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  "PageContent": "Formerly of Princeton Record Exchange, Scotti's and Looney TunesAugust 8, 2020 The cover to this week’s review, Killing Joke, Youth’s Last Gig. Photo courtesy Live Gig Recordings.We get to call on our friends at Live Gig Recordings for a very special slice of history. Martin ‘Youth’ Glover had been a founding member of the post-punk Eurogrunge act Killing Joke (KJ). Along with eccentric front man Jaz Coleman, guitar mainstay Geordie Walker and drummer “Big” Paul Ferguson, Glover began to carve a path for himself that would include being a world renown instrumentalist/mix-artist/producer.But first Glover would forge the hard slag with KJ, and along the way have a firm hand on the rudder of the band. When you have firm beliefs in the direction the music should go, and there are others in the band with equally strong beliefs/opinions, as the saying goes, something’s gotta give.In the case of this live CD, it would seem as that something would be Glover.Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Chris Squire, Dave Grohl, Geordie Walker, Jaz Coleman, John Peel, Kevin Ellman, Killing Joke, Martin Glover, Paul Ferguson, Paul McCartney, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, YouthPosted in Off The Record, Opinion/Editorial, Review |   1 Comment »July 17, 2020 In the tradition of MacFarlane and Groening, Loren Bouchard makes music the focal point of Bob’s Burgers. So why not put out an album?A while back, when the Cartoon Network used to show the original Adult Swim, there was a cartoon called Home Movies. Home Movies started the careers of not only Brendon Small of Metalacalypse fame (fleeting as it was, he also has an Epiphone guitar, the Snowbird model I think) as well as Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, but the biggest name to emerge from the Home Movies role of Coach McGurk, the Arby’s chef, Carl the mini mart clerk on Family Guy, Archer of the same name, and countless voice overs for Seth MacFarlane, is none other than H. Jon Benjamin.Benjamin plays burger joint owner Bob Belcher. His wife Linda is played by John Roberts who also does a convincing Michael McDonald, and the Belchers have three children. Tina, played to the deadpan max by Dan Mintz, son Gene played by the multi-talented comedy veteran Eugene Mirman, but the stolen star of the show HAS to be Louise played by the pre-adolescent voice of adult actress Kristin Schaal.The voice cast overall is extremely talented as this ‘jersey-shore’ family seems to find the most remarkable circumstances not only to get themselves into, but to (of all things) sing about!All the times I heard Coach McGurk, I never thought he could sing!Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Andy Kindler, Bill Hader, Blondie, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Brendan Smalls, Cole Porter, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Mintz, Dave Herman, David Wain, Debby Harry, Devo, Don Ho, Dr. Demento, Eddie Money, Eugene Mirman, Fred Armisen, H Jon Benjamin, Henry Winkler, Holly Schlesinger, James Brown, Jenny Slate, Joan Jett, Joe Esposito, John Michael Wiggins, John Roberts, Jonas Brothers, Kelvin Yu, Ken Jeong, Kenny Mellman, Kevin Kline, Kristin Schaal, Lapsley, Laura Silverman, Linda Rondstat, Loren Bouchard, Marvin Gaye, Matt Groenig, Megan Mulaley, Michael McDonald, Miracle Legion, Mr. Ray Neal, Nena, Nile Rodgers, Nora Smith, Parliament-Funkadelic, Randy Newman, Ron Huebel, Ron Lynch, Sam Seder, Sarah Silverman, Scott Jacobson, Seth MacFarlane, Snakefinger, St Vincent, Stephen Merit, Steven Davis, Survivor, Talking Heads, The Bee Gees, The Cars, The National, The Tubes, Tiny Tim, Todd Rundgren, Tori Amos, Zack GalifinakasPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Review |   Leave a Comment »March 20, 2020 Devo revisits their roots and reboot early songs and demos from 1974 to 1977. Photo courtesy DiscogsAUTHOR’S NOTE: I wanted to leave the Polaris review up as long as I could to promote those shows. Now, with all this hub-bub about the Coronavirus, even though they pretty much sold out the New York shows, there is a most unfortunate chance that these shows will have to be delayed as will the release of the new edition of Songs From The Adventures Of Pete And Pete album. Regardless, you folks need new stuff to read, so here’s a nice lengthy review to read while you socially distance.In 1990 Devo released