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[themowearchives]

News Archive, Part 3

november 2011

press clippings! 

october 2010

autumn marches on.  october contained two interesting events for my own worst enemy. first, at the cantab, we returned for a one night only show as the 'classic lineup' with john cahill on drums. we featured mostly the songs off no guarantees and it rocked!  second, we headed back to the beloved verdant studio in athens, vermont for first of many sessions, again with pete weiss at the helm. it's as good a time as any to start working on a new record, ain't it? here's a nice pic of verdant, where the magic happens...

january 2010

two great ways to start off the new year...first, we sold out the lizard lounge on saturday night (opening for mars' cd release) and second, michelle from www.bostongroupienews.com posted a great pic from the show on their website...thank you lizard, mars, michelle & the folks at bgn for all the support! 

november 2009

very nice to find some kind words in this month's NOISE magazine from one of the legends of the boston music scene, the one and only liz borden... 

september 2009

kind of a cool very thing here, sue was selected as "miss september" for the club bohemia calendar; all the credit goes to mickey bliss for the photo, calendar design, and for having impeccable taste in subject matter. check it out...

january 2009

can you believe we have been playing music together for 11 years?  2008 was capped off with an invitation to perform at the weisstronaut's 10th annual holiday bash at church, and it's fair to say that a very good time was had by all. mowe contributed one holiday original, "all i want for christmas (is a shot and a beer)" and took a stab at several rockin' holiday classics: john lennon's 'happy chrsitmas (war is over)', the pretenders '2000 miles', joni mitchell's 'river', the dogmatics 'christmastime' and last but not least, 'do they know it's christmas' by band-aid! extra-special thank yous go out to our guest vocalists (you know who you are...)  and in case you're wondering, my own worst enemy's christmas wish CAME TRUE: nbc network has officially cancelled that awful tv show that stole our band name.

august 2008

well it's never a right time for some shameless self-promotion, so here we go....total action has garnered a couple great reviews in recent local and national press. on our press page, check out what north carolina's indie-music.com and somerville's northeast performer has to say.  for those not so much into reading, you can hear it for yourself on itunes or at any newbury comics, where total action is only 10 bucks. or cut out the middleman and get a copy at one of our upcominig shows: friday sept. 19th at the castle bar (with the prime movers and the in out), or saturday oct. 11th at the cantab (with red invasion, mars and the lyres). details are on our shows page.

june 2008

after a brief absence, total action has returned THE NOISE radio chart, #7...

he noise top 30 radio chart is based on the amount of radio airplay given to local releases. it is compiled by radiotony using playlists from WAAF, WBCN, WFNX, WMBR, WMFO, WTCC, and WZBC.

march 10, 2008

total action has cracked THE NOISE radio chart, entering at #6...

the noise top 30 radio chart is based on the amount of radio airplay given to local releases. it is compiled by radiotony using playlists from WAAF, WBCN, WFNX, WMBR, WMFO, WTCC, and WZBC.

march 1, 2008

my own worst enemy made three 'best of 2007' lists from NOISE writers. thank you francis (#8), Nancy (#7 & #10) and Rita (#4)

february 2008

with the record release show and holiday festivities in the rear-view mirror, we supppose it's time to look ahead to the new year. and speaking of new, total action was recently picked up by newbury comics as a new release, and is available in all locations for the wicked-cheap sale price of $7.99. of course you can also buy it digitally or in person at a show. the choice is yours. check out the records page for all the details. also kick-starting the new year...three upcoming shows for you to chose from. hope to see you there!. 

[wzbcpromo]

WZBC MADE A HALLOWEEN PLAYLIST!!! Did you listen?

[maura]

i made a playlist of the most-played songs on my radio show (maura.com/wzbc) from this year! here it is https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4z1prEpUzVdDOXX021D07r?si=D2zJafgVRtWj0YF4sSM-zQ

[inthesoil]

Roxbury, Boston

[indieephemera]

September 1993 calendar listings flyer for Cambridge, MA rock club The Middle East.

