On May 9, 1987, Sonic Youth were the surprise guests at a benefit show supporting Jimmy Johnson and Byron Coley’s experimental music magazine Forced Exposure. The concert went down at The Rat in the mag’s home base of Boston, and it featured some serious underground heavy hitters. Forced Exposure contributor Steve Albini was ...

The Boston hardcore band MOVE was formed with a particular aim in mind: To represent the Black experience in hardcore, a genre that’s never been considered Black music even though it was literally created by Bad Brains. The band took its name from the Black militant collective that was bombed by Philadelphia police in 1985. (Cops burne...

People around here like to get all hoity-toity when we talk about the Boston Celtic punk institution Dropkick Murphys, but guess what, fuckers! Dropkick Murphys stomp ass! Always have! Every few years, Dropkick Murphys will reliably come out ripping with another album of beery, obvious fists-up singalong songs, and that album will reliably rule....

Bruce Springsteen virtually sat in with Boston punk institution Dropkick Murphys during their Streaming Outta Fenway show at an empty Fenway Park last night. Towards the end of their set, the Boss popped up on the Jumbotron to perform the Murphys' "Rose Tattoo," which the band previously recorded a version of with Springsteen for a…

Boston music venue Great Scott, a longtime Allston institution, will not reopen once the pandemic passes. "It is with a heavy heart today that I announce that Great Scott will not reopen," general manager Tim Philbin wrote in a statement on Twitter. Read his full statement below. It is with a heavy heart…