Foo Fighters, Lumineers, and Paramore to headline Boston Calling
Foo Fighters, the Lumineers, and Paramore are set to top the bill at the 2023 edition of Boston Calling. The festival will take place Memorial Day weekend, May 26-28, at the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston, its home since 2017.
Foo Fighters, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2021, were forced to cancel their Boston Calling appearance last year upon the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins. The surviving band members, led by Dave Grohl, recently confirmed they would carry on with a replacement for Hawkins on drums.
In September, Hawkins’s 17-year-old son, Shane, sat in with his father’s band during a version of their song “My Hero” at an all-star tribute in London.
Other big-name artists confirmed for this year’s Boston Calling include Alanis Morissette, the resurgent Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the National (whose cofounder Aaron Dessner has helped curate Boston Calling since its beginning in 2013), and Queens of the Stone Age. Still more: Maren Morris, the Flaming Lips, former One Direction member Niall Horan, Jack Antonoff ’s band Bleachers, and the adventurous Australian rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
The festival, produced by Bostonbased Crash Line Productions and Austin, Texas-based C3 Presents, prides itself on introducing audiences to upand-coming artists. This year Joy Oladokun, 070 Shake, the Linda Lindas, and Genesis Owusu, to name a few, have accepted invitations.
The festival will also provide a showcase for 20 local artists, including Neemz, Q-Tip Bandits, Alisa Amador, GA-20, Juice, Mint Green, Coral Moons, and Brandie Blaze.
In all, more than 50 acts will take the stage over the course of the threeday weekend. Weekend passes and single-day tickets are available beginning at 10 a.m. Thursday. For more information, go to bostoncalling.com.
The full daily lineup as its stands today is below: