The Boston stop for Badflower’s 2024 No Place Like Home tour was The House of Blues on venerable Lansdowne Street. Long home runs from adjacent Fenway Park sometimes land on Lansdowne. Little did I know that Pearl Jam was playing at Fenway Park the same night. The neighborhood was practically impassable. I was thrilled to be going to the Badflower concert. I would rather see a band that speaks to the current zeitgeist than a […]
Good Kid and Adan Diaz play the Sinclair on 4/21/2024 Following a recorded intro of “Pokémon Theme,” Good Kid opened their set with one of their most popular songs, “No Time to Explain,” an energetic romp that set the tone for the evening. The crowd of mostly die-hard Good Kid fans didn’t need to be won over, but the message was clear: Good Kid were going to give it their all. “No Time to Explain” […]
Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Children of The Flaming Wheel and Pink Lids live at Faces Brewing Co. – 4/12/24 When I moved to Boston from Austin in the summer of 1988, my first apartment was in the suburban neighborhood of Malden. Malden was, at the time, a once proud working-class city that was sadly, and noticeably, down on its luck. When you were asked where you lived and replied Malden, you were […]
