tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-175849132024-03-21T08:54:55.757-04:00Too Old To Rock, Too Young To CareMusic News, Reviews, and Live Music Video for the Aging Rocker Setmzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-54578193617910114172011-03-28T08:00:00.055-04:002011-04-12T12:11:29.046-04:00We Are Moving! Please visit www.rockerzine.comHello darlings,
Well first off let me say that over the 5 (!) years I have been writing this wee and sporadic blog I have been so pleasantly surprised that anyone other than blood relations, boyfriends, and persons in an inebriated state (though that may be the majority of you) have taken the time to enjoy my ramblings. When I look at my stat counter keywords I am amazed that people quite mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-32309375821541234372011-02-21T01:54:00.002-05:002011-02-21T02:03:46.816-05:00Mitch Easter of Let's Active - Live 2011Just back from catching Mitch Easter of Let's Active at Johnny D's in Somerville. A top show and the kind of thing that reminds one why experience trumps youth any day of the week. The band was so tight, the energy was so there, it was truly a hypnotic evening.
Was fortunate enough the interview the living legend for upcoming issue of my fancy new magazine - Rocker (are mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-63674775008229008912011-02-07T11:25:00.000-05:002011-02-07T11:25:56.904-05:00Take our Survey - Please!Hello dear readers. Believe it or not, this very blog will soon transform into an EVEN FANCIER magazine with EVEN MORE CONTENT. I know you are excited. I know I am.
We do need some help though in understanding some stuff about how to make the website able to reach most of you darling aging rockers, so that said, would you please click below to take our poll? 3 questions mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-11951099527762819672011-01-25T11:26:00.006-05:002011-01-27T16:45:45.942-05:00Portlandia with Carrie Brownstein - Please Get Funnier
Have you ever been to a party where everybody knows each other really well, but you don't know anybody except the friend who invited you?
Have you ever spent the night at said party sitting in the corner, nursing your plastic cup of Trader Joe's bargain bin wine, while being regaled with stories full of inside jokes about people you don't know, which everyone in the mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-50032764674197174832011-01-06T13:09:00.000-05:002011-01-06T13:09:08.280-05:00Top Grossing Tours of 2010 - Old People Music WinsCourtesy of Digital Music News and my friend Tristram who put me on to this - enjoy list of top grossing tours of 2010. What's the most interesting thing to note? Bands that appeal to older people made the most cashola. Sorry Justin Bieber, you only make it to #11!
Check out the top 8 grossers - see anything this gang have in common?:Bon Jovi (age 48)Roger Waters (age 67)mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-43681229404214061122011-01-04T11:40:00.001-05:002011-01-04T11:40:43.385-05:00Hometown Rant - A Few of my Favorite ThingsHappy New Year! I just stumbled across these amazing videos of some of my favorite Boston bands of the late 70's and early 80's and had to post them as a group. Each reminds me of something that excites me about music from the past.
First up is The Atlantics - a band who were a local sensation in the early 80's, but whose lone LP - Big City Rock - I don't think really captured the mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-34288605371001654672010-10-27T11:03:00.001-04:002010-10-27T11:03:48.234-04:00Billy Ruane - Boston's Legendary Promoter - Dead at 52What can one say about Boston music promotion legend Billy Ruane?
More than 20 years ago Ruane was the visionary to approach Cambridge's Middle East Restaurant and assure them he could fill their back room - currently stuffed with bellydancers - with admission paying, hard drinking rockers instead. It is hard to imagine now, a Boston music scene sans the rise of this surprising mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-88053083093106969072010-10-13T15:53:00.001-04:002010-10-13T15:54:31.138-04:00Safety Dance finds new life in the airAre Men Without Hats getting a royalty?
