Colleen Green celebrates ten years of something special at The Rockwell on Tuesday, 24 June 2025.

Rozwell Kid pulls double duty, serving as backing band and playing their own set

Headband bands heads in the opening slot.

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Jul 11

Build-Your-Own-Guitar Night at Deep Cuts.

Jul 12

An Allston Pudding x The 4th Wall collab at Capitol Theater.

Jul 13

The story of groundbreaking slide-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine.

Jul 24

Ryan Cassata tours new LP Greetings From Echo Park through Midway Cafe.

Aug 7

Somergloom returns with a three-day schedule.

Hump Nights

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Not so breaking news, perhaps, but Narragansett beer is cheap again at The Rockwell. In a previous live review (“$13 Narragansetts Are My Copilot”), I bitched about the hefty price tag of the hefty beers, clocking in around $13 for a jumbo size 24oz. I like beer, but that’s a steep point of entry just to have something to sip on. The alternate beverages were sized and priced similarly.

But at recent shows a 16oz Narragansett tallboy was on sale at a normal price. So all is well with the world, I guess.

Headband

Colleen Green’s breakthrough album I Want To Grow Up turns ten years old this year. In honor of the occasion, the indie rocker wore a birthday hat – one of those pointy, colorful cardboard numbers with a thin elastic chin strap – on stage at Davis Square’s favorite black box theatre.

Rozwell Kid, which also served as Green’s backing band, and Headband opened in support.

Rozwell Kid

Green played the birthday album through, start to finish. In 2015 the album represented a leap forward for the artist, both creatively and professionally. It was her first album recorded in a studio with all (or at least some) of the bells and whistles, capturing her minimalist pop punk style and blasé wit in high relief.

Critics hailed a stoner chic icon in ascendance. The added twist was that Green’s major motivation within the narrative of the album is to pull back from immature excess and, like the title says, “grow up.”

Reading through the old reviews, Ben Ratliff at the New York Times wrote an eyebrow-raising blurb. He praised the songs as having a “basic air of competence.” A basic air of competence!

Hard to take that as anything but a backhanded compliment. Sure, he followed it up with “toughness” and “self-reliance,” but the snippery had already been sniped. It’s the Gray Lady, though, so you take what you can get.

Colleen Green

All the critical handwringing is more or less in the past. Green’s last full-length album, 2021’s Cool, pleased audiences who were already fans but otherwise did not make the same splash as I Want To Grow Up. If she’s now embarking on anniversary tours, we’re firmly within her nostalgia era.

Fair enough. Green’s punched the clock at the indie rock factory for over a decade, which is nearly a career in the dog years of underground music. She’s probably thinking about her punk rock pension at this point, and who can blame her? All part of growing up.