New Album Review: Broncho- Double Vanity
With a feeling of reckless security I can only associate with driving to buy a Plan B pill the morning after prom night, the third and latest Broncho album has
Memoirs of a Bernie Bro
After every prolonged and pointless online battle, I knew I wasn’t handling this correctly or even, well and I promised to just let it go the next time someone posted
New Album Review: CCR Headcleaner- Tear Down the Wall
Tear Down the Wall is something else. That’s not an empty idiom. The San Francisco mind-ravaging outfit CCR Headcleaner gives us its strangest trip yet, and in today’s saturation of garage
Giant Sand at the Echo: 30 Years of American Desert Roots Alt Country Rock
“Giant Sand isn’t broken, we’re just putting it to bed after 30 years” said singer, Howe Gelb, as he launched into a hauntingly slow and ethereal set of American Desert
Take This: 2 Tickets & Record Label Swag For Dirty Penni Fest at The Echo
On July 23rd, Dirty Laundry TV and local Los Angeles independent record label, Penniback Records are taking over the Echo and Echoplex to showcase both the bands on their label and other, prominent L.A.
Sound and Fury Hardcore Festival Comes of Age All Across Los Angeles
I am not a hardcore kid. I do love plenty of hardcore bands but I’m a metal kid that found his way to punk. So by virtue of that, what
New Album Review: GOGGS is Damn Good Gravy on The Ty Segall Catalog
Ty Segall’s new project GØGGS doesn’t feel like a side project. GOGGS is being touted as “Ty’s new Punk Album” by many publicists and suits and probably just relayed simply that way
Punk Rock Bowling 2016: 18 Years of Limping Las Vegas
Don’t’ let the fights fool you; Punk Rock Bowling is a pure, unabashed, hippie love fest. Anthropologists should study the dynamics of a slam pit to understand a punk in
Ty Segall And The Secret Show: A New Tradition in Los Angeles
I caught wind of the secret—and free—Ty Segall and the Muggers show at the Griffin from a Mikal Cronin tweet around 10pm. It turned out being a hushed triumph for
Wild Nothing At The Regent: Tight Jams And Tantrums Abound
Wild Nothing sold out The Regent Theater in Downtown Los Angeles Friday night along side dream-pop queen Charlie Hilton on their Life Of Pause world tour. Both are very special
The Brian Jonestown Massacre Play 3 1/2 Hour Set For Night 1 at Teragram
Sunday nights in downtown LA can be magical but particularly so when seeing ‘60s psychedelic rock outfit The Brian Jonestown Massacre is playing a gig. The band is an eclectic
Ministry Make Ears Bleed at Punk Rock Bowling Club Show
I was on the fence about attending Punk Rock Bowling this year. It’s been 4 years in a row and when you have a wife and kids, it’s an exercise