foobos "Mango" adds plain-English search across 483 Boston venues

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foobos version 2.12 brings plain-English search and face-value tickets to Boston concert listings

Boston, United States - September 28, 2026 /foobos/

BOSTON, MA - September 26, 2026 - foobos, the free app and website covering live music and comedy in Greater Boston, has released version 2.12, nicknamed "Mango." The update introduces a Grid view that displays the region's entire calendar as a pinchable grid, letting users see a full month of shows at once. The calendar currently holds 6,489 upcoming concerts and comedy shows across Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and out to Worcester and the North Shore, with 1,147 of them listed as free. As a foobos music guide, the platform covers the full range of the Boston live music scene - from arena headliners to weekly sessions in neighborhood bars.

October on the calendar spans from Olivia Rodrigo, Gorillaz, The Smashing Pumpkins and Phoebe Bridgers at TD Garden, Zach Bryan at Gillette Stadium and Jim Gaffigan at the Wang Theatre, to Irish sessions, jazz trios and open mics running throughout the week in rooms from Central Square to Davis Square.

Mango is available at no cost on the App Store, where the app is listed as "foobos: Boston Concerts," at apps.apple.com/us/app/foobos/id6760267787. The full calendar is also on the web at foobos.net.

Every Boston show, on one grid

The Mango update is built around the idea that most people underestimate how much is happening in Boston on any given night. The new interface starts with the full picture and lets users zoom in.

Grid view. Every show appears as a tile. Pinching out reveals a full month of Boston at once. The nickname "Mango" refers to the visual: tiles laid over a dome, like a mango cut into cubes and turned inside out.
A page for every show. Photo, lineup, tickets and details in one place. Tapping an act's name navigates to that act's page.
Plain-English search. Typing "jazz on Fridays in the city" builds the list automatically, or users can filter by what, where and when themselves.
Filters for how people actually go out. Free concerts Boston residents can attend, day shows, bars and restaurants, and shows friends are attending.
Near Me. A range of 1 to 10 miles shows what's playing nearby on a map.
A taste quiz built from real shows. Users respond to actual upcoming shows and the For You feed adjusts accordingly.
Face-value tickets. When a show is listed on CashorTrade, foobos links directly to it. Apple Music now appears alongside Spotify, allowing users to hear an act before attending.
An updated foochat. Every show has its own chat room, now with replies, reactions and @mentions.

From Gillette Stadium to a Somerville bar: Mango's first weekend

Mango launched into a 365-show weekend (September 25-27). At one end were Ed Sheeran at Gillette Stadium, Ray LaMontagne at Leader Bank Pavilion, and the Jonas Brothers, Don Omar, and Weezer with The Shins at TD Garden. Comedy ranged from Craig Robinson at Laugh Boston to Nurse John at the Wang Theatre. At the other end were DOMi & JD Beck and Militarie Gun at the Paradise, Slayyyter at Roadrunner, Boy Harsher at Royale, and a free Irish session upstairs at McCarthy's in Somerville.

That range reflects the platform's approach. A ticketing site shows what it sells. A venue site shows one room. A national concert tracker lists acts large enough to be fed to it. foobos starts from the calendar, which is why a free Saturday session in a Somerville bar sits in the same list as TD Garden.

October in Boston: who's on the calendar

October holds 2,238 shows on foobos. The following is drawn from venue listings as of September 25, 2026.

Arenas and big rooms. Zach Bryan at Gillette Stadium (Oct 2). At TD Garden: Gorillaz with Little Simz (Oct 1), The Smashing Pumpkins (Oct 2), beabadoobee (Oct 3), Phoebe Bridgers with Alex G (Oct 6), Teddy Swims (Oct 9), Sturgill Simpson as Johnny Blue Skies (Oct 13), Olivia Rodrigo with Wolf Alice (Oct 15), Rod Wave (Oct 25), Katseye (Oct 28) and John Summit (Oct 29). At MGM Music Hall at Fenway: Rise Against with Alkaline Trio (Oct 1), Foster the People (Oct 6), Monsta X (Oct 8), The Chicks (Oct 9), Chief Keef (Oct 10), Steve Lacy (Oct 12) and Beck (Oct 17).

