Former location -

Now the location of the Hotel Commonwealth, The Rathskeller (akaThe Rat) was a Kenmore Square live music venue that was open from 1974 to 1997. For those three decades, The Rat was considered one of Boston's premier music venues featuring rock, soul, jazz and pop artists including:

Aerosmith
Angry Samoans
B-52s
Bad Brains
Blondie
The Cars
Dead Kennedys
English Beat
Hole
Human Sexual Response
The Jam
Joan Jett
Metallica
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Patti Smith
The Pixies
The Police
The Ramones
The Replacements
R.E.M.
Rick James
The Smithereens
Sonic Youth
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Talking Heads
Thin Lizzy
Tom Petty
U2