I woke up in a panic that I hadn't trained for 26.2 miles, then remembered that I don't run, unless it's to catch the bus as it pulls away from the curb.

HUGE respect to the marathoners. For the rest of us, here’s something more my speed: live music. Win your way in to see Courtney Marie Andrews this week.

JUST ANNOUNCED

• Want to hear the city in a whole new way? The Walking Festival of Sound is a free public festival running through May 3rd with soundwalks, listening sessions and lectures across Boston and Cambridge.

• Yeat brings the LOVE/LYFE Tour to MGM Music Hall on July 25th. Catch the cultural disruptor live with Slayr and BNYX.

• “OMG” — Usher and Chris Brown are bringing two of R&B’s biggest voices to Gillette this summer. Will you be there on August 17th?

• Altın Gün's experimental vision of rock and folk takes the stage at Big Night Live on September 22nd. Go see what the hype sounds like live.

• Plus, announcements from Chapterhouse, $UICIDEBOY$, Destroy Lonely, Shakewell, Japan Festival, Lamb Jam  and more!

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LOCALS ONLY

• Donut miss your chance for the Kane’s Donuts and Sam Adams collab you never knew you needed (kneaded?): the limited-edition 26.2 Brew Donut, available at all Kane’s locations today only.

• Something about the Marathon always makes me feel like a tourist; the crowds, the cowbells, the sea of blue jackets. Might as well eat like one with our guide of Boston’s most iconic bites.

• Fun fact: The Marathon used to run on April 19th (Patriots’ Day) unless that was a Sunday. In 1969, Massachusetts decided Mondays were just better, and the race has been a third-Monday-in-April tradition ever since.

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