The essential wisdom of Moris Tepper

Moris Tepper—onetime pre-vet student; collaborator with Captain Beefheart, Frank Black, Tom Waits and PJ Harvey; and, for this paper at least, tortoise-finding expert—chats animals (“You could talk to me about animals from now til doomsday. I’m queer on animals,” per L.A. RECORD) as easily as he does humans (“People [...]

Ian MacKaye lays out his own legacy

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Meaning has always been a motivator for Ian MacKaye, a purpose-driven push that still steers his career as D.C.’s premier punk figure. But it’s more fundamental than just blanket statements of DIY dedication—even fellow Fugazian Guy Picciotto (as documented by Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be [...]

One month lasts forever when it’s festival season

NO AGE by ED TEMPLETON
Summer grinds into fall in a certain brutal way as soon as back to school commercials begin—these are the last grim weeks of the fun hunt, when any moment unconsumed by something energetically care-free will expire forever except for guilt to be revisited once [...]

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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 [...]

Jackie O points out how the strict-punk diet of Alex’s early days has dissolved now into a diverse calendar including funk instrumentals by Slippers and Odyssey and Oracle-ization by Greater California—but this is a birthday for a bar at a bar and that demands as much or more power as pop.
FRIDAY, JAN. 25
THROWRAG Salton [...]

They oughta name a drink after Alex Hernandez

ALEX HERNANDEZ by JOHN GILHOOLEY
When Alex Hernandez needs a day off from his bar Alex’s Bar, he goes to another bar, which if it isn’t the V Room is the darkest old-man bar he can find. (“We all look better in darker light,” he says.) And when Alex [...]

Camp-out-at-Prospector week continues with Watt and the Missingmen (Watt, drummer Raul and guitarist Tom, who were chopping up BOC and Stooges very nicely when I saw them in Pedro a bit back) plus some other bands oh man guys I gotta split right now sorry to truncate this bloggggg you all deserved more go see [...]

Mike Watt: Pedro’s punk legend turns 50.
DIPIAZZA’S 5205 E Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach 90804. 562.498.2461; dipiazzas.com.
Beer Tasting: Sip, don’t chug. 5-10pm. $15.
MORRY’S 5764 E Second St, Long Beach 90803. 562.433.0405; morrys.com.
Call in Sick: The Christmas party before the Christmas party. 9pm. $5. 21+.
QUE SERA 1923 E 7th St, Long Beach 90813. 562.599.6170; thequesera.com.
Farmers Market: [...]

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, [...]