The Woggles new album Time Has Come
is out this week on March 31. We’ve heard a few promo cuts (“Flesh
Hammer”, “Hole In My Heart”, “Mr. Last Chance”
and “Nothing More To Say”) and they are boss.!! That Woggles
sway that is their signature thing. If you’ve ever seen them
live you have been moved by that Woggles sway. The songs make you yearn
for that live Woggles experience. You can pre-order the album on the
Record
Store Day site
Danny Hargrove, the bassist of the Joe Perry
Project died on March 14. A lot of us learnt about bassist
Danny Hargrove from Mach Bell’s diaries with
the Joe Perry Project. You can see photos of Danny and read some memories
on Mach Bell’s two facebook pages Rock
Survival and Mach
Bell
Speaking of Mach Bell...We are up to the fourth annual
Cowboy Awards. It’s full of the glitter, the
pageantry and the Bell! Our very own Captain
Easychord won Rock Writer of the Year! Brian Young
of Crash Course for the Ravers got close for interviewer of
the year but alas the golden statue went to Joey Suto of Rock
Show Critque .
VIDEOS......
The Shang Hi Los released the video for their song
“Op-Operator.” They've gotten copious coverage with the
song release and it seems like even more with the video. It makes us
feel so good to see a talented group like this getting attention from
all over. We think other groups should pay attention to the radio shows
and podcasts and blogs where the Shang Hi Los are getting played and
submit their own material in turn.
And the video is has the perfect location at Stereo Jack’s!!
This Town is a new 6-part BBC series that
is set in the two-tone/ska scene of the early ’80s. It looks like
gangs and a potential life of crime is going to be worked up for drama
sake. The Two Tone music in the trailer sounds persuasive enough to
check it out.
The
Wikipedia entry says: "This Town tells
the story of an extended family and four young people who are drawn
into an explosive and iconic music scene. Set in a world of family ties,
teenage kicks and the exhilarating music of a generation, This Town
tells the story of a band’s formation against a backdrop
of violence, capturing how creative genius can emerge from a time of
madness"
The series will premiere on March 31 on the BBC. More about this on
Brooklyn
Vegan and on the BBC
site
RADIO......
On Skybar's Rising show (WMFO 91.5 FM Tuesday 8pm)
he will be interviewing Dan Kopko. Dan has a lot going
on with the Shang Hi Los. There is the sinple "Op-Operator"
and it's video. We assume this is the first material from an album,
maybe he'll talk about that. He has his solo release too. Dan also sings
a song on Sal Baglio's alien rock opera They Came To Rock.
If you miss the Tuesday broadcast you can hear the show on the WMFO
Archives. To hear the show go to the WMFO
schedule page.
Hit the Rising show on 8 to 10 pm on Tuesday, then hit the 'archive'
button.
On Joanie Lindstrom’s Late Risers Club this
week she played “Stay” by the UK band Fallen Leaves.
It sounds like an early mod tune to us although the band doesn’t
use that description on their Bandcamp page. It’s from their upcoming
album Simple Songs for Complex People which is not posted yet
on Bandcamp, at the moment only this single is.
The other song on the single “Rosalina” sounds like an
early garage tune. It sounds like the chord progression from "Little Latin Lupe Lu". These guys are good!!
We talked up the Coffin Pricks from Chicago. Joanie
picked a song we didn’t mention and damn it was good, so here
it is. The song is “Right Kind of Loot”.
To hear Joanie’s show go to the WMBR
archive page and hit the Late Risers Show for Monday 3/18.
It’s less than two weeks to The Rumble. In this
week’s Boston Emissions Anngelle Wood revealed
that Halfcocked will be the guest band for the finals.
Halfcocked were around from 1997 to 2002. To mark their return they've
released two 2002 demos. They're two hard rockers. Anngelle played them
both. We will give you “Into the Spotlight” to play/hear
below.
Anngelle also played Stars Like Ours, Shang
Hi Los, Canyons and Locusts and Taken By Vultures.
