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The WMBR Rock/Pop/Punk Concert Report

Tuesday, Mar. 19
• Slack Tide Plays, and The Bulkheads - Middle East Upstairs
• Rawstrum, Inner Vein, Laquerhead, and Cold Start - Sally O'Brien's
• Why Try, House Fires, and Class President - Notch Brighton @ The Charles River Speedway
• The Wizard and the Wise, The Dead Flowers, and Skeleton Crew - The Jungle
• Post Sex Nachos, and Similar Kind - Rockwood Music Hall [7PM]
Wednesday, Mar. 20
• Nearest Neighbor, Govt Disco, Pet Cobra, and Heart Park - Middle East Upstairs
• Graveyard of the Atlantic, Junior Classics, Gavriloprincip, and Feep - O'Briens
• Slapback, Michael Boezi, and Tom Springer Band - Midway Cafe
• Still Life Sounds, Rain House, and Jiddo - Silhouette Lounge
• Less Than Jake, Strung Out, and The Raging Nathans - Big Night Live [6:30PM]
• Chinese Telephones, Constant Insult, Cigarette Camp, and Blame It On Whitman - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
Thursday, Mar. 21
• Choke Out, Tilted, and more - Middle East Upstairs
• Valley Gals, Plant Fight, Deb Grapes, and Nurse Joy - O'Briens
• Otoboke Beaver, and Drinking Boys and Girls Choir - Royale
• Dog Hotel, Warrens, and Slo Anne - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• The Yardbirds - Narrows Center, Fall River [8PM, BYOB]
Friday, Mar. 22
• Mourned, Face First, Stoneman, Bed of Razors, and Throw - Middle East Upstairs
• TFAGH, Lunar Ark, The Outlourdes, and Mollusk - O'Briens
• Gold Star Boulevard, On Regret, and Pet Cobra - The Jungle
• Between You and Me, Young Culture, Homesafe, and Cherie Amour - Brighton Music Hall
• Set It Off, Crown the Empire, and Caskets - Big Night Live
• Loving, and Fog Lake - Center for the Arts at the Armory
• PWRUP, Do It with Malice, and Pink Slip - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Consumer, Tysk Tysk Task, Vivid Bloom, and Little Fuss - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• Metal Church - Vault Music Hall, New Bedford, MA
• The Fake Boys - Koto, Lowell location
• Edict, Blood Tithe, and Hate Still Burns - AS220, Providence, RI
Saturday, Mar. 23
• Planet Mercury, Hush Club, Valoria, and Guardrail - Middle East Upstairs
• Hyber, Cape Crush, Hey I'm Outside, and Good June - O'Briens
• The Mike Weidenfeller Quartet, Road Soldier, and Larseny - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• The Lesser Birds, The Birdbrains, Marilyn's Bazaar, and Grandfield - Midway Cafe 21+ [9PM]
• Wrath of the Selkie, Your Friends in Hell, Thou Merciless Graves, Coffin Salesman, and Squalie Greenthumb - The Rockwell
• Pretty Fears, 25 Pearl, and The Makeshift Kings - The Jungle [3:30]
• Lonely Leesa, Galaxy Cake, The Daylillies, and Kayde Hazel - The Jungle [8PM]
• Junius, Mission to Sleep, and Juniper Youth - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Sundrifter, Swamphead, and Cortez - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• High Command, Enforced, Lifeless Dark, and Xard - Windowmaker Brewery, Braintree
Sunday, Mar. 24
• SOH, Hostile Defendant, FATE, Boiling Point, and Phagocyte - O'Briens
• Teen Mortgage, Death Lens, and Zip-Tie Handcuffs - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• Dizeaze, Fish Face, Wasp Mother, and Phagocyte - Middle East Upstairs
• Prisoners of Love, Howe We Burn, Jamie & the Guarded Heart, and Freefall - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• Gang Green, Tree, The FU's, and more - Sonia [1PM]
• Unified, Mevius, Lynks, and Orangepeelmystic - The Jungle
• Elephant Stone, and Evolfo - The Rockwell
• Josh & the Witness Gimmick - State Park
• Blood Tithe, Edict, Climb, and Gumskab - Ralph's Diner, Worcester, MA
Sunday, Mar. 24 - Monday, Mar. 25
• Magnetic Fields - Roadrunner
