my SIL bikes to work every day here (doesn’t own a car). I commute solely on foot and by train as my SO uses our household car to get to work out of the city. We basically never use the car within the Camberville or Boston area…i’ve lived in Cambridge specifically for over 6 years and have never had an issue not having a car

Not sure, but if you do make one I'd love to be pinged about it!

Most venues keep a calendar of their own schedule. I know both Plough & Stars and Cantab both do. Just check their websites or stop by and ask.

Imma be honest there's more spaces for me to park my car than there is to fit another bike in my apartment

I can't help with underground shows but it seems like there are a bunch of small venues that have shows several nights a week (Atwood's, Lilypad, Lizard Lounge, etc.). I just wish there was one calendar where you could find all the listings instead of needing to hop between all their sites

I run a local music blog/post about shows! Come visit

https://ihrtn.net

There's Get to the Gig Boston

I post about shows on my blog

https://ihrtn.net

There's also Get to the Gig Boston

Left a review earlier today after seeing this. Waiting for my “fake biker review, checked our databases you’re not a customer” response

Call animal control next time. They’ll come right down.

It's like the people who baulk at $1500 spent on a ebike (example) but spend $40,000 on this. Obviously $1500 is too much, let me go and buy a 4,000 lb car that costs 25x more.

Hell yeah. Walking. Biking. And all forms of public transit are all on the same team. They all have the same interests in terms of infrastructure improvement. And everyone gains when any one of them is focused on. It's just cars vs everyone out here.

It's not even just about bikes. We have a damn transit system that covers all parts of the eastern part of the State. Plenty of people take the Commuter Rail or buses around. Does it require a wee bit of planning? Yeah. Fortunately most of us are capable of some basic time management. It's not like driving doesn't require factoring in travel time, traffic, etc either. Or the weather or costs or whatever excuse you come up with.

OH and if you do want to just use bikes, you can STILL bring them on most transit options when needed. Buses have bike racks on the front, all heavy rail trains allow bikes during off peak hours, many Commuter Rail trains have a bike car, and really just the Green Line is a hard "no bikes" area but that'll likely change in a few years once we get the new modern light rail cars with like 7 cars a train and completely level boarding with larger interiors.

Yes, it's totally unrealistic that you consider alternatives. Obviously the Commuter Rail and the 170 bus routes that the MBTA operates throughout the State are unrealistic. It's not like tens of thousands of people within Cambridge do not own a car or do not regularly have access to a car (this site suggests 15,000 households are car free, and another 29,000 only own a single car). I'm sure ebikes and walking and transit are too difficult for people to figure out too. Cars are notably easy to get - you only need to throw $30,000 into the car, spend hours buying it, getting a license, getting registration, insurance, taxes paid, etc. A bike obviously is unrealistic since it's like $3/ride on Blue Bikes or a few hundred for a cheapo beater bike. And ebikes, oh my, so expensive when you can pick on up for like $1500. That's obviously unrealistic, I should go spend $10,000 on a used car with 100k miles instead.

^(/s)

I have no idea where to start with the local music scene. When I lived back West, I somehow knew enough people that I would go to house shows, underground venues etc. Best concert I ever went to was at a place called "The Hole," which was the basement of a house in West Oakland. Killed by gentrification now. If you got ideas on how to find smaller shows lmk

Thanks for the link, yes this is exactly what we need! So much going on around here but weirdly hard to discover it

No room for a bike, better save space and get a car. Big brain thinking

Ah yes and Boston's roads are famously free of pot holes and traffic.

Lemme just store a 4000lb car on the street for all occasions too. Total enough space for all (checks notes) 100k people of driving age to do so within a 7 sq mile City.

Haven't seen one. Would love for there to be one. SF has The List[1], I don't see why we can't have something like this for Somerbridge.

[1] http://www.foopee.com/punk/the-list/

Hot tip: I occasionally take the venues I like and scrape a song from each act playing over the next month into a big ass playlist that I play on shuffle. If you hear something you like, chances are good you found a new band to enjoy, and guess what? They've got a show in two weeks.

Lemme just store a bike for all occasions in my small apartment

Or she could get a real bicycle.

Shame it's often broken, early, late, on fire, or some combination thereof.

Only in Cambridge is this cause for alarm

I like bikes but I’m not driving one without physically separated bike lanes. I’m not offering my life to mercy of drivers