One song that stuck out because it was so different was “Cosmic
Surfin’” by Fates of Furies. The group
has members from several Boston bands. Some fuzz guitar outlines some
singing in an eastern style that is dreamy and mood inducing. The other
two songs on this EP show that this is their general sound. The only
other band that comes close to this that we know is Sundrifter.
“Albatross” by locals Sorry, Ma is another
song that got our attention. We checked out the band’s Bandcamp
and found this song “Girl In A Band”. There is a satiric
edge to the lyrics that makes it seem that they are maybe making fun
of those that make so much of a ‘girl in a band’ like it’s
so odd. We love the amped up guitar solo.
This week on Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico there
were two podcasts. First was Carissa Johnson. Carissa
grew up in Andover. Her father was in the group The Bones that existed
from the late 80s to the early 90s that played the Rat and Channel.
Once Carissa had a car she was in Boston and the clubs all the time.
She went from a fan of the Beatles to the Ramones. Carissa was in a
group called Left Hand Blue that was playing in clubs
around 2014. They recorded five albums.
Steev does a good job showing how much Carissa has done in the last
ten years. Not many have logged recordings and stage time at so early
an age as Carissa. She explains how she writes through emotion. She
talked about the boost she got from winning the 1977 Rumble. There
is a lot in this interview.
Then Steev interviewed Chris Pearson
who was in Green Magnet School and is now in Spiller.
We’ve featured them the last few weeks in the BGN.
Chris grew up in Harwich down the Cape. He went in to buy a Police
album in 1979 but Cliff Hanger from the Freeze put
the Ramones album on the counter and told Chris to buy it.
Green Magnet School got signed to Sub Pop but then
didn’t get enough support to further their career. The group got
together for the Bob Dubrow’s Pipeline anniversary shows in 2014.
In February of 2023 the band that became Spiller slowly
formed. The band was mostly together by the time Chris was called in.
They played a few shows included Denstock, Faces and the Midway. They
have three shows coming up including Koto Salem on April 12, June 1st in
Plymouth at the New World Tavern with the Wynotts and then a show later
with Moving Targets. Get more info by scrolling down to the Gig Listings.
People are paying attention to Spiller!! See them
early and get bragging rights.
Elastic Glam Breakfast show had a Threefer madness
format going on this week. That way we get three T. Rex
songs. “Mad Donna” was a live cut that we never heard before.
Then there was the great “Children of the Revolution.” This
was a good fit to play three Cockney Rebel songs
in memory of Steve Harley who died last week.
It was also a good chance to hear a few from an Electric Glam standby Starbenders.
Then three by Roxy and David Bowie.
The You Don’t Know Mojack podcast discussed
Roger Miller’s No Man albumWhamon
Express from 1990 on SST. The podcast is dedicated to
reviewing all SST Record releases. Roger himself is not a big fan of
this album which has preprogramed drums. The hosts go over the situation
surrounding the album. Then talk about each track, while reading comments
from Roger about the tracks. We think the analysis is very interesting
and should trigger a listening to this album, which is what we are going
to do.
They start talking about the No Man album about 30 minutes into the podcast.
Songs include a cover of Bowie’s “Man Who Sold The World.”
The song “Red Ants” was the name of Roger’s first
Boston group.
We just came across the podcast Punkcast it's It’s
connected to the Punk Museum. The podcast is done by Jessica
Schwartz, Associate Professor of Musicology at UCLA. So we
expected it to have an intellectual edge to it ... and it does in the
initial episode which we have below. Right now they have 39 episodes.
The Stroll was a harmless dance
craze in the late fifties. The Screw Cart song
“Stroll” is the HP Lovecraft version of that. The single
cover illustrates the scenario that you envision when you hear the lyrics.
The guitar screeches and the drums have a primitive air (there are congas
and bongos in the mix). There’s always evil lurking in the Screw
Cart world. That’s why we love them.
Listen to the uninhibited garage madness by Lysol at
the beginning of the song “Sonic Thrill”. Lysol are from
Seattle, WA. The other three songs from the Down the Steet
EP are just as raucous and all under two minutes. Awesome.
