Everyone is here to teach Mike Watt

PHOTO by JOHN GILHOOLEY
Sitting at new Sacred Grounds, looking back at old Sacred Grounds: Watt two weeks from 50 years old with just the same eyes as in the mirror on Double Nickels but behind bifocals now, clapping handshakes with the exact man who shot that album cover—face, speedometer, [...]

Rolling Blackouts borne out

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
“I was borne out of being average because of my rock band,” said D. Boon once, pestered and pissed-off and pushed in an interview, and that is a part of the South Bay SST ethic to revive and admire—not just the built-in DIY anyone-can-do-it but the idea that anyone [...]