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The BGN News Archive
We're remembering some old times ...... The Damned are touring with a '80s line up in the US. That would be with Captain Sensible, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies and Paul Gray. That’s the lineup that played on The Black Album and Strawberries. They will be hitting Boston at the Big Night Live on May 29. Tickets To see the dates for the whole tour go to the Official Damned website It's unfortunate that these new clubs in Boston are so badly designed and make for a horrible experience. You can check Yelp..or just talk to anyone that has gone to one of them for a show.
 We're so humble that it hurts to do this but we must self-promote! We (Miss Lyn
and Blowfish) are going to be on Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico
podcast this week. Steev Riccardo says he will post the interview on Monday 3/4. Steev kept the focus mostly on the early days, and by early days we mean 1974 to 1980. Those were exciting and life changing years for us. We found a home in punk and never looked back. Punk formed around us and the landscape of rock shifted. The mainstream rejected us and we made our own scene and system. We talk about how that happened in Boston. You can find the show on the Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico podcast page.
Here is the Move album on Bandcamp, and Soma Holiday is in there too.
Going back further to 1979 here’s three songs by Baby’s Arm ( the precursor to Classic Ruins) recorded at Cantone’s. Ah, Cantone’s, that was our home! The songs are “Nyquil Stinger”, “Heart Attack” and “I’m a Wimp”. Classic Boston punk. Check it out on YouTube
Linnea’s Garden and Actor/Observer both did this in 2021. You can buy a record for $30.00 and you get to pick from twelve songs. Sign up on the Leesta Vall website
Record Store Day is coming on April 20. Here’s a list of special releases that can be bought that day. VIDEOS......
On the NYHC Chronicles Drew Stone salutes the 50 year anniversary of the beginning of CBGB’s. He has on Dana Kristal the son on Hilly Kristal. You think that would be full of inside stories. In a way it is but it’s not that simple. It was hard to get a straight memory out of Dana without the family baggage in tow. Dana feels that his mother got slighted in the CBGB’s story, and it sounds like she did, but he dwells on it incessantly. There’s no moving forward without stopping to bring his mother into the story. In another way he’s a New York City character, so there’s that side. Drew does his best to get some straight info from Dana and prompts him with photos of the club but it mostly goes down in flames. Drew knows all this but soldiers on.
We found ourselves going back time and again to Happy Little Clouds' new release “The Emperor’s Song.” It is a catchy tune that bounces along and throws in a positive message with the “listen to your heart” lyric. The organ playing adds to the magic. Now, there is a video of the song. The upbeat tone is reinforced with the band having fun with their emperor costumes. The rich colors make it all click. RADIO...... Last Tuesday, 2/27, Skybar interviewed Rick Barton on his Rising show on WMFO 91.5 FM. Skybar’s last interview with Rick was full of stories about The Outlets and the Dropkick Murphys early days. This time he kept the focus on the two albums (Nowhere Man and Comin’ Home) Rick has released simultaneously on Rum Bar. Rick says it was Skybar mentioning Rick's new material to Lou Mansdorf (of Rum Bar)l that made Lou inquire about that and eventually release the material on Rum Bar. Rick also let out that him and his brother Dave will be onstage with the Dropkick Murphys in a show down south to play a few Outlets songs.
This Tuesday 3/5 Skybar will have Leesa Coyne of Lonley Leesa & the Lost Cowboys to talk about the video for the powerful “Stayed” song. She will play a few live songs in the studio also. Tune in Tuesday at 8pm on WMFO at 91.5FM. After that go to the WMFO schedule page Hit the Rising show on 8 to 10 pm on Tuesday, then hit the ‘archive’ button. Crash Course for the Ravers (WMFO Saturday 1pm) started with a few Lou Reed songs to celebrate his birthday. Then Brian Young had an interview with The Cynz. They are an example of a band from out of town (New Jersey, NYC) that have groomed an audience in Boston by playing here regularly and connecting with local DJs, and in this case, a promoter; Bootleg Dan. Cyndi Dawson and Henry Seiz talk about songwriting, influences and touring. They are playing in LA at the Viper Room this week. Hear the interview below. To hear the whole show go to the WMFO schedule page Hit the Rising show on 1 pm on Saturday, then hit the ‘archive’ button.
On Joanie’s Late Risers show she played Loco Hombre. They're a Boston group but sing in Spanish. We didn’t know about them before, but are intrigued now! Joanie played "La Vita" which we have streaming below. They have nine songs on their Bandcamp page. Travel maven, Joanie is going to Sweden this week so she played a lot of groups from there in the show. To hear Joanie’s show go to the WMBR archive page and hit the Late Risers Show for Monday 2/26.
