Movies About Girls, the t-shirt! For teenage losers of all ages! Original design by Ken “The King of Podcasting” McIntyre.

Just a quick pimp to remind you all to tune into Loudcaster tonight at 6 PM EST for Episode #80 of the Movies About Girls podcast! To mark this glandular milestone tonight, we’ll be  giving away a brand-spanking new Movies About Girls t-shirt. Make your ex jealous! Be the envy of hat-wearing-hipsters! Look 10lbs thinner! Embarrass your Mom! Anything can happen when you’re sporting the new MAG t-shirt. Trust me.

For all things MAG, check out the Movies About Girls Radio Network. If you like what you hear, vote for us on Podcast Alley or, leave us a comment on iTunes. Want to talk to MAG? You can call us anytime at 206-426-6504.

Directly following tonight’s MAG-cast, I’ll be GTFO to catch Aerosmith tribute band, Draw The Line at the Tractor Tavern. Will the faux Bad Boys of Boston will live up to the recent Tyler/Perry shenanigans of late? I can only hope…

“The Last Ride” by Bob Dob. Oil on panel.

You only have until June 30th to check out the latest show at Seattle’s Roq La Rue gallery, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright. ALL proceeds from the sale of these prints will be donated to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and the Wildlife Conservation Society earmarked for tiger conservation efforts.

Images from this exceptional group show, here.

Jane’s Addiction Cinco de Mayo show at the Bardot in LA.

According to Jane’s Addiction.org, the first 100 fans in line at the Bardot in LA tonight will get to see the band tear through a short, five-song set. The gig will also mark the first appearance of former Guns ‘n’ Roses guitarist Duff McKagen,who joined the Jane’s lineup last month.

More via Janes Addiction.org.

The Bride of Dr. Larka. For Michael K.

This is Oaxaca, Mexico based artist Jerónimo López Ramírez, also known as Dr. Lakra (or Dr. Delinquent) first solo exhibition in the U.S. Larka’s work has been described as playful, hallucinogenic, vulgar and erotic. Or, in other words, completely excellent.

Larka has been making a living as a successful tattoo artist since the early 90’s and began selling his paintings as a means of paying his taxes in Mexico. He uses everything from vintage Mexican pulp fiction novels, magazines and photographs to create his paintings and drawings. Dr. Larka’s engagement runs through September 16th at the ICA Boston.

A small gallery of Larka’s work can be viewed via MoMA.

Lush Life @ Roq La Rue in Seattle. Now through May 7th.

Marion Peck, (partner of the great Mark Ryden) and Travis Louie are two of the 20+ artists in Roq La Rue’s latest show, Lush Life.

More via Roq La Rue.

Pinball Art: Fine Art opens today at the Pacific Pinball Musem in Almadea California. For NPD.

This vintage pinball exhibition includes posters and artist’s creations and reinterpretations of classic pinball art. Lucky visitors will also get to try their luck with some of the pinball machines in the museums collection.

It all kicks off today at 2pm at the Pacific Pinball Museum in Alameda, CA. The show runs through March 2, 2010.

Joseph Arthur, Turn You On (ahem, mission accomplished Mr. Arthur). From one of my favorite records of 2008, Temporary People. Performance recorded live in January 2009 at KEXP.

Ohio native and now one of Brooklyn’s finest, Joseph Arthur will be at the Triple Door in Seattle tonight, January 15h and also Saturday, January 16th. Both shows are all ages. You can also catch Arthur performing a few songs live on the radio via KEXP at 5:00 pm today. You can stream the performance as it happens online at KEXP.org.

Arthur is also an accomplished painter. During this tour, a limited number of Arthur’s paintings will be for sale at his shows.

Joseph Arthur is one of my favorite performers of the last decade. And his deeply personal music becomes even more stirring when performed live.

Tickets are $20/advance and $23 DOS. More here.

Blondes Away, 16″ x 20″, Acrylic on Canvas. By Neil P. Doherty, 2009.

The first, First Thursday Art Walk of 2010 is tomorrow. If you’re headed out downtown tomorrow night, I highly suggest you swing by The Pioneer Square Saloon and check out all new works from local artist and friend of this blog, Neil Doherty. Doherty’s paintings and photos will be adorning the Saloon throughout the month of January.

Weirdness by Weirdo.

Graffiti artist Weirdo will open a solo show, Orchestra of Old Souls, on Friday, December 4th at the Upper Playground location in Seattle’s UD.  Here’s Weirdo on his inspiration for Souls:

I believe sometimes old souls can be trapped in any “shell” or form, and that death of the body is the only way that the soul may be free to do what it is destined to do somewhere else in this immense universe that we truthfully know nothing about.

Artist events at UP draw big crowds and this will be no exception so get there early. The show kicks off at 6:00.

Show poster by Sarah. Nice!

One of my favorite punky trio’s, The Electric Kisses will open this super-sonic Sunday show at The Funhouse tonight. The Kisses will be giving a bunch of their new material a spin before making way for the crunchy goodness of The Coloffs. Matt Mayhem headlines this garage-y gig, bringing his one man band, Apple Jacks and hot dogs all the way from Idaho. Did I mention the cover is only $5? Don’t miss it…

Oh so pretty. Robert Mapplethorpe and his frequent subject, Patti Smith.

The exhibit, featuring over 1,500 Polaroids taken by Mapplethorpe between 1970 & 1975, will be on display at The Henry Art Musuem in Seattle through January 31st.

More here.

Frank Zappa, acrylic on vinyl by Daniel Edlen.

Vinyl Killers started showcasing works of vinyl art back in 2003. Vinyl Killers 7 opens on October 29th at The Goodfoot in Portland, Oregon. Among the contributing artist to the show is prolific vinyl artist Daniel Edlen. The show poster for VK 7 features Edlen’s amazing portrait of Tom Waits.

