The BGN News Archive

The Silhouette has gone solo.

The Silhouette Lounge lost half their silhouette! Someone got up on the roof to the sign and pried off ‘left guy’. Now there is a single lonely silhouette raising a drink. That sign has been up there 60 years. The ‘left guy’ actually has been gone for a while. The owners just recently made it public in an attempt to influence the perpetrator to bring it back. There’s a $100 gift card reward that can be used for hot dogs and drinks.

Story in Hoodline website It made the news on local TV on NBC!! And WCVB TV  

Well, they’ve gone and done it!! The Sex Pistols played a show without John Lydon!! Frank Carter (Gallows and Rattlesnakes singer) joined Glen Matlock, Paul Cook and Steve Jones at Bush Hall in London on August 13. And there have been good reviews for the lineup.

They played “Pretty Vacant”, “Bodies”, “God Save the Queen”, “No Fun” and “Anarchy in the UK”. We have videos for “Bodies” and “God Save the Queen” below.

The story in Louder Sound website and Mojo gives it’s praises

Greg Kihn, 75, died this week from complications from Alzheimer’s. His hit songs were “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and “Jeopardy”.

He was part of Berserkley Records That record label seemed to explode in 1975 with The Modern Lovers, Earth Quake, Kihn and Rubinoos. The Berserkley Chartbusters album was played like crazy on the Late Risers Club. It was rewarding to see Kihn go from college play to getting real mainstream hits. “Jeopardy”, which generated a Weird Al Jankovic parody, was number two on the charts under “Beat It”.

RADIO......

Skybar will have punkers Already Dead on is Tuesday Rising Show this week. They'll talk about their new album Something Like A War and play some songs live.

The Rising show is on WMFO 93.5 FM on Tuesdays at 8pm. After that got to the WMFO schedule page Hit the Rising show on 8pm on Tuesday, then hit the ‘archive’ button.

Joanie Lindstrom played a new Effigies song “Sortie” from their new album this week on her Thursday Late Risers Club show. John Kezdy, the lead singer of the band, died in a bicycle accident last year. The last Effigies album was 17 years ago.

She followed that with a local group Pure Impact and the song “On the Track” from 2004 on Welfare Records. These guys play concise and snappy punk hardcore. We can only find a live version of it on YouTube but that sounds good too. Hear it, below left.

At the end of the set Joanie played “Bill Berry” by New Jersey band Cathedral Ceilings. The song has a nice melodic lilt, while still having a thumping guitar bed below it. The video has shots of a person record browsing which is always a comfort to us.
Hear it, above right.

We liked the moment when she followed up with The Laissez Fairs new neo-psych song “Living In A Garbage Can” with a legit 60s acid tune from a Brown Acid compilation. Her and Sara from Gorrilla Got Me are doing the Lost and Found show on Monday 8/19 at noon.

To hear Joanie’s whole show go to the WMBR archive page and hit the Late Risers Show for Thursday 8/15.

PODCASTS.........

Blowing Smoke with Twisted Rico this week originated at WMFO this week. Guest was Cam Ackland of the Prime Movers, "Boston garage rock royalty", as Steev described him.

The Movers met in high school, which was Newton North. They were real garage rock players. They learned early rock by playing it out together. The band started around 1981 as a three piece. Later they added a keyboard player.

Then they connected with Joyce Linehan who got them some good gigs at The Channel. Joyce then began to manage the group.

They played the Rumble and lost to Digney Fignus. Next they hooked up with Chuck Warner and their songs end up on Chuck’s Throbbing Lobster compilations.

The band never liked the subsequent EP and things fell apart in 1986-87. Cam talks about the amazing times of being in a band in Boston in the late eighties. It was lots of music and fun but the bands were also competitive. You get lots of detail from Cam who has a tremendous memory of his band days.

