PLAYGROUND BOSTON

Friday, June 18th – Middle East Downstairs

Amazing bill! $5 tickets are gone, but still, $10 is a bargain for this one! The Lights Out and Sidewalk Driver are both PGB Favorites for sure, with both having received past Track of the Week Honors, They’ll be sharing a bill with the sweet Southern Rock of Trucker Mouth, AM Stereo, and Larcenist. This promises to be an amazing show!

8:00 PM Doors
9:00 – 9:30 Trucker Mouth
9:45 – 10:15 AM Stereo
10:30 – 11:00 The Lights Out
11:15 – 11:45 Sidewalk Driver
12:00 – 12:30 Larcenist

Friday, June 18th – TT The Bear’s Place

A killer garage rock lineup here. This’ll be the first time Reigning Sound has brought their soulful throwback sound up to our fair city in about 5 years. They’ll be commemorating the release of Triple Thick’s latest album, a glorious explosion of trashy guitars and psych vox. The rootsy good time of Movers and Shakers and the psych madness of Sister Spaceman round out the bill, check out the flyer to the left for set times.

Friday, June 18th – Cafe 939

Just a rockin’ good time. The Thickness is straight-up 90’s style pop punk, with some good hooks and introspective lyrics thrown in. Alien 8 is much of the same, only perhaps a little more melodic and with a little less of an edge. Brunt of It is madness, pure and simple – some riotous ska-core that’s nearly impossible to stay still to. Should be a great time – and it looks like this one ends at 11 so you can go to this one early and then hit up one of the others to polish off your Friday night mayhem quota!

This weekend brings the 4th annual New England Americana Festival to Boston (formerly known as the Alt-Country Extravaganza). The festival this year has been receiving tons of press in newspapers and music sites for the past two months, and is looking to be one of the best roots-rock events this area has seen in years! This is an entirely non-profit event, with all proceeds to benefit Coalition for Courage, an organization that helps children in Africa.

In addition to 8 bands per night on the big stage at Church, event organizer Noel Coakley (Autumn Hollow Band) will also be setting up a second stage over by the bar, to ensure that even between sets there will still be music filling the room. The lineups for each night speak for themselves – check them out below, with the headliners for each night in bold. Each night is extremely solid! Tickets are around $10 per night, but you can get a combo pass to all three shows for only $20 – a great discount for a long weekend of all the twang you can handle!

Here’s the lineup and set times for each night:

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