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 [...]