September 14 at the Burren is the Prime Mover reunion with Thee Sonomatics. Links and more info below in the Gig Listings

Steev never sleeps, thus he had time for another show this week. It was catch up with Linnea Herzog of Linnea’s Garden. Now is Linnea’s official Chaotic Bisexual Summer. That idea spurred their tour this year. Linnea talks about the day-to-day tribulations of the tour life. The band played the club Dirty Dungarees which is a punk rock bar laundromat!

Latter Steev directs Linnea to talk about her songwriting. She says she's gone from very direct with blatant lyrics to more general and impressionistic lyrics.

Steev plays “No Vision” which is Linnea’s Garden next song to be released. You get a nice preview here. It’s a harder attack than the previous material.

The Elastic Glam show this week is titled The Power Pop Take Over Show. You get some classics from Badfinger, The Records, Raspberries, Flamin’ Groovies and Sparks. Say no more!

We thought “Glitter Balls” by Sir Prize & the Twomorrow Knights was a great find. It is a brand new glam song that's a Bowie sound alike as it profiles a glam groupie. Hear that below.

One throwback of note was “Juke Box Jive” by The Rubettes from 1974. They were English and have a long and complicated history up to the current day

DJ Sethyspice played one of our old punk pop faves “Back of My Hand” by the Jags from 1979. He ended the show with Bowie doing a live acoustic version of “Scary Monsters” from the WBGN archives.

Boston music fan Ron Lacer created "Oil Spills Across the Internet (76-82)", a YouTube playlist of Boston bands. The line up of groups: Taxi Boys, V, Pastiche, The Elevators, The Scientific Americans, White Women, City Thrills, The Count, People in Stores, LePeste, Ground Zero, Art Yard, Someone and the Somebodies, The November Group, The Molls and CCCP-TV.

You can hear on YouTube

A.J. Wachtel had David Bieber on his Wachtelligence podcast. Anyone involved in the Boston music scene for any time knows about David. He’s the guy with the ton of boxes that contain memorabilia collected for decades and now are housed at the Norwood Space Center. David still pledges his attention to local college radio stations and dismisses the streaming music platforms. David thinks commercial stations blew their programing around the year 2000. He’s a perceptive cultural observer. He's as interesting as his collection!

He talks about the Rumble which he started at WBCN. David will be supplying memorabilia at the Rat Reunion show at the Bellforge. (9-21-24 see info below in Gig Listings)

This week Al Quint spotlighted songs that dealt with Nixon’s resignation 50 years ago. It began with ISM doing “Nixon Now More Than Ever”. Here’s all 40 seconds of it

He had an Boston art band set with Art Yard, Dangerous Birds and Vitamin. That brought those early eighties back…and the days of The Underground. Hear those songs below.

After playing “Baggage” by Bullet LaVolta, Al played a good local hardcore group Leather Daddy from a demo they did in 2013. He played “Get Out”. We will give you a link to “Cracks” for some variety below.

You can hear the whole show on the Sonic Overload web page

NEW MUSIC/CDs......

Worshipper have unleashed their third album on a unwarned public. Their blatant and unprovoked heavy metal and classic rock may cause hair whipping and head banging. Does anybody do it quite like Worshipper? They have full awareness of what they are doing and have their fun but always pull it back before it sounds unauthentic.

“The Spell” is a fav with us with its twin guitar workout and sweet solo. We like the last track “Flashback” where they unbox all their guitar wankery, coupled with studio stunts and let it bleed out for a minute and fifteen.

The Satch Kerans Band has been steadily gigging around. Their latest single is “Chantel”. We found the lyrics to be interesting. They talk about “Chantel” changing their name. It seems like a guy at the local pool hall showed up in “a turquoise-green velvet shawl”. “Then said “Well excuse me gents just a minute / Went inside and the bathroom to change. Come out with mile-high leopard skin platform shoes / Lookin’ like the Sylvain Sylvain”. We like that Sylvain reference. There is a NY Dolls influence here. The song is about acceptance of gender roles.

