ROCK DU LA NOUVEAU

Rita: Doesn’t that mean Rock of the New? Lolita: Yeah… so. Make believe it says Worldly Rock News while you read this:  MUCK & THE MIRES have a new 7-inch 45 of “I’m Down With That” with “One of These Days” and  “All I Really Want To Do is Cry” on the B-side—releasedon Dirty Water Records (London). *** ORCHESTRA LUNA’s 1975 self-titled album has been re-released in the U.K. by Market Square under license from Sony U.K. *** ZIAF is touring through Switzerland and France and will be back in September for the last Boston show. *** MISSION OF BURMA is held in high regard at Mass MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams)—the first thing you see when you pulling to the parking lot is a gigantic banner featuring the band playing live. *** ELI “PAPERBOY” REED & THE TRUE LOVES launched their first national tour in support of their new single, “The Satisfier”/ “It’s Easier.” They’ll be hitting New York, Asbury Park, Albany, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Bloomington, Indianapolis, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. *** Maybe you can figure out what is missing from the DRESDEN DOLLS’ latest video, “Shores of California.” Give us the right answer and we’ll give you some kinda prize. *** The band of youngsters you called BULLSEYE are now known as WHO SHOT HOLLYWOOD. Check out the live review of them in this issue. *** THE MYSTERY TRAMPS’ “You’re So Alone” was chosen for Boston Song of the Week on WBCN in late May. *** WBZ awarded THREE DAY THRESHOLD with a 2007 WBZ TV “A-List” Award in Arts and Entertainment Awards for Best Stage Presence. *** We thought it was great when T MAX’s DREAMERS WANTED landed “End War Now” into the new listings of NEIL YOUNG’s website (neilyoung.com) but it was even more exciting to see JAKE BRENNAN’s “Sexy Jihad” climb the chart to #12, but then we heard from JEFF CONLEY whose band, TIN CAN TELE, held the #1 spot on that same chart with “Tin Can Call.” Lolita: My favorite song on Neil Young’s Living With War site is “Bring ’Em On” on by JOHN HUGHES. *** Speaking of Neil, he and his superstar buddies Bob and Bruce did their own version of “End War Now” and the question of copyright infringement will have its day in court. Follow the proceedings on myspace.com/dreamerswanted. *** GONE ’TIL NOVEMBER signed a development deal with Epic Records. *** THE ATLANTICS have released Atlantic Live—a recording of their show at the Paradise on 3/25/79. *** Hold True Records put together a series of shows (on July 14, 20, 28, at 16 Greenwood Street in Worcester) to benefit both the Military Kids Emergency Food Program (for military families without food) and the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation (which give scholarships to children of fallen Marines). *** A benefit at P.A.’s was put on for MONA ELLIOT (Victory At Sea) to help pay for her cancer treatments. *** Just heard that the Skybar is closing in July. *** Newly declassified documents show the Ohio Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million in 1994 to develop a chemical weapon that could turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting. *** RadioShack is using a GIRLS GUNS & GLORY song in their TV commercial that plays during Red Sox games. The song is “Big Man” from the album Pretty Little Wrecking Ball. The commercial shows a man with his family in their car stuck behind a flock of sheep. The man clears the sheep off the road by dialing up a video of a wolf on his cell phone. Then “Big Man” comes on his car radio as he drives away pleased with his accomplishment. *** PAPERMOON got their “Last Laugh” played during a Sox/Rockies game on 6/12/07 that was tied 1-1 in the seventh inning.  Sox won it 2-1. Keep playing that song. *** The Noise has an HD radio show called Rock Around Boston: The Noise Radio Show—on Thursday nights 7:00-9:00pm. Link to it through myspace.com/radioyouboston. JOE COUGHLIN hosted the first one and LEXI KAHN is doing them now.  Lolita: Joe and Lexi play all the Boston-area bands you wish you could always hear on the radio.