Peter Bjorn and John are all done with their sixth studio album! It will be released on March 29th on StarTime International. According to member John Eriksson: “‘We originally planned to make a punk rock album, but listening to it now it’s definitely a pop rock album. But it sounds more punk rock when we play the songs live!’” This is surely departure from their electronically experimental (but very good) 2009 LP Living Thing.
Category Archives: Music
Pete Doherty Has A Website That Makes Noises
There’s no much content, but if you want to give “Peter” your e-mail address, he will follow up sometime with goodies.
In other news, he went to court for cocaine a few days ago.
Band of the Week: Jacuzzi Boys
Trio from the Sunshine State that rock hard. Their debut record No Seasons [2009] is a keeper. They are playing on the Bruise Cruise that sails away from Miami in February.
Boston Music Awards 2010

I don’t usually pay attention to music awards of any kind, but here are some notable (relative to KLYAM anyway) winners from last night’s show.
Artist of the Year: Amanda Palmer
Rock Artist of the Year: Girlfriends
Best Live Music Venue: Middle East
Radio 92.9 Boch Boston Band Award: Gold Star Morning*
Congrats!
*GSM drummer is our very own James DiNanno. Good work brother!
For a full list, turn here: http://theywillrockyou.com/2010/12/boston-music-awards-2010-winners/
Who Did it Better? “Baby, I Love You”
For this edition I decided to cover the The Ronettes “Baby, I Love You” which I believe is one of the greatest love songs ever written (disagree take it to the comments). This time I am only including one cover song from another Phil Spector band The Ramones.
First up the orginial
Next up the Ramones
Hard to beat a classic, and I don’t think The Ramones do it, still a nice cover none the less.
CD Review: First Four EPs [2010]

Band: OFF!
Release: 11/2011
Label: Vice Records
1. “Black Thoughts” – A-
2. “Darkness” – B+
3. “I Don’t Belong” – A-
4. “Upside Down” – B+
5. “Poison City” – B+
6. “Now I’m Pissed” – B
7. “Killing Away” – B+
8. “Jeffrey Lee Pierce” – A-
9. “Panic Attack” – B
10. “Crawl” – B-
11. “Blast” – B+
12. “Rat Trap” – B-
13. “Fuck People” – B
14. “Full of Shit” – B
15. “Broken” – B
16. “Peace In Hermosa” – B
Comments: This is the kind of record that you simply can’t review while doing something else. If you decide to go the multi-tasking route, which I did, you might just find yourself listening to the sixth track of the record while you’re under the impression that you’re still on the second. For long-time followers of punk rock, such a perception is child’s play. At any rate, I haven’t heard many hardcore punk songs…sad, I know. OFF! is the latest band of Keith Morris, a rather prolific person in hardcore punk (front-man of Black Flag, Circle Jerks). That’s that. The songs on this record are very good. You can tell these guys have been around for a while. Loads of recycled chord progressions and stuff like that. That’s kind of expected in any genre of music, but these kind of things seem to particularly stick out on here.
Grade: B (86)
Fun New Nobunny Interview [Fr. Crawdaddy]

Crawdaddy: http://www.crawdaddy.com/index.php/2010/11/30/music-box-sounds-nobunny/
Quote of the Interview:
“Nobunny doesn’t fuck with nobody… Unless they draw first blood! Recently in New York we had a couple of extra rowdy guys in the front who were smashing away knocking people around and were oblivious to everyone around them, including the band. We were having a particularly bad show and I asked them politely to chill or take it to the back or the side or somewhere. This pissed off one of the fans enough that he went to the back of the club, knocked over our merch table, went to the men’s room, defecated in a paper towel, and then threw it at me! The awful smell of man-baby shit filled the venue immediately. Once I realized what was going on I picked up the paper towel full of crap, chased the guy to a cafe upstairs, confronted the offender, and fed him a pile of his own hot shit via my fist smashing it into his face. For once, you really could say that the shit hit the fan.”
Thoughts on Peter Hook Presents ‘Unknown Pleasures’

I am not going to write a full fledge review of the show because honestly I left after the second-third song, but I am going to make a few comments on it. The first is Peter Hook is no Ian Curtis, now granted he wasn’t trying to do an Ian impersonation, but if you ever heard any Joy Division song you would no how important Ian’s lyrical style and voice was to the band, but apparently Peter Hook doesn’t. Hook was confident and cocky with his delivery which would be a fine for almost any other band, but not Joy Division. I see it as the equivalent as coming of shy and awkward as the front man of a Sex Pistols tribute band, it just doesn’t work. Honestly the whole thing sounded like a Joy Division themed karaoke night. Secondly and more importantly, when the bassist of Joy Division goes on tour to play Joy Division songs, I expect him to play bass guitar. As it turns out Peter wasn’t even acting as lead bassist, his son was. Besides the nepotism and everything wrong with that, there is a major issue here; Peter Hook thought it was appropriate to play Joy Division in not only a six piece band, but one that included two bassist. I don’t know if he lost touch with his own music or if he was just trying to make a buck, but the end result was just a mess. At the end of the day I am not sure what I was expecting but Peter, I am sorry I went, sorry I wasted my money on a ticket, and most of all sorry for what you did to the memory of a once great band on that night. Now if you don’t mind I am going to listen to some Joy Division, the way it was meant to be played, with a melancholy lead singer and one bassist.
Song of the Day: “Blue Monday”
This was back when Peter Hook didn’t disappoint KLYAMers.
Gentleman Jesse + His Men 7″ Single!!!

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