There’s also a solo by George Hall in the song...check out the video.

On the Bandcamp page, Kerans has a pre-video talk where he gives a heartfelt common sense talk about gender acceptance informed by life experience. Bravo Satch!!

A new Adventure Set song is always a bright spot. They've been giving us regular material for a few years and it’s all been quality work.

That they are still a thing, after having their heyday decades ago, gives us good feelings about ourselves who are still out there working too.

“ELT” the current single, stands for Every Last Thought. We like the mix of the big piano sound with the synth work. It sounds very elevated, controlled and elegant. The lyrics, too, have a sophisticated touch. We feel like we should be listening to this on a big couch, nursing a glass of Château Mouton Rothschild 2020 Pauillac, darlings.

Time for some Aussie sounds: One More Billy are from Sunshine Coast. “I’m Alright” has a hard garage sound. The singing is both agro and then frayed. He says he’s ‘“alright” but it doesn’t seem like he is. It’s a riveting performance.

Here’s their Facebook page

Here's some good shows coming up .....

August 23, 2024 (Friday) Duck & Cover, Speed Teeth (Ian Clark, Jessie Von Kenmore, Andy Excuse!) at Koto Salem.

August 24, 2024 (Saturday) TELL, The Brigands, Cruel Miracle at The Square Root, FB page.

August 24, 2024 (Saturday) WRPS-tival with Dogmatics, Stars Like Ours, Wynotts and more At Rockland High School - Food and live music in an air conditioned hall. It’s a Scholarship fundraiser too. Facebook page

August 25, 2024 (Sunday) Benefit for Rosie's Place with Neighborhood Shit, Unhinged, No Chain, Latch, Cold Case at The Midway - this is a 3PM matinee. FB page

August 30, 2024 (Friday) Wreckless Wreck Chords Presents The FU's, WORM, Ruffian Dick and More TBA - at The C Note - FB page

August 30, 2024 (Friday) The Strangemen, Tsunami of Sound, Bikini Whale  at The Beachcomber in Wellfleet. 

September 6, 2024 (Friday) Rixe, Public Trust, The Massacred, The Rejekts, The Pump at Sammys Patio

September 6, 2024 (Friday) Linnea's Garden celebrates the release of their newest single "No Vision," performing at the Middle East Upstairs with special guests Lipsmear, TIFFY, and Lover of Eve

September 6, 2024 (Friday) Bootleg Dan presents: Sharp Class, Muck and the Mires, The Chelsea Curve at The Burren - FB page

September 7, 2024 (Saturday) Girl with a Hawk on A Crash Course for the Ravers 1PM on WMFO- FB page

September 8, 2024 (Sunday) The Somerville Rock And Roll Yard Sale is in Union Square Somerville FB event page

September 8, 2024 (Sunday) The Lowell Summer Music Series has Belly playing Boarding House Park: 40 French St., Tickets

September 13, 2024 (Friday) Fierce & Fabulous!!! American Ocelot, Ruby Grove, Girl With a Hawk, Happy Little Clouds at The Jungle - Doors at 7/Music 8

September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Brian Young has The Va Va Voodoos as guests on A Crash Course for the Ravers on WMFO. 1-4PM

September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Kids Like You and Me present SUPAP - Somerville Underground Pop Arts & Performance Showcase - with Unnatural Axe, Children of the Flaming Wheel, Fugue State, Mike from Picnic Lunch... 1:30PM at Lincoln Park (46 Lincoln Pkwy, Somerville, MA) This is an outdoor show FREE- but $5-$15 suggested donation for bands.

September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Bootleg Dan presents: The Prime Movers Reunion!! with Thee Sonomatics at The Burren 7PM show FB event page.

September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Tiger Bomb, Robin Lane, and The Nervous Eaters at Askew Provi RI

September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Miracle Blood, Sapling, Endation, Slow Quit at Distant Castle in Worcester.

