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Captain Easychord went to the special edition of the Mess-Around on Sunday, 11/21/21 at the Plough & Stars: "The Salute to Boston Rock'n'Roll" the first part of the evening was your regular Mess Around with Justine's Black Threads and Mach Bell as a special guest. The latter half was about musicians who've recorded songs for the Asa Brebner tribute album I’m Not Gone Vol II, put together by Larry Newman. That even drew out the Rat owner Jimmy Harold.
Mach Bell put down his book and picked up a guitar and did some rocking because, ya know ... he’s gotta rock! Robin Lane did some “rich, soulful songs” reports Captain Easychord. The club was packed and the stage too. Others that played are: Randy Black, Linda Viens, Billy Connors, Charles Hanson, Frank Rowe, Mike Quirk, Kenne Highland, Garret Vandermolen, McGregor McGehee and George Hall. Read all Captain Easychord’s review and see all the photos on Easychord’s page by clicking the photo link below.
Moving Targets are ramping up to do their next album In the Dust. Their last two albums Wires and Humbucker were superb.
Record Store Day happened last Friday ... Decibel magazine has a bleak look at the whole affair. They have a lot of issues. One is that the major labels got into this quickly and screwed it up. We know that some opportunists just scarf up the limited releases and then head to EBay. Decibel says that the record stores themselves sell on EBay. On top of all this, vinyl pressing plants have a backlog that’s only getting longer. But let’s not get too depressed. Vinyl came back on its own. People just wanted it. It’s not often that happens. Vinyl makes us feel good. Read the article in Decibel magazine
You can hear "It's Up To You" on YouTube Also featured on the album is the Hot Dates (Rock n’ Roll Rumble contenders in 1980) and The Sighs. The album and other volumes in the series are on the Mean Bean Records website BOOKS...... The Big Balloon is Rick Berlin’s second book. It’s a sort of pastiche: an autobiography, artistic reflections, sexploits and band stories. Most chapters begin with a piece of art or household item that Rick will comment on and if that leads to a story from his life, he goes there. The eBook edition is interactive in the sense that it has links to songs and videos from Rick, as he talks about what and who they are about. This is an enormous help in understanding and appreciating the songs. Early in the book tells of a friend who relates a story about his roommate Machiko who he’d never seen eat, among other things. Rick took the words of the story verbatim and that become the song “Machiko”. Then you go to the link provided and hear the song. It has an amazing arrangement, and that’s the thing with Rick it’s not just the song, there’s always an arrangement. In this case it’s played by some proficient musicians. Knowing how he got the lyrics makes the unconventional vocal make sense. This happens a lot in the book which is reason to read the eBook version. This is one of the obvious ways to utilize the eBook connection to the web but so few books take advantage of it. Rick is prolific. He has 34 albums on his Bandcamp page. The Demos album alone has 168 songs. That’s why in the book when he mentions any person or club or situation he probably links to a song about it. Rick has really done this right. He’s exercised his artistic
spirit in the writing, explained his lifestyle and community (Jamaica
Plain), told much about his colorful life and shown how his music directly
links to his experiences. Information on how to get the book is on Rick’s website VIDEOS.....
Tommy White of Unnatural Axe posted Chapter 8 in his ongoing documentary on Zoom. The phenomenon of the Zoom Rap is featured this week. RADIO...... Ron on the Late Risers Club https://www.wmbr.org/ always has a show worth catching. There are always a few things that jump out. This week the cover of The Boys' “First Time” by GeeTeeVee was the one. The cover is rawer and punkier than the original. It works for us.
Skybar will have a call in interview with Michael Kane (and the morning Afters). He'll talk about his new release on State Line Records. We spotlighted the Morning After’s new song “Tear This World Apart” a few weeks ago. Michael Kane & The Morning Afters on bandcamp. Skybar’s Rising show is on WMFO on Tuesday nights from 8 to 9pm. NEW MUSIC/CDs......
We like our metal done up Il Mostro style ... We like the way they put some punk in it..We didn’t know they had a new EP, Occult Practices, till Joanie Lindstrom played it on the Late Risers Club this week!! It doesn’t take much more than the first song on the EP, “Firewitch” to set your speakers on fire. It comes with a video too. They also cover T.S.O.L.’s song BlackMagic!! Il Mostro will be at The Midway for a matinee show on January 22.
