much thanks to Hunnie Bunnie, Jeff Johnson, for the AWESOME poster!
5/25
Blue Sabbath Black Fiji(Scotland), White Limo(members of Fat Worm), Hunnie Bunnies, Tani(mems. of Kid romance) and FOAM @ Video Underground(JP) FB SIGN UPS
5/30
Grass Widow (San Francisco), Bent Shapes (Formerly Girlfriends) and Shepherdess @ Great Scott
6/2
Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk (Chicago), Earth Masters (NYC), Ricochet (Steve Norton and Noell Dorsey), Pataphor, and Los condenados (Walter Wright, Andrea Pensado and Jules Vasylenko) @ Whitehaus
6/3
Container (Nashville), Unicorn Hard-On (Nashville), Double Awake and Time Heater @ Butcher Shoppe
6/14
CSC Funk Band (NYC), Devil Music Ensemble and Full Tang @ Sealbeard’s 8pm All Ages Suggested Donation $5-10
IN THE FUTURE: Chat Logs(NYC), Moonmen On the Moon, Man(nyc), JUICEBOXX, Mayor Daley (Chicago), Calvin Johnson + more
5/16
The Psychic Paramount, Cropduster, A Troop of Echoes @ Great Scott
Teaadora, Hasta, and more @ Muthership 8pm All Ages Donate.
5/17
Strange Boys, New Highway Hymnal @ Great Scott
DJs Nighttime Ghallager and Mello @ZuZu 10pm 12+ Free
Whisky Boys, Old Edison, Coyote Kolb, and Nickel And Dime Band @ Lizard Lounge 21+ $10.
5/18
The Adicts & World and Inferno Friendship Society @ Paradise
Sonny Vincent & The Bad Reactions, White Pages, Guilty Party, Foster Care(NYC), and Courters @ PA’s Lounge 9pm 21+ Free.
Drowsing(IL), Brave Bird(MI), The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die(CT) and Manque @ Wacky Kastle 7pm All Ages $5
Porn Theatre Ushers, Immigrants, White Pages, and DJ’s Mister Jason & Farmer Ted @ Washington Street Arts Center 8pm All Ages some undetermined cost.
Slurred Murrays, Straight Angular, and The Sinbusters @ O’Briens 9pm 21+ $8
Chris North, Big Fuzzy, and Miwa Gemini (Brooklyn) @ Aviary Gallery
WARANIMAL (ME), SCAMPS, LAMEBRAINED @ The Boxfort
5/19
Cocksparrer, Slapshot, and Templars @ Club Lido All Ages $old out $on!!
Steve Norton, Matt Samolis, Dave Gross, Tom Plseck, Angela Sawyer, Vic Rawlings, Josh Jefferson, Brendan Murray, Chris Strunk, Michael Rosenstien @ Third Life Studios 8pm All Ages Donate.
Charlotte Cornfield, Tounge Oven, Chris Wilson, Luisitania, and Gracious Calamity @ Whitehaus in JP 8pm All Ages Donate.
Battle House Record Release! Noxious Foxes, HO-AG, and Animal Hospital @ Midway 9pm 21+ $8
Hero[n] / Multicult (VA) / Goddard / 13 Billion Years @ Starlab
Punk Rock and Mental Illness and Recovery @ Honan Library Allston
5/20
Ulcerate (New Zealand / Relapse Records), Tombs (NYC / Relapse Records), Svart Crown ( France / Listenable Records), and Hivesmasher @ Great Scott
All out Vynl yard sale on Mark’s Front Lawn. email bostonccc for info. 11-3. Seriously, this is the Boston record event of the year.
Suffering Bastard, Sharpwaist, Epauletts(NY), Locutions, and Corephallism @ Starlab 8pm All Ages $10.
5/21
Retribution Body @ Wierdo Records
Fat History Month, and Hyena @ Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free.(a benifit for Freak Flag, a new quartelty publication)
Son Of Salami, Tooth Ache, Tool Time, amd Gurella Toss @ Gay Gardens 8pm All Ages Donate.
5/22
Jesse Kaminsky & Angela Sawayer are Impearialisms @ Rivergods 9pm Free.
Funny Money, Katze, Epistasis, and Dog Suicide @ yesouisi
5/23
Negative Standards (Oakland), Vaccine, VYGR, and Nailed Shut (NY) @ Wacky Kastle
all casette DJ Brian Shimkovitz(of Awesome Tapes From Africa), and The Debo Band @ Spectacle 8pm all ages.