Clubs and theaters.

Roadrunner: MUNA (Oct 1-2), Interpol with DIIV (Oct 4), Modest Mouse (Oct 7), JPEGMAFIA (Oct 16), Sugar (Oct 17), Brand New (Oct 18-19) and Yebba (Oct 28).
House of Blues: Switchfoot with Anberlin (Oct 4), Gym Class Heroes with Lupe Fiasco and B.o.B (Oct 11), Sylvan Esso (Oct 17), Cavetown (Oct 21) and Candlebox (Oct 28).
Royale: Russian Circles (Oct 1), The Damned (Oct 16) and The Tallest Man on Earth (Oct 21).
The Paradise: The Linda Lindas (Oct 6), Sunn O))) (Oct 12) and Lifehouse (Oct 15).
The Sinclair: Tricky (Oct 12), Carly Pearce (Oct 18), Hank Azaria's Springsteen celebration (Oct 21) and Built to Spill (Oct 27).
Brighton Music Hall: Superdrag (Oct 9-10), The Residents (Oct 13) and Gilla Band (Oct 17).
Big Night Live: Epik High (Oct 1), Public Image Ltd (Oct 3) and Cradle of Filth (Oct 20).
The Wilbur: L7 (Oct 26), Postmodern Jukebox (Oct 27), Toad the Wet Sprocket (Oct 28) and moe. (Oct 30).
Theater District and beyond: Chelsea Wolfe (Oct 5) and The Jayhawks (Oct 24) at the Shubert, Little Big Town (Oct 15) at the Wang, and Bruce Cockburn with Livingston Taylor (Oct 23) and Paul Anka (Oct 30) at the Chevalier.

Comedy. Jim Gaffigan at the Wang (Oct 23). At the Wilbur: Kathy Griffin (Oct 3), Fred Armisen (Oct 12), Akaash Singh (Oct 16), Nate Jackson (Oct 22) and Trae Crowder (Oct 24). John Bishop at the Shubert (Oct 16). At Laugh Boston: Chris Porter (Oct 11), Robert Kelly (Oct 16) and Jessimae Peluso (Oct 29).

Classical and jazz. Andris Nelsons at Symphony Hall with an all-Rachmaninoff program featuring Seong-Jin Cho (Oct 1), and again with Hilary Hahn (Oct 15). The Handel and Haydn Society (Oct 2), the Boston Philharmonic (Oct 11), and a Tod Machover world premiere (Oct 22). Samara Joy at Groton Hill Music Center (Oct 2).

Halloween weekend. Trixie Mattel and Katya at Royale, The Disco Biscuits for two nights at The Palladium in Worcester (Oct 30-31), Jeff Tweedy at Groton Hill, DJ Pauly D at Big Night Live, horsegiirL at Roadrunner, Divaland of the Dead at The Sinclair, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at Symphony Hall. Improv Asylum runs Nightmare on Hanover Street all month.

Beyond the city.

Worcester's Palladium: Knocked Loose with Denzel Curry (Oct 9), The Midnight (Oct 10), The Dillinger Escape Plan (Oct 17) and Arch Enemy (Oct 28). Motionless in White plays the DCU Center (Oct 30).
Beverly: Daughtry (Oct 13) and Arrested Development (Oct 23) at The Cabot, and Ted Leo (Oct 9) at Off Cabot.
Groton Hill Music Center: Keller Williams (Oct 16), Danilo Perez (Oct 22) and Tab Benoit (Oct 25).

Boston's music neighborhoods, pocket by pocket

The Boston live music scene is distributed across a string of distinct neighborhoods, most of them within walking distance of an MBTA stop. Every venue on foobos has its own page listing the nearest stop.

