Welcome to Hump Day News guide to music venues: Boston and Beyond Edition. Small, medium, and large venues. Get out there!
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The Small Fries
Intimate dives can make for the best music experiences. Capacity 250 or less.
Atwood’s Tavern
877 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02141
The Burren
247 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144
Cantab Lounge
738 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Charlie’s Kitchen
10 Eliot St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Club Passim
47 Palmer Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Deep Cuts
21 Main St, Medford, MA 02155
Faces
50 Pleasant St, Malden, MA 02148
The Jungle
6 Sanborn Ct, Somerville, MA 02143
The Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
Midway Cafe
3496 Washington St, Boston, MA 02130
Notch Brewery
525 Western Ave, Brighton, MA 02135
O'Brien's Pub
3 Harvard Ave, Allston, MA 02134
State Park
15 Hampshire St Building 300, Cambridge, MA 02139
The Rockwell
255 Elm St, Somerville, MA 02144
The Square Root
2 Corinth St, Boston, MA 02131
Toad
1912 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140
The Mid-Sized Vehicles
What you lose in intimacy at medium-sized clubs, you gain in better sound systems and more national touring acts.
Arts at the Armory
191 Highland Ave #1c, Somerville, MA 02143
Brighton Music Hall
158 Brighton Ave, Allston, MA 02134
City Winery Boston
80 Beverly St, Boston, MA 02114
Crystal Ballroom
55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
Middle East
472 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
ONCE
Pop-up venue; regular series at 0 Windsor Place, Somerville, MA 02143
Paradise Rock Club
967 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Regent Theatre
7 Medford St. Arlington, MA 02474
Shalin Liu
37 Main St, Rockport, MA 01966
Sonia
10 Brookline St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Soundcheck Studios
150 Corporate Park Dr., Pembroke, MA 02359
The Sinclair
52 Church St, Cambridge, MA 02138
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
Boch Center Wang Theatre
270 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
Fenway Park
4 Jersey St, Boston, MA 02215
House of Blues
15 Lansdowne St, Boston, MA 02215
Leader Bank Pavilion
290 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210
MGM Music Hall
2 Lansdowne St; Boston, MA 02215
Roadrunner
89 Guest St, Boston, MA 02135
Royale
279 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02116
Sanders Theater
45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
TD Garden
100 Legends Way, Boston, MA 02114
The Palladium
261 Main St, Worcester, MA 01608
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Kitner tells the story of life lived at the tail end of a boozy buzz, with another night of debauchery on the way.
Twen charts a course across the sound waves of trans-Atlantic pop on their LP One Stop Shop.
Ambient is no longer the province of purely theoretical sound experiments. Enter Iceblink.
A gooey, 12-stack musical layer cake, shotgun-blasted with rainbow sprinkles by a laughing clown.
NNAMDÏ ghosts his songs before they ghost him. But you’ll love Please Have A Seat anyway.
Already Dead remembers punk’s roots in political dissidence on their latest LP My Collar Is Blue.
The Somerville Songwriter Sessions hit the Rooted Cafe.
Illuminati Hotties miss the clean rhyme at The Sinclair.
Andrew Stern; interview with DIY venue 4th Wall organizers; and more.