PODCASTS......... Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico had Andrea Gillis in talking about her long career. As Steev says Andrea is one of the most respected musicians on the scene. Her raw singing talent would get her attention in any situation. Andrea went from Roxbury to Southie growing up, she has a very Boston story. Steev then leads her into telling the whole Abbey Lounge story. There was no music in the Abbey when the local band Schnockered asked to play. It took off from there. Andrea didn’t start singing until a year before the Abbey started up. Steev gets her to talk about all her solo albums in turn. One of Andrea’s most memorable gigs was being the first band to play the House of Blues in Boston opening with J Geils. Andrea divulged she has plans for an EP this year in May with “Leave the Light On”, “About a Girl”, “Jump Into the Fire”, “I Don’t Need You No More” and a new song.
Rick Barton was also on the debut of a new podcast called The Hardcore Record this week. Rick reveals he will be putting out a third album this year. He talks about how Kiss had three albums in 18 months when they began and that was a model for his two albums. Rick always has new stories and strong opinions.
The Elastic Glam Breakfast show began (after the T.Rex opener) with a series of five glam tunes that flowed like water. It was eminently listenable. It ended with the smooth “The Sweet Life” by Tell. When Sethyspice reached back he picked David Essex, Marmalade and Slade. We were introduced to Killerstar a group of former Bowie collaborators. Sethyspice got right on Marc Valentine’s new song “Tyrannical Wrecks”….we love that play on T. Rex. Marc will be at the Music Room in Yarmouth on March 21. (more info in the gig listings below). There’s plenty of other fine material. Elastic Glam is a solid part of our week now.
NEW MUSIC/CDs......
Holy crap, this Hammered Saint recording comes blaring out of the speakers and blows you over!! They are getting louder and punker. The new song “Taylor Swift” is a mere 1:35 but they pack a shit load into that. Emily Doran has one of the great punk voices here or anywhere. She sings all out, all the time. Curt Florczak does some dirty dancing on the frets around the 38 second mark and then some angular riffage at the 1:20 mark - cool. The rhythm section is pumping the whole way. We have it on our Top Ten Songs
Barrence Whitfield steals the show on Sal Baglio's Amplifier Heads' release “They Came To Rock.” This is from a live rock opera that played in Nashville a few years ago. Aliens come to earth to find out who are these people making this ‘rock music’? The song is stamped with that Barrence vocal that is hard to deny and BTW Barrence is coming to Boston and Portland this month - check the gig listings below
Rob Moss and Skin Tight Skin are up to their fifth single in the work up to a new album. We’ve heard some stellar guest spots in these tunes. “You and Time” some fantastic guitar by 1960s garage rock legend Randy Klawon of The Choir, Cyrus Erie, The Quick and The Half-Cubes. The guitar lines absolutely soar. Randy has a searing tone and complete control. The whole thing seems to go beyond music to be painterly or architectural. What a piece of work.
Semi-Perfect Crimes by Coffin Pricks from Chicago is a decade old recording rescued by Council Recording. Coffin Pricks were punks with a non-typical sound. They didn’t thud power chords but slashed sharp chords in a jagged rhythm. We like the treble guitar work in “Glass Splinter”. All the ‘Saki Sessions’ revel a sharp post punk sound. They were dynamite live. There’s a lot to get into here, they are a find. We’re going to leave you with “Brilliant Boris” because that shows the mechanistic/syncopated rhythm that is typical of them to good effect.
Stop Calling Me Frank have had a “Spider in My Beer” and did their “Drinking After Work”. Now they take on “Whiskey in the Jar” an old traditional Irish ballad as their latest release. Thin Lizzy had a hit with it in 1972. SCMF only needed till the sax comes in to make this song their own. That sax line by Terry O’Malley, which takes from Thin Lizzy, but modifies it, is so warm and alive that it stamps the song immediately. The group as a whole is made for material like this. Rum Bar has taken the song and included it on a seven cut EP Whiskey in the Jar and Other Tales From the Bar. It’s got Rum Bar bands Shaggahs, Rick Barton, The Gypsy Moths, Richie Parsons, Matweeds and Jittery Jack.
We spotlighted the song “Look Kool” by Still Animals (St. Louis, MO) a few weeks ago. Now the whole self-titled album has been released on Bandcamp. They don’t wander from their raw garage sound at all. That might seem like a recipe for dullness but to us it makes a great no bullshit garage album. They are too busy making a glorious messy sound to bother with any finesse.
Now that The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are kaput where do you go to get your ska? Here’s one Boston ska band to check out, The Kilograms. They don’t have horns. They keep things low and tidy with a warm organ sound as a supporting bed. They have a very authentic sound. It’s subtlety over bombast with The Kilograms.
Here's some good shows coming up .....
