It’s Halloween and there’s no better day to talk about America’s greatest punk band, the Misfits. And by the Misfits, we mean the entity that existed from 1977 to 1983. Not the act that has been out there for the last 15 years or s0 – let’s be clear about that. In short… no Danzig, [...]
Archive for October 2009
If You’re Gonna Scream, Scream With Me: A Misfits Primer
October 31, 2009Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin On: Live from the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Bash!
October 29, 2009BTRNR will be seeing all of these artists tonight. Live. On the same bill. Let us reiterate: tonight we are seeing Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dion DiMucci, Smokey Robinson, Darlene Love, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Sam Moore, Simon & Garfunkel, John Fogerty, and Bruce Springsteen. Not to mention Little Anthony & the [...]
The sunshine bores the daylights out of me
October 28, 2009Check this out – footage shot by Robert Frank (Cocksucker Blues, the Exile On Main Street album cover) of the Stones wandering around Los Angeles and New York in ’71/’72. You may recognize some of these images from the eventual Exile album artwork collage. Or not. But no matter how you slice it, it’s soundtracked [...]
Glad And Sorry: Faces Live Tonight!
October 25, 2009Ronnie Wood, Ian McLagan, Kenney Jones… Bill Wyman… and Mick Hucknall of Simply Red? Apparently so! It all went down tonight in London at the Royal Albert Hall to mark the 75th anniversary of the awkwardly-titled PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund. The setlist: Cindy Incidentally Ooh La La Stay With Me Rod was not [...]
Where The Boys Go
October 20, 2009So… with ’10 activity looking more and more likely, let’s check in and see what the Heads of State have been up to over the last few weeks: To sum things up… singer and drummer are hanging out at cricket pitches while one guitarist is impersonating a mannequin in a shop window (literally) and the [...]
Nothing On My Mind
October 14, 2009We’ve been riding out a little case of Red Sox post-partum depression (re: a hangover) here at BTRNR HQ, so to commemorate it, here’s three songs that encapsulate the closest thing we have to a state of mind: The obvious… Our finest fellow UMass alumni (we were lucky enough to be there for this one)… [...]