“Here’s the correct Middle East schedule for the month”—but without the year. Good thing one of the shows listed here was the WMBR Breakfast of Champions 10th Anniversary show with Helium, Versus and Fuzzy. Great gig, and yes, I was there. I even have a blank tape labeled as if it were a recording of that show, but for some reason it’s another show (Magic Hour) instead.

Also of note: Velocity Girl and Tsunami on the 30th. I may not have gone to that one, though, as by this point I’d seen both bands times many, many times. The fact that is was scheduled for the downstairs room definitely indicated they were a big draw by then, too.

Funniest intro goes to the Mecca Normal show on the 22nd: “WZBC presents Special Date Night.” Uh, yes, many Mecca Normal songs are about relationships...

[changterhune]

Atlas of Migraine on NCP top 30 playlist!

Woohoo!!! Check me out! I'm in the top 3!!! Thanks to Deftly D & Josh B and of course NCP on the Z!

WZBC NCP Top 30: 18 October 2017

1. The Caretaker, Everywhere At the End of Time - Stage 3, History Always Favours the Winners 2017

2. Susanne Sundfor, Music For People In Trouble, Bella Union 2017

3. Cathode Ray Tube, Atlas of Migrane [HTX047], Heterodox Records, 2017

4. DJ Trustworthy, Cellulite

5. H.P. Lovecraft read by Andrew Leman, The Lurking Fear, Calabria Records, 2016

6. Jay Cure, The Cure, VP Records

7. Mike Gao, Land Escape, Alpha Pup Records, 2017

8. Tom Vek, Leisure Seizure, Co-operative, 2011

9. Abstinence, Delusions of Architecture, S6K Media, 2013

10. Mon <0> taur, conunDrum, Component Recordings & Voidstar Productions, 2016

11. Bruce Haack, Coco, the Coconut, 2012

12. Hans Grusel’s Krankenkabinet, Another Miserable Day, Ultra Eczema, 2006

13. Have a Nice Life, Deathconsciousness, Enemies List Home Recordings, 2008

14. Various Artists, Music For Merce Vol.9, New World Records, 2011

15. Nini Raviolette, So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983, Tigersushi, 2004

16. Peter Handke, Radioplay, TFYM, 1970

17. Various Artists, musique concentrete soundtracks to experimental short films 1956-1978 volume 3, The New England Music Company

18. Venetian Snares, Filth, Planet Mu, 2009

19. Stoneburner, The Agony Box, Negative Gain Productions, 2017

20. Legend, Midnight Champion, Artoffact Records, 2017

21. Jacket Weather, When Shadows Move 1982-1984, Dionysus Records / Bacchus Archives / Orange Sky / Hell Yeah, 1983

22. Snowbeasts vs. Longpig, Shrine of Snowbeasts, Annihilvs Power Electronix, 2017

23. 100Blumen, Down With The System, Long Live The System!, Ant-Zen, 2009

24. Yaeji, Yaeji - EP, GODMODE, 2017

25. Andrea Belgian, Ore, FLOAT, 2017

26. Folke Rabe, What??, Dexter’s Cigar, 1997

27. Carl Calm, A Party Tide, Self Released 2011

28. Kashiwa Daisuke, Program Music I, Midi Creative / Noble, 2007

29. Baraka Moon, Wind Horse, Baraka Moon Music, 2017

30. Mono, You Are There, Temporary Residence, 2006

[bostonflashpoint]

Mark Flynn_Skunk Piss/Punkt Data Artist_NYC_2017

Mark Flynn shares his narrative on Skunk Piss_Punkt Data’s role in creating poster and fanzine art for the Boston Music scene during the 1980′s. Marks work along with several other musicians and artists will be featured next month in Boston Flashpoint....www.bostonflashpoint.com

[theinnerparty]

Contact Your Local College and Community Radio Stations to Request The Inner Party!

