Pubs and Bars

1st and 2nd Church - Marlboro Street

The (Fishtown) Artspace - [closed]

Avalon - [closed] Located on Lansdowne Street next to Axis, and is prime location for many bands. It generally serves as a night club on weeknights, but on weekends hosts more rock-oriented artists.

Axis - [closed] A Gothic night club that would host the occasional hardcore band.

Baby Safe Haven - Current basement space in Somerville. Two Blocks away from Bloodstains.

Thunderdome - Vomitorium somerville basement venue short lived but incredibly chaotic .

Bill's Bar - A bar on Lansdowne Street with cheap beer where bands will sometimes play. It is in contrast to the huge dance clubs that surround it.

Bloodstains across Somerville - [closed]

Brighton Elks - Late 90s venue in Brighton Center

Bunnratty’s/Local 186 - Now The Wonder Bar on Harvard Ave in Allston

Cantone's

Cambridge Elks Lodge - Number one D.I.Y. venue in the greater Boston area, this hall is booked by many different individuals and holds shows nearly every weekend

Castle Grayskull - [closed]

The Channel - [closed] One of Boston's earliest locations that would allow hardcore bands to play. The Club would headline local bands such as Gang Green, Slapshot and The F.U.s as well as out of state bands like Butthole Surfers, Gorilla Biscuits, Pantera, Waltham, Fugazi, Hüsker Dü and The Dead Boys. It was well known for its mosh pit.

The Club - Central Square, Cambridge.

Club Lido

The Cuntree Club - All-female punk house in Brookline, MA, bar in basement and shows happened most weekend. Eventual eviction in early 2007.

Feed Your Head - [closed] The basement of this independent bookstore in Salem, Massachusetts is the center of the North Shore punk scene. It opened right before the Artspace closed, and the basement is generally booked about twice a week. Closed late 2007.

Gallery East - Art Gallery by day, venue for all-ages shows in the early '80s, it was demolished during the gentrification of the leather district by South Station.

Great Scott

Green Street Station - Venue in Jamaica Plain was dirty and rickety with cheap beer and great local bands now closed.

Harpers Ferry

The House of Suffering Succotash (HOSS) - Raging house venue in Boston's Brighton neighborhood that provided a home for hardcore and way beyond. [closed]

The ICC (International Community Church)

Johnny D's

Karma Club - [closed]

The Kells Basement - on Brighton Ave in Allston

The Library - [closed]

The Middle East - Located in Central Square Cambridge they have two venues Middle East upstairs a smaller venue and Middle East Downstairs a larger venue.

O'Briens Pub

The Paradise - not to be confused with the gay bar in Central Square (Cambridge), this venue is on Comm. Ave. in Boston, and -- like Axis -- is also a dance club.

The Rat - [closed] Located in Kenmore Square. In the basement was a bar where the music was loud and the sweating concrete floors were always sticky and smelled of stale beer. The bathrooms were quite often frankly terrifying to those that needed to actually use them for purposes more in-depth than re-applying eyeliner (for perspective, The Rat has most often been compared to CBGBs). Many bands got their start at the Rat and it had one of the best jukeboxes in Boston. If a band did not play there they would wind up there for beers later. The club flooded in 1997 during torrential rains and was closed soon after.

Reflections

Romans (Tigers Den)

The Roxy

St. Jean's Church - hosted by Seth Putnam, and the venue itself later made infamous by defrocked priest Paul Shanley.

TT The Bears

YWCA - The basement. 1982 Freeze, COC, 6ft Under. Skinheads showed up and the security detail left.

Scraphouse - April 2007 - July 2007 (aka Cuntree Club) No longer !