Boston Calling to return next spring, all raging and ready to fight foo

By adamg on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 10:20am

After missing a couple of years due to coronavirus. So far, the headliners include Rage Against the Machine and the Foo Fighters.

Neighborhoods:

Allston

Topics:

Entertainment

Free tagging:

Covid-19

Like the job UHub is doing? Consider a contribution. Thanks!

Ad:

Comments

WhatYearIsIt

By MostlyHarmless
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 10:48am

dot gif.

Boston really is a city for middle aged people

By Parkwayne
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 10:50am

Even our festival headliners are olds. We'll all get our Yeti coolers and Patagonia hats and meet there to catch up, ok? Maybe talk about how Lollapalooza at Great Woods was better, etc...

I'm glad it's back even if I won't be going.

Eh, makes sense. Boston is the capital and largest city in Mass., of course suburbanites are drawn to festivals here. Boston Calling's key demographic is craft beer drinking 40-ish suburban Dad witth deep pockets, and that's okay!

Totally agree

By Parkwayne
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:24pm

It's just a little funny to me.

50ish Suburban Dad Here With Deep Pockets

By John Costello
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 1:30pm

This line up sucks. Sucks hard.

Shelia Devine is playing the Sinclair in July. Proof of Vaccine is needed for their NYC shows, don't know about Cambridge.

Alice Phoebe Lou is playing Brighton Music Hall in November.

Paul Weller is playing Dublin in November.

Spend your money on talent, not faux commies and old guys who released albums before Raphael Devers was born. (Paul Weller doesn't count. He is a god - therefore age doesn't matter).

Paul Weller

By Parkwayne
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 1:42pm

hasn't produced anything of note other than vitriol since like 1982, a bitter has-been who mostly tries to get press by shitting on bigger talents.

I agree with the other points though.

How about Fernando Tatis Jr?

By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 2:18pm

Born the same year The Sheila Divine released their first album

What "Lineup" are you referring to?

By Hunter
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 2:40pm

They've only named two bands so far. The headliners might not be to your taste, but you never know who will be the undercard.

St. Vincent is on the road, so are Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Waxahatchee all of whom are producing some of the best music of their careers at the moment.

But $350 is too much for sure. This is more expensive than almost every other festival.

St. Vincent Is Great

By John Costello
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 4:23pm

I can get Arcade Fire for $400,000.

At $350 a pop I'm sure I can get 1,142 people in, say another 250 to cover everything to hear a band that is, let's be honest, a lot better. You can get TVOTR for $15,000 and The Decembrists for $50,000. Throw them in too.

I'm not paying $350 to see an undercard band that will circle back through Brighton or Harvard Square in a couple of months with the money getting funneled to RATM to stay at the Ritz.

Uh

By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 10:25pm

Foo Fighters just put out a new record like a month ago, and it’s killer.

I’d rather have another Fenway show though. 2 hour set with their own stage setup > paying out the ass to be nowhere near the stage and sitting through a whole lotta meh surrounded by Zoomers.

Have you seen the ticket

By _Sean
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 11:55am

Have you seen the ticket prices?? They want $350 for a GA ticket, $875 for VIP or $1,700(!) for a Platinum ticket (all after fees). And this is early bird pricing!!! How many college students can afford that?

Boston Calling v2 is a cool festival, but I miss the old ones in City Hall plaza that were $70/day and had some great up & coming bands.

$350 for a GA ticket WTAF?

By Scratchie
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:15pm

$350 for a GA ticket

WTAF?

$350 is for a three day pass

By Hardy Har Har
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:36pm

nfm

$350-$1700 per ticket

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:53pm

So much for raging against the machine.

You do what they told you.

By jmeltzer
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 2:30pm

And they told you, "Pay!"

What happened?

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 5:53pm

I saw hundreds of concerts in Boston the early to mid 70s for $4.50, $5.50 and $6.50. All the greats and the near greats. What happened? I know prices can't be expected to be the same as they were back then, but ticket prices rose way out of proportion with the prices of everything else. I'm sure greed had a major hand in this.

The corollary

By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 05/27/2021 - 5:32am

You can have any record you want for free by recording audio from your soundcard on your computer.

Artists stopped making money on recordings

By fungwah
Thu, 05/27/2021 - 7:47am

So all the money now is in touring and playing live shows.