Starting October 2nd (tomorrow) Darker and “Stay Together for the Cats” will be added to the playlists of the following radio stations across the US and Canada. If you live in one of these areas, please contact your local station and request us! CJSW Calgary AB KBBI Homer AK KEUL Girdwood AK KRUA Anchorage AK WEGL Auburn AL WLJS Jacksonville AL WVUA Tuscaloosa AL KXUA Fayetteville AR KAMP Tucson AZ Radio Phoenix Phoenix AZ CFBX Kamloops BC CFUR Prince George BC CFUV Victoria BC CIVL Abbotsford BC KALX Berkeley CA KCPR San Luis Obispo CA KCRW Santa Monica CA KCSB Santa Barbara CA KCSC Chico CA KCSS Turlock CA KDVS Davis CA KFSR Fresno CA KHSU Arcata CA KMUD Redway CA KSCU Santa Clara CA KSDT La Jolla CA KSJS San Jose CA KSPC Claremont CA KSSU Sacramento CA KUCI Irvine CA KUSF San Francisco CA KVMR Nevada City CA KXLU Los Angeles CA KZSC Santa Cruz CA KZSU Stanford CA KAFM Grand Junction CO KCSU Fort Collins CO KDUR Durango CO KEPC Colorado Springs CO KGNU Boulder CO KRFC Fort Collins CO KVCU Boulder CO KVNF Paonia CO MET Denver CO WCNI New London CT WRTC Hartford CT WSIN New Haven CT WVOF Fairfield CT WWUH West Hartford CT WXCI Danbury CT Bulls Radio Tampa FL WNSU Fort Lauderdale FL WPRK Winter Park FL WRGP Miami FL WVFS Tallahassee FL WVUM Coral Gables FL SCAD-Atlanta Radio Atlanta GA WUOG Athens GA KKCR Hanalei HI KTUH Honolulu HI KRUI Iowa City IA KWLC   Decorah IA KBSU fm Boise ID KLCZ Lewiston ID KRFP Moscow ID KUOI Moscow ID WAUG Rock Island IL WCSF Joliet IL WHCM Palatine IL WHPK Chicago IL WIDB Carbondale IL WIIT Chicago IL WLCA Godfrey IL WLTL La Grange IL WLUW   Chicago IL WMXM Lake Forest IL WXAV Chicago IL WECI Richmond IN WSWI Evansville IN WUEV   Evansville IN KJHK Lawrence KS WRFL Lexington KY WWHR Bowling Green KY KLPI Ruston LA KLSU Baton Rouge LA KNSU Thibodaux LA KSCL Shreveport LA KSLU - 2 Hammond LA KXUL Monroe LA WAMH Amherst MA WERS Boston MA WKKL West Barnstable MA WLAS Newton MA WMHC South Hadley MA WRBB Boston MA WTCC Springfield MA WUML Lowell MA WZBC Chestnut Hill MA CJUM Winnipeg Manitoba WLOY Baltimore MD XTSR Towson MD WERU East Orland ME WMEB Orono ME WMPG Portland ME WRBC Lewiston ME WUMF Farmington ME CJAM Grosse Pointe MI WAYN Detroit MI WHFR   Dearborn MI WIDR Kalamazoo MI WMHW Mt. Pleasant MI WYCE Grand Rapids MI KMSC Moorhead MN KQAL   Winona MN KUMD Duluth MN KUMM Morris MN KVSC St. Cloud MN KFAI   Minneapolis MN