Ok, to be fair, it does appear to be a cover version.mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-51118123515060634222010-10-04T14:13:00.002-04:002010-10-04T14:14:28.465-04:00Beth Ditto Rocks The Paris RunwayThe Gossip's Beth Ditto was enlisted as a model for Jean-Paul Gaultier's latest collection. Clocking in at a size 28 she's hardly the normal runway fare, but check out how she rocks it big girl style with some snaps from Mr. Paparazzi here.mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-44571223028733272962010-09-22T15:39:00.003-04:002010-09-22T15:42:37.109-04:00Aerosmith lays off Steven Tyler
Complete story at The Onion
mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-24023212998617620412010-09-21T10:44:00.004-04:002010-09-22T15:44:31.652-04:00Gary Numan Goes CommercialNote to young rockers, if you can write a hit about something as ubiquitous as a car, it is going to keep you in eyeliner for a long long time.
Witness below one godfather of electronic music, Gary Numan in a pair of unpredictable ads, one for Diehard batteries, the other a Scottish public service announcement.
Perhaps my favorite part of these ads is Numan's unapologetically mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-45993734232904020592010-09-15T11:27:00.004-04:002010-09-15T11:32:27.678-04:00Magic Shoppe and 28 Degrees Taurus at the Rosebud Diner SomervilleMade it out last week to see former Green Magnet School guitarist Chris Pearson's newest gig, playing with local trip-rockers Magic Shoppe at my new favorite venue The Rosebud Diner in Somerville. Why is this my new favorite venue? Where to start? First off you can sit down. Ah, my old bones! Second, you can order a pizza from your nice waitress and eat it while you mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-27779804519713606602010-08-23T15:34:00.001-04:002010-08-23T15:34:45.340-04:00Mark E. Smith of The Fall reads sports scores.I attended a party this weekend where the whole evening ended up with my aging rocker friends cuddling up to a giant Mac to watch videos from YouTube. One, a dedicated Fall fan, brought the following to my attention: a video of Mark E. Smith from The Fall reading football scores on BBC TV. This just proves anything that Mark E. Smith says sounds amazing, and like a Fall song.
mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-69281620668342161872010-07-08T17:02:00.000-04:002010-07-08T17:02:17.857-04:00Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous StainsIf anything, my tangle with Lady Gaga left me thinking a lot about the film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains.
Should any of you not seen this cult classic from the 80's, it is no surprise, and yet I must demand you see it now!
Diane Lane stars in one of her first screen roles as Corrine Burns, a bored teen living in a nowhere town with no prospects. Inspired upon seeing her first mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-78133566689201240362010-07-06T16:33:00.000-04:002010-07-08T17:03:00.899-04:00Lady Gaga at the TD Banknorth Garden - and Christian rebuttalOh Lady Gaga, after seeing you play at the Garden last Friday, I want a Bad Romance with you!
Talk about a crazy show, by the end Gaga had:1 - Played piano upside down while laying on the piano hood2 - Wore a dress that moved on its own while she stood still3 - Danced with trannies4 - Gave away $20,000 to a local homeless LGBT charity, courtesy of her sponsor, Virgin Mobile5 - Wore a mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-68547546748550468102010-06-22T09:59:00.006-04:002010-06-22T16:49:33.173-04:00New Pornographers Violence UpdateFound video of Neko's freakout:
I just wanted to note, this only shows PART of the freakout. It went on much longer than this, and cuts off just before Case makes comments about the CD lob showing "hatred" - and that in America, that's the way things are.
