#roadrunner boston

[ifuckinghatebriansella]

historic cemetery - roadrunner, boston - 9/26/25

requested by @nick-the-dog

[ifuckinghatebriansella]

i always hype up how it feels to be there for be nice to me but this time i decided to try and show what it's like in the audience for this. awoo brothers

be nice to me - roadrunner, boston - 9/26/25

[ifuckinghatebriansella]

apologies for the incomplete recording, there was a girl who was groping my friend next to me and i was kinda focused on that issue. apparently she was causing problems for several other people too. high as a kite, not from weed though, something else. according to someone i spoke to, she was arrested because when security was escorting her out, she tried to physically fight them. makes sense.

laugh til i cry - roadrunner, boston - 9/26/25

[ifuckinghatebriansella]

motorcycle (show opening) - roadrunner, boston - 9/26/25

[professor-shock]

🦐🦐🦐

Viagra Boys 9/23/25 - Roadrunner Boston, MA

[thursdaynovember]

at a music venue and they have a sign to warn people of tampered drinks like what to look for if someone put something in your drink but like

it’d be easy enough for the venue to include those little drink covers when you ordered an open top drink from the bar, no? but i guess even as relatively inexpensive as that’d be it’d still be more than putting up a sign.

better than nothing i suppose but still

[greensparty]

Returning to Live Music

Last Summer, I wrote about returning to the movie theater after over a year. Now its time for me to write about returning to live music!

Roadrunner logo

The last concert I went to was Brothers of a Feather (Chris and Rich Robinson of The Black Crowes) at Brighton Music Hall in Feb. 2020. I didn’t know at the time that it was going to be my last concert for over two years. For a music geek like me, that’s a long stretch of not seeing a concert. Just a few weeks after that show, all live music venues shut down during the pandemic lockdown. As the world slowly re-opened again, there were some concerts here and there, but it wasn’t until 2021 when vaccines became available that live music really came back. It hasn’t been easy with several musicians needing to pause their tour due to a positive case in their band or organization. But the act of seeing a musician performing live and the communal experience of being surrounded by fans of that music experiencing it together was something everyone truly missed and once it was back it was appreciated more than ever. For me, I did not feel comfortable going to a concert until my son was fully vaccinated. Once that happened in December, I had hoped to go to a concert, but then the Omicron wave started and I stayed in. Last week at the very last minute I got tickets to see LCD Soundsystem, who were doing a multi-night residency at Roadrunner Boston, the new music venue that just opened at Boston Landing in Brighton. It was an offer I couldn’t refuse.

LCD Soundsystem live

I first heard the Brooklyn band when I was living in NYC in the mid-00s. The band’s leader James Murphy, is also the founder of DFA Records, the home of Holy Ghost!, who I’m a big fan of. HG’s Nick Millhiser is actually a touring member of LCD Soundsystem right now on synth and percussion. LCD Soundsystem’s combination of rock and synth pop was perfect for NYC and the world in the 00s. I never got heavy into them, but always liked their stuff, especially their albums Sound of Silver and This is Happening. As they were breaking through to the mainstream, Murphy decided to have the band’s last show at Madison Square Garden before breaking up. If you haven’t seen the documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits about the band’s last week and their MSG shows, I highly recommend it. Like a lot of retirements, they don’t last and the band reunited around 2016. Their reunion album American Dream went to #1. In late 2021, the band did a residency at Brooklyn Bowl. This year they appeared on SNL and have announced several residencies including Boston’s four night stand at Roadrunner.

LCD Soundsystem at Roadrunner

At the last minute I got a chance to get tickets and my wife and I went. Fortunately it is not too far away. There was event parking in the lot for $20, but I know the area and scored street parking nearby. When we went inside, we wore our masks (except for our drinks) and we were among the few wearing masks at the venue. Roadrunner certainly has that new-car-smell to it. It was shiny and clean. The set up reminds me of Sinclair, but with a larger capacity than House of Blues. There was a large audience, but if you’re concerned about social distancing, you could be on the outskirts of the audiences. The band was fantastic! They played so many of their epic hits “Get Innocuous!”, “Tribulations”, “Someone Great”, “All My Friends” and best of all “New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down”. But the real highlight was just being back at a concert: seeing an excellent band onstage, grooving to their infectious beat, being surrounded by other fans and having this communal escapism that I missed so much! 

me at my first concert in over two years

In June of last year, when Foo Fighters were the first concert at Madison Square Garden there were all kinds of articles about how exciting it was to have live music back after being away from it for so long. At this Roadrunner show is where I was finally having that same feeling!