UFOFU and your mother

Joe Butcher, the lead singer and guitar player for UFOFU, leans on the microphone and asks the Club Clearview audience if they would prefer a Gordon Lightfoot or a Buzzcocks cover song. It is close to the end of the night’s set, and almost everyone is grinning with something that…

Roadshows

Arresting development Cop Shoot Cop’s “Last Legs,” off their recently released Release, is probably the best nonhit single of the year. It packs the same wallop as the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,” both songs linked by their similarity to TV cop-show themes of the late ’60s and early ’70s, but goes…

End of an era

The end of a local band often comes and goes with little notice or mention; as one implodes, another comes along to take its place, filling a void no one knew was empty. But the passing of Killbilly, which will play the final show of its seven-plus-year career this Saturday…