We shudder to think what Satan’s favorite cabal of punch-drunk drugstore cowboys, the Supersuckers, will do now that they’ve been left to their own devices. On other people’s dimes, they’ve managed to perfect the art of Dwarves-strength punk, drink Willie-style outlaw country under the table, ruin Ice Cube’s " Dead Homiez, " and serve up steaming piles of Southern-fried cock rock. Now that they’ve inaugurated their own label, Mid-Fi Recordings, they’re free to title their new album Motherfuckers Be Trippin’. The evil powers of rock and roll ought to be in high spirits at the Middle East (617-864-EAST) in Cambridge on Wednesday and at Toad’s Place (203-562-5589) in New Haven next Thursday, May 1.
Rasslin’ has been a stepping stone to rock since at least the Dictators, and more recently the WWE’s Chris Jericho stepped up to the mike with members of rap-rock clones Stuck Mojo for an album’s worth of old-school power-metal covers (Dio, Krokus, Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden) and a couple of like-minded originals, under the name Fozzy. They’ve resurfaced with a new disc, Happenstance (Megaforce), that draws from the same Maiden/Scorpions/ W.A.S.P. trough, and tonight (Thursday, April 24) Fozzy make a rare appearance outside the ring at the Palladium (800-477-6849) in Worcester. Jericho then goes back to his stadium gig when WWE Raw comes to the FleetCenter (617-931-2000) in Boston on Monday.
The Roadtripping desk is so fond of the former Team Dresch dyke-punk (and occasional singer-songwriter) Kaia Wilson that we named our first-born after her. We’re equally enamored of her latest trip, the Butchies, who arrive at Higher Ground (802-654-8888) in Winooski, Vermont, on Tuesday and at the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton on Wednesday. The live-and-on-videotape disco-punk outfit Traci + the Plastics are out in support of a new EP, Forever Sucks (Chainsaw); they’re at AS220 (401-831-9327) in Providence on Saturday with V for Vendetta and the King Cobra, a new outfit from the Need’s Rachel Carns and former Retsin/Sonora Pine gal Tara Jane O’Neil. Long Island’s hottest collegiate-white-girl hip-hop trio, Northern State, are at the Iron Horse on Saturday — an off-night from their stint opening for hip-hop’s greatest live band ever, the Roots, whom they rejoin at Keene State College (603-352-1909) in New Hampshire on Sunday.
The auto-manufacturer-sponsored Good Charlotte/New Found Glory tour hits the Worcester Centrum (617-931-2000) tonight; the Cumberland County Civic Center (207-775-3458) in Maine on Friday; and the Hartford Civic Center (860-525-4500) on Saturday. And the Ataris — next in line for world-ruling pop-punk stars? — join up with Juliana Theory, Further Seems Forever, and Boston’s own Damone (now down to a trio with the departure of songwriter/guitarist Dave Pino) at the Palladium on Wednesday.
BY CARLY CARIOLI
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