BOYS LIKE GIRLS ANNOUNCE LIVE ALBUM - THE HOMECOMING AND RELEASE VIDEO BLOOD AND SUGAR (LIVE)
Boys Like Girls are releasing The Homecoming (Live from the MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park), a live album which will be available on September 8, 2025, via Fearless Records.
Following their 2023 come-back album, Sunday At Foxwoods, their first album in over a decade, the band recorded the live album from their sold-out show at Boston’s MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park on October 26, 2023.
After writing for major artists like Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, and Jason Derulo during the band’s hiatus, frontman and songwriter Martin Johnson brought those experiences together to influence their long-awaited return to the scene. Sunday At Foxwoods is an electric album that became a triumphant return for the band. The album showcased the growth of the group while remaining true to the sound that their life-time fans have come to love.
Boys Like Girls wanted to capture that essence and chose the most unforgettable performance of their career to use as the official record of their return.
In addition to the live album, the band also released the video for their live recording of “BLOOD AND SUGAR (LIVE).” You can watch that here.
Pre-save The Homecoming (Live From The MGM Music Hall At Fenway Park) here
Frontman Martin Johnson had a lot to say about the live album and why they chose their show at Fenway to record it.
"Fenway Park. The shrine. The Cathedral of Boston. Where curses broke, where beers were spilled, where you can feel the city's heartbeat under green tin and red clay. You don’t just visit Fenway — you belong to it. I was baptized in peanut shells and piss-warm Bud Light. I sat in seats older than my grandfather's bad decisions and prayed to the church of Big Papi. It was ours. And then… they dug under it. Right into the bones of Lansdowne Street — into the bedrock of garage bands, bar fights, and rat nests the size of golden retrievers. They carved out the MGM Music Hall like a secret lair, a rebel bunker under the battlefield.”
Johnson continued. "I came up with a generation raised on Dunkin' Donuts and driven half-mad by traffic on Storrow Drive. We were kids with guitars slung over our backs like bayonets, howling through rusted-out PA systems in the backrooms of American Legions, screaming songs into the linoleum void of church basements while the Sox blew another lead in the 7th. We grew up in the shadow of the Big Dig — a $22 billion pothole we all paid for with our sanity — swallowing granite and history, trying to make room for a future nobody asked for. But under all that concrete? Something was rumbling.”
"We were born in abandoned warehouse practice spaces in Haverhill humidity, Charlestown cold, and Taunton's forgotten back alleys where the floorboards creaked like old Fenway seats and the walls sweated ambition and mildew. Nights under buzzing lights, sleeping above
tanning salons, hustling out of the back of Southie dance studios while the Red Line screamed overhead like it knew something we didn't. This wasn't L.A. This wasn’t Brooklyn with its oat milk and self-awareness. This was Boston — revolutionary blood in the bricks, blue-collar fists in the drywall, a city that builds bands like it builds bridges: loud, stubborn, and willing to fall apart a few times before getting it right.
"We played Knights of Columbus halls and churches in Allston, packed with sweaty teenagers who still believed in anthems. We got hit with beer bottles and baseballs outside Bill's Bar. Those anthems carried us around the world a hundred times and back again. And then… twelve years of silence. No encores. No curtain calls. Just echoes.
"But now — we're back. Back where it started. Under the lights in Fenway's guest house, on a stage built for second chances. A stage for believers and for the ones who never left the pit. This isn’t just a show. It’s a resurrection. Live from the MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park — this is Boys Like Girls. This is The Homecoming."
Boys Like Girls will be hitting the road this fall with select festival dates. The band’s headline tour, The Basements To Bleachers Tour, will coincide with a short run with the Jonas Brothers on their current 20th anniversary tour, Jonas20: Greetings From Your Hometown Tour, which runs from now until early October.
Get your tickets here!
BOYS LIKE GIRLS ON TOUR:
8/22 — New Haven, CT — Toad's Place
8/27 — Louisville, KY — Mercury Ballroom
9/3 — Tucson, AZ — The Rialto Theatre
9/11 — Spokane, WA — Spokane County Interstate Fair*
10/3 — North Kansas City, MO — VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Kansas City
10/18 — Las Vegas, NV — When We Were Young*
10/19 — Las Vegas, NV — When We Were Young*
11/16 — Orlando, FL — Warped Tour*
*festival dates
BOYS LIKE GIRLS WITH THE JONAS BROTHERS:
8/18 — Bethel, NY — Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
8/19 — Syracuse, NY — Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview
8/21 — Toronto, ON — Rogers Centre
8/23 — Boston, MA — Fenway Park
8/24 — Saratoga Springs, NY — Broadview Stage at SPAC
8/26 — Tinley Park, IL — Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre
8/28 — Detroit, MI — Little Caesars Arena
8/30 — Rogers, AR — Walmart AMP
8/31 — Dallas, TX — Dos Equis Pavilion
9/4 — Chula Vista, CA — North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
9/6 — Los Angeles, CA — Intuit Dome
9/13 — Salt Lake City, UT — Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
9/18 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena
9/20 — Portland, OR — Moda Center
9/22 — Seattle, WA — Climate Pledge Arena
9/25 — San Francisco, CA — Chase Center
9/26 — Sacramento, CA — Golden 1 Center
9/27 — Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
9/28 — Phoenix, AZ — PHX Arena
9/30 — Albuquerque, NM — Isleta Amphitheater
10/2 — Denver, CO — Ball Arena
10/5 — Des Moines, IA — Wells Fargo Arena
10/6 — Omaha, NE — CHI Health Center
