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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Aug 2

Matinees are punk rock (and a little emo) at Midway Cafe.

Aug 7

Somergloom hits its 5th year anniversary of heavy music at Deep Cuts.

Aug 8

Somergloom hits its 5th year anniversary of heavy music at Crystal Ballroom.

Aug 8

The 4th Wall celebrates its 21-month anniversary at Capitol Theater.

Aug 9

Somergloom hits its 5th year anniversary of heavy music at Crystal Ballroom.

Johnnie & the Foodmasters / K.O. Queen / Electric Street Queens

Aug 14

Johnnie & the Foodmasters celebrate a lost decade at Deep Cuts.

Aug 25

A monthly Z-movie night at Capitol Theatre.

Aug 30

Ska punk matinee & Jerry’s return from the dead at Midway Cafe.

Hack the Planet: Hackers celebrates 30 Years

Sep 12

30th anniversary of Hackers explodes with screening, celebs, and A/V bonanza.

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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.

Ward Hayden

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?