March 8, 2024 (Friday) Ghost Painted Sky, Low Lives, Black Rose Burning, Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight at The Middle East Up March 8, 2024 (Friday) Thru It All, One Fall, Nicoteens, at Deep Cuts Medford March 8, 2024 (Friday) Color Killer and Dirty Walter and the Smelltones at Koto - ALL AGES and FREE March 9, 2024 (Saturday) The Long Wait, Chrome Over Brass, Catching Hell, Chumhuffer at The Middle East Up March 9, 2024 (Saturday) Actor|Observer, Loud Sounds, Semaphore at The Palladium Worcester Tickets March 10, 2024 (Sunday) Stubborn Hearts, Dave Strong, Divorce Cake, Vivra Vera at The Midway - 3PM matinee
March 10, 2024 (Sunday) Actor|Observer, Loundsounds, Semaphore, Professor Caffine & The Insecurities. at AS220 Providence RI Tickets! March 10, 2024 (Sunday) FAST Tracks meet The Strangemen at the Worthen Attic - 4PM matinee $10 cash March 13, 2024 (Wednesday) The Drowns, Michael Kane & The Morning Afters at Deep Cuts Medford March 14, 2024 (Thursday) Gnarnia, Baabes, Dogwalker at AS220 Providence RI March 15, 2024 (Friday) The Dogmatics: A Dogumentary showing and The Dogmatics playing live at The Regent Theater (Tickets!) FB page. March 15, 2024 (Friday) The Shirts and Shoes record release show with The Roscoes, WLKRZ - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden March 15, 2024 (Friday) Miracle Blood, The Freqs, Psychic Weight, Billy at Deep Cuts, Medford - FB page March 16, 2024 (Saturday) Ravagers, The Downhauls, Loretta at O'Brien's
March 16, 2024 (Saturday) Kids Like You and Me presents: Johnnie & The Foodmasters Party! Boston's wildest, weirdest oldies cover band is throwing a party at The Lilypad. Special guests - Electric Street Queens and Jarsch - 7-10PM FB page March 16, 2024 (Saturday) Micah Schnabel (of Two Cow Garage), Little Low, Matt Murphy - 7pm All Ages Faces Malden MA March 16, 2024 (Saturday) The F.U.’s, Rockin’ Bob’s Punk Band, FAST Tracks, Never Gonna Make It at the MAGIC ROOM, 18+, 7pm Doors March 16, 2024 (Saturday) 13th Annual Joe Zippo Fund & Scholarship show with Mephiskapheles, Mamadou, The Riki Rocksteady All-Stars (appearing as a trio this show) with DJ sets by Breaux Silcio of Residency Records. At Salem Old Town Hall -7-11PM FB page March 18, 2024 (Monday) Follow Thru, Working Poor, Fake Feelings, Jobber 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 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) 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.
March 23, 2024 (Saturday) Andrea Gillis, Stars Like Ours at the Lizard Lounge! March 24, 2024 (Sunday) Teen Mortgage, Death Lens, Zip Tie Handcuffs at Deep Cuts Medford. Music at 8PM March 24, 2024 (Sunday) Matt Burns Memorial Show at Worthen Attic, Lowell, MA- Larry Newman, Frank Rowe, Spike, Captain Easychord, Captain and Schlemiel, Kenne Highland's Air Force, Classic Ruins, The Reverand Joseph Fagan and his Deacons 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) Girth Control, Bad Idea USA, Leisure Boys - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden MA
April 5, 2024 (Friday) Hammered Saint, Diablogato, Shang Hi Los at Faces, Malden - FB page. 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 12, 2024 (Friday) Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Children of the Flaming Wheel, Pink Lids at Faces Malden 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 15, 2024 (Monday) Rockin Bob Punk Band, Some Kind of Nightmare, Super Beef at Koto Salem. April 16, 2024 (Sunday) Plymouth Punk Rock Market Returns to Weymouth at Barrel House Z - Noon - 4PM. FB page. 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) 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 27, 2024 (Saturday) The Crank-Tones at The Midway for a 3PM Matinee
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 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 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. CONTACT US AT....misslynbgn@yahoo.com Send us your gig listings, your anything else you've got!! You want your CD reviewed?? Contact us for that too.
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We just found this 
Evil Felipe will be traveling to Brooklyn in August
to record at Leesta Vall Recording studios. Leesta Vall does direct
to vinyl recordings. That means the band plays the song and it will
cut a vinyl record at that time. One performance equals one record.
March 7, 2024 (Thursday) Panic
Problem (Baltimore), Wasted Time (Canada),
Health & Safety - 8pm All Ages Faces Malden MA
March 10, 2024 (Sunday) The Decibel Tour
Magazine 2024 - Hulder, Devil Master, WORM, Necrofier at The
MIddle East - 6PM.
March 16, 2024 (Saturday) Jerry’s
Got Jokes, High & Dry, The Martians, Dear Maryanne at The Midway
March 21, 2024 (Thursday) Barrence
Whitfield & The Savages and Tiger Bomb at SPACE, 538
Congress St. Portland, ME - 
March 23, 2024 (Saturday) Sundrifter
(Release show), Swamphead, Cortez at Deep Cuts Malden
April 3, 2024 (Wednesday) The Koffin
Kats and The Queers at Sonia - 7:30PM All ages show!
April 14, 2024 (Sunday) Martin/Morell/Fredette
with Mike Weidenfeller and John Hovorka
at The Midway - 3PM matinee show
May 4, 2024 (Saturday) The Lights
Out, Gretchen Shae & The Middle Eight, Brain K & The Parkway
at Faces Malden
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