Green Day’s formally unattached “Kinks-ian” “throwback” (not to be misread as “throw-up”) band swoops through Alex’s for a pretty choice date on a limited Southern California tour elsewhere booked into the Roxy.

“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 [...]

Tonight I would be going to the Pinhead Gunpowder show (Cometbus on drums + Green Day presence at several levels) because I have never seen Cometbus drum, and plus Underground Railroad to Candyland (giants of rock) and Mike Watt and the Missingmen and Epic Debauchery. Another contender by my cavalier arbitrations for show of the [...]