Name: Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Start: 2025-06-28T20:00:00
Location: Roadrunner

Boston's Roadrunner is set to host a series of electrifying performances in 2025, featuring a lineup that boasts legendary rock bands, dynamic solo artists, and genre-defying acts. From Jet's infectious rock anthems to Ben Harper's soulful melodies, and Megan Moroney's country charm, each event promises to deliver a unique musical experience. With diverse genres ranging from instrumental chamber rock by Godspeed You! Black Emperor to Smino's innovative rap, music lovers are in for an unforgettable journey through sound and emotion.

2025 Boston Musical Extravaganza: Roadrunner's Stellar Lineup

Step into the vibrant world of music at Boston's Roadrunner in 2025, where a diverse array of artists, from rock legends Jet to country star Megan Moroney, promise exhilarating performances. This year's lineup includes powerhouse acts like Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, the introspective Jack's Mannequin, and the formidable Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Dive into a journey of sound with Smino's lyrical mastery and the raw energy of the Viagra Boys. Experience the pulse of live music like never before!

A Musical Odyssey: The Roadrunner's 2025 Iconic Line-Up

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor released a string of albums from 1997-2002 widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance. The band’s first four releases—especially F#A#∞ (1997) and Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000)—are variously regarded as classics of the era and genre. Godspeed's legendary live performances, featuring multiple 16mm projectors beaming a collage of overlapping analog film loops and reels—along with the distinctive iconography, imagery and tactility of the band's album artwork and physical LP packages— further defines the sui generis aesthetic substance, ethos and mythos of this group. GY!BE has issued two official band photos in its 25-year existence (the second, below, a 2010 recreation of the first from 1997) and has done a half-dozen collectively-answered written interviews over that same span. The band has never had a website or social media accounts. It has never made a video. Few rock bands in our 21st century have been as steadfast in trying to let the work speak for itself and maintaining simple rules about minimising participation in cultures of personality, exposure, access, commodification or co-optation.

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