Codpiece live sweat, sweat light years

PHOTO by JEFF GOULD
After he graduated from CSULB, Casey Lombardo toppled into retail, recommending Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley to high school kids at Barnes & Noble—“I never saw them again—the little bastards!” he laughs. And after his system was necessarily pickled, he located two important friends and made two important [...]

Seven bands five years ahead of my time

RTX by SASHA EISENMAN
Fifty-some weeks on this page and apart from abuse and hurtful misconception—I try to tip well whenever possible—I have also missed a lot of chances I should have gotten; deadlines and one page a week mean many musicians don’t always get a place to fit [...]

Nice rainy night in Long Beach: Paperplanes (whose Rhinestone Republic is one of my favorite local releases this year) and Fast Dragon (who re-equip Karp/Jehu heaviness for this heavier decade and who opened for John Reis’ Night Marchers two weeks back) plus Transfer and DJ Clamour (is that an actual ex-member of the band the [...]