The Mau Maus, Outlaw, Flytraps, Raven’s Moreland, Samion & the Spades, and Frankenstein Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, CA Friday, August 31, 2012 Time: 9:00 PM Rick Wilder invited me to this album release party about a month before the date. Promising an exclusive event, press and industry types only, and damn, Rick provided a circus! [...]

Social Distortion Live In Orange County 2004 Time Bomb Recordings Mike Ness – vocals/guitar Jonny “2 Bags” Wickersham – guitar John Mauer – bass Charlie Quintana – drums 1. Making Believe 2. 1945 3. Telling Them 4. Bad Luck 5. Footprints On My Ceiling 6. Don’t Drag Me Down 7. I Wasn’t Born To Follow [...]

Standard & Poor Let’s Take Care of Our Own Label: D-Spite My Height Released: June 24, 2012 Mr. DeVille, vocals Lurch, bass Tony Love, guitar Trace Element, drums 1. Let’s Take Care of Our Own 2. Let’s Go 3. Love Knot I love this single. It screams of 1970’s punk rock. Punk before hardcore, punk [...]

Misfits Static Age Label: Caroline Released: July 15, 1997 Glenn Danzig – vocals Franché Coma – guitar Jerry Only – bass guitar Mr. Jim – drums 1. Static Age 2. TV Casualty 3. Some Kinda Hate 4. Last Caress 5. Return Of The Fly 6. Hybrid Moments 7. We Are 138 8. Teenagers From Mars [...]

Symbol Six, Daybreak Ends, Centox, Agenda 21, Take 48, Underground Alliance Cobalt Cafe, Canoga Park, CA Friday, August 24, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Back somewhere around 1997 or 1998 I lived in Canoga Park, within a block or two of the Cobalt Café. When my future wife was at night school studying to be a [...]