Check out how I finally wired the turntable into the computer. I got to get a pair of new needles/cartridges if anyone can point toward a deal since the thing I’m using now is a rusty hook I pried off a jawbone at the beach. These are actually records I got next to the set-up [...]

PR zap from the Cary Baker, the noblest flak in America. I believe the Arizona Motel was somewhere on South 6th St. in Tucson, or should have been. I will update everyone as I hear more on this record.

I’ve been hauling junk in like it pays by the ounce but I’ll leave the lost month lost and update you on the last 24 hours plus whatever new stuff I can see from the stack of slippery newspapers on which I currently sit. Glistening for now is…
Hawkwind Space Ritual 2XLP
From Tape & Record room. [...]

Hey, I came back from not blogging which I was doing for reasons of fuckfacery. Anyway—loved and cared-for Long Beach girl Eva (last name withheld to prevent malevolent googling) who is a familiar face at worthy shows had a nasty hiking accident and while physically recovering now suffers horrible financial hemorrhaging. To cauterize, tonight’s show [...]

MITCHELL STEWART
1959-2008
Mitchell Stewart, of Calabasas & Malibu, California passed away from an
apparent heart attack on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at his home.  Stewart was a self-
made visionary entrepreneur, who along with his wife and business partner, Nurit
Petri, founded and operated a mortgage bank and local concert venues including
the Vault 350 in Long Beach and the [...]

Chris Gaffney, Southern California roots rock musician, died Thursday, April 17. He’d been diagnosed weeks before with liver cancer, but sources said his April 17 death was the result of a fall and the almost inexplicable collapse of his vital signs at Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach. He was 58.
A memorial show (and fundraiser) now scheduled [...]

Roots rocker died Thursday at 58

Chris Gaffney, Southern California roots rock musician, died Thursday. He’d been diagnosed weeks before with liver cancer, but sources said his April 17 death was the result of a fall and the almost inexplicable collapse of his vital signs at Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach. He was 58.
In his last talk [...]

It’s a digital world, but Saturday is time to celebrate the birth/rebirth/perpetual demise of physical music media with Record Store Day.

“100 Greatest Songs of the 90s” is the best clip show countdown that vh1 has ever done and I am glad I am procrastinating things to watch it. I’m really learning a lot. Like “California Love” is apparently less great than Spin Doctors and Freedom Williams from C&C Music Factory still remembers the lyrics [...]

I am saving full report for posting when I am not at pirate wireless but be happy for your Long Beach Crystal Antlers who are winning love from the wider world. Slot at a Volcom party apparently got footage of screemin’ Jonny Bell on MTV and various non-official shows got them on TOMBLOG.COM plus a [...]