Like most big cities around the country but certainly in the Northeast Corridor, Boston’s slow creep of gentrification turned to more of a rapid descent in the years that preceded the Covid pandemic, and so the live music shutdown that resulted proved too much for most of the small and medium-sized rooms where local bands could hone their crafts and workmanlike touring bands could build respectable followings miles from their respective homes. Sure, we have a fancy new 3500 cap venue built in a fancy new neighborhood, and an even fancier new 5000 cap venue shoehorned into an oddly-shaped lot behind Fenway Park and those are fine I guess for what they are. But gone are the overwhelming majority of 900 to 400 cap venues that were the life’s blood of a once vibrant music scene. (A...
