Boston Guide to Large Venues

Guide
Written By HDN Staff

Welcome to Hump Day News guide to big music venues: Boston and Beyond Edition. Looking for medium or small venues instead? Get out there!

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The Venti Mofos

Big, bad, baller arena-type venues. Some have history and charm, others are corporate creations. For what you pay, you should be getting state of the art sounds and performances by the heavy hitters.

Big Night Live

110 Causeway St, Boston, MA 02114

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Big Night Live: Live Reviews
BMAs 2023
BMAs 2023
Scream Velvet
Scream Velvet
 

Boch Center Wang Theatre

270 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116

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Fenway Park

4 Jersey St, Boston, MA 02215

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House of Blues

15 Lansdowne St, Boston, MA 02215

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Leader Bank Pavilion

290 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210

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MGM Music Hall

2 Lansdowne St; Boston, MA 02215

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Roadrunner

89 Guest St, Boston, MA 02135

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Royale

279 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116

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Sanders Theater

45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Sanders Theater: Live Reviews
The Fabrication of Light
The Fabrication of Light
 

TD Garden

100 Legends Way, Boston, MA 02114

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The Palladium

261 Main St, Worcester, MA 01608

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Tracks
The Honey Dewdrops: “Goodbye”
The Honey Dewdrops: “Goodbye”

Straight Americana out of Baltimore.

Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: “Doname”
Nicole Mitchell and Ballaké Sissoko: “Doname”

A soulful call and response between the flute and the kora.

Jonathan Suazo: “Héroes”
Jonathan Suazo: “Héroes”

Afro-caribbean jazz with percussion aplenty.

ME N U: “Sorcery”
ME N U: “Sorcery”

This band gives you a RIYL list.

GONE.: “Tidal”
GONE.: “Tidal”

A medium tempo entry into bummer rock.

Daniel Noah Miller: “People Get Ready”
Daniel Noah Miller: “People Get Ready”

A live solo ditty from an artist you know from Lewis Del Mar.

Cortez: “No Heroes”
Cortez: “No Heroes”

No liner notes on the Bandcamp page?

The Daylilies: “Pétillant”
The Daylilies: “Pétillant”

Bubbly, sparkling like a wine.

Rosier: “other forms”
Rosier: “other forms”

Alt pop fibrillations from north of the border.

Miracle Blood: “Hello Hell”
Miracle Blood: “Hello Hell”

A gnarly punk metal ripper.

Lia Kohl: “Plane”
Lia Kohl: “Plane”

Kind of like the sound of sawing Superman’s crystal Fortress of Solitude in half.

Constant Smiles: “Connection”
Constant Smiles: “Connection”

A medium tempo pop picker with moody, sodden vocal stylings.

Illuminati Hotties: “What’s The Fuzz”
Illuminati Hotties: “What’s The Fuzz”

Tender punk! Cooler than Tinder punk.

Flake: “Yellow”
Flake: “Yellow”

“Moses” is kind of cool.

Lo Moon: “Water”
Lo Moon: “Water”

Pretty good, eh?

Beeef: “Narragansett Bay”
Beeef: “Narragansett Bay”

Beeef. It’s what’s for diinner.

Nyesui Loe and Loman: “50,000 YEN”
Nyesui Loe and Loman: “50,000 YEN”

A glitzy downtempo soul-inflected hip hop promenade.

Albums
FACS: Still Life In Decay
FACS: Still Life In Decay

The Chicago artcore band has work in the morning.

Angel Bat Dawid: Requiem For Jazz
Angel Bat Dawid: Requiem For Jazz

Angel Bat Dawid versus Mozart in a steel-cage match. Who you got?

Pile: All Fiction
Pile: All Fiction

Pile’s ninth album. Better than Beethoven’s Ninth?

Eddie Japan: Pop Fiction
Eddie Japan: Pop Fiction

Eddie Japan's elegant new wave pop opera, Pop Fiction.

Nighttime: Keeper Is The Heart
Nighttime: Keeper Is The Heart

Go back to the future with Nighttime’s time-traveling wyrd folk spectacle Keeper Is The Heart.

Horse Lords: Comradely Objects
Horse Lords: Comradely Objects

“Fusion” is a genre-descriptor that is constantly on the verge of utter uselessness.

Keeley Forsyth: Limbs
Keeley Forsyth: Limbs

Can we befriend the specter of silence?

Maneka: Dark Matter
Maneka: Dark Matter

Maneka writes a new chapter in rock n roll with its latest LP.

Living Hour: Someday Is Today
Living Hour: Someday Is Today

The gazey, dreampop excursion takes us into a languid interior dimension of emotional transcendence.

Kitner: Shake The Spins
Kitner: Shake The Spins

Kitner tells the story of life lived at the tail end of a boozy buzz, with another night of debauchery on the way.

Twen: One Stop Shop
Twen: One Stop Shop

Twen charts a course across the sound waves of trans-Atlantic pop on their LP One Stop Shop.

Iceblink: Carpet Cocoon
Iceblink: Carpet Cocoon

Ambient is no longer the province of purely theoretical sound experiments. Enter Iceblink.

Mamalarky: Pocket Fantasy
Mamalarky: Pocket Fantasy

A gooey, 12-stack musical layer cake, shotgun-blasted with rainbow sprinkles by a laughing clown.

NNAMDÏ: Please Have A Seat
NNAMDÏ: Please Have A Seat

NNAMDÏ ghosts his songs before they ghost him. But you’ll love Please Have A Seat anyway.

