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These 2024 shows were highlights!
Event was held on Saturday December 28, 2024
Doors at 2:30, LIVE Music from 3:00 – 7:00 pm (All Ages)
Paradise Rock Club – 967 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
Johnboy Franklin Memorial/Benefit
Plus The Channel Boston’s best live rock!
Lineup
- The Dogmatics
- Diablogato
- Charlie Farren (Joe Perry Project, Farrenheit)
- Big City Rockers (The Atlantics tribute band, featuring lead guitarist Fred Pineau of The Atlantics)
- Johnny Barnes
- Adam Sherman (Private Lightning, The Souls)
Just added to this incredible bill… announcing that the world’s greatest Santa-themed Iggy And The Stooges tribute band, The Scrooges will be joining us to close out the show with a bang!
We’re also very happy to announce that many of our friends from WBCN will be on hand to MC the show.
Including Bradley Jay, Carmelita, Carter Alan and Shred, with a couple others also likely! Many more surprises and special guests expected…
PLUS! 100’s of photos, T-shirts, posters, jackets, and music memorabilia from Johnboy’s amazing collection on display… and then auctioned off!
From the hosts Smitt E. Smitty, John Graham and Sean McNally:
Please join us as we celebrate Johnboy Franklin and others who’ve passed too soon, as we’ll be displaying a ton of his iconic photographs and t-shirts and posters and other amazing Boston Rock memorabilia that he accumulated over the years, and then we’ll be auctioning and selling all of it off to raise funds for a great cause!
This is also a reunion for employees, musicians, stagehands and friends and families of The Channel Boston’s best live rock!, so of course we’ll have a great live entertainment lineup as well. The first acts to be announced include The Dogmatics, Diablogato, Charlie Farren, and Big City Rockers/Boston, who will be performing a set of classics by The Atlantics! More acts and surprises to be announced in the coming days.
This will be an early show, with Doors opening at 2:30 and live music starting at 3PM, with WBCN jocks acting as MCs. Tickets range in price from $25-75, with $25 tickets for General Admission, $35 for limited seats on the floor close to the stage, and $75 for VIP ticketing in private booths on the mezzanine level. *(VIP tickets also afford you early access at 2PM, 1st glance at the auction items, and line-cutting privileges.)
Event was held on September 22, 2024
3:00 PM – 7:00 PM (All Ages)
The Rat Reunion: Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of The Rathskeller
Bellforge Arts Center 45 Hospital Road Medfield, MA 02052
Bellforge Arts Center presented: The Rat Reunion: Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of The Rathskeller. Known as “The Rat,” this iconic punk rock club in Kenmore Square, Boston, was the epicenter of Boston’s punk rock scene. It hosted local legends like DMZ, The Atlantics, and The Neighborhoods, while also attracting major bands like The Police, The Ramones, and Talking Heads.
Its was an unforgettable event featuring live performances by Nervous Eaters, The Dogmatics, and Tree. Explore “The History of the Rat” exhibit from the David Bieber Archives and hear legendary tales from The Rat, shared by our host, Oedipus (WBCN). Enjoy food and beverages available for purchase, with the added convenience of free parking.
Schedule was:
3:00pm DOORS
4:00pm TREE
5:00pm THE DOGMATICS
6:00pm NERVOUS EATERS
“The Rat was a special place in time. More than a club, a state of mind. When a group of amorphous outcasts created a community centered around an underground music that became our soundtrack. A scene never to be duplicated. A streetlight spotlight demi-monde.”
– Oedipus
Read Press Coverage:
‘The Rat Reunion’ reinvigorates Boston rock history at Bellforge Arts Center
– The Boston Globe by Victoria Wasylak
Rat Reunion to Celebrate 50 Years of Boston Punk in Medfield
– Rock 92.9
Bellforge Arts Center plans a rockin’ tribute to the Rat’s legacy
– WBUR by Andrea Shea
Live Show Review
As small, independent venues seem to be dying out in Boston proper, breweries in the suburbs seem to be filling that gap. The most prominent one is Faces Brewing Co. in Malden, MA, which has a dedicated backroom with a stage that puts on shows regularly. I’ve been meaning to check it out for a while, and I finally had a chance to with a killer Boston garage rock punk triple bill filled with bands from two of my favorite record labels: Rum Bar Records and Red On Red Records! In a weekend filled with fantastic shows, I could not pass up seeing The Dogmatics, The Shang Hi Los, and The Chelsea Curve!
Opening the night were Boston legends The Dogmatics, who have been kicking around in various forms since 1981. They play a blend of punk and garage rock that has barely slowed down in their forty plus years. It’s the kind of gritty rock music that you wouldn’t expect to see in a high end venue/restaurant, but that’s what happens with a band starts hitting their fifties and sixties. Interestingly enough, they played “Sister Serena” as the second song in their set, which might be their most well known song. Even more interestingly, they closed out their set with “Drop That Needle” and “Automat Kalashnikov,” which were two songs from 2022’s excellent EP Drop That Needle. It was a move that broke pretty much every setlist rule for a band that’s been around over forty years, but The Dogmatics made it work perfectly. “Drop That Needle” seemed to get the biggest response of their set which proves just how great their new songs are… Read the February 13, 2023 review
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The Dogmatics
Oct. 2024 Single
With A Scarlet Letter
New single "With A Scarlet Letter" was written and sung by Peter O'Halloran. This track may come off like a goofy garage/pub rocker on the surface. But at a deeper level, it examines our nation's puritanical heritage and warns of forces in America which seek to erode the separation church and state. So, yeah, it's a fun sing-along number that's also a political anthem. This band never disappoints.
The Dogmatics
Sep. 2024 Single
Library Girl
It steams ahead like the best Dogmatic material... The Dogs are in the same creative tear they were in the early eighties. It’s amazing to see and hear it happen. We have this on our Top Ten songs.
Library Girl is the kind of rock song any fan of this kind of music should get to know to draw The Dogmatics out of the Boston circuit. Yes, Library Girl is that good, believe me.
It's 100% vintage Dogmatics and vintage Jerry Lehane — a mid-tempo punk-pop banger straight out of the Boston garage rock textbook... And some of those lyrics made me laugh out loud!