Central Square, Cambridge (Red Line, Central). The Middle East's four rooms (Corner, Upstairs, Downstairs and ZuZu), Sonia, the Cantab Lounge and Cantab Underground, The Plough & Stars and The Mad Monkfish.
Inman Square, Cambridge. The Lilypad and The Druid.
Harvard Square (Red Line, Harvard). Club Passim, The Sinclair, The Comedy Studio, Lizard Lounge, Lou's and Harvard's Memorial Church.
Porter Square (Red Line, Porter). Toad.
Davis Square, Somerville (Red Line, Davis). The Burren, The Rockwell and the Somerville Theatre's Crystal Ballroom. Upstairs at McCarthy's, the busiest room in the region, is a ten-minute walk away.
Union Square and East Somerville (Green Line). Union Comedy, Jungle, Sally O'Brien's, Warehouse XI and Goofs Comedy Club. Arts at the Armory and Aeronaut Brewing are also in Somerville.
Allston and Brighton (Green Line B). Brighton Music Hall, O'Brien's Pub and The Silhouette on Harvard Ave, the Paradise on Comm Ave, and Roadrunner at Boston Landing.
Fenway-Kenmore (Green Line, Kenmore and Hynes). MGM Music Hall at Fenway, House of Blues, The Bebop and Berklee's Cafe 939.
Symphony (Green Line E, Symphony). Symphony Hall and New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.
South End (Orange Line, Back Bay and Mass Ave). The Beehive, Club Cafe and Wally's Cafe Jazz Club.
Downtown and the Theater District (Green Line, Boylston; Park Street). The Wang, the Shubert, the Emerson Colonial, the Wilbur, Royale, the Orpheum and the Charles Playhouse, plus The White Bull Tavern.
West End (Green and Orange Lines, North Station). TD Garden, Big Night Live and City Winery Boston.
North End, Beacon Hill and the Financial District. Improv Asylum, Emmets Irish Pub and Mr. Dooley's.
The Seaport (Silver Line, World Trade Center). Leader Bank Pavilion and Laugh Boston.
Jamaica Plain (Orange Line). The Midway Cafe and the Brendan Behan Pub.
Roslindale. Square Root and Rozzie Square Theater.
Brookline (Green Line C, Coolidge Corner). Concerts at St. Paul's Church and United Parish, the Village Social Club, and POSTunderground near Washington Square.
Medford and Arlington. The Chevalier Theatre, Deep Cuts near Ball Square, and the Regent Theatre.
Farther out. Sanctuary in Maynard (132 dates, 72 of them free). The Palladium, Off The Rails, the DCU Center, the Hanover Theatre and Mechanics Hall in Worcester. The Cabot in Beverly, the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport and the Firehouse Center in Newburyport. Groton Hill Music Center, and Tanglewood in Lenox.

Boston's own, and the regulars who keep the rooms full

Boston and Massachusetts acts on the calendar:

Big D and the Kids Table (Paradise, Oct 24).
Slapshot and DYS, with Agnostic Front (Big Night Live, Oct 17).
Have Heart (Middle East Upstairs, Oct 23-24).
Kingsley Flood (The Burren, Oct 10) and Session Americana (The Burren, Oct 20-22).
Barrence Whitfield and His All Star Band (Off Cabot, Oct 23-24) and Darlingside (Groton Hill, Oct 23).
Carissa Johnson (Square Root, Oct 31), and Club d'Elf at Off Cabot and Groton Hill.
Letters to Cleo with The Sheila Divine (Paradise, Nov 20-21).
Caspian with Pile (Paradise, Dec 4) and The Dresden Dolls (Emerson Colonial, Dec 4-5).
Street Dogs with Gang Green (Paradise, Dec 18) and Lori McKenna (Club Passim, Dec 19-20).
The Lemonheads (Brighton Music Hall, Feb 10, 2027) and Dinosaur Jr. (House of Blues, Mar 13, 2027).
Boston Camerata (Memorial Church, from Oct 25).

Local comics:

Comics Come Home with Denis Leary and Lenny Clarke (TD Garden, Nov 7).
Jackie Flynn (Off Cabot, Oct 10), Tony V (Agoro's in Somerset, Oct 8) and Steve Sweeney (Agoro's, Dec 3).
The rooms that develop the next generation: The Comedy Studio's Wednesday Rising Stars showcase and free open mic, Goofs' Stand Up Showcase, Union Comedy's Cagematch, the Comedy Bakery at Middle East Corner, and Best of Boston Standup at The White Bull Tavern.

The regulars.