Ward Hayden is a Scituate superfan at Lizard Lounge on Thursday, 22 May 2025.

Charlie Marie Clines the Patsy in the opening slot.

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Declaw / Husbands / Not Milk / Office Hours

Jun 16

A quadruplestack of rock in Rat City, USA.

Raspberry Pie / Battlemode / Koji Kompote Band

Jun 17

Raspberry Pie: The Tokyo Summer Tour comes to Boston!

Bottom Bracket / Clipboards / Oldsoul / Trash Rabbit

Jun 26

Rock n roll fourstack extraordinaire at Deep Cuts.

Jun 28

The legendary documentary about the legendary rock n roll band.

Jun 29

Matinees are punk rock at Midway Cafe.

Jul 1

Know Your Scene free show series returns to Deep Cuts.

Jul 5

Sensory overload at the Capitol! Music, film, video games, and multi-media explosion…

Jul 7

Monster slate at Jamaica Plain’s premiere music joint.

Jul 11

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

Jul 13

The story of groundbreaking slide-guitarist Ellen McIlwaine.

Sep 3

Willie Fest 3. Bands and special guests TBA. Part of Hot Willie Summer.

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Ward Hayden & The Outliers

There’s never a bad time to pay homage to Bruce Springsteen, but the moment felt particularly ripe as Ward Hayden and the Outliers debuted their new covers album Little By Little at the Lizard Lounge last Thursday. The band gave an alt country spin to the Americana classics, while Hayden soft-pedaled the overt political commentary that’s getting the Boss headlines lately.

By the way, if you think there’s not a country crowd in Cambridge, you haven’t been to a Ward Hayden show. The redlight-drenched subterranean dive on the outskirts of Harvard Square was filled to the ten-gallon brim with folks two-stepping in the aisles.

Like Springsteen, Hayden is a natural storyteller, and he uses small town narratives to dig up deeper truths about life and the living of it. In Hayden’s case the small town is Scituate, his childhood hometown, “a drinking town with a fishing problem.”

Hayden called leaving Scituate his “greatest achievement” in one breath, and confessed that he had since moved back with his wife in the next. The reversal earned a round of knowing laughter from the crowd, acknowledging the strange ways the wheel of fate can treat us, as the band launched into the original “South Shore” about that very same homecoming.

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Ward Hayden and the Outliers: “Youngstown”

A story that starts in 1803.

Have Boss, Will Travel

Ward Hayden is a Scituate superfan at Lizard Lounge.

Swagg Saturday

Day Two at Boston Calling AKA “your second chance to wait in line at House of Dunkin.”

Charlie Marie

Country strumming chanteuse Charlie Marie opened. She might be living out her own “greatest achievement” in Nashville these days, though she’s originally from Rhode Island. Will the strange wheel of fate bring Marie back around one day to her own South Shore epiphany?