Hardcore Devo Vol. 1, 74-77 on Rykodisc. Hardcore Devo Vol. 2, 1974 – 1977 followed a year later. The crux of these albums was the collection and curation of early compositions, demos and stuff no label in their right mind would put out. But for many years in the 80s and 90s, Rykodisc specialized in just that. Weird shit. I have the Ryko David Bowie Scary Monsters CD which includes some bonus tracks which were way out.Now many songs on both these volumes are recognizable to the above average Devo fan. Songs from albums like their debut Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo, Freedom Of Choice, Duty Now For The Future, even all the way up to one of my favorites, New Traditionalists. Some were even revisited and put out as bonus tracks on other albums. But the true meat behind these songs would be their original arrangements, original instruments, original parts, low-fi, low-budget, low expectation.Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Adrian Belew, Alan Myers, Alex Caslae, Brian Eno, David Bowie, David Byrne, David Kendrick, Devo, Doris Day, Fred Armisen, Gary Numan, Human League, Jeff Friedl, Jerry Casale, Jihad Jerry, Josh Freese, Josh Hagar, King Crimson, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mick Jagger, Peter Gabriel, Polysix, Raymond Scott, Robert Casale, Robert Fripp, Robert Mothersbaugh, Toni Basil, Tony LevinPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Review |   Leave a Comment »January 14, 2020 Harris, Jersey and Muggy Polaris reunite to bring the 21st Century Tour to life! Photo by Tony HealyThe Band That Lives Inside Your TV are back! Polaris, the house band from cult-classic Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete & Pete, are escaping from your childhood television set and busting out on a national tour for only the second time ever.Polaris are Mark Mulcahy (Muggy), David McCaffrey (Jersey), and Scott Boutier (Harris). The three were longtime bandmates in underground favorite Miracle Legion, who’ve also reunited in recent years. Post-Polaris, Mulcahy went on to start an eclectic solo career, becoming one of the most celebrated and revered songwriters making records today. McCaffrey and Boutier played bass and drums together in several acts including Frank Black and the Catholics.The 21st Century Tour will find Muggy, Jersey and Harris venturing out to 14 US cities between May and August. They’ll bring a mix of Polaris and Miracle Legion songs, plus some surprises to the sets. These shows will be the first since the band’s highly successful Waiting for October Tour in 2014-15, a jaunt across the country that found a generation of now grown-up Nickelodeon fans singing along to every word. The joyful reunion tour culminated in the beautifully recorded and packaged Live At Lincoln Hall double album.In addition to touring, Polaris’ hit vinyl record, Music from the Adventures of Pete & Pete, will be receiving a special reissue to mark the occasion. The release will be a deluxe vinyl package, including a CD of original demos dating between 1992-95, liner notes from Pete & Pete co-creator Will McRobb, and a complete album lyric sheet. It’s the ultimate edition of a record that Consequence of Sound called ‘a collection of songs that perfectly capture the confusion, whimsy, and wonder of adolescence.’The 21st Century Tour begins on May 14th in Pawtucket, RI, at The Met and wraps up on August 8th in Maquoketa, IA, at Codfish Hollow. See below for the full itinerary, and keep an eye out for additional dates and news from Mezzotint.com as more information becomes available.2020 Polaris Tour DatesMay 14 – The Met – Pawtucket, RIMay 15 – Gateway City Arts – Holyoke, MAMay 16 – Spaceland Ballroom – Hamden, CTMay 29 – The Foundry – Philadelphia, PAMay 30 – Mercury Lounge – New York, NYJune 4 – The Sinclair – Boston, MAJuly 7 – The Crocodile Seattle, WAJuly 8 – Mississippi Studios, Portland, ORJuly 10 – The Chapel – San Fran, CAJuly 11 – The Hi Hat – Los Angeles, CAJuly 12 – Soda Bar – San Diego, CAAug 6 – 7th St Entry – Minneapolis, MNAug 7 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, ILAug 8 – Codfish Hollow – Maquoketa, IAFor more information, go to the Mezzotint/Polaris/Mark Mulcahy social media pages.Tags: Dave McCaffrey, Frank Black and the Catholics, Mark Mulcahy, Miracle Legion, Scott Boutier, Will McRobbPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Press Release, Promotion |   Leave a Comment »November 22, 2019 The