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O'BRIEN'S PUB

Website: obrienspubboston.com
Calendar: obrienspubboston.com/show/

ABOUT

O'Brien's Pub is a 70-capacity dive bar and live music venue at 3 Harvard Ave in Allston. The pub operates as a full-time music room, booking shows most nights of the week across all genres.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Expect an up-close, loud, sweaty rock club experience featuring underground and emerging acts. Playing O'Brien's is considered a rite of passage for Boston-area musicians, with bands often graduating to larger venues after cutting their teeth here.

HISTORY

O'Brien's has been a fixture of the Allston music scene since the early 1980s. The venue gained additional significance after the 2020 closure of its sister club, Great Scott. Both venues share booking manager Carl Lavin, and O'Brien's is planned to reopen alongside the new Great Scott location in 2027.

Sources:
[1] obrienspubboston.com [2] boston.com [3] yelp.com [4] indieonthemove.com [5] do617.com

UPCOMING SHOWS

Monday

  • 7:00pm — Birds on Thursday / Stuck on Static / Ashy Finn / Topside let's go

Tuesday

  • 7:00pm — DeDe Booth / People Eating Plastic / GhostGuard rock out

Wednesday

  • 7:00pm — Inplainsight / Dowsing Rod / Evil Felipe / Horrendous Downplay get loud

Thursday

  • 7:00pm — Miracle Blood / Bug Day / Sapling let's go

Friday

  • 7:00pm — Lipsmear / Clone / Vivid Bloom / Dyr Faser jazz vibes

Saturday

  • 1:00pm — Chelsea Curve / The Northern Line / Modern Day Idols / DJ Sherman tix

Sunday

  • 7:00pm — Jack O. Lantern / Salem June / Thought Partner / Intac! rock out

Monday - 3/2

  • 7:00pm — Cowboy Killers / The Royale Me / Regal Seagull / Time Eaters get loud

Tuesday - 3/3

  • 7:00pm — Motherhood / Holiday Music / Darling Effigy let's go

Wednesday - 3/4

  • 7:00pm — Lucid Express / High / Sophie’s Bodie tix

Thursday - 3/5

  • 7:00pm — Mike Viola / Drumming Bird / Ezra Cohen jazz vibes

Friday - 3/6

  • 7:00pm — Anthms / Splitview / Nicoteens / Neverless.AM get loud

Saturday - 3/7

  • 7:00pm — Tree / Scumbari / Beantown Boozehounds / Hammered Saint rock out

Sunday - 3/8

  • 7:00pm — Nighthawk / Whiskey Ginger / Aedan MacDougall let's go

Monday - 3/9

  • 7:00pm — Boy Polloi / Day Dream / Quantum Moon tix

Tuesday - 3/10

  • 7:00pm — Ritual Grief / Screams of Hockomock / Trespass / Clifford rock out

Wednesday - 3/11

  • 7:00pm — Blessed Be / Lark's Head / Gloomlurker / ICBM get loud

Friday - 3/13

  • 7:00pm — Bootblacks / The Discussion / Andey Samhain / Delusive Relics jazz vibes

Saturday - 3/14

Sunday - 3/15

  • 7:00pm — Bone Weapon / Hallucivore / Commuted rock out

Wednesday - 3/18

  • 7:00pm — Celebrity Sighting / Nice Guys / Whyte Lipstick / Merry Merry tix

Thursday - 3/19

  • 7:00pm — South Pleasant Revival / Close Drive / Muzzle / Dalton Moon get loud

Friday - 3/20

  • 7:00pm — Consumer Culture / Fat Randy / BEDTIMEMAGIC / Deprogrammer Cult rock out

Saturday - 3/21

  • 7:00pm — Burp / JVK / Knock Over City / Make it So jazz vibes

Sunday - 3/22

  • 7:00pm — Bird Week / Alma June & The Persian Cats / Ana Blosset / Boy Blue let's go

Tuesday - 3/24

  • 7:00pm — Mercy Music / Taken Days / Wes Hoffman and Friends / The New Noise get loud

Thursday - 3/26

  • 7:00pm — Night Moth / Dot Dev / Johnny Tex rock out

Saturday - 3/28

  • 7:00pm — Mellow Bravo x Strictly Vinyl Crew tix

Tuesday - 3/31

  • 7:00pm — Valleyview & Angelbite let's go

Thursday - 4/2

  • 7:00pm — Indikator B / Uniformed Service / Phantom Rider / Knelt get loud

Thursday - 4/9

  • 7:00pm — Farseek / Blame It On Whitman / Dogcat / Peach Creek rock out

Saturday - 4/11

  • 7:00pm — Hot Load / Pink Mist / Burning Wind / Phantom Rider jazz vibes

Sunday - 4/19

  • 7:00pm — Keep Ons / Tides / Unseemlier / The Promised End! tix

Full schedule at obrienspubboston.com/show/ →

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