The BGN News Archive

All right it's here - the new year…2013…well it's here on 1/1/13…we got a couple days til then and here's what is happening:

    Girls, Guns & Glory do their Third Annual Tribute to Hank Williams at the Lizard Lounge on Dec 31 & Jan 1st. Opening act is special guest Miss Tess and The Talkbacks…its sending me right back to my country roots at the Jim 10 in Ashland!!

   Here's a most awesome way to ring in the New Year: Sidewalk Driver at Radio (Up) on New Year's Eve. They will do it well I have no doubt about that!

    You may have noticed there is no Upper Crust New Year's Show this 2012…well as they state quite clearly on their website: "As is often their wont, The Upper Crust have withdrawn from the hubbub and hurly-burly of high society and retired to the privacy of their estates. Their Lordships are notorious for vanishing in this manner-sometimes quite abruptly between the intermediate stages of a twelve-course meal, and often for long stretches at a time-leaving their friends and followers in cruel and careless suspense as to when they shall reappear."…so they need not offer us lowly creatures a reason for the lack of a New Year's celebration but friends you can take comfort in the fact that the lordships will appear exactly one month late - on January 31st on the stage at Precinct in Union Square Somerville.

    Now for the new year of 2013 - there's good stuff coming up:
    Thursday 1/3 at Church Tsunami of Sound is there with The Vivisectors and The Syptones…

   Saturday January 5th at Brighton Music Hall there's a Benefit for Brenda Wynne featuring Matalon, Raging Teens, Johnny Carvale and the Rolling Pins, Skeleton Beats, Razors in the Night, Cradle to the Grave, OC5, Never Been Caught - tickets are only $12 for all those bands and its to Benefit Brenda who was struck by a van in a hit and run accident in Allston.

   Thursday Jan 10 there's also a good show at Church with Brian Carpenter & The Confessions, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling and Endation

    But wait 1/10 is Bob Colby's second Second Thursday at Radio with Nin Violet, The Milkman's Union and Uranium Daughters that Thursday too!

    Friday January 11th Radio (Up) has Muck & The Mires and Township and Malibu Lou will be DJing that night too!

    It's Powerpop night over at The Rosebud on Saturday 1/12 with Watts, The New Frustrations and The Kurt Baker Band and if that's not your thing

    at Radio (down) that night there's -Psycho, Kilslug, Impenitent Thief, and The Burnouts

   if that's not your thing there's Black Fortress of Opium at The Midway in JP…also on the airwaves on 1/12 I hear there's a Charlie Farren Interview on WMFO - Brian Young and his show A Crash Course for Ravers will featuring the ever handsome and cute Charlie Farren from 1-4PM that day. AND Charlie has a band together with Jon Butcher! Called, of course, Farren-Butcher! Wow talk about a trip down memory lane!

    M.O.T.O. and Classic Ruins are at The Plough & Stars on Jan.18! The Ruins haven't played in Boston (or anywhere much) since Bob Colby's birthday back in August! This will be a good setting to catch them!

    Friday January 18th at the Midway: General Assembly presents The Lost Electricity Acoustic Tour featuring the Turbo ACs (Kevin and Mikey Millionaire w/special guests), Lenny Lashley's Gang of One, Brian McGee of Plow United, and Chris Rosenquest of The Tower and The Fool

    And don't forget-Mission of Burma at Sinclair (which finally has opened) on Saturday January 19th

    Sunday January 27th there's a surf music show at The Midway with Tsunami of Sound AND Surfer Joe and his Boss Combo - from Italy!!

    And looking back over the past year - remember when Carl Biancucci played with his British band The Shotglass Killers at the historic 100 Club London back in June? On the same bill with Rat Scabies and Brian Jones from The Damned? He wrote about it for us…. Well there's a recording of the show on a podcast called The Paranoid Squirrel - Scroll on down to Scabies & James - Episode 260. Click on the Episode and you got some good stuff to hear!!! Shotglass Killers set starts around 28:40

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