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Boston Globe
25-05-2025
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A millennial rock marathon at Boston Calling
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Other artists on Saturday's lineup, like Allianz Blue Stage performer Timmy Skelly, felt like afterparty performers for Friday's more country- and Americana-focused affair. Also on the Allianz Blue Stage, Lucius baked in lush folk-pop duets while Amble tugged the folk tradition overseas to their native Ireland. Advertisement Amber Lawson of PINKLIDS performs at Boston Calling. Erin Clark/Globe Staff The Orange Stage, which showcased rising New England talent, reflected other stages' ratio of rock to raw folk. PINKLIDS, a newer act from Wareham, cast a cloak of fuzzy guitar riffs over the crowd, offering a Cramps-adjacent potpourri of surf, garage, and psychedelia. The experimentation continued with Somerville art-rock band sidebody, whose loopy lyricism evoked a range of delirium and winking cultural criticism. Rebuilder, Boston rock veterans who fall somewhere between punk and alternative, were surprisingly the most straightforward act of the bunch, and simon robert french provided a silken country contrast to the other three performers. Advertisement Elsewhere, the Green Stage's afternoon pairing of The Maine and All Time Low – two crusaders of the 2000s emo/pop-punk craze – served as the official beginning of the millennial marathon. The one-two punch of energetic rock uncorked the day's first throwbacks, like The Maine's lusty 'Girls Do What They Want' and the unlucky bounce of All Time Low's 'Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don't).' Cage The Elephant performing at Boston Calling. Erin Clark/Globe Staff Similarly, Cage the Elephant's selection of alt-rock seemed most blistering when frontman Matt Shultz dug into the band's most aching material. The divorce-inspired 'Ready To Let Go' and anxiety-riddled cut 'Social Cues' evoked some of the crowd's biggest reactions of the day (although the exasperation of 'Ain't No Rest for the Wicked' is certainly a made-for-millennials anthem if there ever was one). Avril Lavigne put forth her own flippant rallying cry with her hit 'Girlfriend,' though she repeatedly leaned on her fans' exuberance to carry her set's energy level. Still, when reaching back to hits penned as a teenager, like 'Complicated' and 'Sk8er Boi,' Lavigne's vocals were as crisp as they were in 2002, and her inclusion in Saturday's lineup felt like an important nod to her role as a leading woman in the arena of 2000s rock. Advertisement Across the complex on the Allianz Blue Stage, James Bay's finale of 'Hold Back The River,' a sweeping tide of soul, primed the scene for The Black Crowes. The group provided a blitz of blues-tinged material, punctuated by can't-skip classics like 'Remedy' and their fast-talking Otis Redding cover 'Hard to Handle.' Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy performs at Boston Calling music festival on Saturday. Erin Clark/Globe Staff But it was headliners Fall Out Boy who truly committed to hurtling guests through time, as they zipped through their 20-year catalog. The journey from 2003's 'Take This to Your Grave' to 2023's 'So Much (for) Stardust' was a humble brag – proof that their hits aren't confined to any one window of the 2000s. In between, lead vocalist and guitarist Patrick Stump paid some Boston fan service by performing a chunk of 'Sweet Caroline' on the piano. 'This is a dumb tourist thing, but we're going to do it together,' he insisted. But no matter how lengthy their legacy, Fall Out Boy are bound to one particular millennial touchstone: their 2007 hit 'Thnks fr th Mmrs.' The breakup song revolves around a not-so-sweet refrain of 'Thanks for the memories / Even though they weren't so great.' As tens of thousands of fans hollered the quip in unison, they had the chance to either revisit bittersweet flashbacks from the era, or overwrite adolescent angst with a new memory from their adulthood. Either way, what perfectly ironic bliss.
Boston Globe
22-05-2025
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Boston Calling 2025: New England artists to watch this weekend
The fun starts Friday afternoon, with the first performance of the festival going to Boston-born, New York City-based singer-songwriter Bebe Stockwell, who takes over the Green Stage at 1:30 p.m. Blending indie, pop, and folk, Stockwell released her first EP, 'Driving Backwards,' earlier this month. The remainder of the local acts performing this weekend will take over the Orange Stage, which will exclusively feature regional performers. Boston-based trio Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Self-described purveyors of 'bummer pop,' Boston band Advertisement Musician simon robert french performs at Boston Calling on Saturday. Tatiana O'Hanlon Saturday The Orange Stage will feature four regional acts on Saturday, with Wareham band PINKLIDS starting the party at 2:55 p.m. Known for its alternative, surf-rock style, PINKLIDS plays Boston Calling just a few months after Advertisement Somerville Rounding out the evening on the Orange Stage is simon robert french, who is slated to perform at 7:05 p.m. Giving Noah Kahan vibes, the Bay State singer went viral for his heartfelt folk tune 'robert's place — voice memo,' which has more than 1.7 million listens on Spotify. Nate Perry & Ragged Company performs at Boston Calling on Sunday. Shivohn Fleming Sunday The last day of Boston Calling will feature four local acts on the Orange Stage. Day three starts with Nate Perry & Ragged Company, with the Boston-based, Americana/rock band set to perform at 2:45 p.m. Fans of the shoegaze indie rock subgenre will want to check out Vivid Bloom, which takes the stage at 4 p.m. The Boston group recently dropped its new single, 'Under the Sound,' earlier this month. Meanwhile, Boston rock/pop band Copilot will bring the noise to the Orange Stage starting at 5:15 p.m. Nominated for pop artist of the year at the 2024 Boston Music Awards, Copilot released its latest EP, 'Vroom Vroom, etc.,' in February. The final regional act to perform at Boston Calling this weekend will be Boston-based indie pop singer Layzi, who was nominated for pop artist of the year, as well as album/EP of the year, at the Boston Music Awards in December. Known for her bedroom pop music, Layzi performs on the Orange Stage at 6:55 p.m. Advertisement Matt Juul can be reached at
