Kevin Slane

1 week ago | boston.com | Kevin Slane

There wasn’t much sunshine at Boston Calling 2025. Despite early weather reports calling for “scattered showers” on Friday followed by dry conditions for the rest of the weekend, concertgoers at Boston’s premier music festival were treated to six straight hours of rain on Day 1, sporadic rain on Day 2, and windy, muddy conditions on Day 3. But just because the sun rarely showed its face doesn’t mean there weren’t plenty of bright spots at Boston Calling 2025.

1 week ago | boston.com | Kevin Slane

Tom Cruise has proven to be one of the most durable movie stars in the long history of Hollywood. As he approaches his 63rd birthday, Cruise is still leading multiple movie franchises, including this weekend’s “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” and claims he will keep making action movies for decades. Even the handful of A-listers in the conversation with Cruise — Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Denzel Washington, Will Smith — can’t match Cruise’s resume.

1 week ago | boston.com | Kevin Slane

At 8:35 p.m. on Sunday night, Dave Matthews stood shrouded in darkness on the Green stage at Boston Calling, waiting. Fans were still making their way over from Public Enemy on the Blue Stage for the 8:40 show, but Matthews didn’t want to wait another second to get things going. There was too much to do, too much to say, and only two hours to fit it all in.

1 week ago | boston.com | Kevin Slane

When Tom Morello took the stage at Boston Calling 2025, the Rage Against the Machine guitarist welcomed fans “to the last big event before they throw us all in jail.”Morello and RATM have always put their politics front and center in their music, and Sunday’s show was no different. From Bruce Springsteen to his alma mater Harvard University, Morello gave props to anyone who has been recently singled out by Trump during his hourlong set. The atmosphere was one of cathartic defiance.

1 week ago | boston.com | Kevin Slane

According to Setlist.fm, Luke Combs’ most-played song across all of his catalogued concerts is “When It Rains It Pours.” Combs didn’t wait long in his set at Boston Calling 2025 to treat his rain-soaked fans to the 2017 tune, punctuating the chorus with a hearty “It really does!” The North Carolina songwriter wasn’t telling no lies: Despite a forecast that called for scattered showers on Friday, it rained lightly but steadily for six straight hours at Day 1 of the music festival, sending...