Welp. We kinda backed ourselves into a corner doing a Week 1 Rock & Roll Rumble live recap (Read it here) and thinking it was possible to skip doing the same for Week 2, right? Look, we’re not going to sugarcoat it for you. You missed some gems if you decided to stay home when the Preliminary Rounds of the 2024 Rock & Roll Rumble from Boston Emissions wrapped up, okay? And that’s alright since you have us looking out for you in a grand way with this live rundown of what happened across Nights 4, 5, & 6 of the annual Rawk Fest. So with that, sit back, relax, and let us regale you some more of what went down over at Middle East Upstairs in the hopes that you’ll be purchasing your tickets to the Semis at Sonia as soon as you finish reading! Do we have a deal? And again, links to our preview posts in the corresponding headers so you can grab all the pertinent music and more from these killer local artists.
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble: Week 2, Night 6
The end is nigh! Yes, you read that right! Following these last 4 daring artists, the stage will be set and whittled down to just 6 who will battle it out over at Sonia in the Semi-Final Rounds before the Grand Finale this May the Fourth. Do you have a favorite yet? Well, hold off just a little while longer and sit right back and you’ll hear a tale… of the last four artists to take the Preliminary Round stage at Middle East Upstairs on April 13th:
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble 2024: Week 2, Night 4
Week 2 of the Rock & Roll Rumble starts NOW! Well, for us and in the interest of this posting it does but in actuality it starts on Thursday, April 11th back at Middle East Upstairs with the first 4 of 12 fresh bands scheduled to appear during the final Preliminary Rounds. Are you sad that the rounds are almost over? Have a favorite yet? Well, here’s some more fodder to confuse and confound all those decisions you thought you already made:
[Read more…]RNRF X Rock & Roll Rumble 2024: Week 1, Night 2
We made it through Night 1! Or we will. For now, we’ve just made it through the first post about the Preliminary rounds so there’s a long way to go both in our postings and in, y’know, the actual shows that have so much behind the scenes work put into them ahead of time (Thanks, Anngelle Wood and Boston Emissions among others) before bands even hit the stage. Like they will once again at Middle East Upstairs on Friday, April 5th (See what we did there???) Anyway, our purported cleverness aside let’s see what Night 2 holds:
[Read more…]Live! Friendship Commanders Play MASS in MASS, Chrome Over Brass And Mollusk Support
You’d think following an album review, a book review, AND an interview that we’d be done posting about Nashville’s Friendship Commanders for a little bit (Like, until we have to start really formulating our year end lists at least???)… but that’s where you’d be wrong. Because have you heard MASS? It’s gargantuan. It’s epic. It’s all about Massachusetts! So when an opportunity to catch the duo of Buick Audra and Jerry Roe live on their current tour at O’Brien’s arose we couldn’t pass it up. And upon witnessing the blistering and emotive performance, we simply couldn’t resist sharing our experience in the hopes that, if you get the chance, you’ll go catch Friendship Commanders live as well.
[Read more…]Dethklok Return To Boston And Decimate MGM Music Hall at Fenway With Their Brand Of Animated Metal, No Casualties
Having just finished a rewatch of the entirety of Metalocalypse, including The Doomstar Requiem AND the recently released Army Of The Doomstar movie (Available now by heading here), we’d say our excitement for the live return of Dethklok was pretty high. Lucky for us, we timed our binge just right as the BabyKlok (BABYMETAL + Dethklok, get it?) tour was slated to hit town soon after and, despite the fact that this was our 4th show in a week (And 3rd in the Fenway area), nothing was going to quell that insatiable hunger for Nathan Explosion and company “in person” for the first time in over ten years!
[Read more…]RNRF X In Between Days: Day 1 Delivers Dynamite Performances, Delicious Eats, & More!
We’ve been hyping it for weeks and now that the expanded 2023 edition of In Between Days has come and gone we guess the only thing left to do is… hype it some more??? That’s right! We came, we saw, we looked around, we watched most of the bands, we ate some food and now we’re going to tell you all about it with our full recap of Day 1 of the 2-day In Between Days Festival which happened at Veterans Memorial Stadium over in Quincy, MA on August 19th.
[Read more…]RNRF X In Between Days, Local Look: Weakened Friends
Chances are, if you saw SLOTHRUST’s recent mini-tour earlier this summer then you caught Portland, ME’s own Weakened Friends as direct support. If you didn’t catch that tour then you’re in luck because you get a reunion at this year’s In Between Days Festival (SLOTHRUST play the same day on the IBD stage) when Weakened Friends take the Arbella Insurance Stage on Day 1 of the 2-day event happening at Veterans Memorial Stadium over in Quincy on August 19th & 20th!
[Read more…]RNRF X In Between Days, Local Look: SLOTHRUST
The more and more we dive into the artists appearing on this year’s In Between Days Festival, the more we realize that our bank account is due for some major withdrawals with all the merch we’re already planning to invest in while also trying to figure out how we’re going to lug everything around all day (Are hand carts allowed on the grounds?)! We’re also realizing that, while we’re trying to keep these preview posts short and sweet, it’s frelling hard with the volume of material some of the artists have out in the world currently. And that brings us to SLOTHRUST who recently dropped what’s essentially a double album within the span of 6 months (Parallel Timeline arrived in September of 2021 with Parallel Timeline (Origins) featuring new and demo versions of PT tracks arriving in March of 2022) and will be bringing an array of those unique sounds to the IBD Stage on Day 1 of the 2-day music and more festival happening at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy on August 19th & 20th.
[Read more…]The Gypsy Moths Set To Kick Off 2nd Annual In Between Days Festival, Ready New Album Sounds On For Release Soon After
Sooooo, we’re going to stray from the pack a little here since The Gypsy Moths have a new record dropping following their performance at this year’s In Between Days Festival and figured that a new album review would serve as the best preview before they take the Arbella Stage on Day 1 of the 2-day fest happening on August 19th and 20th at Veterans Memorial Stadium over in Quincy!
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