My dearest friend: Holiday greetings from Sombertown!!! It’s been a while. I hope you have been keeping busy. We have, because we know firsthand that idle hands are the devil’s playthings. I honestly don’t remember what lies I told in the last missive, so if I repeat or contradict myself, don’t be alarmed. A VERY [...]
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October 17, 2011
Scud Mountain Boys dates announced
Oh boy. We’re ready to announce a batch of Scud Mountain Boys shows. Tickets for all of these should be on sale by Friday, Oct. 21. Friday, Jan. 13, 2012 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY Tickets: http://www.boweryballroom.com/ Saturday Jan. 14 Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA Tickets: http://www.brightonmusichall.com/ Sunday, Jan. 15 Pearl Street Clubroom Tickets: http://www.iheg.com [...]
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Goodbye, Killer by Pernice Brothers is Joe Pernice’s first band album since 2006’s Live a Little. In several weeks-long bursts of work over the course of a couple of years, in between writing a novel, recording a soundtrack for said novel, touring on both, and doing real-life things, Joe, his brother Bob, and long-time collaborators James Walbourne (Pretenders, Son Volt, Peter Bruntnell) and Ric Menck (Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush) holed up in an attic in Boston and recorded these 10 Pernice originals.
Goodbye, Killer should appease Pernice fans from all walks of life. It includes the full on rock ‘n rollers “Jacqueline Susann” and “Bechamel,” signature pop songs “The Great Depression” and “F***ing and Flowers,” the Scuds-esque “Newport News” and “The End of Faith,” and two AM radio would-be classics “The Loving Kind” and “Goodbye, Killer.” Pernice refers to the undeniably show tune-y number “We Love the Stage,” as his “homage to vaudeville, indie rock and learning to love betting against yourself.” (Whatever. Pernice’s manager just hopes it’s the first song in the musical he and Walbourne are going to write, because she’d love to lose a lot of money producing musicals too.)
Goodbye, Killer is a versatile album that’s trademark Pernice.