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Keith Levene, Public Image Ltd: Keith Levene: The Bitterest PiL
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 11 October 1983
THE URGENT guitar playing that cuts through the rumble of 'The Public Image Theme' isn't just the sound of a guitar going through an amp. ...
The Bush Tetras: Bush Tetras: Beatin' Around The Bush
Report and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 18 March 1982
PRIMITIVES ...
The Clash: Highways To Hell: Clash Clampdown U.S.A.
Report by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 7 July 1982
IT'S SUMMER and the Clash are back, not on Broadway but on the radio. 'Rock the Casbah' is blaring out of car windows not just ...
The Clash, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, The Mo-dettes: The Clash: The Foul-Up
Report and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 25 June 1981
THE LIGHTS dimmed. Dramatic Spanish bolero music from Clint Eastwood's For a Few Dollars More came on over the speakers, and the spotlights roamed from ...
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 21 January 1982
IT REMINDS you of a movie. Doris Day goes, by accident of course, probably after a fight with Rock Hudson, to a party. In the ...
Jonzun Crew, New Edition, Maurice Starr: Michael Jonzun: Pack Jammin' from Roxbury to the Top Ten
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 14 November 1983
AT THE END of the street on the top of a hill in Roxbury is a two-story, weather-beaten wooden house. The first floor windows are ...
Live Review by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 3 September 1981
THERE IS always a part in a Tom Petty song when he knows he's got you, when he zeroes in and touches you. Like the ...
Public Image Ltd.: Flowers of Romance (Virgin, import LP)
Review by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 30 April 1981
FLOWERS OF Romance reminds me of this old Sid Caesar joke. He introduces a jazz musician as being "...on radar, to let us know if ...
Wire Train: Plato Would Have Hated Them
Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Boston Rock, 21 February 1984
A LONG, LONG time ago — even before Chuck Berry was born — a guy named Plato announced to everyone within earshot that if he ...
David Johansen: Paradise, Boston MA
Live Review by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 3 September 1981
DAVID JOHANSEN danced out into the audience at the Paradise dressed in a sparkle headband and a denim jacket with a likeness of Marilyn Monroe ...
ABC: 'The Look of Love (Parts One, Two, Three & Four)' (Neutron, 12" EP)
Review by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 7 July 1982
I HOLD IN my hand a record by a group with three letters: ABC led by FRY, Martin that is. His previous excursions into vinyl, ...
The Fabulous Billygoons, The Specials: The Specials enjoy themselves
Report and Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
YOU COULD'VE taken a seat in the Bradford Hotel lobby and gotten a pretty good show for free. Besides all manner of impatient fans milling ...
Culture Club: Kissing To Be Clever (Virgin, LP)
Review by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 26 January 1983
THIS IS disco music with some reggae and soul thrown in. My God, I can close my eyes and see the flashing ultra violet lights, ...
Profile and Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 20 May 1982
ONCE UPON a time in Sheffield, England, there were four men who called themselves the Human League. They made expressive synthesizer music with intriguing lyrics ...
Dexys Midnight Runners: Rambler in the Rye
Profile and Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983
AT LAST, a foot in the door! Dexys Midnight Runners: the name is finally getting around because of their brilliant, buoyant single 'Come On Eileen', ...
Live Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 5 July 1983
Club New York Takes It On The Hip-Hop ...
Nona Hendryx: None Have A Voice Like Nona
Profile by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 5 July 1983
"SEXY." WBZ-TV's Joyce Kulhawik purses her lips together and pouts: "Provocative. Hot." Nona Hendryx shifts uncomfortably in her seat as the Live on Four camera ...
Profile and Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 20 October 1982
WE CAN now exhale in relief — the Undertones are back and they've hardly changed. They've gotten some lines in their formerly cherubic faces since ...
Pete Shelley: Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 21 January 1982
PETE SHELLEY last appeared in these pages just over a year ago, during the Buzzcocks' final tour. They recorded three singles which were to lead ...
Simple Minds Dream A New Gold Dream
Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 5 July 1983
JIM KERR'S eyes light up. "I saw (the German film) Fitzcarraldo three weeks after our album was complete, and there was a subtitle in it ...
Toots & The Maytals: Toots and the Maytals
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 20 May 1982
HE SEEMS overwhelmingly tired, huddled in the corner of the dressing room smoking a chillum. He is dressed like a champ: satin boxing shorts and ...
Report and Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 10 December 1981
HOW DO YOU TELL THE WORLD IT REALLY ONLY DESERVES POTATOES WHEN SOMEONE'S GOT IT CONVINCED IT SHOULD EXPECT STUFFING? ...
The Bangles: Big Bangle Theory
Profile by Byron Coley, Boston Rock, 15 December 1982
WHEN ALL'S been said and done, the Recycler has got to be one of the coolest rags in the entire LA press sump. Now, every ...
Profile and Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 April 1981
DURING THEIR second set at the Rat, L.A. band Wall of Voodoo broke into a medley of soundtrack themes from classic spaghetti westerns, even including ...
Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
Merit Badges Goes To Dianaland ...
The Go-Go's, The Specials: Hey Hey! We're the Go-Go's!
Report and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 1 October 1981
INSIDE SPIT, amid cans of Tab and boxes of equipment sat the Go-Go's looking... well, miserable. ...
Culture Club: Hey There, Georgie Boy...
Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983
THE PIANO lounge of Boston's Marriott Longwharf Hotel is imposing — sharp white walls and ledges surround ceiling-high glass windows, dramatizing the expanse of the ...
Eurythmics: Sweet Soul Music (Is Made of This)
Interview by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 8 August 1983
"I SUPPOSE it's ironic, since I come from a place where you maybe see one black person a year, but I identify with soul music ...
Tom Tom Club: Close to the Bone (Sire)
Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 6 September 1983
ANOTHER BAHAMIAN excursion for Talking Heads' Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth; another Tom Tom Club album. Chris and Tina, assorted sisters and brothers, producer Steven ...
Heaven 17: The Luxury Gap (Arista, LP)
Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 5 July 1983
THE LUXURY Gap, the long-awaited second album by Heaven 17, is the best album of 1983 thus far. Here is an album so alive it ...
Report and Interview by Julie Panebianco, Boston Rock, 26 January 1983
THEY ABIDE by a Code of Gentlemen, wear elegant tuxedos or tweed, and shake hands limply. The women they desire are haughty and haunting; they ...
Report by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 30 March 1983
IF YOU'RE keen to witness a major cultural capital in hibernation, try being in London the week between Christmas and New Years. Just about everything ...
Review by Betsy Sherman, Boston Rock, 18 March 1982
AFTER SEVERAL weeks at the top of the British album charts, and buoyed by the club success of soap-operetta 'Don't You Want Me', Dare has ...
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