Five decades later, the club is gone. But the album remains. When he was 16, Richie Parsons, a Dorchester native, flipped ...

Dee Stroy and his girlfriend Molly Blom enjoy an event at The Rathskeller club and venue, also known as "The Rat" in Kenmore Square in Boston, on Sept. 13, 1996. Stroy is a member of The johnnies, a ...

Like anyone who loved rock 'n' roll in the 1980s, Andy Szava-Kovats made regular pilgrimages to the Rathskeller, better known as the Rat, to hear the bands that regularly filled the smoky cellar ...

The Rathskeller — affectionately known as the Rat — delivered a steady parade of raw and raucous live rock to fans in Boston from 1974 until 1997. Bands from Boston and beyond graced the stage at the ...

Nobody every called it The Rathskeller. It was The Rat. But I guess it's hard to sell rooms named after dirty rodents at a luxury hotel. Anyway… In 2000, three years after The Rat shuttered, the ...

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One of Boston's swankiest hotels is paying tribute to one of the city's dingiest, but most legendary rock clubs.The Hotel Commonwealth next month will start renting a room called the Rathskeller Suite ...

Last week the Mighty Mighty Bosstones recreated legendary Boston rock club the Rathskeller as the backdrop for their Hometown Throwdown at the House of Blues. Now, the long-gone Kenmore Square venue, ...