We love getting a new track from Adventure Set. They evoke everything good about mid-eighties electro pop. The new song “Narcoleptic” moves smooth and graceful. It’s easy to fall under its spell and we did.
Joey Ramone’s brother, Mickey Leigh, wrote the book I Slept with Joey Ramone. Mickey’s a NYC mainstay, he was also in the Rattlers. Now his band Mickey Leigh's Mutated Music has a new album, Variants of Vibe. Six of the 14 songs are pre-released on Bandcamp. You would think maybe it would ape the Ramones sound, but he doesn’t do that. The band sound is clearer and goes for more nuance than bashing. We can hear Who and Jam in the guitar attack. “Brave New World” has some New Orleans style horns. “Lost in Space” is the song that gets closest to the Ramones style. We’ll direct you to “No Fun Anymore” which has that Who/Jam sound going for it.
I Slept with Joey Ramone is also being made into a movie featuring Pete Davidson of SNL. It's being produced by Netflix in partnership with STX, and has the support of the Estate of Joey Ramone. There's no release date as yet but that should be a good one to watch!! Here's some good shows coming up .....
December 3 (Friday) Kurt Baker, The Fatal Flaw, Dutch Tulips at The Jungle December 3 (Friday) Planet Mercury, Super Pink and Chris Walton at Club Bohemia December 4 (Saturday) The Imposers, Witches Tears, Jerry's Got Jokes, Blame It on Whitman, Beyond Agitation - 3PM Matinee Show at The Midway December 4 (Saturday) Hunter, Melt, Faith and GingerIbex at Club Bohemia December 5 (Sunday) Benefit for Pine St. Inn with Lenny Lashley's Gang of One, Jesse Ahern, Wicked Whiskey - 3PM Matinee Show at The Midway December 9 (Thursday) North by North, /Kid Gulliver, Motel Black, Lily Black @ O'Briens December 10 (Friday) Live Skull w/ Thalia Zedek Band at the Midway - night show December 10 (Friday) Boston Hassle Benefit Show with HiFi, Scare City, Rusty Mullet, Exit 18 at O'Brien's
December 11 (Saturday) The Hi-End, Tim McCoy's Rock Quartet, Freeloader - Middle East Up - starts at 12:30PM!! FB page. December 11 (Saturday) Toys For Tots Benefit with The Welch Boys, Loser's Circle, Michael Kane & the Morning Afters, Grip Bite at The Midway - 3PM matinee show. FB page. December 11 (Saturday) Kids Like You & Me Christmas Special featuring Johnnie & The Foodmasters at Club Bohemia December 11 (Saturday) Charmed & Strange, Linnea's Garden, Sapling, Pitstain at The Midway - FB page. December 11 (Saturday) A Krampus Xmas Celebration! Special Guest Hostess: Kristen Eck of BumbleBee Radio! and Motel Black, Little Billy Lost, Gretchen Shae & the Middle Eight @ KOTO in Salem, MA!- FB page. *You will need a Vax card or proof of a negative test. December 11 (Saturday)The Feldons with Tiger Bomb & The Chelsea Curve at Sun Tiki Studios Portland, ME FB page. December 17 (Friday) The Chelsea Curve Singles Scene Live! Nite #1: with The Chelsea Curve, Gene Dante & The Future Starlets, Britpop Social Club DJs! Early show - 5-8PM at The Jungle. This is the first night of the Chelsea Curve's Jungle residency! FB page December 17 (Friday) Diablogato, The Devils Twins, Ruin The Nite at Opus Underground / Salem. December 18 (Saturday) Martin / Morell / Fredette with Crow Follow and Girl With A Hawk at The Midway - 3PM matinee show December 18 (Saturday) Koto's Killer Kristmas Party with Marianne Toilet and the Runs, Fog Wizard, Dust Prophet at Koto Salem. December 19 (Sunday) The Mess Around at The Plough & Stars 3-7PM December 20 (Monday) Camelopard, Rawstrum, Zygote Theory, Headlights at The Jungle - early show 6:30 - 10PM Music at 7PM.
