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There’s also the wild match-up between punk legend Marky Ramone and party monster Andrew W.K., who will be playing together at the Double Door on Tue 10/8 as Marky Ramone’s Blitzkreig. The band, which W.K. will be fronting, are playing a set of 35 classic Ramones songs. I can’t even imagine hearing those timeless numbers sung by anyone other than Joey, so it should be an experience to see how this all unfolds.
Another excellent band to see this week is Baltimore-based proggy psych act Horse Lords, long one of my favorites. They’ll be arriving to play at the Burlington on Wednesday night.
Last time doom-metal pioneers Saint Vitus came into town was about a year ago. “Lillie: F-65 (Season of Mist) is Saint Vitus’s first since 1995, and it sounds like it was pulled straight out of ’87, when their lean, crusty, body-dragging chug sounded like a record by one of their SST labelmates played at the wrong speed,” wrote Monica Kendrick last September. “Guitarist Dave Chandler still plays in his tightly coiled trademark style, sometimes striking like a cobra, and Wino’s broken-toothed articulation is likewise intact. It doesn’t sound so much like a comeback as it does a resurfacing—it’s like they’ve been here all along, just in another dimension where we couldn’t hear them.”
