Tag: Boston Calling

  • Dear Readers, It is with much regret that I have to inform you that I will be unable to cover the Boston Calling music festival later this month. This is for one simple reason: they are not offering me press credentials this time. What are press credentials? That’s just a fancy way of saying they…

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  • FILM FESTIVAL CURATED BY ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING ACTRESS NATALIE PORTMAN AND MORE   TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW, JUNE 2ND AT 10AM EST AT WWW.BOSTONCALLING.COM   June 1, 2016 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling Music Festival announces a Superfan Pre-Sale for its May 2017 edition, which recently revealed a new location: Allston at the fields at Harvard…

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  • reviews and photos by Michael McCarthy As I previously mentioned, I was unable to make Boston Calling on Saturday. First, I woke up late at 11 when I’d meant to get up at 9 and take the 11 train into Boston from Lowell. Then I went to the train station to take the 1 train,…

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  • reviews by Michael McCarthy all photos courtesy of Mike Diskin Boston Calling kicked things off on Friday, May 28th, 2016 with three fantastic sets by under-rated singer/songwriter Lisa Hannigan (and Aaron Dessner), the very popular indie artist Sujfan Stevens and the global superstar Sia. Of course, the artists are only part of the festival experience.…

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  • Extensive Boston Calling coverage will be coming soon, but for now a few words… Great food, fine adult beverages, good vibes from the friendly crowd and, yes, fantastic music; Friday night at Boston Calling’s May 2016 edition was spot on!  I hadn’t had that much fun since Boston Calling last September, no kidding.  So much…

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  • Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, I hope you’re ready to be highly entertained because this weekend City Hall Plaza will be taken over the Boston Calling music festival and it’s going to be a blast!  If you’re in or around Boston and you love music, you really must grab tickets while you still can at…

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  • PRESS RELEASE: April 7, 2016 – Boston, MA – Adding further excitement to this May’s edition, Boston Calling announces its food & drink lineup today. Accompanying 32 live music and comedy performances across three stages from the likes of Sia, Robyn, Disclosure, Sufjan Stevens, ODESZA, Haim and Miike Snow, a mouthwatering lineup of new and…

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  • Today we have exciting news about something entirely new that will be happening at this May’s edition of the Boston Calling music festival, which will take place on the weekend of the 27th, 28th and 29th.  For the first time ever, the festival will feature a third stage on Saturday and Sunday, which will focus…

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  • LIMITED SINGLE DAY TICKETS ON SALE TOMORROW, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2016 at 10AM EST VIA WWW.BOSTONCALLING.COM February 18, 2016 – Boston, MA – Boston Calling reveals its schedule and releases a limited number of single day tickets for Saturday May 28, 2016 and Sunday May 29, 2016. After performances by Sia and Sufjan Stevens on Friday night, iconic…

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  • This morning the weekend-long Boston Calling music festival announced its exciting Friday night (May 27th) line-up.  Sia, whose new album This is Acting drops tomorrow,  will headline with Sufjan Stevens and Lisa Hannigan with Aaron Dessner also on the bill.  Friday single day tickets and Saturday/Sunday weekend passes go on sale tomorrow, January 29, 2016,…

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  • Love is Pop is extra excited to have the full line-up for May 2016’s Boston Calling, especially since it’s their most amazing line-up yet.  We love all three of the headliners this time: Sia, Disclosure and Robyn.  We’re also psyched about Haim, Miike Snow, City & Colour, Christine and the Queens, BØRNS and The Vaccines.  Here’s…

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  • Dirty Bangs opened the festival on Sunday, but I missed them because the trains from Lowell to Boston only run every two hours on the weekend.  (You’d think they would at least run as often as weekdays with people going into Boston for sporting events, concerts, and other leisure activities on the weekends, but, nope.)  I…

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  • Looking around at Boston Calling on Saturday, I found myself in awe of how much work goes into making the festival happen.  Never mind hiring the artists and determining who’ll play which slots, just erecting the two stages and everything else that has to be assembled to turn City Hall Plaza from a wide open…

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  • Boston Calling kicked off its sixth edition of the three day, 23 artists festival last night at City Hall Plaza and it was spectacular.  People were calling it “folk night,” since the line up consisted of Gregory Alan Isakov, Of Monsters and Men, who performed at the inaugural BC during May 2013, and The Avett Brothers, who…

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  • BOSTON CALLING ANNOUNCES A FESTIVAL APP, AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD TODAY, WITH THE COMPLETE PERFORMANCE TIMES FOR SEPTEMBER 2015 BOSTON CALLING WILL ALSO HOST ITS FINAL BLOCK PARTY OF THE SEASON AT DEWEY SQUARE PARK THIS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 Before the press release I just wanted to reiterate how excited I am about this month’s…

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