News that Fits

Sunday, June 1st, 2008 11:12 AM EDT

SINGER LEAVES BAND

Deborah Frost, for personal reasons, will no longer be appearing with the Brain Surgeons. The remaining Surgeons continue to make music but under different formats.

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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 11:17 AM EDT

Bouchard's Outrageous Canadians

New group, Bouchard's Outrageous Canadians, made their debut at Toronto's Bovine Sex Club on April 25th. The band featured many well known Canadian musicans. Guitar duties were handled by Sean Royale from the band, Dean Lyker (formerly High Voltage), and Strat Andriotis from Tony Levin. Keyboards were played by Greg Brosco. On bass was Dave Elley from the Orphans. Lead vocals were sung by Buckshot Bebe from the Poison Arrows, Eric Herrman from Crash Kelly, solo artist, Lisa Winn, promoter, Lou Molinaro, Ginger St. James, and Albert.
The band played a 90 minute set with the bulk of the material coming from Blue Öyster Cult's first three albums. For the encore the audience chanted BOC, BOC… until the band came back with the final song, MC5's Kick Out the Jams.

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Monday, March 17th, 2008 5:17 PM EDT

Ünderberlly Tour France

The Ünderbelly just completed a very successful mini-tour of France as the support act for the legendary Animals (and friends). Every sold out show was a blast and has probably spoiled the band forever but c'est la vie.

While the Animals appeared without notorious lead singer, Eric Burdon, the singing duties were aptly filled by bassist Peter Barton and Johnny Williamson. Barton sounded especially convincing on the Animals hits. The group included two original members, drummer John Steel and keyboardist Mick Gallagher. They played a balanced set of old chestnuts and new songs from their last couple 21st century albums. They are really a great virtuoso band and delivered all the audience expected and more every night.

The Ünderbelly also played an eclectic show combining old Soft White Underbelly songs with Blue Öyster Cult favorites and new numbers that the band has just worked up in the past year. Guitarists, Adrian Romero and Baz Gaisne worked particularly well together with cloud-like harmonics and tough double lead harmonies. Fans treated the band just as well with demands for encores and an autograph cue every night.

On the agenda now is more recording with at least a teaser EP planned for early summer release.

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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 7:46 PM EST

Blue Coupe Debut

The Blue Coup show in the Poconos was a great success. It was a sold out show of revelers ready to hear a slew of classic songs from a combo that was a terpsichorean dream finally realized. The stage banter was a series of stories about how songs came to be and close encounters of a famous kind. Sound and lights were provided by local band Bad Influence who joined the Coupe onstage at the end of the second set for a multi-band jam. The projected northeaster never materialized and everyone got home happy, safe and sound.

Set 1
Under My Wheels
Caught in a Dream
Cities On Flame
Fallen Angel
Paint It Black
Hot Time In Hell
Astronomy
I Ain't Got You
All Along The Watchtower
Burnin´ for You
I'm Eighteen
Godzilla

Set 2
Kick Out the Jams
Not Fade Away
Break On Through
Hey Joe
Death Valley Nights
I Wanna Be Sedated
Roadhouse Blues
Be My Lover
School's Out
Reaper

Encore with Bad Influence
Rock and Roll
White Rabit

Set 3
Honky Tonk Woman
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Fire On the Mountain
Little Kid
I Think I Slept w/ Jackie Kennedy
Joan Crawford Has Risen From the Grave
Simple Man
Johnny Be Good

Blue Coupe is Albert Bouchard, Joe Bouchard and Dennis Dunaway

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Friday, November 9th, 2007 8:24 PM EST

New Music From Albert

Albert will be collaborating with Les Vegas for a track on the upcoming Motörhead tribute album. The working name for this project is the Ünderbelly. Recording will get underway in December. The band will also be playing some selected dates in New York and Paris in late March and early April.

Currently recording drum tracks for the Liah Alonso (http://www.meetliah.com) debut album Albert is working on his studio tan. And coming up is the co-production of singing sensation, Kelli McCloud's, album which is schedule for spring of '08.

Albert is also recording and mentoring talented actor and songstress Bridget Barkan for her debut album. And let us not forget the Regal Tones live debut record due for release in summer of '08.

And that is only some of the projects Al's working on. We also have more new songs and a whole other kind of art… glass. TBC

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Wednesday, April 25th, 2007 10:16 PM EDT

Rocking the boat

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/04/20/rocking_the_boat

Also:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/view.bg?articleid=195658

Saturday, March 31st, 2007 2:23 PM EDT

X Brothers CD Release Party

The X Brothers rocked the Cutting Room on Friday March 30. They played several songs from their new CD, Beyond the Valley of the X, including the title track. BOC favorites, Dr Music, Astronomy, Godzilla and Cities on Flame with special guest, Brother Albert, were also included. The Dennis Dunaway Project closed the show with many songs from their new CD, Bones From the Yard. One song featured a flaming chalice carrying belly dancer. Joe Bouchard joined them onstage for an encore of a couple Alice Cooper chestnuts, 18, Under My Wheels and Albert and Joe both joined the DDP for a memorable version of Don´t Fear the Reaper.

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Friday, January 12th, 2007 10:23 PM EST

Albert on NAME THAT PAINTING

NAME THAT PAINTING
NOW VIEWABLE ON WEBSITE
Mark Kostabi's cult status TV show,
NAME THAT PAINTING a game show where art critics and celebrities compete to title Kostabi paintings for cash awards is now viewable anytime, online, at www.namethatpainting.com. For free, the site offers the latest episode plus growing archives of past episodes. Recent participants have included: Molly Barnes, Luca Beatrice, Mark Bego, Andrea Bellini, Carly Berwick, Victor Bockris, Phyllis Braff, Lala Brooks, Stephanie Cash, Daniel Clowes, Michelle Cone, Laura Cottingham, Ben Curtis, Adrian Dannatt, Liberty De Vitto, Sarah Douglas, Lavinia Filippi, Joe Fyfe, David Gibson, Micaela Giovannotti, Deven Golden, Michel Gondry, Gary Indiana, Randy Jones, Jason Edward Kaufman, Carol Kino, Carlo McCormick, Taylor Mead, Sylvia Miles, Joao Ribas, Robert C. Morgan, May Pang, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, Christian Rattemeyer, Alessandro Riva, Walter Robinson, Willoughby Sharp, Amei Wallach, Lilly Wei and John Zinsser. Name That Painting continues to be viewable also on every Wednesday night at 8:30 in Manhattan on Time Warner Cable on Channel 56, or on RCN on Channel 108, and on MNN's website every Wednesday night at 8:30 (New York time) at www.mnn.org, Ch56.