Eric Baylies has played in Baylies Band, Bad Motherfucker, and Temple Of Bon Matin. He writes for the Boston Noise and his first book “Heroin’s Rainbow” has just been published by 75 or Less Records. Baylies Band have played The International Noise Conference in Miami, Voice Of The Valley Festival in West Virginia, Raw Meet in Boston, and the New England Underground Music Festival in Cambridge. Baylies lives in New Bedford, MA. When he’s not playing he goes to millions of shows in Providence, Amherst, and Boston.
My favorite 30 New England rock and noise bands and artists of the past year
Whorepaint – Providence rock and roll machine
Designer – spastic rock
Cult & Leper – everything you ever wanted in a band…and more!
Chris Corsano – my favorite drummer
Longings – punk rock for pot heads
6 Star General – ditto
Tinsel Teeth – see above
In Heat – ex tinsel Teeth singer makes good!
Major Stars – majorly awesome
Vertical Twin – Rhode Island disciples of The Who and The Jam
Sediment Club – remind me of Mars and DNA
Gay Shapes – Worcester sound manipulators
Flaming Dragons Of Middle Earth – Sun Ra with a floppy wizard hat
Mike Mountain – the David Yow of wow
White Dynomite – 70’s power rock
Gondoliers – rock and roll will never die
Humanbeast – music, noise, and performance art
Container – harsh is nice
Russian Tsarlag – noise with heart
Time Ghost – the light and shade of noise
Egg, Eggs – awesome, awesome
Herbcraft – psyche from Maine
Bobb Trimble – psyche from outer space
Bang! Bros. – everything was beautiful and nothing hurt
La Machine – 10 years gone and just as good
Fat Worm of Error – nicey nice nice
Guerilla Toss – amazing grace
Superior Human Vomit – dance to the noise
Lazertuth – make my head explode
The Viennagram – get the party started