KDHX St. Louis MO KKFI Kansas City MO KMNR   Rolla MO KTRM   Kirksville MO KWUR St. Louis MO UMSL St. Louis MO KBGA Missoula MT KBMF Butte MT WAKE Winston-Salem NC WASU Boone NC WGWG Boiling Springs NC WNIA Rocky Mount NC WSOE Elon College NC WUAG Greensboro NC WXDU Durham NC WZMB Greenville NC KNDS Fargo ND KZUM Lincoln NE CHMR St. Johns NF WSCA Portsmouth NH WUNH Durham NH WBJB Adelphia NJ WGLS Glassboro NJ WLFR Galloway NJ WMCX West Long Branch NJ WMSC Upper Montclair NJ WRRC Lawrenceville NJ WRSU New Brunswick NJ WTSR Ewing NJ KRUX Las Cruces NM KUNM Albuquerque NM NVWR Reno NV OWWR Old Westbury NY WAIH Potsdam NY WBNY Buffalo NY WCVF Fredonia NY WERW Syracuse NY WFUV Bronx NY WGFR Queensburg NY WHCL Clinton NY WHWS Geneva NY WICB Ithaca NY WITR Rochester NY WMVL Purchase NY WNYU fm New York NY WPNR Utica NY WRHU Hempstead NY WRUR Rochester NY WSBU St.Bonaventure NY WSPN Saratoga Springs NY WUSB Stony Brook NY BearCast Radio Cincinnati OH WBGU Bowling Green OH WBWC Berea OH WCSB Cleveland OH WDUB Granville OH WLFC Findlay OH WMCO New Concord OH WOBC Oberlin OH WRUW Cleveland OH WUDR Dayton OH WWSU Dayton OH WXUT Toledo OH KRSC Claremore OK The Spy FM Oklahoma City OK CFRC Kingston ON CHUO Ottawa ON CIUT Toronto ON CJRU Toronto ON CKLU Sudbury ON KDUP Portland OR KEOL La Grande OR KPSU Portland OR KWVA Eugene OR WESS E. Stroudsburg PA WKDU Philapelphia PA WMUH Allentown PA WPPJ Pittsburgh PA WPTS Pittsburgh PA WQSU Selinsgrove PA WRKC Wilkes-Barre PA WSRU Slippery Rock PA WSYC Shippensburg PA WVMM Mechanicsburg PA WXAC Reading PA WXPN Philadelphia PA WXVU Villanova PA WZBT Gettysburg PA CJLO Montreal QC WXIN Providence RI WSBF Clemson SC WUSC Columbia SC KANM College Station TX KNON Dallas TX KPFT Houston TX KRTU San Antonio TX KSAU Nacogdoches TX KSYM San Antonio TX KTCU Fort Worth TX KTSW San Marcos TX KUTX Austin TX KVRX Austin TX KRCL Salt Lake City UT KZMU Moab UT WDCE Richmond VA WGMU Fairfax VA WNRN Charlottesville VA WVRU Radford VA WIUV Castleton VT WRMC Middlebury VT KAOS Olympia WA KCWU Ellensberg WA KEXP Seattle WA KGRG Auburn WA KSPU Seattle WA KTCV Kennewick WA KUGS Bellingham WA KWCW Walla Walla WA KXSU Seattle WA KZUU Pullman WA KUWS Superior WI WCCX Waukesha WI WIPZ Kenosha WI WMSE Milwaukee WI WOJB Hayward WI WORT Madison WI WRST Oshkosh WI WSUM Madison WI WSUW Whitewater WI WMUL Huntington WV WWVU Morgantown WV KHOL Jackson WY