Monday, Mar. 25
• Nectar, Lye, Jobie, and Clover Koval - O'Briens
• Hunting Accident, and Will DePiano - Midway Cafe
• Tripsitter, Today Junior, Chapter Jump, and Big Brute - Silhouette Lounge
• Unwound, and The Cherubs - Paradise
• Scriveners, Watson Park, and Soloonar - The Jungle
• Dave Cave, Headband, and Kathy Snax - State Park
Tuesday, Mar. 26
• ZaZa & the Psychedelic Orch, and Leila Lamb - Middle East Upstairs
• Stay at Home Dads, Oddie, and Miss Karma - O'Briens
• Teenage Dads, and Dreamfone - Sonia
• Poster Colors, Seth Hanson, and CJ Redmouth - Notch Brighton @ The Charles River Speedway
• The Flippers, Darien Castro, Kev on the Keys, and John MacLean - The Jungle
• Dreamwell, Horsewhip, Riverbed, and Razed - AS220, Providence, RI
Wednesday, Mar. 27
• Manu Xavier - Middle East Upstairs
• Ziplock, Moisturizer, Rotbus, and Middle Earth - O'Briens
• Muzak, Makeout Palace, and Tilt - Silhouette Lounge
• Koyo, One Step Closer, Anxious, and Stateside - Sinclair all ages [6:30PM]
• This Day In History, and Saturniids - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
Thursday, Mar. 28
• The Orwells, and Ancient Spaceship - Middle East Upstairs
• Native Sun, Thus Love, and Robber Robber - O'Briens
• Tomato Flower, Baby Baby, Explores, and Walk Me Home - The Rockwell
• Grip Bite, Bad Idea USA, and Silver Screams - AS220, Providence, RI
Friday, Mar. 29
• Kate Clover, and Brad Marino - Middle East Upstairs
• Lime Cordial - Middle East Downstairs
• This Body is All I Have in this World, Bird Language, and Bad at Drawing - O'Briens
• Job Creators, and Gozerian - Midway Cafe [10PM]
• Westbound Train, Vic Ruggeiro, and The Macrotones - Sonia
• Girlschool, Lillian Axe, and Alcatrazz - Paradise
• Grouplove, and Bully - Roadrunner
• See You at Rogers, Dead End Delue, Duck & Cover, and The Love Shamans - The Jungle
• CLAMB, Talk Chalk, and Honey Cassette - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Torn in Half, Cognitive, Bacterial Husk, and Cooked Alive - Koto, Salem, MA
Saturday, Mar. 30
• Club 9 Ball, Stone Noble, and Fools Agenda - Middle East Upstairs
• Tyr, Trollfest, Aether Realm, and The Dead Crew of Oddwood - Middle East Downstairs
• Live Band Karaoke - O'Briens
• Degenerates of Punk, Follow Thru, Super Beef, and First Pick - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• Scam Likely, and Brick of Boston - Midway Cafe 21+ [9PM]
• Renesans, Nailed Shut, and No Eye Has Seen - Brighton Music Hall
• The Cavedogs - The Burren [7PM]
• Lincoln Durham - The Rockwell
• The Guilloteenagers, Hambone Skinny, Mercury on Mars, and Shake - The Jungle [3:30]
• The Ungraded, The Unruly Few, and The Haymakers - The Jungle [8PM]
• Girth Control, Bad Idea USA, and Leisure Boys - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Ex-Hyena, The Shallows, and CMD - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• Blasphemous Obituary, Cannabis Crypt, Altar Ov Nex, and Rose Lane - Koto, Salem, MA
• Cold Case, Gumskab, and more - The LC Amesbury
Sunday, Mar. 31
• Early Moods, and Morbiken - Middle East Upstairs all ages
• Virtua, Jimrat, Secaydia, and Novelty Dream - O'Briens
• Anarchy in MA, Mass Bluesbreakers, Bob the Weather Cat, and Cheever - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Juliana Riolino - Sonia
• Winona Fighter - The Rockwell
• Who I Am, Unharrowed, and Nicole Doberpuhl - The Jungle [5PM]
• Laveda, and War Machine - Warehouse XI [7PM]
Monday, Apr. 1
• Cosmic Trimumph, 3Phase, Payphone Confession, and Acrylic Killers - O'Briens
• Max Boras, and Beacon Project - Midway Cafe
• Nick Martin, Crushdepth, and Nate - Silhouette Lounge
• 68, The Callous Dauboys, and The Homeless Gospel Choir - Sonia
• Snow Strippers, and Dres - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre
