Category Massachusetts
What’s 17 Years Between Friends? Hear a NEW FREE track from the first new Scuds album since 1996’s “Massachusetts”
We’ll keep the preamble (rambling) to a minimum this time. Here’s the cover art and the debut track from the brand new “Do You Love The Sun” (out today on the Dorchester-Mass.-based Ashmont Records), the Scud Mountain Boys’ first album since 1996’s sublime and snowy “Massachusetts” (don’t ask us why — it’s just always felt […]
His Band Opened For Badfinger: A Q&A with Big Star’s Jody Stephens
A Q&A with Jody Stephens/Rolling Stone.com Even if Jody Stephens had never picked up a pair of drumsticks after 1974, he’d still have secured an immortal place in pop history as the drummer for Big Star — one of the most talked about and belatedly beloved American rock & roll bands ever. And although they […]
VERMONT WOODSHEDDING AND THE AUTONOMY OF ASHMONT
One of the more enjoyable afternoons I’ve spent lost in a supermarket in Vermont, thanks to Ashmont Records co-founder and Pernice Brothers manager/band wrangler Joyce Linehan, who stole me away one Saturday to hang up north with the boys in the band as they worked on what would become the “Yours, Mine, & Ours” album. For the piece below, which […]
HOW SOON IS NOW? Joe Pernice Finds His Bryte Side
News of an impending (imminent might be the better word) reunion of Western Massachusetts’ finest ’90’s alt-country band, the Scud Mountain Boys, got me thinking how many times I’ve interviewed, reviewed, and gushed over singer-songwriter-bandleader Joe Pernice’s various outfits, which began with the Scuds and has continued unabated through several incarnations of the Pernice Brothers. I […]
RPM: Jonathan Perry's Life in Analog 