
[Fun, festive fundraisers. Cool concerts. Punchy parties. And the Pity Party. This weekend has it all, and I must be quick so I can try to find my godawful-est sweater for the Christmas Sweater Festival on Saturday:] Tonight: Foreign Born [pictured] headlines Spaceland. I hope they use the sleigh bells if they play "Union Hall." ... Red Cortez , the VLA , Rademacher and the Growlers play a benefit for Artists in Aid at the Edgar Varela Fine Arts [...]

[Random observations on a Tuesday afternoon ...] Ozzy Osbourne , who will be honored Sept. 10 at the House of Blues as the kickoff to the Sunset Strip Music Festival , has been added to the bill to perform the final set on the festival's outdoor stage on Sunset Boulevard on Saturday, Sept. 12. Korn, Pepper, Kottonmouth Kings and Shiny Toy Guns are among the 40-plus bands playing in a lineup that nods to the Strip's rawk heritage. A snarky person might note that, with the event [...]
Unofficial Site Formed by a veteran musician Brad Laner, California band Medicine were doing their own original take on the shoegaze genre and managed to separate themselves from the rest of similar bands. As a teenager, Laner was playing with bands like Nervous Gender and Vox Pop, but eventually he also started listening and becoming influenced by [...]

savage republic so it is written 1988 17 pygmies celestina II 2008 (française version) "Il y a dans ton ciel bien des signes qui me tracent un chemin, Cassiopée..." Deux choses que j'apprécie. Un, recevoir des nouvelles d'amis lointains. Temps. Lieu. Deux, qu'un support m'entraîne sur la piste d'un [...]

Pese a que a muchos de nosotros nos pilla así como bastante lejos, no puedo dejar de avisar sobre un magnífico festival que me deja realmente con las ganas de dejar atrás ahorros, trabajo y demás ataduras y embarcarme en un corto -y caro- viaje para recordar viejos tiempos de festivalero. No se trata de un macrofestival al uso como los que nos cargan las pilas en verano, sino un sólo día de celebración post-punk el próximo 16 de noviembre en Los Ángeles. El part time punk traerá a algunos grupos que he [...]
Download: A Certain Ratio "Shack Up" Part Time Punks' Mike Stock texts us that A Certain Ratio have confirmed to headline the Part Time Punks fest on Sun., Nov. 16! They will be joining an already really impressive line-up and pushing it toward the legendary! If you don't know them, they were one of Manchester's best [...]
I really did nick the title from an early trilogy by Samuel Delany, and the cover art from the Tower card of the Rider/Waite tarot deck (and from a visual representation of part of the mix process) ... but both of those do bring to mind a real-world cataclysm. So no, this mix isn't 'about' 9/11, although it's emphatically about crescendoes and collapses and apocalypse and the end of civilization. It just grew...