Rum Bar released a 1977 album by The Hollywood
Stars and then a live album. Now, we have this single “Taxi
Driver” that is newly recorded this year, which is 47 years after
their last studio album. The stars are with the Hollywood Stars because
glam is back with new bands jumping on the bandwagon again. “Taxi
Driver” has the guitar hooks, sweet vocals and the stomping
beat of classic glam. What’s not to like? A full album will come
this summer.
Here's some good shows coming up .....
March 25, 2024 (Monday)Tripsitter, Today
Junior, Big Brute at The Silhouette
March 28, 2024 (Thursday) Grip Bite,
Bad Idea USA, Silver Screams at AS220 in Providence RI
March 29, 2024 (Friday) Bootleg Dan
presents Satch Kerans Band with Hasbro and
Fandango (both from NYC) at The Square Root
March 29, 2024 (Friday) Kate
Clover, Brad Marino at The Middle East Up
March 30, 2024 (Saturday) Degenerates of
Punk, Super Beef, Follow Thru, First Pick at The Midway for
a 3PM matinee
March 30, 2024 (Saturday) Girth Control,
Bad Idea USA, Leisure Boys - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden MA
April 2, 2024 (Tuesday) Kenne
Highland Birthday Bash at The Jungle. 7PM til closing. Come
wish Kenne a HBD. You can buy Wade's bbq and bring it into the Jungle
to eat also!
April 2, 2024 (Tuesday) One
Fall, High and Dry, Massive Nightmares at Notch Brewing Brighton
April 3, 2024 (Wednesday) The
Koffin Kats, The Queers, Muck & The Mires, Sourpunch
at Sonia - 7:30PM All ages show! FB
page
April 3, 2024 (Wednesday) Crash Cadet,
Sly Fang, Answerman at The Silhouette Lounge
April 3, 2024 (Wednesday) Smirk, Valley
Gals, Gossip Collar at Deep Cuts Medford
April 5, 2024 (Friday) Hammered
Saint, Diablogato, Shang Hi Los at Faces, Malden - FB
page.Tickets
April 6, 2024 (Saturday)Bootleg Dan Blast!! with Densityblackcat
(NYC), The False Positives, Hi-End, Stop Calling Frank, DJ
Sherman spinning at The Warehouse XI in Union Square Somerville
(right by the Jungle)
April 6, 2024 (Saturday) River City
Rebels, Nick & The Adversaries, Cuidado - 8pm All Ages
Faces Malden MA
April 6, 2024 (Saturday) Huck 2
and Island of Alaska at The Jungle Somerville.
April 8, 2024 (Monday) Tatooine Punk
Scene, Tine Wine, See You At Rogers at The Silhouette Lounge
April 10, 2024 (Wednesday)Guided by
Voices, Cul de Sac, Kids, Blatant Doom Trip - Warehouse XI,
Union Sq Somerville
April 12, 2024 (Friday)Beware
the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Children of the Flaming Wheel, Pink
Lids at Faces Malden
April 12, 2024 (Friday)Mini
Beast, Major Stars, Rope Trick, The Endorphins at The Rockwell
Somerville
April 12, 2024 (Friday) Rock
& Roll Rumble Prelim Night with Never Gonna Make
It, The Ghouls, Cold Expectations, The Roland High Life at
The Middle East Up- FB
page
April 12, 2024 (Friday) Beantown Booking Presents: The
Long Wait, Spiller (EP Release Party), C.O.B,. TJ
Welch & The Wasted at Koto Salem
April 13, 2024 (Saturday) Waldemar, Labrador,
Sue Bell - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden MA
April 13, 2024 (Saturday) Children of
the Flaming Wheel, Electric Street Queens, Orange Whip, Christian Kids -8PM
at The Midway FB page
April 14, 2024 (Sunday) Martin/Morell/Fredette with
Mike Weidenfeller and John Hovorka at The
Midway - 3PM matinee show
April 15, 2024 (Monday) Rockin Bob
Punk Band, Some Kind of Nightmare, Super Beef at Koto Salem.
