There’s going to be another stampede going north to The Cut Live
in Gloucester! This time it's for the Lenny Kaye Nuggets Anniversary
show on May 17. That’s 50 years since the longtime
favorite double album was released.
Lenny will be bringing in local musicians to fill the bill. Get this line up:
Willie Loco (of course), David Minehan, Ted Leo, Bill
Janovitz, Hugo Burnham, Duke Levine, Tony Goddess, Barrence Whitfield, Tanya
Donnelley, Clint Conley, Ed Valauskas, Jon Wurster, Josh Kantor, James Mastro
and more....!!
Congrats to Speedfossil for getting two shows in the International
Pop Festival in Liverpool on May 28 and 29. If that isn’t enough
they're recording at Abbey Road Studios while they're there!
Speedfossil Facebook page and they are getting played on a ton of independent
radio shows and their song "Sweetheart" is in the Top 10 on Radio
Candy Indie show. They're new EP Room With a Vu Vol.1 will
be out April 12th.
The Nervous Eaters' new album Rock and Roll Your Heart
Away will be out on August 23. They released the new album cover.
"Rock and Roll Your Heart Away" are also some of the lyrics to “5-2-8”
of the Eat This! album. That song was about the Rat which was at 528
Comm Ave. The video, above left, has a lot of photos that should bring back memories. Remember 'Mental Man"?
Memorial for James Ryan....will be on June 9
at the Magic Room in Norwook. Details soon.
VIDEOS......
The West Coast punks knew more about The Bags than we did
here on the East Coast in those early punk days! We have heard so much about
them, and Alice Bag, since. Alice was a striking
presence on the scene and she's recently cropped up in the news more and more.
Now she has a short video piece in the AARP Facebook page. We love what she
has to say about the punk lifestyle and how it informs every part of her life
as she gets older. Alice's autobiography Violence
Girl was published in 2011 and is still well worth a read!!
On Sonic Overload Al Quint played some punk and a few other
genres during his heavy hardcore line up.
There was the Velvet Underground doing “I Heard Her
Call My Name.” That was just after playing early West Coast punkers Crime
with “Crime Wave”.
He even played the original “Bridgeport Lathe” by 2 X 4’s
that we went on about last week, and followed that with the great “Brakes
On You” by Tracks.
STFU doing “Fuck
Hardcore” had a funny intro and then it gets as hard as anything.
There was a put-through-the-wringer “I Think I Love You”
cover of the Partridge Family by ISM.
Al ended the show with a set you wouldn’t expect with The Fleashtones,
Stray Cats, Nikki and the Corvettes and Wire. He also
played one from the Spiller EP “Go Go Girlie” which
proves how that group is connecting with everybody.
This week Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico had Roger
Miller of Mission of Burma. Roger’s fascination with music started
with the Beatles, like a lot from that generation. He started playing guitar
at 13 and was in his first band at 15. Roger grew up in Ann Harbor, MI near
Detroit.
He came to Boston to be a piano technician in 1977 and was in a group
called Red Ants and developed tinnitus at that early
time. Soon he joined Moving Parts and then a gig at
Cantone’s. That didn’t last long then it was MOB
with Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Eric Lindgren
happening soon after and existing simultaneously.
It took a while for people to understand the group. Roger said they played
to many baffled audiences in the early days.
Steev walks Roger through the MOB career. Minibeast is playing
theTown and City
Festival in Lowell on April 27th. Steev asked about new groups
and Roger said he liked Sapling and will be sitting in with
them at the Town and City show! (also on the 27th)
Sethyspice, DJ for Elastic Glam revealed he has Irish roots
and then proceeded to prove it all show long with Irish tunes for St Patrick’s
Day.
He show started with T. Rex’s (that never changes) “Mambo Sun”.
Then it was trad Irish with The Irish Rovers and as James Joyce fans we were
glad to hear the Clancy Brothers do “Tim Finnegan’s Wake”.
There was Irish punk with The Flogging Mollys, Dropkick Murphys and The Pogues.
There’s plenty more of the green sounds.
NEW MUSIC/CDs......
We’ve missed having Zip Tie Handcuffs in action. The
2015 Rumble winners have done some live shows but no new music since 2019. Now,
they have a new digital single with “Runaround.” and they are fully back in action.
The band sound have a little psych in there, but more distinctly they create
a sort of sonic whirlwind that they spin their songs in. This song has that!
It's off kilter an revved up and it will sweep you up. All three members contribute
to the sound.
This song has to do with the prevalence of social media. The band reveals
that in an article in Vanyaland
Even though Canyons and Locusts only have two instruments,
there is no mistaking their sound. It’s all built from a super fuzzed
out guitar and thumping drums. The voice almost seems buried but it’s
distinctive too and is surprisingly melodic.
They have a new EP The Red Angel is out now. Four
of the songs have already been released,“Art Bell” and “Buck
Dharma’s Eyes” are our two faves.
The group has made a mark in a short time period and they've received a lot
of good press. If you haven’t heard them yet, this is the time to get
up to speed on them.
