‘Music Reviews’ Archives
Kids In The Hall Volume 1 – Die Hipster! Records
Kids In The Hall Volume 1 – Die Hipster! Records Die Hipster! Records is a new, or at least, new to me record company. They describe themselves as a “short run label out of New Haven, Connecticut concentrating on garage and punk bands.” I must [Read More]
Marko Bruiser – “Forever Rad”
Marko Bruiser – “Forever Rad” Indi rock can be so lame, so aggressive and noncommittal. So- “Hey, we can be ironic so it looks like we don’t mean it.” Classic rock can be pretty dumb. “Yeah, let’s rock on- as long as we [Read More]
Benefit For Bueno
Benefit For Bueno: friends playing songs for a friend (A benefit to support Will Good) People who know me know I never shake hands. It comes from working almost two decades at the front desk of a Boston YMCA where all the young, black men had such interesting [Read More]
Triggered – “Triggered LP 2020”
Triggered – “Triggered LP 2020” Triggered is a new word in our vernacular. Before it meant simply “activated by a trigger.” Now, it also means- “caused by a particular action, process or situation- a triggered memory of his [Read More]
DNZL – “What Doesn’t Kill You…”
DNZL – “What Doesn’t Kill You…” The major art form I’m least enamored with is movies. Most movies seem more cliched than pop songs and that’s saying a lot. Yeah, I have a few favorite “serious” movies. But I tend [Read More]
Skism – “2021”
Skism – “2021” A schism is “a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement or religious denomination.” “Skism” describe themselves as “anti-social, angst ridden, hyperactive punks who pound [Read More]
Led To The Grave – “Pray For Death”
Led To The Grave – “Pray For Death” Led To The Grave was probably my first exposure to what I came to know and love as the Cape Cod Crew. And searching it on our website it seems I interviewed them about five months after we were first online. [Read More]
Methodist Church – The Girls
Pure Punk Picks Methodist Church – The Girls A couple of summers ago, I met singer/musician/songwriter Richie Parsons, a person you might know, especially if you grew up in the early Boston punk scene like me. He fronted Unnatural Axe, The Future Dads and still [Read More]
The Grubs – “Bad Taste”
The Grubs – “Bad Taste” The Grubs may be possibly my favorite band, since we started TNB ten years ago, that I’ve never seen play live. And that may be, because to the best of my knowledge, they have not played in the Boston/Cambridge area [Read More]
Butcher Baby – The Plasmatics
Pure Punk Picks Butcher Baby – The Plasmatics “Butcher Baby” was the first song I ever heard by The Plasmatics, I heard it on college radio and it’s their best. And for those who don’t know- The Plasmatics was a band led by a female lead [Read More]