April 14, 2024 (Sunday) Plymouth Punk
Rock Market Returns to Weymouth at Barrel House
Z - Noon - 4PM. FB page.
April 16, 2024 (Tuesday) Mallcops, Invisible
Rays, Luddites, Modern Faces at Notch Brewing Brighton
April 19, 2024 (Friday) Wreckless Wreck
Chords presents Spring Stampede With WORM, C.O.B.,
Witches Tears, The Woods, Jobber at The C Note, Hull - FB
page
April 19, 2024 (Friday) Quattracenta, Thalia
Zedek Band, Rip Room - at The Midway - 9:30 show.
April 20, 2024 (Saturday) The
Downhauls, Tim McCoy Rock Quartet, The Steamies (w Tim &
Ron of Chelsea Curve), Jay Allen & The Archcriminals
at The Midway for a 3PM matinee
April 20, 2024 (Saturday) Wreckless Wreck
Chords Presents WORM, Dirty Walter And the SmellTones, Pint
Killers, Mitch Kramer, C.O.B. at The C Note, Hull - FB page
April 20, 2024 (Saturday) Hard
in the Head II with The F.U.'s, Cuidado, The Modern faces, Couch
Sex, at the
Gerry 5 VFA Marblehead, MA
April 20, 2024 (Saturday) The
Long Wait, Sonic Bomb, Tj Welch And The Wasted at Thirsty
First Lowell
April 20, 2024 (Saturday) Mach Bell
(MBE), The Cynz (Record Release Party), Muck
and the Mires, The Hi-End. at The Square Root, Roslindale
Sq.
April 22, 2024 (Monday) Hopeless
Otis, Bad Idea USA, K.C.U.F, Latch at The Silhouette Lounge
April 23, 2024 (Tuesday) Score Cone,
Galaxy Cake, Blazers Over Turtlenecks at Notch Brewing Brighton
April 27, 2024 (Saturday) The Crank-Tones
at The Midway for a 3PM Matinee
April 27, 2024 (Saturday) Cran, Battery
March, Hammered Saint, Rejekts, The Minor Inconveniences - Cambridge
Community Center all ages [6PM]
April 28, 2024 (Sunrday) Hassle Flea
& Art Market with Minibeast and Goon Platoon
and over 100 cool vendors - 12:30 - 3:30 at The Cambridge Commiunity
Center, 5 Calendar St...outside of Central Square check out the FB event
page for updates. …..
May 4, 2024 (Saturday) The
Lights Out, Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight, Brain K & The
Parkway at Faces Malden
May 5, 2024 (Sunday)The Chisel, Home Front at The Middle
East All Ages 7PM doors.
May 11, 2024 (Saturday) Somerville Porch
Fest!!! PF websiteLinnea's Garden and Happy
Little Clouds are already registerd: 32 Stone Ave Somerville
(Union Sq) 4-6 pm
May 11, 2024 (Saturday) Johnny Plankton
& TSMS, Hands Of Spite, FastTracks, Richard Mirsky & A.M.P
at The Midway for a 3PM matinee
May 16, 2024 (Thursday) The
Dead Boys, Nervous Eaters, The Plimsouls at Sonia this is a
7PM show.
May 16, 2024 (Thursday) Helmet and
Cro-Mags at The Middle East All Ages 6PM doors.
FB page
May 17, 2024 (Friday) Worshipper, Sundrifter,
Earthlore at Koto Salem
May 17, 2024 (Friday) Sharp
Class are back! Also on the bill The Chelsea Curve
and Muck & The Mires - at The Burren FB page
May 18, 2024 (Saturday) DnA's Evolution,
Trading Tombstones. The Spackles, The Mighty Suicide Squirrels at The
Midway for a 3 PM matinee
May 18, 2024 (Saturday)Joan Jett covers night with Andrea
Gillis & Friends, CE Skidmore & Friends, Brooke Feinberg &
Friends At faces Malden
May 25, 2024 (Saturday)Mach
Bell Experience (MBE), David Hull and the Dirty Angels. Magic
Room, Norwood, MA
May 31, 2024 (Friday)Wreckless Wreck
Chords Presents Memorial Day Bash With WORM, Working
Poor USA, Kermitsfinger HagglersBoston, Scumbari at The C Note
- 7:30PM door- FB
event page
June 1, 2024 (Saturday) Plymouth Punk
Rock Market - Noon- 5PM - FB page
June 1, 2024 (Saturday) The
Wynotts, The Black Cheers, Spillers at New World Tavern Plymouth.
