Category: Chris Evil and the Taints
Blood Moons Reunion Show in Motif
The Blood Moons
The Blood Moons’ debut (self-titled 2009) was one of my favorite local records that I’ve heard since someone thought it was a good idea to pay me to talk about music. The Blood Moons were a departure of sorts from the hardcore punk rock of singer-guitarist Chris Guaraldi’s previous band, Chris Evil and The Taints. The Blood Moons had an element of dark country set to garage beats that really had a unique vision. They released another self-titled (album names were never the band’s strength) split EP with Six Star General before ceasing to play out regularly. Guaraldi formed Sick Pills, who put out a record and did another Taints record. This reunion show should be a real treat. Catch one of the best local bands from 2009 to 2011.
75orLess 10th Year Anniversary Party Part 2 at Dusk
Chris Evil & the Taints ‘Blackout’ review in The Noise
New Bedford’s Chris Evil & the Taints play a variety of hardcore punk that would have fit snuggly among the mid-’80s Taang! Records roster. They would not have been out of place on a bill with The F.U.s, The Freeze, and The Lemonheads. This reboot is a refreshing change of pace. While the Boston rock underground has been in the midst of a garage/psych revival and the alternative rock scene has been rediscovering the ’90s, this version of straight-ahead punked-up rock has been sadly neglected. Chris Evil & the Taints aim to fill that void. Though the range on these 11 tracks is fairly narrow, they hit on a whole variety of key touchstones. “Muscle of Love” brings to mind early Angry Samoans with a smidge less snottiness. “Baby Please Come Home” is pulled straight from Social Distortion’s Prison Bound-era catalog, with a dose of Alice Cooper mixed in for good measure.
Chris Evil at Hibernia
with The O’Tooles
Hibernia Pub
New Bedford, Mass
8pm
Chris Evil and the Taints at the Pour Farm
with Chris Boardman
Pour Farm
780 Purchase St
New Bedford, MA
9pm
All 19 of the 2014 Releases
Chris Evil and the Taints – Blackout
75OL-196 Chris Evil and the Taints – Blackout CD
$7.00 S&H Included
Digital download is available here
Track Listing
1. So Against You
2. Howling at the Moon
3. Blackout
4. Muscle of Love
5. 9 Lives
6. Baby Please Come Home
7. You Suck
8. What You’ve Been Doing to Me
9. Separate Ways
10. Religious Right
11. Long Gone
Reunion album by the Taints after a four year hiatus. Chris Evil and the Taints combine punk, garage, hardcore, and some poppy moments. For fans of Ramones, Angry Samoans, Dead Boys, Johnny Thunders, New Bomb Turks, Dwarves, and Black Flag.
The Blood Moons at Gallery X
with Bedroom Eyes, Wildhoney, and Kindling
Gallery X
New Bedford, Mass
9pm
Chris Evil and the Taints and The McGunks at Kirby’s Irish Pub
with Bad Motherfucker
Kirby’s Irish Pub
818 Kempton St
New Bedford, Mass
9pm
Chris Evil and the Taints – Wanna Kill! Kill! Kill!
75OL-029 Chris Evil and the Taints – Wanna Kill! Kill! Kill! CD
Limited to 225 silkscreen copies on CD.
$7.00 S&H Included
Track Listing
- Kill! Kill! Kill!
- Go Away
- Fuckhead
- She Said No
- My Girl
- Now She’s Leaving
- Drunk Tonight
- Mistress Alcohol
- 1-2-3-4-Q Tonight
- Fun, Fun, Fun
- Stop Messin’ My Mind
- Watch You Die
- Got My Mojo Workin’
Third recording from Chris Evil & the Taints. Recorded by Tono Ramirez and Greg Furious in two days while Chris and Eric got drunk. Garage pop punk-core for people that like Black Flag, the New Bomb Turks, the Oblivians, and stuff like that.