BMAs // Punk

A guide to the 2024 Boston Music Awards

The 2024 Boston Music Awards is at Big Night Live on December 11.

Hump Day News was nominated for Best Music Publication.

You can vote for all the nominees here.

To honor our glorious symbolic inclusion and insufferable clout chasing, we’re rolling out the BMAde Betterz series for 2024. In this series we send the nominees through the meat grinder to yield three main categories of sodium-enriched meat byproducts.

The “New To Us”
- Never heard of them, or at least never heard them. But they’re on the list, so let’s have a listen.
The “House Specials”
- We’ve covered these acts, we treasure these acts, we 100% get why they’ve been nominated.
The “New To You”
- These artists didn’t make the list, but they should have!

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Nov 13

The story of women making the Boston music scene. In-house appearance and Q&A (and maybe a uke performance?) with Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls).

The Modern Faces / Perfectly Lethal / Whyte Lipstick / Luddites

Nov 13

The Modern Faces, pop punk powurrr. With Perfectly Lethal, Whyte Lipstick, Luddites.

Linnea’s Garden / The Ghouls / Catwolf / Goodkarma

Nov 14

Linnea's Garden EP release, w/The Ghouls, Catwolf, and Goodkarma at Deep Cuts.

Nov 15

The 4th Wall celebrates its 1-year anniversary with Trash Sun, Lady Pills, Petal Dance, and the Dreamtoday at the Capitol Theater.

Nov 22

Hard rocking Cortez has a real metal ripper with their new album Thieves and Charlatans. With Worshipper and Curse the Son.

Nov 30

Punk in broad daylight. Get there early for WORM, Presidential Disgrace, Screw Cart, and Neponset Monastary.

Dec 14

Biribá Union w/ Balla Kouyaté at the Regent Theatre.

Dec 26

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along. The movie like you've never seen it before: host, goody bags, glam ups encouraged!

Dec 31

Bohemian Rhapsody Sing-Along. The movie like you've never seen it before: host, goody bags, glam ups encouraged!

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Punk/Hardcore Artist of the Year // Nominees

Already Dead // Dropkick Murphys // Fiddlehead // Gut Health // Hell Beach // Knock Over City // Miracle Blood // One Fall // Rebuilder // The Promised End

Love the stereophonic sound on opening track “Sullenboy” of Fiddlehead’s LP Death Is Nothing To Us. And noise punkers Miracle Blood create their own universe of sights & sounds, top to bottom.

Already Dead’s politically-charged punk rock is a welcome rebuttal to a country that just elected a fascist to be the next president. Gut Health’s post hardcore shenanigans make every live show special. And surf punks Hell Beach are riding high on their latest LP Beachworld.

Gut Health

And The Winner Is…

The Ghouls take the W in the Rumble Finals at Sonia.

Next Stop, Finals

Gut Health top the bunch to win a Finals berth at Sonia.

What’s In The Suitcase?

Gut Health travels heavy at the Middle East.

Gut Health: “Runaway High”

The post-hardcore band gets super specific about neurological disorders

Mold Skool Punk Rawk

The Florida foursome use all caps and exclamation point at O’Brien’s Pub.

Hope Fest

A recap of Hope Fest 2023, spotlighting the Bit Bar and Chagall PAC lineups.

A Kind Man Is Hard To Find

Four bands enter, four bands leave at Silhouette Lounge.

High. On Ferrets.

On Friday O’Brien’s Pub hosted a tall drink of feedback bill in Allston Ferret City.

Nice, A Live Review: Day 4

The fourth and final night of Nice, A Fest concluded in the hallowed depths of The Rockwell on a sleepy Sunday, 31 July.

Never seen a boring Hammered Saint show. They’re bonkers. Same goes for Jiddo, who laid down eight glorious tracks of post hardcore on their LP They Can't Keep Getting Away With This in late 2023 too.

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