seventh studio album from Peter Gabriel, UP, deals with the delightful topics of birth, life and death.You are reading the 100th blog post at BouleBlog. Thank you for your support. In celebration of this milestone, I want to present this Friday Flashback-style review of an album that meant a great deal to me when it came out as I am somewhat the death hag. So when an artist like Peter Gabriel comes out with an album aimed at the topic of death, named UP, I am all on board.But when I played the album (over and over, I might add), I began to have some subversive thoughts enter my mind. Why, I was making music all wrong! The arrangements, the sonics, the patches and voices of the synthesizers, the processing of the drums, my methods were all outmoded.Leave it to the guy in Genesis who bailed out right as the band hit their artistic peak to show me how it’s done…Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Anna Gabriel, Chris Hughes, David Phodes, Ged Lynch, Genesis, John Lennon, Kate Bush, King Crimson, Manu Katche, Melanie Gabriel, Mitchell Froome, Paula Cole, Peter Gabriel, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rachel Z, Richard Evans, Shankar, Sid McGinnis, Steve Gadd, Tony LevinPosted in Friday Flashback, Opinion/Editorial |   Leave a Comment »November 2, 2019 The return of Desert Sessions features a cast of characters rival to the Wacky Racers. Photo courtesy Desert Sessions Facebook pageI took this summer off to do some more repairs/renovations around my house. This was messy stuff, and I like to have music playing when I do work like this as I am often by myself so it keeps me from going nuts. So I tend to pick the long stuff, or stuff I have made into long play lists.Josh Homme’s Desert Sessions fits that bill. Each volume is equivalent to one album. So volumes One and Two came out together as one release, so on all the way up to the last, volumes Nine and Ten. Each volume featured famous guests and residents at the studio the series is named after, Rancho De La Luna in the Palm Desert, CA area. For the first volumes, the guests were people who were either recording in Rancho, or were friends of project pioneer Homme. But what a rich pool to pick from, bands like Kyuss, Fatso Jetson, and many of these players would also go on to form Queens Of The Stone Age.Over time the guest list expanded exponentially, drawing in people like Mark Lanegan, Alain Johannes, and P.J. Harvey. The Desert Sessions provides scouting for new members of QOTSA, as the lineup often mutated until the most recent lineup formed and has remained consistent to this day. This lineup may experience shakeup after Homme’s announcement that the two-year long tour for the disappointing album Viliains proved to be too much for the health and well-being addled Homme. Near death experiences, health scares, losses of close friends and near misses of very close friends at the hands of international terrorists can take a toll on a man. He was recently quoted in the online edition of NME that he wouldn’t mind if QOTSA were a touch smaller, in terms of audience size, reach, etc.I see this as fulfillment of my expectation that working with Mark Ronson would damage QOTSA in some way. They’d either get too commercial, or too popular, and I totally get where Homme is coming from. I have had some really bad experiences in a couple of QOTSA Facebook groups. But I shouldn’t saddle QOTSA fans with that distinction exclusively, animosity exists in pretty much all of the Facebook fan groups regardless of the artist. With the possible exception of the Mark Mulcahy/Miracle Legion group.In order for Homme to clear his head of all the Ronson-generated nonsense, he retreated to the desert to collect some hefty names for the most recent edition of the sessions, that being Desert Sessions Vol. 11 & 12. But before we get into those names, let’s further examine what the Desert Sessions are:Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Alain Johannes, Autolux, Billy Gibbons, Carla Azar, Desert Sessions, Fatso Jetson, Iggy Pop, Jake Shears, Josh Homme, Kyuss, Les Claypool, Mark Lanegan, Mark Mulcahy, Mark Ronson, Matt Berry, Matt Sweeney, Mike Kerr, Miracle Legion, Natasha Schneider, Oysterhead, P.J. Harvey, Queens Of The Stone Age, Royal Blood, Scissor Sisters, Stella Mozgawa, The Residents, Wapaint, ZZ TopPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Review |   Leave a Comment »October 24, 2019 A comprehensive compilation of an