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My Vinyl Treasures: Yes L.A.
“My Vinyl Treasures” record posts are a result of one of my ongoing covid-19 self-quarantine projects, cataloguing many records of various genres I have acquired through the years. It should go without saying, that whatever I post here, I like … Continue reading
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Tagged alley cats, Bags, Black Randy, COVID-19, dangerhouse, Eyes, Germs, Los Angeles, My Vinyl Treasures, No New York, punk, x, Yes L.A.
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Double Bill of Local Punk Movies from Penelope Spheeris and Dave Markey Rock The Red Bull Festival Saturday, February 16, 2019
Red Bull’s inaugural Music Festival Los Angeles Film Program – Center Channel – is taking place this month at the Ukrainian Culture Center in Hollywood. What better place, with its history of punk rock shows and melees? I myself have seen Black Flag, … Continue reading
Posted in Interviews, Miscellanious, Movies, Music, Upcoming Events
Tagged Beyond the Valley of the Dolls., Black Flag, Dave Markey, Love Dolls, Music Festival Los Angeles Film Program, Penelope Spheeris, punk documentary, Red Bull, Red Kross, rock doc, russ meyer, the Alice Bag Band, The Circle Jerks, The Decline of Western Civilization, The Germs, The Minutemen, Ukrainian Culture Center, Unit 3, Valley of the Dolls, Venus, x
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X / Los Lobos / The Blasters at O.C. Observatory 12.27.18
Last night I kissed 2018’s ass goodbye the best way I possibly could: by driving down to the O.C. Observatory to see X, Los Lobos and The Blasters play. You already know it was great. It’s ALWAYS great every time … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Music, Photo Essays
Tagged deb frazin, deb frazin photography, Exene Cervenka, john doe, LA punk, Live Music, punk rock, The OC Observatory, x
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The Flesh Eaters to Release a New Album! Check Out their First Music Video!
Not only are The Flesh Eaters releasing their first album since Miss Muerte, which came out on Atavistic Records in 2004, but they are reuniting their classic lineup from 1981, which also played the band’s recent reunion shows in 2006 and … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Upcoming Events, Videos
Tagged Bill Bateman, chris d., Dave Alvin, DJ Bonebrake, flesh eaters, I Used to be Pretty, john doe, los lobos, Miss Muerte, steve berlin, The Blasters, x, Yep Roc Records
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Book Launch This Weekend of “Shot in the Dark: The Collected Photography of David Arnoff”
David Arnoff will be in Los Angeles this weekend launching his epic photography book, Shot in the Dark: The Collected Photography of David Arnoff. In his stunning catalogue of the nascent punk scene, Arnoff has captured the essence of a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Interviews, Music, Photo Essays, Upcoming Events
Tagged 45 Grave, cramps, dead boys, godfathers, gun club, Joan Jett, lita ford, misfits, nick cave, nico, punk, runaways, siouxie, x
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Exene Cervenka: Solo Artworks at the Sloan Projects
Exene Cervenka, founding member of celebrated LA punk band X, writer, artist, poet and spoken word artist, is currently providing a rare glimpse into her collection of self-produced journals plus new artworks in “The Dust of Sunlight, Exene Cervenka Journals & Collage 1974-2015”. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photo Essays
Tagged Bergamot Station, Exene Cervenka, Judy Ornelas Sisneros, Kristine McKenna, Sloan Projects, x
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X at Pershing Square
The weather was great Saturday night for a free concert in the park, but instead of chamber music or A Midsummer Nights Dream done as a hippie rock musical ( It was done with Susan Tyrell. I was there) we … Continue reading
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Tagged billy zoom, DJ Bonebrake, dukey flyswatter, Exene Cervenka, john doe, x
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Live Review: X At The Roxy
“People are gonna say ‘I just paid six dollars to see this band, they’re not desperate.’” – Exene Cervenka in The Decline Of Western Civilization, 1980. Six dollars? Thirty-two years later, the scalpers in front of the heavily sold-out Roxy … Continue reading
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Tagged billy zoom, live review, Los Angeles, ray manzarek, the roxy, x
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Punk Grown Up: Avengers, X, Dead Kennedys at MOCA
The ironies of last Saturday’s Pacific Standard Time concert at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary were not lost among the estimated 1,000 in attendance. The bill of San Francisco’s Avengers and Dead Kennedys and Los Angeles’s hometown underground music heroes, X, was … Continue reading
John Doe and Friends – Live at The Mint
Thanks to John Doe and our friends at The Mint in Los Angeles.