• Adam Ant - The Wilbur [8PM]
Tuesday, Apr. 2
• Lessa and the Mores, Barecove, Dalton Moon, and Simon Amaya Price - O'Briens
• One Fall, High and Dry, and Massive Nightmares - Notch Brighton @ The Charles River Speedway
• Adam Ant - Tupelo Music Hall, Derry, NH
Wednesday, Apr. 3
• Crescent Ridge, Parachute Club, and Perfectly Lethal - Midway Cafe
• The Koffin Kats, The Queers, Muck & the Mires, and Sourpunch - Sonia
• Crash Cadet, Sly Fang, and Answerman - Silhouette Lounge
• Smirk, Valley Gals, and Gossip Collar - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
Thursday, Apr. 4
• Rock n Roll Rumble w/ Shotgun Waltz, The Magic City, Sunshine Riot, and Twig - Middle East Upstairs
• Cherubhead, 5Ever, and Impossible Dog - O'Briens
• Darkest Hour, I Am, Filth Is Eternal, and Somnuri - Sonia [6:30PM]
• Scott Trottenberg, Matt Savage, Peanut Butter, and Motherfungus - The Jungle
• The Vices - Rockwood Music Hall
• Grace Kuhlenschmidt, and Claud - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
Friday, Apr. 5
• Rumble w/ Jatk, Gut Health, Trailer Swift, and Type 66 - Middle East Upstairs
• Vio-lence, Exhorder, Deceased, and Mortal Wound - Middle East Downstairs [7PM]
• Harmony's Cuddle Party, Awnthay, Pregame Rituals, and Baby Bowler - O'Briens
• Twin Tribes, Urban Heat, and Dancing Plague - Sonia
• Mt. Rumford - The Jungle [7PM]
• Hammered Saint, Diablogato, and Shanghi Los - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Richard Thompson - The Cut, Gloucester, MA
• Cross of Disbelief, Clock Out, Exhibit, and Husk - CC's, Weymouth [7PM]
• Ringworm, Hate Still Burns, Rabid, and Search Warrent - Alchemy, Providence, RI
• Combichrist - Fete Music Hall, Providence, RI
Saturday, Apr. 6
• Rumble w/ Condition Baker, Other Brother Darryl, Wire Lines, and Lovina Falls - Middle East Upstairs
• Splinters, Kaiser, Midnight Climax, and Biproduct - O'Briens
• Fresh Cut, Sweet Tooth, Crocs with Socks, and Owl House - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• Choo Choo LaRouge, Lupa Citta, The Brett Tobias Set, and Jay Walsh - Midway Cafe 21+ [9PM]
• Kenya Grace - Sonia
• Hail the Sun, Intervals, Body Thief, and Makari - Paradise
• The Shoats, Island of Alaska, Back Pedal, and Huck 2 - The Jungle
• River City Rebels, Nick & the Adversaries, and Cuidado - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Why Try, The Roscoes, and Viruette - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
• Shelter, Civ, Colin of Arabia, and more - The Met, Pawtucket, RI [7:30PM]
Sunday, Apr. 7
• Thxsomuch - Middle East Upstairs
• Libby Quinn, Little Plastic Dinosaurs, Sophie's Body, and Human Mascot - O'Briens
• Fang, Neighborhood Sh*t, Poor Impulse Control, and Scumbari - Midway Cafe all ages [3PM]
• Diztort, Mil-Spec, Collateral, C4, and Rabid Few - Brighton Elks Lodge [6:30PM]
• Colin of Arabia, Clock Out, Gumskab, and more - PNI Club, Worcester [2PM]
Monday, Apr. 8
• Tatooine Punk Scene, Tine Wine, and See You at Rogers - Silhouette Lounge
• 69 Eyes, The Bites, and Budderside - Brighton Music Hall [6:30PM]
Tuesday, Apr. 9
• Zombie, and Overcalc - Middle East Upstairs
• Moron's Morons, Adult Learners, G. Gordon Gritty, and Andy California - O'Briens
• The Obsessed, Howling Giant, and Gozu - Sonia
• The Orrs, Weatherless, and Daniel Street - Notch Brighton @ The Charles River Speedway
Wednesday, Apr. 10
• Was and When, Carlos Danger, and Scove Cone - Silhouette Lounge
• Unprocessed, Red Handed Denial, and Aviations - Sonia
• Re-tros, and Liars - Big Night Live
• Guided by Voices, Cul de Sac, Kids, and Blatant Doom Trip - Warehouse XI, Somerville
• Remo Drive, Wilt, and Rabid Few - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre
Thursday, Apr. 11
