Good Charlotte: Joel Madden – Lead vocals Benji Madden – Rhythm guitar, backing and lead vocals Paul Thomas – Bass guitar Billy Martin – Lead guitar, keyboards Current touring musicians Matthew Koma – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals Stacy Jones – drums, percussion
Avenged Sevenfold M. Shadows (Matthew Sanders) – lead vocals, keyboards Zacky Vengeance (Zachary Baker) – rhythm guitar, backing and occasional lead vocals Synyster Gates (Brian Haner Jr.) – lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals Johnny Christ (Jonathan Seward) – bass, backing vocals Brooks Wackerman – drums
Review:
I swore off Xfinity Center a few years ago. I went to a few shows where I went up. Getting stuck in so much traffic. I missed the openers. And these weren’t just small openers. They were big Artist on a big tour.
I want these Tickets while on vacation. I knew I would be tired of that next week going to shows, but had one of these Tickets and wanted to finally see Good Charlotte live. I took my aunt who was a big fan of Avenged Sevenfold and learned the reason why at the show.
We managed to skip the exit that gets so many people stuck for an hour or more. We found a back route in, but still had to park in a far back lot. I wish that we had paid for VIP parking. So we could easily leave at the end of the show or paid for parking at an outside location, which also allows quick and easy exits to get back on the highway after a show.
The other good thing we did aside from avoiding the crazy exit. Was we decided to upgrade our Tickets. When available, you can upgrade tickets for $100 each to go down to the box seats that are almost upfront. Each section accommodates for people. We were with two other people who were super friendly and stoked for the show. There are chairs and a table and also a pretty comfortable couch you could sit back against. you also have a server who takes care of you the whole time so you never have to get up. I didn’t take quite a while to get our first order, but it was all good
I had never seen either band before and I was a big fan of Good Charlotte growing up. They put on a really fun show. They played mostly older songs, knowing what people wanted to hear. There were pyrotechnics and throwback conversations with the crowd.
I knew of Avenged Sevenfold, but hadn’t heard much. I was extremely impressed by them. You don’t often see two lead guitarists just shredding together.
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Review: First off, a big thanks goes out to 92.5 The River! I won these tickets through them. I had just gotten back from vacation the day before this concert, but I knew I couldn’t miss this show.
I became a big fan of Ripe last year. They play dozens of shows in Massachusetts every year and I still had not been able to find a show yet that worked for my schedule.
I win a decent amount of concerts, but this was one of the best. Lowell Music Series offers four front rows of provided and assigned lawn chairs and I won two tickets for this section.
From the start, Ripe was entertaining as hell. The singer, Robbie, has so much charisma. John, the guitarist and backup singer spent a good amount of time dancing on stage while rocking out. The horn section had their own choreographed dance moves and were very in sync throughout the show.
At one point, the band announced that it was a fan’s birthday. This was followed by wishing a “Happy birthday” to their “35 year old friend, Scott Stapp.” I I immediately knew was was next: A cover of “Higher” by Creed.
Review: Almost every night, I spend around 30 minutes entering contests to win concert tickets. It’s a nice way to wind down the end of the day, do something in the background, while watching TV, you can do something mindless while also having the chance to do one of my favorite things: going to concerts Over the past two years, I have probably won 20 concerts. I don’t attend all of them. But it’s pretty cool to see so many people for free.
I was pumped when I found out Tickets to passion pit things to 92.5 The River. I saw passion pit one other time, back in 2017 when I lived out in Denver. Like so many people, “Sleepyhead” and “Little Secrets” were a big part of my formative years and I would love to see them played live again.
I knew that this would be a good show because they are a Boston band, originally meeting at And getting their start at Emerson College.
The shows started off with a representative, giving Michael, the man being Passion Pit, an official document stating that July 24 would now be known as Passion Pit to a in the city of Boston.
A big part of the tour was about how Passion Pit was back and touring with a full live band. And this held up to our expectations. The drums were really great, the longer intros leading into hit songs which lead the crowd into eruption was awesome.
The set, before the encore, ended with “Carried Away” and was followed by “Little Secrets” and “Sleepyhead.” The crowd lost their minds when “Carried Away” started and they kept that energy going for the rest of the set.
The band played some new, unreleased songs like “Everything’s Stephanie,” a song that I can’t wait to play on repeat once it’s streaming.
Review: I usually find it obnoxious when people tell you to manifest your destiny. I’m not one for motivational quotes. But few have pursued their dreams as relentlessly as the man behind Josiah and the Bonnevilles.
After appearing on American Idol, Josiah Leming signed a deal with a major label, but things eventually fell through. Instead of giving up, he kept chasing his dream of making music full-time.