Stompbox were active in the early nineties but have reformed
recently and now have a five song EP, Summer, coming
out on March 26. One song is pre-released now. “Final Summer” can
be described as stomping along, to play off their name, and it stomps pretty
heavily. At the 1:25 mark they create a guitar maelstrom that lasts for 40 seconds
and is awesome!! The Stompbox
website
Stompbox are also re-releasing their first album Travis from
1992 with some extra four track demos. You can order that on their
Bandcamp page You can hear the song “Crackerlung” from that
album on there too.
We had the video from Spiller last week. Their four song EP
is out now. The first song, “Sparkler” is dedicated to Justine
Covault. Listen to the lyrics to get some of the lines. It yet again
will make you feel the loss.
“God Save the Queens” is a cleverly titled song of inclusion. There
is humor in the lyrics, that's a nice touch. We only need more of this positive
support for people that are under oppression by the close minded. We’re
proud that a local punk group has done this.
For a debut this is more than impressive. These veterans of Gang Green,
Underball, Jerry’s Kids and Green Magnet School are showing the
lessons learned from their former bands. Spiller is playing
with The Wynotts and The Black Cheers, on
June 1st at The New World Tavern in Plymouth.
You could spend your life just tracking the music coming out of Brooklyn, NY.
The latest thing we’ve heard is this cut “High School Boyfiend”
by Mandy off the album Lawn Girl. The leader of the
group, Miranda Winter, is also in noise group Melkbelly.
“High School Boyfiend” has both a heavy group sound and a light
catchy riff that both play off each other. At the same time it has that high
school romance feeling to it. This is the only song released so far. We’re
dying to hear the rest of the album.
March 18, 2024 (Monday) Follow
Thru, Working Poor, Fake Feelings, Jobber at O'Brien's
March 19, 2024 (Tuesday) Coldstart,
Rawstrum, Laquerhead, Innervain are at O'Brien's
March 20, 2024 (Wednesday) Chinese Telephones, Constant Insult, Cigarette Camp
& Blame It On Whitman at Faces Malden
March 21, 2024 (Thursday) Bootleg Dan presents
Marc Valentine, Girl with a Hawk, The Stigmatics at The Music
Room in Yarmouth
March 21, 2024 (Thursday)Barrence
Whitfield & The Savages and Tiger Bomb at SPACE, 538
Congress St. Portland, ME - FB
page
March 22, 2024 (Friday) Bootleg Dan presents
Marc Valentine, The Chelsea Curve, Little Billy Lost, Special Guest
DJ Sherman at The Burren
March 22, 2024 (Friday)PWRUP,
Blame It On Malice, Pink Slip - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden MA
March 22, 2024 (Friday)Hammered
Saint, The Fake Boys, Deacon Bill, WLKRZ at Koto Lowell
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Wrath
of the Selkie, Your Friends in Hell, Thou Merciless Graves, Coffin Salesman,
Squalie Greenthumb - The Rockwell, Somerville
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Miracle
Blood, The Freqs, Psychic Weight, Billy - Deep Cuts Medford
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Galaxy
Cake celebrates the release of their debut single - Pick
Me Up! also n the bill Kayde Hazel, The Daylilies, Galaxy
Cake, Lonely Leesa & The Lost Cowboys at The Jungle.
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Worcester
Punk Rock Flea Market returns to Hotel Vernon - Noon - 7PM - FB
page
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Teen
Mortgage, Death Lens, Zip-Tie Handcuffs at Deep Cuts Medford
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Junius,
Mission To Sleep, Juniper Youth - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden MA
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)13th
annual fund raising event for The Joe Zippo Fund & Scholarship
with Mephiskapheles, Mamadou, The Riki Rocksteady All-Stars
and DJ sets by Breaux Silcio of Residency Records at Salem
Old Town Hall - FB
page. As many of you may know, Joe Zippo Kelly, a long-term
Boston punk musician died in a motorcycle accident in 2010. The headliners,
Mephiskapheles, are making the trip up from NYC to tempt you
with a
forked tongue and a Satanics on ska twist. Riki Rocksteady All Stars
are a perfect undercard with their punk ska take on having a good time. All
proceeds go to the Joe Zippo Fund which provides small grants to musicians in
tough spots.
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Sundrifter
(Release show), Swamphead, Cortez at Deep Cuts Malden
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)Andrea
Gillis, Stars Like Ours at the Lizard Lounge!
March 23, 2024 (Saturday)TREE,
Murcielago, Inverter, ViQueen at Portland (ME) House of Music. FB
page.
March 24, 2024 (Sunday)Teen Mortgage,
Death Lens, Zip Tie Handcuffs at Deep Cuts Medford. Music at 8PM
March 24, 2024 (Sunday)Dean T. Jackson Memorial Benefit Show at Sonia.
The line up is" The F.U.'s, Gang Green, Tree, Rockin Bob Punk Band,
Richie's Kids, Gusto, BarRoom Heroes, Spectacle and TJ Welch and the Wasted. 1 to 6pm All Ages.
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 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) 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
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 1, 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.
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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!