September 15, 2024 (Sunday) Wreckless Wreck Chords Presents MidDay Madness with WORM, Working Poor USA, Barry Larry, StressBall, Fice - at The Midway - Matinee 3-7 All Ages $15 3pm Doors - FB page.

September 15, 2024 (Sunday) The Thigh Scrapers, The Stigmatics and Va Va Voodoos are at the Worthern Attic in Lowell

September 16, 2024 (Monday) John Cooper Clarke comes again!!! at The City Winery [7:30PM]

September 19, 2024 (Thursday) Legendary Queer-core Pop Rockers Pansy Division, The Fatal Flaw and Gene Dante at Faces in Malden

September 19, 2024 (Thursday) Bootleg Dan presents: John Powhida, Tiger Bomb, Rick Barton Band, playing Blue in Portland at Blue in Portland, ME

September 20, 2024 (Friday) Tiger Bomb and The Nervous Eaters at Sonia

September 20, 2024 (Friday) Bootleg Dan presents: John Hovorka Band, Crow Follow, Connor Storms and his Bouquet, at The Burren 6:15pm show

September 21, 2024 (Saturday) The "Rat Reunion" at The Bellforge Art Center with Nervous Eaters and The Dogmatics. This'll be outside and its 3-7PM. Link to tix and updates

September 21, 2024 (Saturday) The Cynz, Spanking Charlene, Kanak, are at The Parkside Lounge NYC 9/21

September 28, 2024 (Saturday) Rich Mirsky is on A Crash Course for the Ravers on WMFO 1-4PM. FB page.

September 28, 2024 (Saturday) DRAGO 20th Anniversary Show with The Downhauls, Dead Like Death, The Blue Bloods at The Midway = this is a matinee at 3PM. FB page.

September 28, 2024 (Saturday) Eddie Japan, Lovina Falls and Roxy and The Crisis at Faces Brewery

September 29, 2024 (Sunday) Supersuckers, Downhauls, TJ Welch and the Wasted and Speedteeth (That's Jesse Meyers and Andy Excuse's new band!!) at Sammy’s Patio - Revere Beach - Facebook page

October 5, 2024 (Saturday) Dreadnoughts, Hub City Stompers, the Pourmen at Sammy's Patio Revere FB page

October 18, 2024 (Friday) The Fuzzstival at The Armory: Sweeping Promises, Babybaby Explores, Yhwh Nailgun, Bong Wish, Balaclava, Mingko, Nurse Joy, Lupo Citta, The Spatulas, Plant Fight

October 19, 2024 (Saturday) The Fuzzstival at The Armory: Doug Tuttle, Greg Freeman, Latrell James, Francie Medosch (of Florry), Paper Lady, Prewn, Clifford, War Machine, Corporeal, Pew Pe.

October 19, 2024 (Saturday) 5th annual Punktoberfest music and craft beer festival! Full lineup of bands AND breweries coming soon! Save the date…at Thirsty First Lowell.

October 24, 2024 (Thursday) Stupidity, Cocktail Slippers and the Wynotts at Alchemy, Providence FB page.

October 25, 2024 (Friday) Moving Targets, The Long Wait, Spiller - Middle East Up - Facebook page

October 25, 2024 (Friday) Bootleg Dan presents Cocktail Slippers, The Chelsea Curve, DJ Sherman at The Burren

October 26, 2024 (Saturday) Tiger Bomb, The Cocktail Slippers, Stupidity, Muck & The Mires at The Bayside Bowl, Portland, ME FB page

November 1, 2024 (Friday) Coffin Salesman (Record Release!), Motel Black, Saeddyr, Squallie Greenthumb at Faces Malden. !

November 23, 2024 (Saturday) Hi-End, Duck and Cover, Color Killers at The Square Root

December 6, 2024 (Friday) Warrior Soul, All Sinners and Speed Teeth at Koto Salem

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