True, but the trend started

By Scratchie
Thu, 05/27/2021 - 10:04am

True, but the trend started long before the download age. The Eagles were the first big rock band (in 1994) to decide to charge as much as possible instead of trying to keep their tickets affordable for working-class fans.

Have you even been?

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:54pm

The festival is full of little genie boppers all over the place. And $350 is nothing for the thousands of super rich college students in this city.

And I agree it was 100x better at city hall plaza.

not so different

By gremies
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 1:24pm

than a dozen other festivals. FF are headlining Lollapalooza, Bonnarroo, Bottlerock and a bunch of others in Europe and South America.

Isn't much of the Boston

By anon_wd
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 1:25pm

Isn't much of the Boston Calling lineup part of a rotating set of artists that appear at ARG/ Goldenvoice-produced "(Insert Local Name Here) Music Festival"s around the country?
Complaining about the corporate takeover of these hasn't been avant garde since the 2nd Lollopolooza tour

Rage and Foo are now dad rock?

By jmeltzer
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 2:28pm

Wow. Time marches on ...

Its not really a big college town

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:04pm

Funny how my husband told me the headliners and my reaction was "makes sense - kids don't have much scratch these days".

We might get tickets to celebrate his 60th birthday.

Kids don't have much scratch

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:52pm

Kids don't have much scratch these days? You and I are clearly from different upbringings -- I never had the
then equivalent of $350 to see a concert! Good for you though, I wish I had your childhood of ease!

How outdated is this?

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 11:22am

This is like a lineup put together by WMBR or some other time warp college station.

It's from the before times

By Kaz
Thu, 05/27/2021 - 2:04pm

You know...when you had to actually play an instrument to be called a "band".

More bland gentrifier music

By Jay
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 11:49am

Ugh.

boomer calling

By bostnkid
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:24pm

the foo fighters suck and i heard rage against the machine aren't very angry anymore.

anybody know if the dropkick murphys will be playing?

Naw

By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:11pm

Rage and Foo is absolutely Gen X.

Boomers are all at Costco soaking up their Chardonnay and White Zin deals, talking about that time they went to see Aerosmith.

Nope, nothing GenX about frat

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:55pm

Nope, nothing GenX about frat-rock Rage Against the Machine, eww.

You shoulda been there

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 7:27pm

I used to see Aerosmith at Paul's Mall in Copley Square before they were famous.

Why the hatred for Foo

By anon
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 7:03pm

Why the hatred for Foo Fighters?

lol

By ChrisInEastie
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 10:26pm

DKM is at the point of playing the New York State Fair free stage.

Damn Foo

By BannedFromTheRoxy
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:44pm

Damn Foo

Not the Foo Fighters

By Liam Day
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 1:32pm

Just Foo Fighters. As if they weren't already annoying enough. (Though I do have to cop to buying one of their albums back in the day.)

foo

By bostnkid
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 2:35pm

the first two albums were great. after that it all sounds like the same song over and over.

Still bummed I never got to

By ZachAndTired
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 3:27pm

Still bummed I never got to see RATM and the Beastie Boys in college when Mike D broke his arm and they had to cancel the tour. Not going to endure the hell on earth that is a giant festival to see them now though.

That's OK

By Scratchie
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 4:37pm

I'm bummed that I didn't see the Beastie Boys in college, when they were on tour with Run-DMC.

Not to make you feel bad

By Cranky
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 4:48pm

But I saw the Beastie Boys with Public Enemy.
It was awesome.

Now we need somebody to chime

By ZachAndTired
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 5:11pm

Now we need somebody to chime in and say they saw the Beastie Boys play with the Bad Brains at A7 to make you guys feel less old

I'm bummed that I got a

By anon_wd
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 6:21pm

I'm bummed that I got a ticket for the 1992 Beasties/ Rollins Band/ Mighty Joe Young (pre-STP) tour at Channel- and Beasties got call to do Letterman show and missed that night- Rollins/ STP may have been one of the worst major-act shows I've ever attended

$350?

By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 05/26/2021 - 8:23pm

I can go sit in Artesani with my canvas chair and a flask for free.

Boston Calling to return next spring, all raging and ready to fight foo

Comments

Add comment

Plain text

Support Universal Hub