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Well, it’s official: at least for a weekend, Foxborough is the punk capital of the universe. With not one but two Warped Tour (617-931-2000 for tickets) dates in store — the traditionally prank-strewn tour ender today (August 19) and a once-a-decade 10th Anniversary Reunion show on Friday — there won’t have been this much rowdiness at Gillette Stadium since, uh, the AFC Championship game last year. Most of you, we hope, clipped and saved the line-ups for both shows that ran in last week’s "Arts News," but if you need a recap: tonight’s gig serves up New Found Glory, Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Avenged Sevenfold, and a couple dozen more. For the anniversary gig on Friday, the returning vets include Rancid, Pennywise, Dropkick Murphys, Andrew W.K., Fishbone, Murphy’s Law, Good Charlotte, MXPX, the Vandals, Body Count, and H20. It wouldn’t surprise us to see at least a couple of those bands make surprise appearances closer to Boston. We can tell you that Juliette Lewis’s punk band, Juliette and the Licks, who played a few dates earlier in the tour, are heralding the opening of a Hard Rock Café tonight (August 19) at Foxwoods Casino (800-200-2882). And Toad’s Place (203-562-5589) in New Haven hosts Sick of It All tonight with du jour hardcore faves Terror tonight; Warped escapees Rufio, from Dexter Holland’s Nitro label, on Friday; and Fishbone on Saturday. Emmylou Harris’s "Sweet Harmony Revue" tour is a reunion of sorts, bringing together some of her favorite collaborators — Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Patty Griffin, and Buddy Miller — for a traveling hootenanny of solo and ensemble sets. The tour touches down Friday at FleetBoston Pavilion (617-931-2000) and Saturday at Meadowbrook Musical Arts Center (603-293-4700) in Gilford, New Hampshire. The buzzed-about Vermont singer-songwriter Grace Potter, who recently opened for Welch and has been warmly received in Ireland, brings her jazz-tinged roots music to the Milky Way (617-524-3740) in Jamaica Plain on Friday — on a bill opening for the reconvened Orchestra Morphine, who’ll be marking the fifth anniversary of Morphine leader Mark Sandman’s untimely death — and returns home to Club Metronome (802-865-4563) in Burlington on Wednesday. Connecticut hard-rock radio station WCCC throws a "Family Picnic" at Meadows Music Theater (203-265-1501) in Hartford on Friday with sets from Static-X, Breaking Benjamin, Soil, and Nonpoint. (In an unusual gimmick, girls — of any age, no ticket needed — get in free.) Static-X and Soil also show up at Lupo’s at the Strand (401-331-5876) in Providence on Saturday. Elsewhere, the Tweeter Center (617-931-2000) in Mansfield hosts John Mayer and Maroon 5 on Friday and the Allman Brothers on Saturday. The female-fronted Finnish goth-metal band Nightwish play the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester on Friday. And Dear Leader play Friday at the Wellfleet Beachcomber (508-349-6055) on Cape Cod. BY CARLY CARIOLI |
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