Outside The Box Music Festival

Boston offers free 9-day outdoor performing arts festival

From July 13th – 21st, the first annual performing arts festival will turn public spaces like the Boston Common and City Hall Plaza into performance spaces, with over 200 events on 8 stages showcasing the best of Boston and Massachusetts. In true festival tradition, Outside The Box not only aims to unify the community, but to make art accessible to everyone. While the 9-day festival offers theater to dance, the symphony to the cutting-edge, music enthusiasts will also be able to catch local and well known bands such as The Lemonheads and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, free of charge. 

Punk 'N' Roll BBQ Fundraiser

Boston punk rock show and fundraising event

Local Boston music blog, Boston Bloghead, presents the 1st Annual Punk ‘N’ Roll BBQ, happening August 4th at O’Brien’s Pub, Allston. The event, which kicks off at 3pm, will feature nine local bands including Dead Cats Dead Rats, A Minor Revolution, The Darker Hues and Cult 45. A portion of the ticket proceeds will go to Rawk Stars, Inc., a non-profit organization that designs and sustains programs in order to foster opportunity and develop life skills for kids through music education, creation and participation.

Ticket price includes free BBQ food and is $12 in advance / $15 at doors. This show is 21+. Come out and support local music and important music-centric organizations such as Rawk Stars Inc.

Full event details, including set times.

The Motion Sick Reunite

"Nerd Rock at its finest." - Spin Magazine, April, 2006.

The Motion Sick (“Best Local Rock Band 2009" in the Boston Phoenix's Best Of issue) reunites for one night only during Parks 7” Release Show at the Brighton Music Hall (Allston) on July 13th.

Rock Out With Your Cocktail Out Vol. XIII

Happy July to my favorite audiophiles and alcoholics! A playlist made perfect for your backyard grilling pleasure featuring some recent bands I had the pleasure of seeing in person including Count to Four, Crimes and Await Rescue, and some favorite new songs from Marnie Stern, Said the Whale and The Boxer Rebellion. This month's featured cocktail comes courtesy of Somerville Food Blogger, Culinary Colleen. Turn it up and make yourself a pomegranate cosmopolitan. Because we're fancy and antioxidants are good for us.

Sassy and sophisticated and all about the music.

TT The Bear's Cancels Boyd Rice Show...Puts on Benefit Show for Rosie's Place

Local venue cancels show, replaces with benefit show

Vanyaland.com reported on Wednesday, June 26th, that TT The Bear's canceled Friday’s sold-out Cold Cave show. “The Central Square venue’s management have [sic] raised questions and concerns over the opening act, controversial noise artist Boyd Rice.” Rice, who has been associated with Nazi and Satanic groups, has also spoken out against women’s rights.

In an interview with now defunct Misanthrope Magazine, Rice stated, “I don't think women deserve the same rights as men. I don't think women are on an equal footing with men. I think they're totally different creatures. I think the world operated better when they had less say over how the way things went, had less control.”

Canceled Boyd Rice shows have been trending across the country as many venues recognize the contentious nature and potential hazard of hosting such an individual.

On Thursday, June 27th, TT The Bear’s announced that they will be replacing the canceled show with a Benefit show for Rosie’s Place (a Boston sanctuary for poor and homeless women), featuring The Luxury, Cult 45 and Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. Support local music and local charity this Friday, June 28th, 8:30pm. No set cover - pay what you can at the door.

This Is New England - A 100% Benefit Compilation

New England bands come together to create a compilation
to benefit brain cancer research and the One Fund.

Earlier this year, Jeff Bernoth, guitarist for Boston punk band, Yo Ticonderoga, lost his mother to brain cancer. During his last few months with her, Bernoth recounts, “[My Mom's] memory got worse and worse, and her language was very limited, but curiously she was able to sing songs she knew from beginning to end.” While working on a project to benefit brain cancer research, the unfortunate events of the Boston Marathon occurred, and in an effort to focus on something positive, This Is New England was created.

This Is New England is a benefit compilation featuring a stacked representation of local punk and ska bands. Every last penny raised from it will be split between the One Fund and the American Brain Tumor Association.

Stream/Buy This Is New England: A 100% Benefit Comp on Bandcamp today.

The bands on the compilation include:

Big D and The Kids Table, Billy Raygun, Borderlines, Brunt Of It, ChokeUp, The Fake Boys, Great Lakes USA, Have Nots, Mr Fahrenheit, The New Warden, Opposition Rising, Poison Ivy League, Peeple Watchin', The Pomps, The Prozacs, Stray Bullets, Trophy Lungs, Weak Teeth, Yale Massachusetts, Yo Ticonderoga.