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Pallbearer & Gatecreeper Stop at Echoplex Reminds Us- Guitar Solos Matter
Rob Shepyer
May 27, 2017
Pallbearer’s tour brought them to the Echoplex on May 18th with support from Arizona death metal savages Gatecreeper and local avante-garde-post-experimental-jazz-metal-poets Grand Lord High Master. Doom metal is back in style because sorrow and surrender and being in touch with your feelings are back in style. Maybe “being in touch
Redd Kross & The Side Eyes: A Great Case For Nepotism at The Echo
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 24, 2017
It was a packed house last Tuesday night at The Echo, as Redd Kross played the last show of a month long tour in their home base of Los Angeles, CA. They have been traveling the nation on their “Beneath the Valley of the Teen Babes of Monsanto” tour. related
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Inter-Review At The Fonda Theater
Dave Unbuckled
May 23, 2017
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes made their welcome return to Los Angeles at the Fonda Theater on May 13th to a sold out crowd that was comprised of every demographic one could think of. After all, the band has been celebrating their 20th anniversary for the past two years,
Isaac Rother & The Phantoms Are Back With 5 Hits From Hell…
DM Collins
May 23, 2017
Isaac Rother & the Phantoms and their soul-laden stew of R&B horror rock and off-the-charts live show bring a seminal but sometimes forgotten era of rock from the 50s and early 60s back to life. But Isaac and his Phantoms also evoke a time just a few decades
Com Truise & Clark At Forefront of Breaking Stigma of Electronic Music
Aria Silva-Espinosa
May 22, 2017
Electronic music often carries a heavy stigma for being repetitive or unoriginal. Unfortunately, many artists get lumped into the broad category of ‘EDM’ thus rendering their art unpalatable or unapproachable for a significant portion of music enthusiasts. What people fail to recognize is that, just as electric guitar is central
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Janky Smooth Sessions w/ Spike Slawson
Dave Unbuckled
May 20, 2017
7 days until day 1 of Punk Rock Bowling 2017… Last Saturday, May 13th, I sat down with the not-so-soft-spoken Spike Slawson, of Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, at the Fonda Theater before their Los Angeles appearance of their Greatest Hits Tour. We discussed his punk rock super hero
Fishbone at The Echoplex: The Royal Treatment for Chim Chim
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 19, 2017
Saturday night at the Echoplex started off with the Uber driver dropping us off in front of The Echo, where we waited outside for 2 minutes before we realized it was the wrong place. So we run across the street down some filthy stairs around a corner and now we
Le Butcherettes Leave A Pint of Blood On Stage at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach
Aria Silva-Espinosa
May 18, 2017
Mex-American punk trio Le Butcherettes are sheer intensity personified onstage. On a Wednesday night at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, the crowd sizzled anxiously under the ominous glow of the shadow-casting red lights.The entire venue has been arranged to allow for maximum capacity, standing room only. Photographers clamored on top
Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Pallbearer at The Echoplex on 5/18
Danny Baraz
May 16, 2017
Pallbearer dropped a MASSIVE 3rd doom metal album this past March and they are showing why it’s perfect timing for Metal to make a comeback- right here, right now. With the hard rock resurgence the past couple years, the endless stream of pop punk and garage rock proliferating out of
Thurston Moore: Genre Be Damned When You’re An Icon
Rob Shepyer
May 16, 2017
Before I go into what happened when Thurston Moore graced the Teragram Ballroom’s stage on Saturday May 12th, I need to paint the picture of what happened immediately after. Smoking a cigarette and leaning against a neighboring liquor mart, I saw an old college friend of mine, a bit of