5/24
Howie Stelzer, Skinny Vinny, Los Condenados, and Human Hairs @ SMFA 8pm All Ages Free.
5/25
BOW Shows presents… Blue Sabbath Black Fiji(scotland), White Limo, Hunnie Bunnies, and Tani @ Video Underground 10pm All Ages $5-10.
5/26
All day show celebrating Now Denial’s 10 year anniversary! A million bands will be there @ What We Talk About 10$ Suggested Donation for the bands.
5/28
The Mob(UK), Bloody Gears @ Great Scott
Jason Belcher @ Wierdo 8pm All Ages Free.
Mmoss, Herbcraft, and Dawn Fauna @ Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free.
5/29
Kilter, Duck That, and Anthony Coleman & Steve Norton @ Yes.Oui.Si 8pm All Ages Free.
5/30
OBN IIIs, TAMPOFFS, and REPORTS @ radio
BOW Shows presents… Grass Widow, Bent Shapes, and Sheperdess @ Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8
Machismo, Hate Basement, The Vomit Arsonist, Bombings, Permanent Waves @ STARLAB
5/31
The Coathangers, and Skimask @ Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8.
6/1
Xiphoid Dementia, Symptomatic, Dozen Dimensions Duo, Katze @ griffin theater(Salem)
6/2
BOW SHOWS presents… ricochet (steve norton and noell dorsey), pataphor, and los condenados (walter wright andrea pensado and jules vasylenko), baby birds dont drink milk (chicago/ky) and earth masters (bk) @ whitehaus
6/3
Omar Souleyman and Dengue Fever @ Paradise
BOW SHOWS presents… containter (TN), unicorn hard-on (tn), time heater, double awake and 1 tba @ butcher shoppe
6/4
The Fucktrots, The Pluto Moons and BFPSP @ Middle East Upstairs
6/5
HORNA & KOMMANDANT “Adventus Satanae MMXII” @ Great Scott
BLACK BREATH Southern Lord US Tour! w/ APMD, Burning Love and Martydod @ Radio
The Clean(NZ) @ Brighton Music Hall
6/6
Aun, Thisquietarmy, Planning for Burial, Temperature Within, Aether Chroma @ Mobius Gallery
6/7
BOW Shows presents… Briana Marela and Mia Friedman @ whitehaus
Jason Anderson @ TTs
Triple Thick, Royal Wedding, Thick Shakes, Fat Creeps @ Precinct
6/12
Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ TTs
6/13
Bass Drum of Death @ Great Scott
6/14
Union Square Round Table w/ Eugene Mirman, Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses), Cotton Candy as house band @ the BRATTLE
BOW Shows presents… CSC Funk Band(nyc), Full Tang, Devil Music @ Seal Beards(allston)
6/15
BOW Shows presents…Juiceboxxx(wi), Big Digits, Ski Mask, Fucktrots @ video underground
6/21
JEFF the Brotherhood, Skimask, Creaturos @ TTs
6/22
Built to Spill @ the Paradise
6/23
Corrosion of Conformity, Torche, Black Cobra and Gaza @ Middle East Downstairs
6/30
Codeine @ brighton music hall
7/2
THE YOUNG (AUSTIN, MATADOR), PURLING HISS (PHILLY, DRAG CITY), REPORTS (SOMERVILLE)
7/21
Promise Ring @ Paradise
7/28
Sonorium VI: Blue Sausage Infant, Violet + more @ The Griffen Theatre(Salem, Ma)
We here @ the HASSLE and a BUNCH of our friends put together TOP LISTS for 2011. Lots of great bands, labels, etc. opined upon within. Check it out...
Angela Sawyer's Top Ten Record List
Anna Fox Rochinski's Top Ten List
Benjamin Nelson's Top Ten List
B.O.W. Shows' top 30 bands who played a B.O.W. Show in 2011
Chris Strunk's 2011 Top Ten Lists
Dan Shea's top ten local records of 2011
Dan Shea's Top 15 Records of 2011 List
Jonah Livingston's Top Ten List
Kris Thompson's ten sweet albums from 2011
Luke Einsiedler's Top Whatever List
Nick Branigan's Top Ten Re-ups of 2011
Peter Negroponte's Top List of 2011
Primordial Sounds Favorite Records of 2011
Robin Goodhue's Top Ten Records List
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