Fiddlehead Play Boston’s Alewife Station, Bring Out Lou Barlow In Maine

Right now, I'm about halfway through a great three-hour interview with Have Heart/Fiddlehead frontman Pat Flynn on Mutually Assured Destruction/Eliminators frontman Ace Stallings' hardcore podcast Forum Of Passion. It's a great listen. Flynn really knows how to talk about his own life and hardcore music at the same time, eloquently talking about how it feels to be a middle-aged professional — he's a high-school history teacher in his everyday life — who's still knee-deep in this stuff. Flynn has chronicled his own growth in his music, and it's all over Fiddlehead's great recent record Baby I'll Change, one of the year's best EPs. He and his band also brings that eloquence and gravitas to the stage.If you can go see Fiddlehead live, you really should. Given the professional obligations of all the band members, they don't do a lot of heavy touring. But they play when they can, and they make sure their shows are special. That happened a couple of times in the last weekend, a busy one for Fiddlehead. On Saturday, Turnstile headlined a massive show at Thompson's Point in Portland, Maine. Fiddlehead were on the bill for that show, and so were Dinosaur Jr., New England alt-rock heroes fro...