Many thanks to Katie + Robert @ Que and Jonny from Crystal Antlers for implentmentizing circumstances encouraging this bizarrely awesome show: Howlin Rain is Ethan from Comets On Fire (greatest human rock band of the west) and Joel from Drunk Horse (also greatest human rock band) doing some Deep Purple/Doors + CCR heavy chooglin’ rock [...]

For you: the classic Evolution Control Committee remix of Public Enemy’s ‘By The Time I Get To Arizona,’ born and fed so joyously from that time when since-impeached Arizona governor (and used-car salesman) Ev Mecham decided that it wasn’t really necessary to dedicate a whole day to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., [...]

Weary lols abound in Karcher obits re: Paris mopping wet hood, but allow me to show you how there is good in all things because that “I love Paris in the springtime song…” is sung by real-life human and true-life lucky-to-have-her songwriter Eleni Mandell, who knows a worthwhile laff when one is presented before her [...]

Long Beach delivers again with the first in {open}’s third-Thursday multimedia series that’s starts with this Amps for Christ show. AFC is a bedrock Inland Empire zoned/droned institution and this spiel is more elegant than I could muster:

Que Sera and Call Sick score brutally with this very rare (in general) and completely rare in Long Beach set by Labwaste, the beyond-hip-hop duo of Subtitle and Thavius Beck. Even individually these guys are fearsomely historic (Blowedian alums both and twined up with every independent fast-thinker in L.A.; I think Subtitle was 2MEX’s roommate [...]

Many thanks to Create (!)’s Chris Schlarb for passing along this free-to-all download of Create (!)’s out-of-print debut album Moth Nor Rust, including live recordings of the night Orlando’s bass amp blew out at their very first show. You can download the entire thing from Schlarb’s Sounds Are Active label here, or you can stream [...]

And that’s not just CZBS but an actual day signed into effect by the governor of Maryland, home state still to both the Wray family farm (still there) and home of the Wray bros. during their signature musical era. And while the building where Link first played “Rumble” also still exists (car dealership in Virginia!) [...]

First show in ‘08 from one of the first bands I wrote about for this paper. Via Soft HQ:
We hope to see you there as we join The Youngs, Writer(from SD) and
others at The Prospector this Tuesday night. Show starts a little
before 10, we play in the middle so get there early.
The Prospector is located [...]

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 [...]

The Vandelles kill Surf City

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY

Band Vandelles was once two littler bands called Del Black Aloha and the Mercenary Gang—one a Suicide-style bit-drums and nihil set-up and one just half-hour rafts of noise, says guitarist Dave Herbert, who (with guitarist/vocalist Jason Schwartz, drummer Suzanne Pagliorola, bassist Lisha Nadkarni and a yet-unchristened drum machine) [...]