Mike Ness of Social Distortion. Yes please…
Lemmy and Mike Ness in the same place at the same time? Maybe my luck is looking up afterall. Anyway, the 25 city tour kicks off on January 30th and rolls on through March 15th. Stops include Seattle (!), Boston, and Albany, NY. Visit www.musink.org for actual dates for [...]

Black Flag, Rise Above.
Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve made an entry but things have gotten a bit dark here in Seattle. On Saturday, my old man’s company notified him via email that they had shut down, leaving him and a handful of other folks out of a job. There’s more to this story [...]

JEM temporarily replaces Wendy O this week. Because, like Wendy O,  JEM is truly outrageous. Truly, truly outrageous. For LP.
Man, I wish I had that Emergency Blackout Gun right now. I’m totally sleep deprived and the thought of a Blackout Gun sounds verra appealing. Don’t worry though, it’s Friday and that means that the weekend [...]

Mitch Mitchell, live drum solo from 1969. Fucking incredible. For Surly and LP.
Mitch Mitchell, the revered drummer of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was found dead in his Portland hotel room today. Mitchell had just wrapped up the 18 stop Experience Hendrix Tour. The tour, that stopped in Seattle only days ago on November 6th, [...]

Wendy and her Plasmatics…
So what’s it gonna be Friend-O? Two nights at The Comet with Lesbian on Friday and Thee Emergency on Saturday or, two nights at The Funhouse with New Ghosts of Old Town on Friday and Lesbian again on Saturday? Two nights of Lesbian action! If that’s not doing it for you (and [...]

Tom Waits, forever in vinyl. Daniel Edlen, acrylic on vinyl.
The Good Foot Gallery in Portland, Oregon opened a massive exhibit of painted vinyl records on October 30th.  Vinyl Killers runs through November 30th. The exhibit features an extensive array of international vinyl artists. Among them is a Cherrybomb favorite, Daniel Edlen. Edlen has eight amazing [...]

Cypress Hill, Can’t Get The Best of Me, 2000.
I love Cypress Hill. What got me thinking of them was a comment B-Real made a couple of weeks ago about Axl Rose. B-Real said that Axl’s “new” G’n’R only Guns ‘n’ Roses “in name”. Of course, B-Real has a point as Axl is the only [...]