Summer of Rock 2024: Free Tickets, Post-Show Sets & More
The Summer of Rock 2024 has arrived on Boston’s ROCK 92.9. Read on to find out how to score tickets to the summer’s biggest shows. Your “ticket” to all the…
The Summer of Rock 2024 has arrived on Boston's ROCK 92.9. Read on to find out how to score tickets to the summer's biggest shows.
Your "ticket" to all the tickets this summer? The free ROCK 92.9 app. Download it in the Apple App Store or Google Play. Once you have the app, hit the Contest Page, scroll through the shows, and enter to win to your heart's content.
And remember: once you have the app, you're just a few taps away from all things Dave & Chuck the Freak. Full-show podcasts, the Tasty Bits Podcast, and Peep Show videos. All free, whenever you want 'em. And if you're reading this on the app? Well done.
Summer of Rock 2024: More Than Just Free Tickets
You'll want to use to use that free ROCK 92.9 app to listen live, too, as we'll have ROCK 92.9 Encores for select summer shows. So when you're on the way home from Foo Fighters or Green Day or Pearl Jam at Fenway, tune in after the show for big blocks from those bands.
And for the shows you can't make it to? We've got you covered with reviews. In fact, Adam 12 was on hand for the first two big rock shows of the season at Fenway. Read his review of Foo Fighters here, and his recap of Blink-182 here.
Summer of Rock 2024: What's Next?
The next few weeks are packed, and here's a selection of shows you can win tickets to. Incubus at TD Garden. Jane's Addiction at Leader Bank Pavilion. Pearl Jam at Fenway Park. See who else is coming and enter to win here.
And here are two more reviews: Metallica's No Repeat Weekend, complete with photos, and Adam 12's kid Kade reviewing Green Day at Fenway. Enjoy!
My 15-year-old Wrote This Awesome Green Day Fenway Review
Green Day brought their Saviors Tour to town, so I brought along my favorite concert correspondent to write up a Green Day Fenway review.
It was a full-circle moment of sorts for Kade: their first big rock show was the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day and Weezer at Fenway Park in the summer of 2021. That was their first Green Day Fenway review, too. You can read it here.
Since then, I've put them to work covering Spoon in Providence, Red Hot Chili Peppers at Fenway, Smashing Pumpkins at the Garden, and Boston Calling 2023. They're building up quite the resume! Take it away, Kade.
Green Day performed 'Dookie' front-to-back at Fenway Park on August 7, 2024.
Green Day Fenway Review: "Killer Show!"
We arrived at Fenway Park shortly after The Linda Lindas ended (thanks a lot, traffic) and hopped into the merch line immediately. Once we procured a shirt for me (thanks, Mom!), we found our seats. And it was just in time for Rancid to take the stage.
They were great. I only knew "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho" going in, but I enjoyed the whole set regardless. After Rancid, we moved down to the turf for a better view of Smashing Pumpkins. I've seen them before (you should read my review if I wrote one; I can't remember).
Editor's note: they did; it's linked above & here.
The Pumpkins were just as amazing this time around, if not better! It was so cool to see them up close, and I went crazy when they played "Beguiled." Definitely a rad performance. Now, for the main event: Green Day.
Green Day also performed 'American Idiot' in its entirety at Fenway Park on August 7, 2024.
Green Day Fenway Review: Having a Blast
Seeing Green Day at Fenway was a pretty big deal for me because seeing them at Fenway for the Hella Mega Tour back in 2021 was the first real concert I ever went to. I got a little emotional when they came on stage, honestly, because it was kind of like going back in time.
Anyway, enough of all that.
They show was great! They had the giant inflatable plane from the cover of Dookie (so cool!), along with breathtaking backdrops that were perfect. And there were blown-up replicas of their album covers commanding the stage.
Hearing them play (almost) all my favorite songs was one thing, but Billie Joe's energy was really something else. He's a fantastic performer and his vibes are simply infectious. I'm so lucky to have been able to see them for a second time!
All in all, everyone was fantastic and I had a great time. Simply put, I love live music!
The author and their dad, who loves them very much.
Thanks for taking time to read Kade's Green Day Fenway review. Keep scrolling for a few more pics from the show.
Fenway Park, August 2024
The scene at the corner of Brookline Ave. and Jersey St., outside Fenway Park before the Green Day 'Saviors' Tour in August of 2024.
Rancid at Fenway Park
Green Day and Rancid came out of the California punk scene right around the same time. Green Day "sold out" and became one of the biggest rock bands in the world. Rancid didn't "sell out." Yet they both got to play Fenway Park. So who wins?
Smashing Pumpkins at Fenway Park
Pumpkins guitarist James Iha isn't pictured here, but when he came on stage to greet the crowd, Kade quipped: "James, blink twice if you're in danger."
Green Day's 'Dookie' Plane
The 'Dookie' plane spent a solid two songs hovering over the Fenway Park crowd while Green Day played the album through. It dropped stuff on the crowd, too. It wasn't actual dookie, thankfully.
Tre Cool of Green Day
Tre Cool now looks like your cool-yet-shady Italian uncle who would ask you to come sit on his lap when you were a kid and probably gave you a quarter or a piece of gum and told you all the cool stories about the antics he and your dad would get up to when he was your age.
