Flying Vipers - Live Lizards Cassette

Limited edition cassette, first run of 100. Includes all 77-minutes of OFF WORLD record release show. Pre-orders will get instant download of the first three tracks immediately; full album download on release date of May 1.

"Whenever Boston’s Flying Vipers make one of their too-rare live appearances, the band brings both devotion to playing JA-inspired roots music, and the spirit and culture of DIY punk rock.

Their December 2025 show at the subterranean living room-like Lizard Lounge in Cambridge was more than just another gig. It was already a multi-generational summit thanks to the co-billing with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, a long-running unit that takes a similarly intelligent and socially relevant approach to the New Orleans brass band tradition.

As it happened, RSE leader Ken Field was shooting a photo that night for a project with Roger Clark Miller, whose role in the quintessential Boston post-punk band Mission of Burma is just a chapter in a life spent exploring ways of playing the guitar and piano in new and fascinating ways. Miller stayed for the show and sat in on a piece that perfectly states the Vipers’ ethos: A grooving but also experimental dub version of Sun Ra’s Afro-Futuristic anthem “Outer Spaceways Inc.” as well as the cheekily-titled Vipers original “Existential Dread at the Controls.”

The night also gave the Vipers a chance to go deep into several of the originals that they crafted for their 2025 studio record Off World, with “Believers & Deceivers” and “Jackals” entering new sonic territory centered by the gliding vocals of Kellee Webb. The horn section of Andy Bergman and Brian Paulding also lent their talents to the RSE’s set, while the rhythm crew of bubbling keyboardist Zack Brines, drummer Marc Beaudette, bassist John Beaudette and guitarist Sean Acker showed why they’re all longtime and beloved members of Boston’s reggae and beyond scene.

Miller wasn’t the only surprise. Halfway through the set Rob Carmichael, frontman for the Vipers’ sister band Destroy Babylon, took the stage to pay tribute to the recently departed Jimmy Cliff with a soaring take on “The Harder They Come.”

In classic Vipers fashion, the album is coming out on cassette as a tribute to ROIR, the cassette-only punk and dub label that introduced many to the likes of Bad Brains and the Skatalites. ROIR proved that forward-looking dub and the fearless beliefs of punk belonged together, something that the Flying Vipers still do every time they play."

• Noah Schaffer, 2026

Tracklist:

1. Green Tape Medley
2. Alone for a Long Time
3. Sleeping Trees
4. Two Twenties Clash
5. Demonstration
6. True to Your Conscience
7. The Harder They Come (ft. Rob Carmichael)
8. Astral Underground
9. Show Me
10. No One Wants an Alien
11. Outer Spaceways Inc. (ft. Roger Miller)
12. Existential Dread at the Controls (ft. Roger Miller)
13. Believers & Deceivers
14. La Planete Sauvage
15. I’m Gone
16. Ain’t No Love
17. Jackals