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Bob Curley
Newport Life
The difference between being a starving artist and a working artist can be as simple as not being excessively haughty about the kind of jobs you take on. That helps explain how I came to own a piece of art by Portsmouth illustrator Pete MacPhee a T-shirt emblazoned with his logo for the annual RiverFire festival in Wakefield before ever knowing his name or his work.
It makes perfect sense that an artist nicknamed the Swamp Yankee would be both industrious and humble enough to do a design for the Wakefield Village Association for a few hundred bucks and a cut of the T-shirt sales, while also creating album covers, tour posters and other illustrated materials for bands ranging from the Dropkick Murphys and Mighty Mighty Bosstones to rock legends Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd.
Legendary third-wave ska band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have returned with their 11th studio album
When God Was Great, which contains the single “The Killing Of Georgie Part III,” which references the murder of George Floyd, which is relevant, well-intentioned, and a towering achievement in the field of no.
Its video features Ben Carr, the band’s main dancer or “Bosstone player” bopping joyfully (which, no) around the streets of Boston while the song’s lyrics appear on walls, so that as you are hearing them and thinking “no,” you can actually read them, confirm that you have heard them correctly, and say, out loud, “No.” “We were so close to something that we all could get behind,” lead screamer Dickie Barrett screams (raising the question “were we?” which, looking back over the last few years, no), “and we could have made a difference, but the stars were not aligned.” A real Mercury in retrograde situation, this whole police brutality thing, righ
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones know we’re living in a fractured society. On the Mass. legends’ last album, 2018’s “While We’re at It,” they laid that out on an old-school Jamaican-style boogie called “Divide” (and spoke to overcoming that on the almost-rocksteady track “Unified”). Since 2018, the splintering has only worsened. But that’s no reason for […]
Dicky Barrett Looks Forward on New Bosstones Album spin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from spin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.