--- - |- Photo by Nolan Wells Mission of Burma will take more vacation time from their day jobs this fall for a newly announced West Coast tour. The tour continues the band's trend of playing its classic Vs. and Signals, Calls & Marches records in their entireties.Be forewarned, however. Burma guitarist Roger Miller told us at the Pitchfork Music Festival that this would be "kind of the concl...
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By late evening Friday, while Pitchfork's Forkcast section was still bringing you new music, the weather forecast was threatening a weekend-long rain that would surely put a damper on what looked to be yet another promising Pitchfork Music Festival . Saturday did end up bringing some rain to Chicago's Union Park but, seeing as how I ended up with a sunburn, the threat was mostly a weak one. ...
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Aquarium Drunkard presents the mighty Mission of Burma at the Echoplex, Thursday night, September 25th. The band is set to perform VS in its entirety. We have five pairs of tickets for AD readers. Leave a comment below with your name, a valid email address, and your favorite Burma track. Winners [...]
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Originally recorded by James Newell Osterberg, Jr and The Stooges for their album Fun House in 1970. It appears on side 2 first track. Between the original and the cover, I find it hard to decide which I like better. I myself don't have the original, maybe a kind soul will toss into comments.Props to dachmo for reminding me again how utterly cool Mission Of Burma really is. Enjoy!
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Roger Miller, guitarist of the legendary Boston based, post-punk/no-wavers Mission Of Burma has posted a classified add offering guitar lessons via Craigslist.com.Miller formally studied piano, tuba and composition and was a major contributor of the song writing detail for Mission Of Burma. The group was originally formed in 1979, the early days of post punk. They found moderate success and wer...
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Well Boston, what is there left to say? I don't like the gravity associated with goodbyes. I liked your sense of self and after these past 7 years, I don't feel like the stranger I was when I first set my feet down. . I have been seduced away by that infamous tramp New York City. Can I count on you if I fall apart? I seem to recall a few moments when I had need to. I will miss all of my rockin'...
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Wow, what an incredible night, truly awesome in terms of the shows I have been to this year, which regrettably have not been as many as I usually shoot for. But on Friday, Roger Miller, Clint Conley, and Peter Prescott took the stage to a sudden swell of raucous cheers at the Paradise. Tonight was their second night here, the previous show highlighting their Signals, Calls, and Marches...
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_IMHO_ This is more of a love fest than a war ... but that's alright because I'm a lover not a fighter. :) In light of that, for this one I'm throwing the notion out the window that the artist has to have been a true punk pioneer ... this track is from a live show this year (couldn't find a video) and it rocks, so there!
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Mission Of Burma are one of my top favorite bands, and one of the best bands I've seen live, but it took me a little while to get around to watching Not A Photograph. It documents the resurrection of Mission of Burma in 2002, as well as their birth and early days in the 1978-83 Boston.Anyone with even a passing interest in truly seminal post-punk should definitely check out the documentary (Net...
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Mission of Burma Live in BostonPearl StreetNorthampton, MA USASeptember 21, 2007by Jennifer Kelly When is a reunion show not a reunion show?Maybe when a legendary post-punk band — out of commission for a couple of decades and then miraculously back — decides that it no longer has to play its best-known songs in the course of a night. (That's right, a Mission of Burma show with no "That's When
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Click here and here to get to 40-odd vintage punk (and post-punk, power pop, and new wave) live performances, shot mostly (a handful of exceptions aside) in Boston, mostly between 1979-1983. (Sorry, the videos aren't in embeddable form.) Make sure you don't limit your viewing to Mission Of Burma, Gang Of Four, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers, Buzzcocks, Dead Kennedys, Siouxsie & The Banshees, ...
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So far, the double 0s have been prime time for the reuniting of '70s and '80s punk bands. Partially because just enough time has passed for original fans to become nostalgic, partially because today's generation wants to feel part of movement they missed and partially because bands like Gang of Four, My Blood Valentine, The Pixies and Mission of Burma want to know what it would feel like to pla...
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Just got guest list - and more important, permission from better (and crankier) half - to attend MIssion of Burma/Oneida in Boston on Saturday.Sorry, trying to repress it but...whooo-hooo!!!!
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Apologies to anyone who's seen this before (in its raw unedited form), but here's a link to my write-up of the Mission of Burma/Oneida show that I was all excited about a few blogs ago. It was a really excellent show, and if you get a chance to see either of these bands, I'd definitely encourage you to do it.http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/concerts/10593/mission-of-burma-oneida/
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