Editor’s Note: Welcome to On Sale @, a weekly series from Vanyaland alerting concertgoers to the best shows coming to MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Check in each week for a highlighted look at each show, and how to access the best tickets as soon as they go on sale.
Pixies, July 18 and 19
The upcoming 2025 is destined to be the Year of Pixies. Which is wild, because for us here in Massachusetts, every year since like 1988 has been the Year of Pixies. But the iconic and influential indie band delivered a new album called The Night the Zombies Came last week, just in time for a proper Halloween scream, and will set off on a tour next summer that delivers them to Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway for two nights on July 18 and 19. Each evening will have its own flair: Night one sees Pixies performing fan-favorite albums Bossanova and Trompe le Monde in full; while night two promises a mix of classics from across their storied and often-imitated catalog, including songs from the new record. It should be a special homecoming doubleheader. The Night the Zombies Came is the band’s 10th overall — if counting their classic 1987 4AD mini LP Come On Pilgrim, as suggested by pixiesmerch.com — and first dose of new music since 2022’s Doggerel. It was recorded at Vermont’s Guilford Sound studios with producer Tom Dalgety, and features new bassist Emma Richardson. Check out our recent article on the band giving reunion advice to Oasis, and hear new single “The Vegas Suite” below. Tickets go on sale on Friday (November 1) at 10 a.m. local time.
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, South of Here Tour, March 28 and 29 [second show added!]
We love a good flex. So we couldn’t help but notice that when Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats‘ label team of Stax/Fantasy/Concord sent out a quick press release last month for new single “Call Me (Whatever You Like)”, it included some streaming links, a press photo, tour dates, and four select pull quotes. Those quotes didn’t come from press, radio, or blogs, they came from Howard Stern, Noah Kahan, Zach Bryan, and Robert Plant. That’s some heavy-hitter action. The spotlight track is the follow-up to previous single “Heartless,” listenable below, and both are included on the Americana band’s summer album South Of Here. Now Rateliff and the dudes have announced an extended run of tour dates for the record, and it wraps with March 28 and 29 gigs (second show just added!) at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. “We have dreamt of playing shows like this for our entire career, to know they are actually happening feels bigger than any dream I could have had,” Rateliff says. “This tour wouldn’t be possible without you all, I feel your love so deeply. Thank you for your endless support, see you soon.” Now that’s a quote. Tickets to the new date go on sale on Friday (November 1) at 10 a.m. local time.
Destroy Lonely, FOREVER TOUR, February 2
Performing live at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Tickets go on sale on Friday (November 1) at 10 a.m. local time.