In 2023, alt-pop act, Boys Like Girls, released Sunday At Foxwoods, their first album in over a decade. Following this, the band performed to 5,000 fans, on October 26, 2023, at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park. The 120-minute set was filmed, and has now been shared as a concert film and audio album. Watch it below and find out more.
Stream here: https://ffm.to/blg_homecoming
About the live album, frontman Martin Johnson previously stated:
“Fenway Park. The shrine. The cathedral of Boston. Where curses broke, where beers were spilled, where you can feel the city’s heartbeat under green tin and red clay. You don’t just visit Fenway — you belong to it. I was baptized in peanut shells and piss-warm Bud Light. I sat in seats older than my grandfather’s bad decisions and prayed to the church of Big Papi. It was ours. And then… they dug under it. Right into the bones of Lansdowne Street — into the bedrock of garage bands, bar fights, and rat nests the size of golden retrievers. They carved out the MGM Music Hall like a secret lair, a rebel bunker under the battlefield.”
“I came up with a generation raised on Dunkin’ Donuts and driven half-mad by traffic on Storrow Drive. We were kids with guitars slung over our backs like bayonets, howling through rusted-out PA systems in the backrooms of American Legions, screaming songs into the linoleum void of church basements while the Sox blew another lead in the 7th. We grew up in the shadow of the Big Dig — a $22 billion pothole we all paid for with our sanity — swallowing granite and history, trying to make room for a future nobody asked for. But under all that concrete? Something was rumbling.”
“We were born in abandoned warehouse practice spaces in Haverhill humidity, Charlestown cold, and Taunton’s forgotten back alleys where the floorboards creaked like old Fenway seats and the walls sweated ambition and mildew. Nights under buzzing lights, sleeping above tanning salons, hustling out of the back of Southie dance studios while the Red Line screamed overhead like it knew something we didn’t. This wasn’’ L.A. This wasn’t Brooklyn with its oat milk and self-awareness. This was Boston — revolutionary blood in the bricks, blue-collar fists in the drywall, a city that builds bands like it builds bridges: loud, stubborn, and willing to fall apart a few times before getting it right.”
“We played Knights of Columbus halls and churches in Allston packed with sweaty teenagers who still believed in anthems. We got hit with beer bottles and baseballs outside Bill’s Bar. Those anthems carried us around the world a hundred times and back again. And then… twelve years of silence. No encores. No curtain calls. Just echoes.But now — we’re back. Back where it started. Under the lights in Fenway’s guest house, on a stage built for second chances. A stage for believers and for the ones who never left the pit. This isn’t just a show. It’s a resurrection. Live from the MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park — this is Boys Like Girls. This is The Homecoming.”
Sunday At Foxwoods is a beautiful meeting of their melody-driven pop anthems delivered with the maturity of a band that had many years of growth in between. It served as a bold reintroduction that resonated with a new generation of listeners, while igniting the hearts of longtime fans. After writing and producing for artists like Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, and Jason Derulo, Johnson brought a sharpened pen and a deeper sense of purpose back to the mic.
BLG also orchestrated fan-first promotional events around the launch. Ahead of the album release, the band hosted a premiere of the live concert film for an intimate gathering of lucky winners at Brain Dead Studios on Fairfax last Friday, September 5.
BLG will embark on a slew of upcoming tour dates that run through October. The band has also announced several festival appearances and will be serving as support to The Jonas Brothers through October, as well. So it’s a busy few months of touring ahead Get tickets here: https://www.boyslikegirls.com/tour
Boys Like Girls on tour:
9/11 — Spokane, WA — Spokane County Interstate Fair*
10/3 — North Kansas City, MO — VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Kansas City
10/18 — Las Vegas, NV — When We Were Young*
10/19 — Las Vegas, NV — When We Were Young*
11/16 — Orlando, FL — Warped Tour*
*Festival dates
With The Jonas Brothers:
9/13 — Salt Lake City, UT — Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
9/18 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena
9/20 — Portland, OR — Moda Center
9/22 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena
9/25 — San Francisco, CA — Chase Center
9/26 — Sacramento, CA — Golden 1 Center
9/27 — Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
9/28 — Phoenix, AZ — PHX Arena
9/30 — Albuquerque, NM — Isleta Amphitheater
10/2 — Denver, CO — Ball Arena
10/5 — Des Moines, IA — Wells Fargo Arena
10/6 — Omaha, NE — CHI Health Center
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