A few years back, the Tennessee native was working as both a bartender and in an Amazon warehouse. Determined to make music work, he doubled down, releasing as much music as possible and growing a devoted following online. Covers like Justin Bieber’s “Ghost” introduced him to an entirely new audience and eventually allowed him to leave those jobs behind and make music his full-time career once again. And we are all lucky that happened.
Josiah and the Bonnevilles is currently on the Redline tour, named after one of the songs on the latest album, As Is. Both the album and tour find Josiah backed by a full band.
I saw him solo two years ago at the Paradise in Boston and the show was so intimate and special. It felt like just hanging out in a living room while a friend plays guitar. And even though this tour found him at House of Blues with a live band, it still had that same feeling.
The whole band crushed it on stage. It further confirmed that Nashville has some of the best musicians out there. One thing that makes me truly love a concert is seeing the musicians up on stage giving it their all. Not there to collect a check. There to live out their dream and put on the best show each night. And that’s exactly what this was. Josiah thanked the crowd after every song and told the crowd how much he loved them. And that the crowd will always be the Bonnevilles.
Review: Bilmuri put on a fantastic show at MGM Music Hall in Boston. The full, live band is extremely talented and Gabi Rose just destroys on stage, as usual. And Johnny always seems to be just having a blast doing this every night for crowds all over the world. He thanked the crowd multiple times throughout the show and mentioned recently being signed to Columbia. He made a great observation that when you visit their website now, he is sandwiched between Beyoncé, Billy Joel, Blink-182, and Bob Dylan.
They played a lot of newer songs, most of the best tracks from American Motorsports, and some deep cuts.
I was joined by two friends who went for The Home Team and walked away telling me they will definitely be joining me next time Bilmuri is in town.
The Head and the Heart have been one of my favorite bands for a long time now. Back when I lived in Colorado, I saw them at Red Rocks Amphitheatre a few summers in a row. I even caught one of their super intimate pop-up shows at a small venue in Denver with maybe 1,000 people packed in.
Since moving back east, I’ve seen them at Leader Bank Pavilion, but I was especially excited when I saw they were coming to Boston’s Theater District and playing their first album in its entirety. I honestly have no idea how that album is already 15 years old.
The whole night felt incredibly intimate. Everyone was seated in this beautiful theater, and the stage was set up like a living room.
For the first song or two, the crowd mostly stayed seated, probably just because of the theater setting. But the second “Lost in My Mind” started, the entire crowd stood up almost in unison, and most people stayed on their feet the rest of the night.
The band played through their debut album before jumping into a second half packed with songs from the albums that followed. You could feel the energy increase even more when “All We Ever Knew,” “Aperture,” “Missed Connection,” and “Shake” kicked in.
Between songs, the band shared stories, danced around the stage, and even lounged on the couch set up behind them.
There were nonstop sing-alongs, clapping, and those big crowd “ohs” and “ahs” bouncing back and forth between the band and an incredibly receptive audience.
This stop was the end of this leg of the tour, but they will be doing more anniversary shows, so get tickets for one of those!
Review: I got really into The Paper Kites last year. I had heard their hits, “Bloom” and “Paint” but really dove into their discography. Twelvefour has my favorite song, “Electric Indigo,” Roses has my second favorite, “Climb Up Your Tears” and a beautiful song, Walk Above the City” featuring Maró. At The Roadhouse has the Fleetwood Mac inspired “Black & Thunder.” And their latest album,
“It You Go There, I Hope You Find It has some favorites like “Change of the Wind,” “Deep (In the Plans We Made),” and “When the Lavender Blooms.”
I almost caught them on tour last fall, opening for The Teskwy Brothers, but didn’t wind up making it out. While I wish I did, I am glad I got to see them on their own headlining tour in such an intimate venue like Royale in Boston.
I also was really sold on this show for the opener, Donovan Woods. I had favorited his track “Portland, Me,” a year or so back on Spotify and then he recently showed up again. His song, “I Talk About You,” from his latest release is a stunning, beautiful, and depressing song with a heavy Celtic funereal inspiration.
The show was one of the best ones I have been to in a while. Donovan Woods is just as funny as he is talented in the singer-songwriter department. He told some fun stories and was self deprecating. He had the crowd cracking up when he told them, sarcastically, how back in the day it was an honor to try on the radio and the equivalent of that today is being added to a Spotify playlist.
The Paper Kites started off their set with eveyone around one microphone, singing in unison. Usually, band saves this for later on in their set, but the Australian folk band was opening the show with the vibe of the next hour and a half. Not to say that the band doesn’t have some great rock songs up their sleeves. They played my favorite song, “Electric Indigo” and the Fleetwood Mac inspired “Black & Thunder.”
