Not Your Enemy: Buffalo Tom’s Birdbrain Hits 30
On its gamechanging second album, the Massachusetts trio shedded the ‘Dinosaur Jr Jr’ label and took their ace songwriting to the next level
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Bill Janovitz
Watching Online Concerts While Quarantined Is a Lot Like CMJ
5 performances I enjoyed while wandering through the socials this first weekend of lockdown
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IN CONCERT: Cherie Currie and Co. Fire It Up at Hot Stove Cool Music
The onetime Runaway is joined by members of Buffalo Tom, The Cars, Letters To Cleo, Belly, Speedy Ortiz and more at the 20th anniversary blowout for famed Boston rock ‘n’ jock charity event
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Chuck Berry, 1926–2017
The Punk Meets The Godfather. Buffalo Tom guitarist Bill Janovitz meets Chuck Berry at the JFK Library in Boston, February 2012. The look on both their faces tells you pretty much everything you need to know about rock n roll. Sometime in 1987, Green’s leader Jeff Lescher decided the band would cover “Brown Eyed Handsome Man.” Chuck Berry had fallen out of favor somewhat around then—a collection of sex mini-scandals and
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