January 1 (Saturday) Randy Black and the Heathcroppers early 4-6PM show!! at The Plough & Stars. January 2 (Sunday) Vanishing Point, Rocket Gods, Sourpunch, The Stigmatics at The Midway for a matinee show starting at 3PM. FB page. January 7 (Friday) The Chelsea Curve Singles Scene Live! Nite #2: Chelsea Curve, Muck and The Mires and DJ Mike Gioscia X-Night! This is an early show 5-8PM at The Jungle January 14 (Friday) Hixx, Bunch of Jerks, Highland Air Force at Club Bohemia. January 15 (Saturday) The Skirts, Crow Follow, Linnea's Garden at The Square Root January 15 (Saturday) 11th Annual Joe Zippo Kelley Memorial Show with Blanks77, Brix’n'Mortar, The McGunks, PCP & The Knives at Koto Salem - FB page. January 16 (Sunday) Jerry's Got Jokes, Blame it on Whitman, Witches Tears, Screams of Hockomock, Coma Hole at The Midway - 3PM matinee show. FB page. January 16 (Sunday) The Mess Around at The Plough & Stars 3-7PM
January 22 (Saturday) The Somethin' Somethings, We Own Land, Il Mostro, Watching It Burn at The Midway a matinee show starting at 3PM. FB page January 22 (Saturday) Razors in the Night, Tijuana Sweetheart (originally known as Vagiant), Sky Tigers and Nothing But Enemies at Sonia Facebook event page January 22 (Saturday) Kid Gulliver and The Chelsea Curve at The Plough & Stars - 10PM music. January 28 (Friday) The Chelsea Curve Singles Scene Live! Nite #3: Chelsea Curve, The Shang Hi Los and DJ Sherman! This is an early show 5-8PM at The Jungle February 5 (Saturday) The McGunks, Duck and Cover, Scotty Saints & The True Believers, Presidential Disgrace at The Midway - 3PM matinee show February 5 (Saturday) The Jacklights at The Square Root.
March 20, 2022 (Sunday) Henry Rollins at The Wilbur for his Good To See You tour. Tickets here https://thewilbur.com/artist/henry-rollins/ March 22, 2022 (Sunday) Henry Rollins: Good To See You 2022 at the Met in Pawtucket, RI FB page March 31, 2022 (Thursday) The Parquet Courts are at the Royale. Tickets are here April 22, 2022 (Thursday) Circle Jerks at the Paradise CONTACT US AT....misslynbgn@yahoo.com Send us your gig listings, your anything else ya got!! You want your CD reviewed?? Contact us for that too.
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You have to have a good memory for this ... the first issue of Take
It magazine had a red flexi disc with the song “It’s
Up To You” by the Trademarks. We always loved that piece of pop
gold. The good news is that recently the song was released on a comp
titled Standing in the Shadows Vol 2. The bad news is that it’s
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Things fill in as you go along. Rick relates happenings in Orchestra
Luna, Berlin Airlift, The Shelly Winters Project, and The
Nickel & Dime Band. Rick is a mainstay in Jamaica Plain
and he has stories (and songs) of the hood and the Jamaica Plain Festival
that he helped create. He had a long employment at Doyle’s. Some
to the parts we found most intriguing were, not surprising, about Orchestra
Luna. The band got attention from record companies and played CBGB’s
and interacted with Danny Fields. 
November 30 (Tuesday) The
Labor Pains, Disqualifier, Tensor, Bad Sandy, The Lost Boys
at The Midway. 
December 11 (Saturday) ONCE Somerville
& Boynton Yards present: Winter Fest at Boynton Yards -
starts at 11AM. 
December 12 (Sunday) Thrash
‘n Bang Christmas Party/ 10th Anniversary Party
with Stop Calling Me Frank!, Baabes, Lewd, Kermit's Finger,
The Grommets - At the Midway - Matinee show - 3pm to 7pm. ....and
...FREE pizza! 
December
22 (Wednesday) Black Beach, Cronies(NYC), Betties,
Anxious Wave @ O'Briens
January
18 (Tuesday) Wine Lips & Zip-Tie
Handcuffs @ O'Briens
March 13, 2022 (Tuesday)
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