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Dec122012
Atlanta Traffic and Are you Experienced? Cover
Dec122012
12/12/12 Concert
On Sirius radio tonight at 7:30 pm. For the first time in 20 years the surviving members of Nirvana will play with Paul McCartney joining them. Whats more is they will play a new song they have been working on. Springsteen, The Who, The Stones and many more will play tonight. Should be good.
Update 1213/12 love the song:
Dec062012
Duane Peters Gunfight Punk as Fuck
A little less than a month after being hit by a car, OC’s skateboarding punk legend Duane Peters rides again. His band, Duane Peters Gunfight, recently announced that they’ve rescheduled their postponed show at The Slidebar Rock ‘N’ Roll Cafe in Fullerton to next Tues., Dec. 11. The news comes just weeks after the 51-year old Peters was forced to cancel the show after being hit by a car while riding his skateboard in Long Beach. His injuries included a ruptured lung, bruised kidney, sprained left wrist and a smashed (not broken) left foot. After the accident forced him to postpone his band’s show Nov.11, he did what any good, hard-headed punk would do…he took a little while to walk it off.
Last month, we received this statement from his management: “We really appreciate the outpouring of support. Duane is doing better. He is pretty banged up, but resting at home. He is going to take the rest of the month to really try and heal so he can get back on stage and back on the skateboard soon.”
Peters, aka “The Master of Disaster” is probably best known as the front man for the U.S. Bombs as well as a professional skateboarder. Anyone who knows Peters is aware that saying he’s been banged up a few times in his life is a definite understatement. For more on that history, see this story we did on him a couple years ago.
The show he’s playing next week also doubles as a charity food drive. Fans who come to the show next week are asked to bring either 5 perishable food items, $10 donation or one new blanket. Openers for Duane Peters Gunfight include a three pack of local punk favorites: OCA, Dimerunner and Headaches.
Nov212012
Bad Brains – Into the Future
New Bad Brains album comes out today.
Shepard Fairy Cover Art
“Into The Future is the purest Bad Brains’ recordings since the ROIR cassette. A treat for the hardcore Bad Brains’ fan, with a variety of styles and creative progression not seen in years. This self-produced record shines with a true sense of freedom and musical experimentation, with blends of soulful backgrounds meshed with blistering hardcore and metal riffs, with classic dub,” says Darryl Jenifer.
Sep152012
The Ruiners – Shake Rattle and Moan
I have been anxiously awaiting this record from the day I found out about it. For days I tried to come up with poetic words to describe what I knew would be a great rock and roll disc from my faves in Detroit, The Ruiners. I woke up this morning with some clarity of how to say what I wanted to say. Not like usual record reviews but the feeling this record gives when you hear it. Like the time I had to call the local cops over here to the punk rock house cause of some damn kids playing in my yard. After they all scattered into the woods, the copper was walking back to his car and looked down at my concrete driveway to see 3 dice embedded into the corner with all three showing six’s. He looked up at me quizzically and asked what the meaning of that was. I looked up at him with my bed head hair and red eyes and said “that is rock and roll man”…..
This record gives you that feeling of satisfaction. That Rock and Roll satisfaction of knowing something cool that not everybody gets in the same way. Listen to this record and you will either know exactly what I mean or you won’t. If you do, read on. If not, go away.
All the songs on “Shake Rattle and Moan” are classic Ruiners but those guys over at Funky D Records did the right thing in the studio. They had them play it out, recorded it and cut it, all in one take. That is Rock and Roll. That feeling is apparent when you hear “Sluttin’ it up” or “Beatin’ me down” two of my personal faves on the disc. “Sluttin’ is an instant classic blues player that would make Mick jealous as hell to hear. ‘Beatin me down’ will make you want to bob your head to the beat. “Useless College Degree”; so true ; catchy as hell. Every song on the disc is that version of Rock and Roll that we all seek out, raw, full of life and vigor, real Rock that you feel in your gut. This is one of those that when it comes along we celebrate that Rock is alive and well. Go outside and crank it up (or inside) and celebrate all that is Rock and Roll.
The Ruiners are the real deal. Go buy a CD. Go see a show. Support Real Rock and Roll.
Now that I got that out, I’m going outside to plant some trees, crankin’ up Sluttin’ it up, lighting a Kool and living the Rock and Roll dream. I suggest you do that same.
