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The 2020 Boston Calling Food and Drink Lineup Is Here, with Roxy’s Fried Chicken and Mikkeller Beer

With headliners curated from your ’90s CD collection—Rage Against the Machine, the Foo Fighters, and Red Hot Chili Peppers—this year’s Boston Calling music festival might […]

Arts & Entertainment

Confirmed: Rage Against the Machine Is on the 2020 Boston Calling Lineup

The dream of the ’90s is alive at Boston Calling. At least that’s the case when it comes to the festival’s 2020 headliners, who are […]

Arts & Entertainment

Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers Will Headline Boston Calling 2020

Surprise! The folks at Boston Calling are announcing today that they’ve picked two of the three headliners for the festival when it returns in 2020: […]

Arts & Entertainment

Your Guide to All the Local Talent at Boston Calling 2019

Interested in checking out some local talent at Boston Calling this year? You’ve got plenty of options. A smattering of hometown heroes will once again take the stage […]

Arts & Entertainment

An Alternative to Boston Calling Is Brewing in Dorchester: “Boston Answering”

Last year, when Boston hip hop artists Cousin Stizz and STL GLD were on the lineup, Dorchester’s Cliff Notez was thrilled to show up and support his friends at […]

Arts & Entertainment

The Boston Calling 2019 Set Times Are Here

CHVRCHES or Greta Van Fleet? Hozier or ODESZA? Logic or Brandi Carlile? If you’re heading to Boston Calling 2019, those are some of the choices you’ll […]

Arts & Entertainment

Boston Calling Disputes Talib Kweli’s Claims of a Contract Issue

Boston Calling is disputing claims from artist Talib Kweli about why his rap duo Black Star dropped out of the 2019 festival, calling them “factually incorrect.” The performer, who co-founded Black Star […]

Restaurants

The 2019 Boston Calling Food Menu Is Here, with Hot Chicken Cheesesteaks and Mikkeller Beer

Loosen up your fanny packs, festival-goers: The Boston Calling food and drink lineup is here. The 10th edition of the music festival returns to the […]

Arts & Entertainment

The Boston Calling Spring 2019 Lineup Is Here

Update, May 1, 2019: Janelle Monae and Black Star will no longer be performing at the festival, and Chvrches, Lil Nas X, and others will […]

Arts & Entertainment

Boston Calling Is Selling Holiday Pre-Sale Tickets on Cyber Monday

Boston Calling is offering up holiday pre-sale tickets on Cyber Monday, the earliest and cheapest way to get your spot locked down at the city’s biggest […]

Life & Style

Our Favorite Fan Style from Boston Calling

Stylish music lovers managed to keep their cool in humid temperatures on Friday and Saturday, and look hot on a cool, rainy Sunday. How did artist-in-residence […]

Arts & Entertainment

Meet the Local Teen Who Played Drums with the Killers at Boston Calling

When 17-year-old Nick Evans told classmates at Cohasset High School about his big plans for Boston Calling, they thought he was nuts. “I was telling […]

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Arts & Entertainment

Here’s All the Free Stuff at Boston Calling

From branded games of corn hole to elaborate photo booths, corporate America is out in full force at Boston Calling, catering to the Instagram generation […]

Panda Flaherty, 26, from the South Shore, thinks he "Looks like a minion"
Arts & Entertainment

What It’s Like to Be at Boston Calling 2018

What’s it like to be at Boston Calling 2018? We’ll be asking a different set of questions to attendees each day of the festival to […]

Fans walk in front of a ferris wheel at Boston Calling
Arts & Entertainment

Boston Calling Live Blog 2018

Sunday 8:55 p.m. As the rain worsened, two acts, Fleet Foxes and Khalid, wound things up before the evening’s headliner. We’re wrapping up our 2018 […]