azshara, Burning Lord, and more - Ralph's Diner, Worcester, MA [3PM, outdoors, free]
Sunday, Aug. 31
• Planning for a Burial, Consumer, and A Monolithic Dome - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
Saturday, Sep. 6 - Sunday, Sep. 7
• Dropkick Murphys, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Waterboys - The Stage at Suffolk Downs [2PM]
Thursday, Sep. 11
• Dion Lunadon, and The Darts - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA 18+ [7PM]
• Bruce Dickinson - House of Blues
• Superchunk, and Tee Vee Repairman - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre
• Sparks - Berklee
Friday, Sep. 12
• Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Flavor Crystals - Sinclair [sold out]
• Mannequin Pussy, and Gouge Away - Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
Saturday, Sep. 13
• Black Moth Superrainbow, and Ricky Eat Acid - Sinclair
• The Del Fuegos - Belforge Arts Center, Medfield [3PM]
Sunday, Sep. 14
• Fu Manchu - Sinclair
Thursday, Sep. 18
• Bouncing Souls, H2O, and Smoking Popes - Royale
Friday, Sep. 19
• Brad Marino, The Chelsea Curve, and Glimmer Stars - The Burren
Saturday, Sep. 20
• Morrissey - MGM Music Hall all ages [7PM]
• Turnstile, Mannequin Pussy, Speed, and Jame Remover - The Stage at Suffolk Downs [5:30]
• Lucero - Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
Sunday, Sep. 21
• Shonen Knife, and Pack AD - Sonia
• The Courettes, and Pangs - Warehouse XI
Monday, Sep. 22
• Elvis Costello and The Imposters, and Charlie Sexton - MGM Music Hall all ages [7PM]
Tuesday, Sep. 23
• Viagra Boys - Roadrunner
Thursday, Sep. 25
• Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols w/ Frank Carter, and The Molotovs - The Stage at Suffolk Downs [5:30]
Saturday, Sep. 27
• Kingpin, The Long Wait, and Wire Lines - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• X, and Los Lobos - Boch Center/Wang Theatre all ages [8PM]
Monday, Sep. 29
• Melvins, and Redd Kross - Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
Thursday, Oct. 2
• Judge, Integrity, Earth Crisis, and Combus - Middle East Downstairs [6PM, sold out]
• B-52's, Devo, and Lene Lovich - Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA all ages [7PM]
• Psychedelic Furs, and Gary Numan - House of Blues
Saturday, Oct. 11
• The Cult - Orpheum [8PM]
Tuesday, Oct. 14
• Buckcherry, Michael Monroe, and Drew Cage & The Reputation - Tupelo Music Hall, Derry, NH [7PM]
Wednesday, Oct. 29
• Biohazard, Onyx, Bay Way, and Swollen Teeth - Palladium, Worcester, MA
Please Note:
  • Addresses of many Boston area clubs can be found here.
  • Local bands are only listed the week of the show.
  • Additions, changes and corrections for rock/pop/punk shows only can be made by writing to: rock-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about upcoming roots/americana/blues/cajun/zydeco shows, please use the address: roots-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about upcoming Jazz shows, please use the address: jazz-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about upcoming World Music shows, please use the address: world-listings email address
  • To submit announcement about Any Other music shows, please use the address: other-listings email address
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