NEWS ROCK

Rita: Speaking of dads—Noise radio chart guy TONY SCHINELLA and wife had their second baby—Dominic Anthony on 4/16/08. He was 7 lbs. 3 oz. *** BONE GUNN appeared on Fox’s Fearless Music with a live performance of “Mother” that can be seen on YouTube. *** How many T-shirts does your band get printed up? HARRY & THE POTTERS ordered 4818 from QRSTs for their summer tour. Their order is down from 7,500 last summer. *** SCOTT JANOVITZ played two shows on the night of his Rumble finals. Beside the competition gig with THE GREAT BANDINI he played keys with THE FIGGS at the Paradise. *** ED “MOOSE” SAVAGE’s long time drummer, PAUL DIONNE, was lured out to California by his future wife. Paul’s last show was at Ed’s birthday party. *** Vanessa Cintamani Piehl is the second child to call drummer MIKE PIEHL dad. She weighed in at 6 pounds 7 ounces at 11:32am on Wednesday, April 23. *** BIRD MANCINI (as part of SAL BAGLIO’s band) opened for PETE BEST then hopped the pond to play at both the Cavern Club and the Cavern Pub in Liverpool, UK. *** ROBBY ROADSTEAMER has gone from hating art bands to working with them in his latest project—a musical! It’s a reenactment of Kurt Russell’s musical Big Trouble in Little China that is titled Big Trouble in Little Allston. *** Five musicians who performed with their bands in the Rock Showdown at TCAN won scholarships to Berklee. They were DEAN STEVES (Red Rock), BOBBY SCOTT (The Advocates), SAM SILVERMAN (The What-Cha-Ma-Call-Its), WILL SELIGSON (Spare Change), and NATHAN LATTA (Deadly Styles). *** There’s a new club in town called To Ad (1912 Massachusetts Ave.) in Porter Square, Cambridge. It’s nice to see AD FRANK getting the attention his talent deserves. *** On the day that REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE release their second CD, Forked Tongue, it had already charted at #1 (jazz) and #11 (overall) on Ontario alternative radio station CFRU. *** WALTER SICKERT (…& the Army of Toys) was caught using Elmer’s roll-on glue to keep his mustache erect for up to four hours. *** PETER PRESCOTT (Mission of Burma) went to see BIG DIPPER’s reunion and was turned away because he forgot his ID. Just a lesson for everyone to remember your ID. Rita: Your age is not the point of carrying your ID. It’s so when the police raid the place they know who they’re throwing in the pokey. Lolita: I always thought that they just wanted to look at a sexy photo of me. Peter must have gotten fed up with that.*** At DAVE WESTNER’s debut gig with TORI PYNE he donated $1 for every line of lyrics that he sang incorrectly to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He had three judges and asked his audience to match his donation dollar for dollar. He raised over $200 with 15 accidental lyric revisions. *** And sticking with the charity subject, photographer KELLY DAVIDSON rides her bike to Providence to raise money for multiple sclerosis. If you’d like to sponsor Kelly go to myspace.com/etchedonfilm. *** [MUNK] was featured in the May 10 issue of Billboard. *** TWO TON SHOE has found success in South Korea. Their new CD is being released on FarGo (Korea) and the band plans to tour Seoul again later in the year. *** CASEY DESMOND has been asked to play for Navy troops on July 4 in Naples, Italy. *** The Boston round of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships is at the Middle East Downstairs on Thursday, 6/5. *** A used car dealer found a CD in an abandoned car. He played the CD, loved it, and sort out the band. Abandoning a car may be an expensive way to get one fan at a time but it’s working for TOKYO TRAMPS. *** BOB GALLAGHER (Jesse Gallagher’s dad) sings lead on the final track of the upcoming APOLLO SUNSHINE CD. Lolita: Right back to dads—do we have more of those dad answers?