If you’re a fan of concerts, music festivals, and headliner tours of the sort, you know that the summer is the prime time for events such as these. And lucky enough for all BHS students, we live close enough to venues that many of these performances will be less than an hour drive away. So what concerts should you look out for this summer? Check out our list of some of the fantastic tours that will making their way through Massachusetts this summer!

Grandview: 6/5/14; Venue TBA

Modern Baseball, Tiny Moving Parts, The Hoterlier: 6/7/14; Cambridge, MA – Middle East

Nothing, Superheaven [formerly Daylight], and Whirr: 6/12/14; Boston, MA – TBA

The Monumentour – Paramore and Fall Out Boy: 6/22/14; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Vans Warped Tour: 7/10/14; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Justin Timberlake: 7/19/14; Boston, MA – TD Garden

Pentimento, Have Mercy, and Gates: 7/23/14; Cambridge, MA – Middle East Upstairs

Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden: 7/29/14; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Say Anything, The Front Bottoms, You Blew It!: 7/29/14; Boston, MA – House Of Blues

Young The Giant and Kings Of Leon: 8/9/14; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Vandals: 8/11/14; Boston, MA – House Of Blues

Linkin Park, 30 Seconds To Mars, and AFI: 8/16; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Arcade Fire: 8/19/14; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

Mötley Crüe Farewell Tour w/ Alice Cooper: 8/24/12; Mansfield, MA – Xfinity Center

The Black Keys and Cage the Elephant: 9/21/14; Boston, MA – TD Garden

This is the first ever TDP podcast. We would like to give a special thanks to all those who were interviewed for this podcast including Mrs. Janovitz, Mrs. Ford, TJ Horgan, and Angel Vargas. All links to mentioned bands and articles can be found below:

Bands Mentioned:

The Dirty Looks’ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheDirtyLooks?fref=ts

Link to The Dirty Looks’ new single “Catholic Radio”: http://thedirtylooks.bandcamp.com/track/catholic-radio-single

Grandview’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/grandviewma?fref=ts

Link to Grandview’s “Everything Between Paint and a Wall”: http://grandview.bandcamp.com/album/everything-between-paint-and-a-wall

TJ Horgan’s Original Article from “The Devil’s Advocate”:

SEE PAGE THREE: http://bhsdevilsadvocate.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/wintereditiondevilsadvocate2014final.pdf

Links to Other BHS Music Sites:

Music and Performing Arts Page: http://burlingtonmusic.wordpress.com/

Songs used for Background Music:

1) “The Addict” – Amarante

2) “Sitting On Gold (The Latter)” – Grandview

3) “Catholic Radio” – The Dirty Looks

4) “Never Meant” – American Football

5) “Once the Ocean” – Owel

6) “Golden Twin” – Wild Ones

7) “Gold” – Macklemore

8) “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked” – Cage the Elephant

9) “Touch Me I’m Sick” – Mudhoney

10) “Anna Molly” – Incubus

11) “A King Returns Home” – Angel Vargas

12) “Fughetta in C” – Daniel Rooney

13) “Graves” – The Color and Sound

After writing three different records over the past year and ultimately deciding to scrap all of them, it seems as though Burlington, MA-based band The Dirty Looks have been through it all. Despite these recent challenges, after a creative burst that consisted of about a week and a half of constant writing, the band created four songs they were truly proud of and recorded them in just three days. Being the first single from this upcoming EP, “Catholic Radio” expresses just how much this persistence benefitted the band as a whole. With a sound characterized by beautifully articulated guitar parts and grooves that are undeniably jammin’, this single creates a perfect mesh between conscientious, well thought-out musicality and a universally enjoyable rock attitude. In addition to the track’s impressive cohesiveness, “Catholic Radio” has arguably the band’s catchiest chorus to date and acts as a beautiful first single, enticing listeners to check out the rest of the upcoming EP. The track simultaneously sets high expectations for the rest of the songs that The Dirty Looks are sure to fulfill. So what should you do, Devils? Why not give “Catholic Radio” a listen? It’ll be your next jam!

Check out the single on The Dirty Looks’ bandcamp page here:

http://thedirtylooks.bandcamp.com/

Since September, when Mumford & Sons announced that the group would be going on a temporary hiatus, the band has remained relatively quiet with their endeavors until the quartet’s banjo player, Winston Marshall, recently broke the silence. Last night in an interview with Vulture, Marshall stated that the band was no more. “It’s over,” he said, “We had a good time, though, you know. It was good.” Today, multiple representatives for the band confirmed that Marshall was just making some kind of bad joke, meaning for the remark to be taken in jest. Despite the fact that the band will not be breaking up any time soon, Mumford & Sons will continue their hiatus for the time being.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan, recently announced that the band will release two albums in 2015: Monuments To An Elegy and Day For Night. In terms of what fans should expect for a sound, Corgan stated on the band’s website, ” Think: ‘guitars, guitars, guitars, and more guitars’; but more so on the epic side of things than say, grossly metallic.” With many of the songs ready to record, the band  and Howard Willing, producer of their 1998 album Adore,  hit the studio on Tuesday. The Smashing Pumpkins plan to release a new single by the end of 2014.

Check out Corgan’s full post on the band’s website here:

http://www.smashingpumpkinsnexus.com/#!Two-New-Smashing-Pumpkins-Albums-Set-for-2015/c7ba/A17022BC-8DA1-4A25-9D18-71B7B24E39BB