artist’s survival in a local market for over ten years. A rare feat for that market. Photo courtesy edrandazzomusic.comOne thing this blog has taught me is, “Stay in your lane”. I’ve dabbled in jazz reviews, world reviews, indie reviews, Americana reviews, and it has brought me to the point where, I need to stay within my personal wheelhouse of expertise. While I may not be the world’s foremost authority on Goth music, I will continue to bait all the Daniel Ash fans with my opinion (yes, Vinnie, that last word, OPINION, stupid Bauhaus loser arguing with my opinion) but I will pick and choose my reviews carefully from this point forward.So when it was proposed to me that I could do the new Ed Randazzo retrospective, I jumped at the chance. Admittedly, Randazzo’s style of traditional, Americana folk-soul borders suspiciously close to some of the music I have recently sworn-off. For personal reasons I will pay no more attention to Sam Llanas and his crew. Since I will not be committing any further column space about his Americana, why not support a local boy who isn’t a full-of-himself douche who doesn’t appreciate those who were pulling for him, and promoting them to the best of their ability? Randazzo never made any promises, connections or forged any allegiances to go back on.I have no problem promoting someone who is genuine, earnest, and has bon-a-fide talent. Like Ed…Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Adrian Belew, Bauhaus, Bill Withers, Bob Dylan, Bret Alexander, Daniel Ash, David Sylvian, Dustin Douglas, Ed Randazzo, Eddie Appnel, Jeff Berlin, Nina Simone, Paul Mark Young, Rob Husty, Sam Llanas, Steve Gadd, The Bears, Tim Husty, Tony HalchakPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Promotion |   Leave a Comment »October 19, 2019 The final 666th Thanksgiving psychodots show. Thankfully they captured it for all to enjoy. Photo courtesy Rob FettersThank you Adrian Belew. No, seriously! It was through my familiarity with his tenure in King Crimson that I got to know Rob Fetters, Bob Nyswonger and Chris Arduser. Those three had long been together as The psychodots. Then Belew’s buddy Rob Fetters paid an LA visit to a woodshedding Belew, who was being taught all of the impossible Zappa guitar parts that made up the Sheik Yerbouti album and tour (as both were often intertwined with Zappa).At some point Belew and Fetters had decided to start a band. Something with a name that sounds like a little-league baseball team. The Bears! The formulation of the band was easy; Belew + psychodots = The Bears.psychodots (yes, the preferred spelling of the band name has no capital letters, allegedly, if I mis-speak, Fetters will hang me out to dry on social media) had been making off-beat, catchy music for years with a healthy catalog that I will be covering at future dates on this blog. Another band that Fetters and Nyswonger were in with Ricky Nye and Bam Powell, the Raisins, also had songs revisited as Bears songs. “Fear Is Never Boring” from the Bears first album was, in fact, an early Raisins song as was the Bears song “Superboy” which was a reworked Raisin’s song called “Valentine”.Through that association, I also learned that there is/was a thriving indie music community in the Cincy area! Not only were Arduser, Fetters and Nyswonger in psychodots, there were other bands that shared personnel. Raisins, Bucket, Graveblankets, then other bands would later evolve from those. Flying Underground, Bluebirds, Copper, and so many more that I know I have forgotten.As part of that scene, every year around Thanksgiving, the psychodots come together and play their annual gig. But in 2018, that tradition came to an end.Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Adrian Belew, Bluebirds, Bob Nyswonger, Bridget Otto, Bucket, Camilla Cabello, Chris Arduser, Flying Underground, Frank Zappa, Graveblankets, Joe Satriani, John Entwhistle, King Crimson, Nicki Minaj, Phil Collins, Psychodots, Rob Fetters, Robert Fripp, Shawn Mendes, Steve Vai, Taylor Swift, The Bears, The Raisins, Yngwie MalmsteenPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Review |   Leave a Comment »September 13, 2019 The first solo album by Alan Parsons. Fresh from a feud-riddled Freudiana with Eric Woolfson.Before I begin the review I would like to extend a hearty congratulations to Alan Parsons for his Grammy win for the 35th Anniversary Box Set release of Eye In The Sky. It’s always affirming when Parsons get some