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Fangs Running Red! Red Fang, Indian Handcrafts and The Shrine

By On January 15, 2014 · In Metal, Show Reviews, Skateboarding, Slim's, Thee Parkside

Red Fang, The Shrine, Indian Handcrafts
November 30,2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca

Fangs Running Red! There should be metal programs in school. I feel that today, some metal bands are the equivalent of classical piano ticklers from the days when dudes wore crimped wigs. I suspect that the ways in […]

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I See Death, People: Death, Pure Bliss and Disappearing People at The New Parish

By On November 5, 2013 · In Punk Rock, Rock and Roll, Show Reviews, The New Parish, Uncategorized

Death, Pure Bliss, Disappearing People
October 31,2013
The New Parish
Oakland, Ca

I See Death, People

                Saying we were seeing Death on Halloween felt like kind of a Who’s On First sort of situation, but it was true. As a part […]

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Gay As In Happy For The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights

By On November 3, 2013 · In Bottom of the Hill, Punk Rock, Show Reviews, Skateboarding

The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket, The Copyrights
September 28,2013
The Bottom Of The Hill
San Francisco, Ca

Gay As In Happy for The Queers, Teenage Bottlerocket and The Copyrights

I asked Candice if she wanted to see The Queers. She looked over at me. “Do…? I…?” Her look […]

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Man Or Astro-Man? Touches Down in the Non-Football Variety

By On June 17, 2013 · In Bimbo's 365 Club, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Show Reviews, Uncategorized

Man Or Astro-Man?, Terry Malts and The Chucklberries
May 8, 2013
Bimbo’s
San Francisco, Ca

 Man Or Astro-Man? Touches Down in the Non-Football Variety

I got pretty flippin tickled with I heard Man Or Astro-Man? would be landing their rocket ship at Bimbo’s in the North Beach quadrant of […]

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In the Dreams of Mud and Honey – Mudhoney and Hot Lunch April 12, 2013 at Slim’s

By On April 23, 2013 · In Indie Rock, Show Reviews, Slim's, Uncategorized

Mudhoney and Hot Lunch
April 12, 2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca

In the Dreams of Mud and Honey

Candice and I were excitedly yearning to be elevated beyond the valley of youth via goddamn kick-ass music. Remember Grunge? It used to be a genre. It seems to not […]

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…Then We Take Oakland. (Leonard Cohen at The Paramount Theater)

By On March 20, 2013 · In Folk, Show Reviews, The Paramount Theater, Uncategorized

Leonard Cohen
March 2, 2013
The Paramount Theater
Oakland, Ca

 

…Then We Take Oakland. 

Remember the days when you used to watch a movie and part way through it you’d be like, “I’m totally gonna go down to My Local Record Store and get this soundtrack after I get […]

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Noise Pop 2013: E V Kain, The She’s, Dirty Ghosts and The Thermals

By On March 8, 2013 · In Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Show Reviews, The Rickshaw Stop, Uncategorized

Noise Pop 2013
E V Kain, The She’s, Dirty Ghosts and The Thermals
March 1, 2013
The Rickshaw Stop
San Francisco, Ca

Did You Hear That Pop?

Wait, shhh. That Noise, did you hear it? It was the same shit that the weasel goes. It created a whole litter,

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Noise Pop 2013: The Fresh & Onlys, R. Stevie Moore, Plateaus, and Burnt Ones

By On March 6, 2013 · In Bottom of the Hill, Indie Rock, Noise Pop, Show Reviews, Uncategorized

Noise Pop 2013
The Fresh & Onlys, R. Stevie Moore, Plateaus, and Burnt Ones
February 27, 2013
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, Ca

 

I had my first introduction to the Noise Pop festival while I was […]

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Skating Drunky Radness (The Blood Wizard Video Premier)

By On February 26, 2013 · In Show Reviews, Skateboarding, Thee Parkside, Uncategorized

“Wizard Bloody Wizard”
Bad Shit and Rock Bottom
February 10, 2013
Thee Parkside
San Francisco, Ca

Skating Drunky Radness (The Blood Wizard Video Premier)

I guess there are a couple different kinds of wizards. There’s those pussies like the ones in all the Lord of the Rings-type […]

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Faith Regained – Tomahawk with Retox

By On February 19, 2013 · In Great American Music Hall, Show Reviews

Tomahawk with Retox
February 16, 2013
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA

 Faith Regained

My bones were weary, but my psyche sure as shit wasn’t. In the proceeding twenty-four hours, I’d skated three skate parks and a backyard ramp, driven to my hometown, had insomnia, driven back and eaten […]

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