[alanlicht]

New podcast Common Tones interview, on Brian Carpenter’s “Free Association” show; Podcast roundup on Blank Forms site

Brian interviewed me for his “Free Association” weekly show on WZBC in Boston, it’s up as a podcast here. If you want a handy set of links to all the various Common Tones podcast interviews, Blank Forms has them up on their site: https://blankforms.org/publication/alan-licht-common-tones-selected-interviews-with-artists-and-musician-1995-2020/

[wzbcpromo]

We loveedddddd having main era at WZBC!!!

[amandapalmer]

TODAY IS THE DAY! I Can Spin A Rainbow, my first original album in over four years is OUT NOW !! 

i co-wrote this record with my songwriting hero edward ka-spel (from The Legendary Pink Dots) and we are beyond excited to share it with you....head over to the official project page for everything album, download, vinyl, stories, pictures, videos, tour dates and lyrics: http://amandapalmer.net/icanspinarainbow

i just wrote an epic 5,700+ word blog about the entire project, including tons of pictures from the studio and feelings about the process. (there were lots of feelings). here's an excerpt.....

the first exciting encounter i had with the web was getting an AOL account - but i had nobody to write to. the only other people i knew with email accounts were my goddamn parents. somehow - and i forget how - i found the pink dots bulletin board system, and coincidentally it was run by a guy from boston, alan ezust. there was a little community of people who loved the pink dots right in my home city: alan, jon whitney, who also ran the proto-band-loving website brainwashed.com, and sandy charron, a DJ at the freeform college radio station WZBC. they became my first friends-through-the-internet, and since we shared a love of the dots, our friendship deepened at shows and events, and soon we were all hanging out in real life. it was that posse that welcomed me over to alan’s house, where i actually got to “meet the band”. i wrote at length about that night in The Art of Asking (go read it), but suffice it to say, it was a life-changing one. edward listened to my first demo tape (at this point, less than twenty human beings had actually heard ANY of my songwriting - and the idea of ANYone, much less my hero, listening to my songs made me paralytic)….and he privately encouraged me to keep writing and recording. it was like getting permission from god to be a real artist. i floated on a cloud for a few weeks after that moment. i was real.

when i found out through the grapevine that the pink dots were coming through boston and needed a “place to crash” when i was about 19, i asked my parents if we could volunteer our house. they said yes (forever grateful, folks) and my first karmic contribution to the great rainbow-circle of couchsurfing was cast. jason stayed the night, we made the band eggs, my life was basically complete.

a few years later, i was studying in germany and went to see the band on tour in cologne. since i spoke fluent german, they asked if i wanted to hop in the van for a few shows and help sell CDs to the german fans. it was like being asked to run off with the circus. i ditched my university responsibilities and Got In The Van. experiencing lo-budget van touring (I LOVED IT) changed my life, and when i look back, it was the first time i really got a taste of what it meant to travel from town to town, doing the business of making music for people. i was also an epic drunk in those days...but i’ll save most of those harrowing stories for a later book. suffice it to say i humiliated myself by drunkenly shoplifting my own bands merch, a move that i carried like a shackle of extreme shame for years until i finally begged edward’s forgiveness about fifteen years after the fact. he forgave me. poor drunk amanda.

it was hamburg where we played the first night together, and can’t describe to you how fucking artistically explosive that night was for me, and for brian. i got made-up and ready early, i watched the band play their entire set, with those sparks in my heart just as strong as when i stood at edward’s feet when i was 15, and then we took stage ourselves, riding on the flame that they had lit. i still rank that show as one of the best the dresden dolls have ever played. we were on FIRE that night, lit by the fuse of history and inspiration.

and i think it was on that tour that edward and i had The First Conversation. could we make a Thing together someday? a recording of some kind, co-write music? he said yes, and i floated on a cloud for another few weeks…thinking that everything in my life really had come full circle.

some people probably fantasized about working with brian eno or bowie - i fantasized about working with my own heroes. this guy.

....

you can read the rest of the story on the project page. xx

[inthesoil]

Cambridge rapper, 400 I$A, spits something live for the city of Boston on the "inthesoil" show at WZBC

[indieephemera]

Front and back of program schedule flyer for The Record Hospital on Harvard radio station WHRB, fall 1994.

There’s no season or year info on this flyer, but I’m fairly certain it represents the Record Hospital fall 1994 lineup. There I am on Tuesdays, from 9 to 11pm. And there’s my pal Carl right after me from 11pm to 1am.

And hey, it’s 2021 and both Carl and I are still doing radio! My show is Wednesdays from 6 to 7pm on KHUH in Seattle, and Carl’s show is Tuesdays from 5 to 7pm on WZBC in Boston.