June 8, 2024 (Saturday)
Tiger Bomb, Galaxy Cake, Clean Girl & The Dirty Dishes
at Marshall Wharf Brewing in Belfast, ME - FB page.
July 13, 2024 (Saturday) Bim
Skala Bim 40th Anniversary Show with Void Union, Duppy
Conquerors, Some Ska Band, and Brunt of It -8:00
PM | Crystal Ballroom at Somerville Theatre. Two shows! Special guests,
FB
page.
CONTACT US AT....misslynbgn@yahoo.comSend us your gig listings, your anything else
you've got!! You want your CD reviewed?? Contact us for that too.
We interviewed David Bash on the week where his International Pop Overthrow is
coming to town. It's some backgroud on the history of the event and of course talk about POP..........
We bring you into the Rat Room at the Hotel Commonwealth.
Jimmy Harlold invited a group of scene veterans. It was a Rat reuion
with lots of stories exchanged. Get to see the room and the people.........
Johnny Angel writes a mystery novel Looking for Lady Dee steeped in Boston punk and Thrills history.
It's no apologys given for the punk lifestyle. ....
It appeared before us like a chimera and it's
still growing...it's the Pipeline 25th Anniversary celebration.
We interview mastermind Bob Dubrow about his background and
search for what motivates him as well as Pipeline history and
the show....
The Boston punk community comes out for a good cause.
Neighborhoods, Upper Crust, Dents, Dogmatics, Roy Sludge Trio, Ed
Moose Savage, Downbeat 5 and Classic Ruins raise some money and
rock the house at......
He's legendary and his surprise birthday party was legendary in turn. Only in your Boston Rock and Roll dreams could you come up with a night like this.......
In a case of reverse outsourcing Carl Biancucci of the Classic Ruins also plays bass in the English group Shotglass Killers.
He tells us about a gig at the 100 Club with a reformed Damned....
The Konks' hypnotic bashing was a smart mindlessness that you got addicted to. They are calling it quits and we'll miss 'em and there's no free clinic out there to help us either...........
Thank god for 110 Instamatics or we wouldn't have a lot of our early Boston punk photos. Kathy Flynn used hers to get some pics of the Rat and The Club and she sent them to us to share with you..........
One of the interesting things in the early days of Boston punk was seeing the attention grow around us. One watershed moment was when we heard that a Time Magazine reporter was going to visit the Rat. We didn't like the resulting article. But you can decide. Take a look at the ....
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Let's get real. We are all getting older and will die. Do you ever consider how you will be remembered? I'm talking about your tombstone. It's morbid, it's in poor taste, it's .....
Crotch biting...head bleeding...dick jiggling...it's all in Miss Lyn's report (with photos to prove it) from the GG Allin 10 Year Memorial Tour at the Middle East....
Punk started 25 years ago. Did any of us think we would ever make it this far? Probably not, that was punk; nihilistic, "no future!". Here is a place to remember, and give a moment of thought to, those who didn't make it
this far...
The minute she hit the scene she was every male punk's heart throb. She was beautiful. She had a winning personality. She had a ...well...a...glow. That could be my heart talking because I, Blowfish, confess: I too am Judy's love slave. We didn't just love Judy, we worshiped her. So, now all of us members of Judyism have somewhere to meet and offer our prayers of unrequited love.
1977-The Damned were ready to piss on Blowfish and started to undress Miss Lyn! And people seemed to like it!! This interview IS outrageous...for then AND now!