recognition for his work outside of the dreadful Pink Floyd album and the even more banal Beatles works. I would have liked to have seen him get more recognition for his I Robot album than he got for the other projects. This is yet another unpopular opinion I am sure, but if you want popular opinion, there are millions of other reviewers towing the label dictate. Read them!Now…Rock operas are no damn good! If we learn nothing else from this review, we should be at least advised that rock operas can destroy (what the modern music industry would consider) a golden goose. Imagine, you are the head of a record label. Some guy and his pal come to you with a crazy idea that they are going to do a concept album (a good thing), about Edgar Allan Poe. Now, seeing as the median reader age is just a touch younger than I am, Poe was considered the grandfather of Goth. So that would mean dark, forbidding tales of murder, mayhem, deceit, set to catchy prog-rock style tunes.You would kick their asses right out of the building, never mind your office…Except ‘some guy’ is Alan Parsons, fresh off of working with Pink Floyd on Dark Side Of The Moon, and having just hung out with The Beatles during their infamous ‘Rooftop Concert’ (the bloke in the orange shirt). Not to mention Al Stewart’s Year Of The Cat album, and Pilot’s debut album From The Album Of The Same Name. If that’s not familiar to you, I KNOW you have heard the Pilot song “Magic” if in no other form, it was bastardized in the commercial for the drug Ozembic. The other guy? Eric Woolfson who was a minor music mogul in that he was managing several bands. Most notably and recognizably Carl Douglas whose song “Kung Fu Fighting” became an annoyance in the mid-seventies. But most importantly, Woolfson was a songwriter. Something Parsons was still finding his way around, but gaining ground quickly being around Woolfson. They share credit on many Parsons Project songs.And the label was 20th Century Fox. Now the faithful readers of this rag (all two of you) know how I feel about movie production companies owning record labels. I know each and every band member of Miracle Legion will say the same thing; no damn good. As I alluded to before, 20th Century was given a concept album about Edgar Allan Poe and after it, they gave Parsons/Woolfson the boot.It was at this point, The Alan Parsons Project would truly begin…Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Al Stewart, Alan Parsons, Andrew Powell, Brian Eno, Carl Douglas, Chris Thompson, Claire Torry, David Pack, Eric Stewart, Eric Woolfson, Frank Musker, Graham Preskett, Hall & Oates, Ian Bairnson, Jacqui Copeland, Jeremy Parsons, Leslie Duncan, Lindsey Stirling, Mark Knoffler, Miracle Legion, PIlot, Pink Floyd, Richard Trix Cottle, Stuart Elliot, The BeatlesPosted in Opinion/Editorial, Review |   5 Comments »January 5, 2019 A deceptively good disc. The performances and Ash’s antics are abundant.Daniel Ash, David J. and Kevin Haskins salvaged a working relationship once the Bauhaus were finished. There was still a fresh flow of material oozing out of Ash. To this day, Ash is releasing music as a solo artist and with Haskins and Haskin’s daughter Diva Dompe as POPTONE. Long time readers of this blog will remember the Great POPTONE Fiasco of 2017. Despite what Ash’s ‘management’ claims, I felt I wrote one of the best reviews of my life for that show (at the over-hyped Stone Pony) and I continue to stand by that review today. Frankly, I don’t care what the POPTONE camp has to say.  Would I have liked the band to see my review? Sure! I always want the band to see my review. I feel I can relate to them, they can identify with me, we speak the same lingo (you readers don’t really want me to go into hyper-specifics about key, chords, scales, nodes, technology, equipment, processes, so on, you’ve told me so).But most musicians DO want to talk specifics.None of that matters. This blog has recommitted itself to enjoying the process of composing reviews that lead to insight, glancing insider knowledge and minimal technical speak. That last one will resurface, I know it.This is one from our soundboard recording specialist Craig. We’ll get to how you can own this nifty prize yourself later.Read the rest of this entry »Tags: Bauhaus, Daniel Ash, David J. Haskins, Diva Dompe, Kevin Haskins, POPTONEPosted in Off The Record, Opinion/Editorial, Review |   Leave a Comment »",
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