[hummussexual]

Summary:  This week we feature the voice of Palestinian historian Joseph Massad who spoke at Harvard University during Anti-apartheid Week as part of a series of events sponsored by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee. Joseph Massad is Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History at Columbia University. This talk was followed by a robust Q&A session, from which we shall hear one exchange. It is from a student concerned that should the walls come down in Israel, and 5 to 6 million Palestinian refugees return to inhabit historic Palestine and should Fatah and/or Hamas come to power, what would happen to the Jewish population? We conclude with that question and its answer. Credits: Notes: This Week In Palestine (a weekly part of Truth and Justice Radio) is an award-winning three-quarter-hour segment of news from Palestine and discussion of issues relevant to the Palestinians' struggle for freedom from Israel's brutal military occupation and colonization of their homeland. It speaks from the point of view of Palestinians and those who care about them. It's a regular part of Truth and Justice Radio, aired Sundays 6-10am ET on WZBC 90.3FM, Newton, MA, streaming live and archived for two weeks at wzbc.org; TJR's website, truthandjusticeradio.org, has a link to This Week In Palestine archives back thru 1-6-2008; editions are also accessible at radio4all.net or by navigating through our playlists. (At this important time, TJR has been airing Palestine coverage IN ADDITION to that provided by This Week In Palestine.) We hope you'll write to us at tjradio@fastmail.com if you rebroadcast our work, or have questions or comments.

[graffiti-vibe-blog]

The Foreign Resort previews 'She Is Lost' Single

Danish post-punk trio The Foreign Resort release their new single 'She is Lost' on April 19. This is the first song from the band’s next full length album, marking a return to the analogue sound of their 'New Frontiers' album, only this time the sound is more minimalistic and with plenty of electronics and spacious drums to create a dreamy yet upbeat soundscape full of contrast. The release is timed with a 10-day Canadian tour and a performance in Toronto at the prestigious Canadian Music Week. 

For lead singer Mikkel B. Jakobsen 'She is Lost' is a very personal song about what he sarcastically refers to as “the summer of love”: “It was one of the worst summers in my life. I came out strong on the other side, but this song was written partly when things were looking very bad and I was not doing the right things to get to a better place and partly when I had realized it was not just me who was the problem. Hence the title 'She is Lost'.”  The band has also contributed the track 'Skyline/Decay' to 'Alternative F̷acts: A Shoegaze Resistance Compilation'. Curated by DKFM Shoegaze Radio, this involves shoegaze and dream pop artists in opposition to tyranny, and in support of civil liberties and women's health. All proceeds from this compilation shall be split evenly between American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood. 

The Foreign Resort are Denmark's finest musical export of post-punk and dark new wave, led by singer and songwriter Mikkel Borbjerg Jakobsen. The band combines the shadowy mysticism of The Cure’s Pornography era with a driving production aesthetic akin to LCD Soundsystem. Intricate reverb-enveloped guitar lines glide over Steffan Petersen’s motorik bass and Morten Hansen’s powerful drumming, all while Mikkel’s taut and sincere vocal delivery demands your attention. Having toured with The Raveonettes, A Place to Bury Strangers and Swervedriver, The Foreign Resort has also shared bills with bands like DIIV, The Soft Moon, The KVB, Slowdive, Minor Victories and, most recently, Cold Cave. They've also toured the USA relentlessly, addicted to the allure of America's lost highways. Since 2010, the band has been rigorous in playing more than 400 shows across North America and Europe with performances at several festivals incl. SXSW, Iceland Airwaves, Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany and now also Canadian Music Week 2017. The band's latest release 'The American Dream' was dubbed “post punk par excellence” by Deep Ground, with Slug Magazine saying this is “an EP that possesses a singular fault: It is not long enough”. The Foreign Resort’s 2014 album “New Frontiers” ranked among the year's top albums at radio stations like WZBC Boston and KDHX St. Louis as well as numerous European and American blogs. With several music videos to their credit, there is no video for the new single 'She is Lost' yet, motivating the band to crowdsource their new video.

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