Boston Calling Music Festival 2025 was greeted with overcast skies and drizzle on Friday, May 23. However, it did not slow festival attendees from showing up and having a great time this past Memorial Day weekend, May 23-25 at the Harvard Athletic Complex in Allston, MA.
One of the changes spoken about ahead of the festival was merging the red and green stage into one main stage. This allowed for easier viewing with more room to roam and three large screens were visible from a distance. The sound was great overall, but some performances had some minor technical difficulties which were resolved quickly.
Merchandise stands had long lines as soon as the festival gates opened Friday afternoon and by Saturday evening they had sold out of numerous items, however all items were available to be ordered and directly shipped to your home. Merchandise from artists was also available to purchase at the festival.
Bebe Stockwell, Holy Roller, Wilderado and Max McNown played the green stage. TLC was scheduled to perform but had to cancel at the last minute. Local band Dwight & the Sheriffs were added to the green stage line up.
Sheryl Crow rocked the stage starting off with her hit song “Steve McQueen” and played other great songs such as “Change do you good”, “If it makes you happy”, “Soaking up the sun”, “Every day is a winding road”. While playing “Real Gone”, she came down from the stage and interacted with fans.
Megan Moroney fans had a blast singing and dancing along with her singing songs such as “Am I Okay?”, “Bless your Heart”, and “Wonder”.
The Orange stage were performances by local bands Battlemode, Future Teens, Megan from Work and Latrell James
The Blue Stage, hosted performances by Kyle Dion, Infinity Song, Thee Sacred Souls and Mike, who also got off the stage and interacted with his fans, singing songs “Dive Bar’, “Real Things’ and “2 Birds”.
T-Pain was a performance not to miss, his high energy and dance moves got the crowds moving with hit songs such as “Bartender,” “Low,” and “2 Step”.
Luke Combs was scheduled to begin just before 9pm, but did not start until on time. The rain had started picking up but that did not deter fans from waiting for him to come out. Just after his first song, he shot-gun a Miller Lite and began singing hits such as “1,2 Many”, “When it Rains It Pours”, “Doin’ This”, “Going Going Gone”, & “Beer Never Broke My Heart” with Megan Moroney.
Saturday’s line up was equally as robust. Sofia Isella got the green stage started. Seeing performances also from Mon Rovia and Valley. The Maine, who had mentioned they have been together 18 years and are currently writing new music. They played a collection of songs and brought a fan up on stage to sing a bit of a song with them.
All Time Low played hit songs such as “PMA”, “Monsters” and “Dear Maria, Count me in”.
Cage The Elephant’s set included songs “Ready to Let Go”, “Spiderhead”, and “Cry Baby”.
Avril Lavigne, who like many others who played at Boston calling, is currently out on tour, started her set off with “Girlfriend” and played many well-known songs such as her hit single from 2002, “Complicated”, as well as “Here’s to never Growing Up”, “Sk8er Boi” and “I’m with You”.
The Blue Stage hosted performances by Timmy Skelly, Amble, Lucius, James Bay, and The Black Crowes played known hits “Twice as Hard”, “Thorn in my Pride”, “Remedy”.
Playing the Orange stage were the local bands, PinkLids, Sidebody, Rebuilder, and Simon Robert French.
Closing out Saturday was Fall Out Boy. If you have seen one of their shows before you knew you were in for a treat. The lights and pyrotechnics added to the fun of their set. The crowd singing along with many favorites such as “Sugar, We’re Going Down”, “Dance, Dance” and “Thnks fr th Mmrs”.
Playing the orange stage through the day was Nate Perry & Ragged Co, Vivid Bloom, Copilot and Layzi.
On the Blue Stage was Sam Austins, IDK How But They Found Me, The 502s, Tom Morello, and Public Enemy.
On the Green Stage the band Snacktime started the day off followed by Molowda & the Humble.
Spin Doctors playing “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”. Also, on the performing on the green stage was Goth Babe, who towards the end of their set sent out two rafts for a couple people to crowd surf on.
Remi Wolf began with “Cinderella”. There were some sound issues and while those were tended to, Remi chatted with the crowd. As soon as that was sorted got the music flowing again with “Pitiful”.
Tom Morello blasted many songs, shredding the guitar over on the blue stage for the audience.
Sublime has some sound issues, they kept it moving with songs such as “Wrong Way”, “Bad Fish’ and “What I Got”.
Vampire Weekend the final act of the green stage before the headliner, played a variety of material for fans, such as “Ice Cream Piano”, “Classical”, and “Unbelievers”.
The much-anticipated performance by Dave Matthews Band closing out the weekend playing their fan favorites such as “Crash into Me”, “So Much to Say”, “Ants Marching”, and “What Would You Say” had the fans rocking late into the evening.
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