Still seems amazing some boy with a fetish didn't feign responsibility just to get a whoopin' from Case. &mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-23916377117979144952010-06-21T11:01:00.012-04:002010-06-22T16:54:20.496-04:00Neko Case is going to kick your ass: The New Pornographers & The Dodos - House Of Blues, BostonFull of tequila is the right way to see The New Pornographers, so that's the way my companions and I did it. Loaded up on margaritas from the shockingly decent-yet-not-overpriced La Verdad next door, it was surprising to arrive at The House of Blues an hour after the doors opened and yet no band had started. A sharp contrast to the last time I was here - to see Motorhead, The Reverend Horton mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-83819652816932650192010-06-18T16:01:00.008-04:002010-06-18T16:40:20.344-04:00Devo on The Colbert ReportWhat a pleasant surprise to find Devo visiting Comedy Central's Colbert Report, promoting their new album "Something for Everybody". Watch the seminal new wavers them explain to Colbert how they've been "proven right" about De-evolution.The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cDevowww.colbertnation.comThe Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cDevo - Freshwww.colbertnation.comDevo singermzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-24811646576073567822010-06-14T10:55:00.003-04:002010-06-14T11:11:00.817-04:00BP Oil Spill Humor - Starring Nat Freedberg of The Upper CrustWhat is better than a parody of the BP Oil Spill disasater? It is one featuring Nat Freedberg of The Upper Crust / Titanics / Satanics / Flies. mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-21710038764614228352010-05-21T13:43:00.008-04:002010-05-21T15:44:05.557-04:00The Buzzcocks at the Paradise, BostonIt was at some point during "Autonomy" that I realized the last time I saw The Buzzcocks was about 15 years ago at a venue in New York, where I saw the last of the shoegazers - Adorable - opening up for the punk legends.That same night, I somehow ended up scoring an invite to an after party held in a very New York loft where one could mingle with both of the bands in question. I was with my mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-38219167739502090522010-05-12T13:15:00.005-04:002010-05-12T13:57:46.323-04:00Despite their claim, I see no evidence of rockingThis friend "Ken" is obviously trying to get regularly mentioned here, evidenced by his forward of this unwatchable video promoting Sioux City set to Starship's "We Built This City on Rock and Roll."Don't feel bad if you can't watch the entire video, really, who could? It is well established that the members of Starship are doomed to spend the afterlife in a special corner of hell just for mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-7268547831852162212010-05-07T15:37:00.006-04:002010-05-07T16:20:22.154-04:00Banned Bands, but not the kind you’re thinking ofSo today I was emailing with a friend who is really, really into marching bands. Yes, these people do exist. Originally, I felt compelled to send him this hot news article from the Miami New Times stating that Frederica Wilson is Proud of Banning "Simulated Sexual Intercourse" in Marching Bands. Now, color me naïve, I was unaware that simulated intercourse was prevalent in marching bands. But mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-5808824611298456792010-04-30T11:54:00.009-04:002010-04-30T13:54:38.045-04:00Wax Rockers for Sale this WeekendProblem: I would like to get up close and personal with Johnny Cash, but he's dead. Solution: Buy wax Johnny Cash statue at the Hollywood Wax Museum's sale this weekend, engage in pathetic fantasy life with wax Johnny Cash in the privacy of your own home.Same solution available for The Beatles, Cyndi Lauper, Hank Williams Sr., and my pick, Frank Sinatra. Too scared to have a wax figure in your mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-45268997385369543582010-04-27T16:18:00.008-04:002010-04-29T15:16:08.782-04:00Lemmy - The MovieOver the weekend I was fortunate enough to get a peek at "Lemmy" the new documentary about Lemmy Kilmister the singer / icon for heavy metal legends Motorhead, courtesy of the fabulous Boston Independent Film Festival.Packed with interviews from a wide array of music celebrities (Joan Jett, Henry Rollins, Dee Snyder, Metallica, Mick Jones, Ozzy, and assorted members of Hawkwind and The Rockin' mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17584913.post-49292430270931985802010-04-22T11:13:00.007-04:002010-04-23T14:26:55.823-04:00Sir Mix A Lot decries WaMuWas so pleased to hear a brief interview over the weekend on NPR's news quiz game "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" with Sir Mix A Lot. The reason he was on? To speak about the cover of his fine, booty-positive song "Baby Got Back" by Washington Mutual Bank executives, "Baby Got Bank".Listen to the audio here, and hear the answer to the question "Sir Mix A Lot, are you worried, as a hip hop artist, mzamarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01567983947115068081noreply@blogger.com0