BEST MUSIC POLL CONCERT 2009: THE BRAVERY, PASSION PIT & MORE!

Get Ready for a GLORIOUS summer evening of music on August 1st! The Best Music Poll Concert is an outdoor, all-ages concert on Boston's City Hall Plaza featuring The Bravery, Passion Pit, The Airborne Toxic Event, Metric, Gaslight Anthem and Ra Ra Riot! The Free event is hosted by WFNX and The Phoenix, from 4:00pm - 11:00pm. For directions go here.

MOVIES AT THE HATCHSHELL

This Friday (July, 31) Mama Mia will be playing at the Hatchshell. Find your dad there at 7pm.

Somerville ROCK N ROLL YARD SALE

Union Square is hosting the Rock N Roll Yard Sale, an independent market of sorts for all types of music related stuff like records (vintage), compactdiscs (also vintage), hand made arts and crafts, silk screened posters and tshirts, vintage and locally designed clothing and accessories, eyeglasses, jewelry, handmade cards and prints, and hand destroyed guitars (not actually). Event runs from 3-7pm on Saturday, Aug 1.

Middlesex Lounge dance party with the BODEGA GIRLS

Awesome party band BODEGA GIRLS are playing a free show tonight at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge. Come out and be a part of the primetime sex crime. (esp. if you were really sad they didn't play at the ANTICS event)

Puma mp3 BEATDOWN: Championship

DJ Frank White (and a first hour open bar) get you all pumped up for the third and final round of this waterfront (at the awesome awesome Institute of Contemporary Art) iPod DJ showdown as eight teams (including the Dig, Bodega, Team LAB, CVS(?), etc) battle for dance floor domination. Get there early as there is an extremely strict capacity when the party really gets going around 9pm. I'll prob be getting there just before 8.

Taking Back Sunday July 24th

The Punk-Pop band Taking Back Sunday is playing a FREE show tonight at the Verizon Wireless stage in City Hall Plaza! Click here for directions.

Fun Fridays at the Franklin Park Zoo

The Franklin Park Zoo will be open, free of charge, to the public in celebration of the Highland Street Foundation’s 20th anniversary. The foundation is sponsoring the Free “Fun Fridays” program that will provide free admission to a designated Massachusetts museum or attraction for ten Fridays this summer. Other museums included in the "Fun Fridays" include the Museum of Science, Boston Harbor Island Alliance Ferrys, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Childrens Museum. See: http://highlandstreet.org/free_fun_fridays for a full list.
Perfect for your insatiable, yet economically conscious thirst for that electric ball thing that makes your hair stand up, standing at the front of a ferry screaming "I'M THE KING OF THE WORRRLD", and planning your next museum heist.s

Beach Boys and Bodega Girls

Both artists are so encompassing of summer and good times. Both artists are also playing free shows here in Boston on Saturday, July 25. Beach Boys at the Hatchshell on the Esplanade and Bodega Girls at Artists for Humanity (100 W. 2nd St.), the ANTICS event (RSVP here). So if you're looking for some smooth surf sounds or more in the mood to shake your moneymaker, Saturday night looks good.

Arnold Skolnick at International Poster Gallery

First post to BOSTAWESOME includes an open house at the International Poster Gallery (205 Newbury Street) featuring Arnold Skolnick. Skolnick designed the iconic 1969 Woodstock Music Festival poster. He will be visiting the gallery on Thursday, August, 6 from 5-7:30PM including a short talk at 6PM. RSVP is requested at woodstock@internationalpostergallery.com and more information is available at www.internationalposter.com.