• Rock n Roll Rumble w/ Shiverlane, Ruby Grove, Looking Glass War, and Bikethrasher - Middle East Upstairs
• Lamp of Murmur, Ebon Pendant, and One of Nine - Sonia
• Hotline TNT, and Cicada - Center for the Arts at the Armory
Friday, Apr. 12
• Rumble w/ The Roland Highlife, Cold Expectations, The Ghouls, and Never Gonna Make It - Middle East Upstairs
• STL GLD, Tori Tori, and The Blade Runners - Sonia
• Mini Beast, Major Stars, Rope Trick, and The Endorphins - The Rockwell
• Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Children of the Flaming Wheel, and Pink Lids - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• The Long Wait, Spiller, TJ Wlech & the Wasted, and COB - Koto, Salem, MA
• Oldest Sea, Cowardice, Severed Boy, and Prayer Position - O'Briens
• Agriculture, and Chained ToThe Bottom - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
Saturday, Apr. 13
• Rumble w/ Robotic Hawks, Roser, CE Skidmore & the Damn Fine Band, and Mammothor - Middle East Upstairs
• Wax Jaw, Tysk Tysk Task, and Lurid Purple Flowers - O'Briens
• Children of The Flaming Wheel, Electric Street Queens, Orange Whip, and Christian Kids - Midway Cafe
• Dark Spring Festival - Sonia [7:30]
• Leal Neale - Lilypad [7:30PM]
• Waldemar, Labrador, and Sue Bell - Faces Brewing, Malden, MA
• Cruel Hand, Risk, and & much more - PNI Club, Worcester [1PM]
Sunday, Apr. 14
• Actor Observer, Godeyes, and Amora - O'Briens
• The Dwarves, The Raging Nathans, and The FU's - Sonia
• Death Before Dishonor, Full Bown Chaos, and more - PNI Club, Worcester [1PM]
• Artillery, Vapor, Potential Threat, and Mourn the Light - Alchemy, Providence, RI all ages [7PM]
Wednesday, Apr. 17
• Metz, and Gouge Away - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre
• Earthless, and Minami Deutsch - Center for the Arts at the Armory
• Sonic Boom Six, PWRUP, and Hell Beach - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA
Thursday, Apr. 18
• Kublai Kai, Sunami, Judiciary, and Momentum - Paradise [6:30PM SOLD OUT]
• Deletär, Destruct, Ancient Filth, Innocent, and The Massacred - Middle East Upstairs
• CWAF, Zero Survive, Impulse Control, and Horrible Earth - O'Briens
Friday, Apr. 19
• Drop Nineteens - Paradise [7PM]
• Bodega - The Rockwell
• Science Man, Crimps, Wanted, and Special Patrol Unit - Front St. Coffee, Salem [7:30]
• Mourned, Edict, Alley Trash, and Riverbed - New World Tavern [8:30]
Sunday, Apr. 21
• We Are The Union, Half Past Two, and Devon Kay & The Solutions - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre [7PM]
• BbyMutha - Center for the Arts at the Armory [11:00PM]
• Ripped to Shreds, Nucleus, Mourned, and Violent Majority - Ralph's Diner, Worcester, MA
Monday, Apr. 22
• Friendly Spectres, Nurse Joy, Gossip Collar, and OrangePeelMystic - O'Briens
Tuesday, Apr. 23
• Vial, and Boy Jr. - The Rockwell [7:30PM]
Wednesday, Apr. 24
• World Peace, The Body, Blame God, Peace Test, E, and Chained To The Bottom - Sonia
• Michael Hurley, and Stella Kola - The Rockwell
• Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, The Defiant, and Ultrabomb - Big Night Live
Thursday, Apr. 25
• Vision Video, and Then Comes Silence - Sonia
• Judas Priest, and Sabaton - MGM Music Hall
• Wristmeetrazor, The Requieum, Silenus, Husk, and I Have No Mouth - Rockwood Music Hall 18+ [6PM]
• Wine Lips, and Bad Nerves - Center for the Arts at the Armory
Friday, Apr. 26
• Lion's Law, Nothing But Enemies, Young Ones, Neuroot, and Bad Terms - Middle East Upstairs all ages [7PM]
• Oneida, There, and Le Feeling - AS220, Providence, RI
Saturday, Apr. 27
• Belle & Sebastian - Orpheum [8PM]
• Cran, Battery March, Hammered Saint, Rejekts, and The Minor Inconveniences - Cambridge Community Center all ages [6PM]
• Queensryche, and Armored Saint - Palladium, Worcester, MA [7PM]
