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‘Hot Stove,’ cold feet
Plus: a Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall spinoff hits the Paradise; Deathwish signs Doomriders
BY CHRIS RUCKER

The Red Sox finally threw off the curse and dragged Boston into the 21st century — so why does it seem that the annual "Hot Stove, Cool Music" benefit is still stuck in the 1990s? Yeah, the show is for a good cause — organizer and ESPN guru Peter Gammons has raised $75,000 for the Jimmy Fund over the past few years — and it’s clear that the line-up has legs, since this year’s gig, which takes place Sunday at the Paradise, sold out in 48 hours. But the show itself seems geared more toward tired Boston jock-rockers and baseball groupies, with usual suspects Bill Janovitz and Crown Victoria, the Gentlemen, Juliana Hatfield, and Kay Hanley, a crew we’ve all heard all too much from over the years. If you were lucky enough to scoop up tickets, you can take heart in knowing that Dropkick Murphys are on the bill (after all, thanks to "Tessie," they’re practically the Sox house band) and that DJ Carbo (a/k/a Fenway Recordings honcho Mark Kates) is behind the decks. I’m not gonna begrudge Sox GM Theo Epstein his sitting in on guitar with Janovitz in a band they’re calling Buffalo Theo. And I hear Gammons is a pretty decent rockabilly singer — he’ll be playing, backed by the Gentlemen, as the Hot Stove All-Stars. Also, of course, there’ll be the usual complement of Sox ringers — last year, Terry Francona even came out to lead the crowd in a "Yankees Suck" chant. "This year’s show continues the celebration of our champions and promises to have the most significant interaction yet between musicians and ballplayers," says Kates. "Who knows what magic moment will top last year’s impromptu [Bronson] Arroyo/[Kevin] Millar duet on Pearl Jam’s ‘Black’?" And, he notes, the gig will provide a further plug for Fenway’s Hot Stove, Cool Music CD, which features rare tracks from Pearl Jam and the Allman Brothers Band plus previously unavailable tracks by the Dropkicks and American Hi-Fi. "Between the exposure from the 2004 World Series DVD, the NESN Hot Stove show produced by Element Productions, and the media from this week’s show, we expect to add significantly to the more than $15,000 raised for the Jimmy Fund to date from CD sales." Adds Gammons, "To be able to take two of my life’s passions — baseball and rock and roll — and channel them into trying to help children with cancer is a blessing. To be with so many people who feel the same way makes it a great night."

You read it here first a couple months ago: former Killswitch Engage singer Jesse Leach’s band Seemless have signed to Equal Vision Records. And with the label re-releasing the band’s homonymous debut on January 25, drummer Derek Kerswill checked in to give us the scoop on the band’s release party at the Paradise on January 29. The gig may also serve as the Boston debut of Transient (featuring Shadows Fall singer Brian Fair on drums!). Definitely playing: Septic Youth Command, a new band featuring one of Boston’s most exciting heavy-rock singers ever, Jonah Jenkins (Only Living Witness, Miltown, Milligram); and JetFuel, featuring the brothers from Sam Black Church (singer Jet and guitarist Ben Crandall) and former Waltham/Damone guitarist Dave Pino. Maybe all the bands will get drunk and start a new band after the show. Scratch this one onto your calendar now.

An interesting new act has emerged from the plywood-and-concrete skate havens of Boston: Doomriders, who are also the latest addition to the Deathwish Inc. roster. The line-up comprises skateboarding diehard Nate Newton (Converge, Old Man Gloom), Jebb Riley (There Were Wires, Disappearer), Chris Pupecki (Cast Iron Hike), and Chris Bevalaqua (Hallraker). There Were Wires were a Boston hardcore band who never had a chance to blossom into the beast we knew they could become; hearing that a former member is back in action makes me smile. Doomriders are described by Deathwish as "the bastard child of classic rock, death ’n’ roll and raging skate rock" à la Entombed and Integrity — check www.deathwishinc.com for mp3s of their demo. And look for a debut album (it’s being recorded with Converge’s Kurt Ballou at his God City Studios) before the winter is out.

Chris Rucker is the host of New England Product, which airs Sundays from 9 to 10 p.m. on WFNX 101.7 FM.


Issue Date: January 7 - 13, 2005
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