‘Live Reviews’ Archives
Done With You / Taxi Driver / Progress / Red Line Rebels / A Dying Breed
Done With You / Taxi Driver / Progress / Red Line Rebels / A Dying Breed Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain, MA 8/3/13 Today’s show was originally planned as a fundraiser for the fine Punks For A Princess organization but with the recent passing of Josh Barone’s [Read More]
Carnivora / Vivisepulture / Epicenter / Howling Infinite (formerly Dead Death)
Carnivora / Vivisepulture / Epicenter / Howling Infinite (formerly Dead Death) Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain, MA 7/13/13 It’s only fitting that on the 13th day of the 13th year (minus 2000, but who’s counting) the Midway Cafe hosts an afternoon of fine metal [Read More]
Drago’s Annual Summer Weekend Bash
Drago’s Annual Summer Weekend Bash Drago / Dead Like Death / The Dimwits / The Doll Eyes The Beachcomber, Quincy, MA 7/27/13 Well, this is the “D” day of the yearly weekend reunion each summer on Wollaston Beach in Quincy. This is a yearly ritual and unlike [Read More]
The Last Stand / Straphangers / Midnight Saints / Fast Times
The Last Stand / Straphangers / Midnight Saints / Fast Times Midway Café, Jamaica Plain, MA 6/29/13 Another fine Saturday afternoon finds us hard at work at another fine punk matinee show at the Midway. And though many have sacrificed their lives or their [Read More]
Worm / The Radicals / Jared Zero / Bad Movies
Worm / The Radicals / Jared Zero / Bad Movies Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain, MA 7/6/13 So this is another review I start with the word so. As they say, “You reap what you sow.” So what? I’m here at the Midway for a Saturday matinee punk show, something [Read More]
Evil Conduct / Infa-Riot / Forced Reality / Razors In The Night / Bad Lieutenants
Evil Conduct / Infa-Riot / Forced Reality / Razors In The Night / Bad Lieutenants Cambridge Elks, Cambridge, MA 6/28/13 So I threw my back out early last week, then late last week I started having what I knew to be root canal pain. Then this Sunday a whole tooth fell [Read More]
Taxi Driver / Broken Heroes / Cry Havoc! / The Damn Garrison / Hardtime
Thrash N’ Bang Second Anniversary Show Taxi Driver / Broken Heroes / Cry Havoc! / The Damn Garrison / Hardtime With Special Guests The Village People and The Spice Girls. Midway Café, Jamaica Plain, MA 6/8/13 This show was a celebration of our Second [Read More]
Jason Bennett / Chestnut Hullabaloo / Will Good / Barroom Heroes
Jason Bennett / Chestnut Hullabaloo / Will Good / Barroom Heroes President’s Club, Quincy, MA 6/9/13 This is my first time at the President’s Club in Quincy as this club was first formed and frequented by President John Quincy Adams and since that time [Read More]
The Adolescents / The Casulaties / Tenebrae / Done With You
The Adolescents / The Casulaties / Tenebrae / Done With You Middle East (Down), Cambridge, MA 6/15/13 So this is the big show at the big place. Middle East Downstairs, Beirut, I mean Cambridge Mass. Biggest “small room” in the Boston area with two big name punk [Read More]
Livver / Arctic Horror / Brain Famine / Spitting Black
Livver / Arctic Horror / Brain Famine / Spitting Black Roggie’s, Brighton, MA 6/1/13 So there’s a new place in town, in the heart of Cleveland Circle, that is open for punk and metal shows. Robin Goodhue, who also books the Cambridge Elks, is involved [Read More]