Sunday, Apr. 28
• Black Crowes - MGM Music Hall [8PM]
Monday, Apr. 29
• Decapitated, Septic Flesh, Kataklysm, and Allegaeon - Brighton Music Hall [5:30PM]
Wednesday, May. 1
• Ty Segall - Royale
• Stiff Little Fingers, and Ricky Warwick - Paradise
Thursday, May. 2
• The Decemberists - Roadrunner
Friday, May. 3
• Iron Roses, and The Lowest of The Low - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
Saturday, May. 4
• Spy, Combust, Destiny Bomb, Climb, and Impulse Control - Middle East Upstairs [5PM]
Sunday, May. 5
• The Chisel, Home Front, Conservative Military Image, Climb, and Haywire - Middle East Downstairs
• Saxon, and Uriah Heep - House of Blues [6PM]
Monday, May. 6
• Architects - House of Blues
• Orchid - Royale [SOLD OUT]
Tuesday, May. 7
• Bad Religion, and Social Distortion - MGM Music Hall [7PM]
Wednesday, May. 8
• Modern Life is War, Jaye Jayle, and Ammo - Center for the Arts at the Armory [7PM]
Thursday, May. 9
• JER x Zeta, Cheem, and Rusty Mullet - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre [7:30PM]
• Domaine, Risk, Burning Lord, and more - Canadian American Club, Watertown [7PM]
• Battle Beast, and Blackbriar - Palladium, Worcester, MA [7PM]
Friday, May. 10
• Big D and The Kids Table, Kill Lincoln, and Call Me Malcom - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre [7PM]
• Hot Water Music, Quicksand, and Off With Their Heads - Royale
Saturday, May. 11
• Jesus Piece, Sanguisugabogg, Peeling Flesh, and Gag - Paradise [6PM]
• Ride - Big Night Live
• Hallelujah The Hills, Colleen Green, and Mall Cops - Deep Cuts, Medford, MA [7PM]
Sunday, May. 12
• Sunny Day Real Estate - Big Night Live
Tuesday, May. 14
• Swans - Paradise [6PM]
Thursday, May. 16
• Lords of Acid - Brighton Music Hall [6:30PM]
• Helmet, and Cro-Mags - Middle East Downstairs
• Dead Boys, Nervous Eaters, and Plimsouls - Sonia [7PM]
Monday, May. 20
• Echo and The Bunnymen - House of Blues [7PM]
Tuesday, May. 21
• Incantation, Ringworm, and Ascended Dead - Sonia
Thursday, May. 23
• Fleshwater, Modern Color, and 9 Million - Sonia [7:30PM SOLD OUT]
• Spectral Voice - Middle East Upstairs [7PM]
Friday, May. 24
• Drain, Terror, Scowl, and more - Royale
Saturday, May. 25
• Weekend Nachos, Vermin Womb, Sissy Spacekk, and Backsider - Sonia
Tuesday, May. 28
• Kathleen Hanna (Rebel Girl Book Tour) - The Wilbur [7:30PM]
Wednesday, May. 29
• Madness - MGM Music Hall [8PM]
• The Damned, and The Dictators - Big Night Live
• The Alarm, Gene Loves Jezebel, and Belouis Some - Brighton Music Hall [7PM]
Thursday, May. 30
• Camera Obscura - Paradise
Saturday, Jun. 1
• Knocked Loose, Loathe, Show Me The Body, and Speed - Roadrunner [6PM]
• The Miles, Between, Riverbed, and more - Vault Music Hall, New Bedford, MA
Tuesday, Jun. 4
• Subhumans, and FEA - Middle East Downstairs [6PM]
• Joe Jackson - The Wilbur
Wednesday, Jun. 5
• Of Montreal - Sinclair
Thursday, Jun. 6
• Reverend Horton Heat, and Surfrajettes - Crystal Ballroom @Somerville Theatre
Friday, Jun. 7
• Hope Conspiracy, Umbra Vitae, COW, and New Lows - Middle East Downstairs [6:30PM SOLD OUT]
Saturday, Jun. 8
• Hank Williams Jr. - Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA [7PM]
Monday, Jun. 10
• Bleachers - MGM Music Hall [7:30PM]
Sunday, Jun. 16
• Pixies, Modest Mouse, and Cat Power - Xfinity Center, Mansfield, MA [6:30PM]
Wednesday, Jun. 19
• Future Islands - Roadrunner
Friday, Jun. 21
• Cosmic Psychos, and Nine Pound Hammer - Brighton Music Hall
Saturday, Jun. 22
• Guided By Voices - Royale [7PM]
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  • Additions, changes and corrections for rock/pop/punk shows only can be made by writing to: rock-listings email address
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