Already Dead: My Collar Is Blue
Already Dead: My Collar Is Blue

Already Dead remembers punk’s roots in political dissidence on their latest LP My Collar Is Blue.

Dear Nora: human futures
Dear Nora: human futures

The band out of Joshua Tree gets real about life, memory, and crustaceans.

Live Reviews
My Dinner With Tycho
My Dinner With Tycho

Tycho hopes the future and requiems the past at Royale.

The Grate Got Stuck
The Grate Got Stuck

The Modern Faces face the modern at Silhouette Lounge.

Out Of This World
Out Of This World

Maris channels astronaut energy at Royale.

No Delay, Odie Leigh
No Delay, Odie Leigh

Odie Leigh gets the chorus rolling at The Sinclair.

Fusion Horned Devils
Fusion Horned Devils

The Plus Ones close out a brassy night at Silhouette Lounge.

The Show Will Go On
The Show Will Go On

Orla Gartland grins and bears it at the Armory.

Tart and Tangy
Tart and Tangy

Lemon of Choice take water with their lemon at The 4th Wall.

Morse Code
Morse Code

HINDS trash the Yankees at Brighton Music Hall.

Tracers
Tracers

Trace Mountains outlines summits at Deep Cuts.

A Day at the Symphony
A Day at the Symphony

It’s the 2001 Space Odyssey opener, dummy, at Symphony Hall.

Up On The Bill
Up On The Bill

Otis Shanty celebrate a new album at Crystal Ballroom.

What’s the Fuzzstival?
What’s the Fuzzstival?

Greg Freeman closes out a doozy at the Amory.

A Large Wooden Ship
A Large Wooden Ship

The NEC Jazz Orchestra sings “Happy Birthday” to Charles Ives at Jordan Hall.

A Surprisingly Common Bird
A Surprisingly Common Bird

Blue Heron goes casual at First Church of Cambridge.

Yes, It Always Smells Like Chocolate Chip Cookies In Here
Yes, It Always Smells Like Chocolate Chip Cookies In Here

The Somerville Songwriter Sessions hit the Rooted Cafe.

A Marionette Without Strings Is Just A Puppet
A Marionette Without Strings Is Just A Puppet

Illuminati Hotties miss the clean rhyme at The Sinclair.

Bildungsregent
Bildungsregent

Spider Water celebrates Exit Plan release at Regent Theatre.

Dizzy Spell
Dizzy Spell

Half Dizzy circles the pit at Midway Cafe.

La Isla del Punk
La Isla del Punk

Dávila 666 shines the star at Deep Cuts.

Costume Party Animals
Costume Party Animals

Hot Slander come dressed to impress at Silhouette Lounge.

Schächter? I Hardly Know Her!
Schächter? I Hardly Know Her!

Daniela Schächter mashes the monster at The Mad Monkfish.

Singles, Singles, Singles
Singles, Singles, Singles

The Daylilies and Ruby Grove trot out new singles at The Jungle.

Worcester, Denied!
Worcester, Denied!

Sailor Down headlines a Worcester house show at Midway Cafe.

“Ukulele” Is Hard To Spell
“Ukulele” Is Hard To Spell

Deerhoof miss a priceless collab opportunity at Arts at the Armory.

Pop Goes the UPSAHL
Pop Goes the UPSAHL

UPSAHL stylizes to all caps at Paradise Rock Club.

Maxim and Sushi Rolls
Maxim and Sushi Rolls

Maxim Lubarsky salts the edamame at The Mad Monkfish.

Peace In the Middle East
Peace In the Middle East

Claire Rousay does not explode your cellphone at Middle East.

Chagall PACKED
Chagall PACKED

Awnthay tchotchkes Chagall PAC at Moon Over Salem.


Lotsa Folkin’ Noise
Lotsa Folkin’ Noise

Kara Holbert Howe entertains Gulu-Gulu Cafe at Moon Over Salem.


Bleeps and Bloops
Bleeps and Bloops

Megan From Work drops into Bit Bar at Moon Over Salem.


The Backyard
MMOSS: i
MMOSS: i

From the Archives, New Hampshire psych also rises.

Interview: Middle Distance Runner
Interview: Middle Distance Runner

A chat with Middle Distance Runner from the Archives.

Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor

Less is more.

Bent Shapes: Feels Weird
Bent Shapes: Feels Weird

From the Archives, Feels Weird doesn’t feel weird at all.

Interview: Lord Jeff
Interview: Lord Jeff

A chat with Lord Jeff from the Archives.

Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor

Quiz Time! The Hump Nights giveaways get an upgrade.

Interview: Arms and Sleepers
Interview: Arms and Sleepers

A chat with Arms and Sleepers from the Archives.

Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor

Hump Day News reflects on what the site fucked up (and did right!) in 2023.

One Door Closes, The 4th Wall Opens
One Door Closes, The 4th Wall Opens

Andrew Stern; interview with DIY venue 4th Wall organizers; and more.

AER079: You Can Be A Wesley
AER079: You Can Be A Wesley

An Ampeater Review of You Can Be A Wesley from the Archives.

Just Ask Ansel
Just Ask Ansel

The nation’s leading incel advice columnist on love and life.

Letter from the Editor
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Hump Day News kicks off Hump Nights.

Sharon Is Carin’
Sharon Is Carin’

The nation’s leading wellness goddess on living better.

Letter from the Editor
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Interview: Sammy Yager of Birthdays
Interview: Sammy Yager of Birthdays

A chat with the Sammy Yager of Birthdays from the Archives.

Just Ask Ansel
Just Ask Ansel

The nation’s leading incel advice columnist on love and life.

HDN Staff
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