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The Best Concert of Summer 2022: 12-Inch Poll

With the summer concert season behind us for the most part, it’s time to ask: what was the best concert of Summer 2022? Summer 2022 truly felt like the return…

The Best Concert of Summer 2022: Rammstein

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With the summer concert season behind us for the most part, it's time to ask: what was the best concert of Summer 2022?

Summer 2022 truly felt like the return of live music. Granted, last summer had its fair share of tours and big name acts out on the road. But plenty of people--myself included--were still wary of heading out to big summer shows during the Coronavirus pandemic. Now that it seems we'll be living with COVID-19 for the foreseeable future, plenty of people--myself included--are making their peace with that and heading back out regularly to enjoy live music again.

I hit up a few shows this summer, starting with the (un)official kickoff of the summer music season: Boston Calling Music Festival. Two nights of Nine Inch Nails was a dream come true. And Metallica closing down the festival on Sunday night was epic. Then, it was a summer of lots of swimming and body surfing and pizza boarding in Maine and points north. So I missed out on The Black Crowes at Tanglewood and The Cult at Leader Bank Pavilion, two shows I was looking forward to. But I did drag my kid to see Spoon and Interpol at Bold Point Park in Providence. And we were on hand for Red Hot Chili Peppers, St. Vincent and Thundercat at Fenway Park. They even reviewed the show for me!

The Best Concert of Summer 2022

So how about you? The Ticket Troll gave away a metric ton of tickets to big summer shows starting all the way back in June. And the winning continues this week with tickets to see Smashing Pumpkins and Jane's Addiction or Alice In Chains and Bush. Get the details here. Then scroll through my list of 21 summer concerts and vote for your favorite.

Aerosmith at Fenway Park

Aerosmith at Fenway Flyer

The Black Crowes at Tanglewood

the black crowes

The Cult at Leader Bank Pavilion

the cult

Dave Matthews Band at Xfinity Center

DMB

Dead and Company at Gillette Stadium

dead and company

Flogging Molly & The Interrupters at Leader Bank Pavilion

Flogging Molly

Godsmack at MGM Music Hall

Godsmack show poster

Halestorm and The Pretty Reckless at Leader Bank Pavilion

halestorm

Incubus & Sublime w/Rome at Xfinity Center

Incubus

Korn & Evanescence at Xfinity Center

korn

Metallica and Nine Inch Nails at Boston Calling

Boston Calling 2022

Nine Inch Nails, The Strokes, and Metallica headlining? With bands like Cheap Trick and Weezer on the undercard? I'll take it.

My Chemical Romance & Thursday at TD Garden

MCR Thursday Flyer

Phish at Xfinity Center

Phish

Rammstein at Gillette Stadium

Rammstein 02

Photo credit: Greg Caparell

Red Hot Chili Peppers at Fenway Park

Red Hot Chili Peppers at Fenway Park Flyer

Rob Zombie at Xfinity Center

Rob Zombie

Roger Waters at TD Garden

Roger Waters Tour Poster

Spoon and Interpol at Bold Point Park

interpol

The Stadium Tour at Fenway Park

Stadium Tour Poster

Third Eye Blind & Taking Back Sunday at Xfinity Center

Third Eye Blind

ZZ Top at Leader Bank Pavilion

ZZ Top
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