More on Edlen here.

Zombies of Mass Destruction. A Zomedy about Zombies. For LP.

The special effects in Zombies of Mass Destruction were done by Tom Devlin. Devlin’s credits include movies like, Caged Lesbo A Go-Go, The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror and a flick that Steven King called “hilarious”, Poultrygeist: The Night of the Chicken Dead.

On October 24th, Zombies of Mass Destruction will play at the Admiral Theater in West Seattle as part of The Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

More on ZOMD here.

Davila 666. Photo by Victor Pagan. For LP and Surly.

If you’ve missed Davila 666 (the greatest thing to come out of Puerto Rico since Tito Puente) because you were busy getting rained on at Bummershoot (thanks Andy) last month, then get yourself to The Funhouse for tomorrow’s early show. Davila 666 shares the bill with Sonic Chicken 4 from France, the garage goodness of Aurora Roarers, Ape City R&B and Watch it Sparkle.

Funhouse doors are at 3:30 and the cover is only $7! If you do the math, that’s less than $1.50 per band. You’re budget might be low (like mine) but this show is crappy-economy-friendly!

Future of the Left @ Neumo’s. Tuesday, October 13th, 2009. Photo by Cherrybomb’s iPhone.

I wish this photo could have showed Andy Falkous’ bulging neck veins from last night. Anyway, Future’s show last night at Neumo’s was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. Then And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead came on stage and blew what was left of Neumo’s roof right the fuck off.

A million thanks to Dr. H for GTFO with me last night and for making sure I had a drink in my hands at all times.

More on Future of the Left, here.

Future of the Left, The House the Hope Built. From 2009’s Travels With Myself and Another.

The Welsh chops on Future of the Left’s frontman Andy Falkous kill me almost as hard as his gut-wrenching vocals. Anyway, I suspect that the crowd at Neumo’s will be a bit livelier than the one in this video for Future’s The House that Hope Built. Mostly because I will be there, but I digress. The point of this post is this. Anytime 2/3’s of McLusky come to your town, you go see them. True story.

PS: October 13th is today!

Hotels. For Stacey.

The track, Near the Desert, Near the City from Seattle’s Hotels gets me right in the 80’s. Just like the bands Gary Newman homage above. Near is from the bands second record, Where Hearts Go Broke, out this past February.

Hotels will play at 2:00pm on the EMP stage at Bumbershoot on Saturday, September 5th.

More on Hotels here.

WOW.

WOW indeed…what a week! I mean, Chinese Democrazy finally has a release date and Slayer said they will play Reign In Blood in it’s entirety in London at Hammersmith, and at two upcoming shows in Sweden. What, was there other, more important news this week? Man,it’s hard keeping up on the news when you’re busy hiding under your bed. Although, I must say I am feeling much more optimistic than I was on Monday. It could be because today is Friday, or it could be because the day after Friday is Saturday. Either way, it’s definitely time to Get The Fuck Out…

Friday, October 10th:

Grynch, My Second Wind, 2008.

Grynch
Vera

Black Kids will not teach him how to dance with you. So don’t ask…

Black Kids
Neumo’s

The Bloodies.Yes please. Thanks to LP for the link.

The Bloodies
The Know (Portland, OR)
Welcome to Cherrybomb’s new favorite band, The Bloodies. You and your ears can thank me later.

Dr. Dog, My Old Ways.

Dr. Dog
Middle East (Cambridge, MA)

Drivin N Cryin, Fly Me Courageous, 1991.

Drivin’ N Cryin’
The Orange Peel (Ashville, CT)
FFS! Now Drivin’ N Cryin’s, Drive Me Courageous is stuck in my head. Sounds like a Cherrybomb Daily Earwig. Anyway, this was one of the first demos I got as a DJ back in Boston and guess what? It was actually kinda good.

Sassparilla Jug Band
Connor Byrne

Joe Satriani.

Joe Satriani and Leslie West of Mountain
House of Blues (Cleveland, OH)
Holy Mother of a Rich Bich! Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Leslie West is still alive! Anyway, this bill is worth the price of admission just to hear West bang out Mississippi Queen and Satriani do Surfing With the Alien.  I met Joe Satriani in the early 90’s and saw him perform an in-studio for about 20 people. Not only is Satriani one of the most technically proficient guitar players to ever stroke an Ibanez or any other guitar, he is also is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. It’s great when the Great, are, well, really great.

Kunt Bell and The Blue Collars
Little Red Hen

Tesla, Edison’s Medicine, 1991.

Tesla
Myth (Mapelwood, MN)
I am unashamed to admit that a couple of Tesla songs are on my iPod shuffle. In other metal news, if you’re in Vegas tonight, Yngwie Malmsteen will be at the HOB. Which isn’t really a recommendation as much as it is an observation. A Yngwie Malmsteen is 45 so why has he aged?, metal, observation.

The Sword
The Music Box at the Fonda (Hollywood)
If you have yet to see The Sword, don’t miss them the next time they roll through your town. Seattle, that means you too.
For Dr. H.

The Love Me Nots, Phoenix, AZ. Thanks to LP for the link.

The Love Me Nots
Studio 66 @ LoFi
The Love Me Nots will also do an in-store at Bop Street on Saturday  at 6:00 PM and a live-in-studio on KEXP’s, Audioasis.

Saturday, October 11th:

DJ B-Mello spins
War Room

Weezer, Say it Ain’t So, 1994.

Weezer
Key Arena
Rivers Cuomo!

A Gun That Shoots Knives
Chop Suey

Betty Ford Falcons
Monkey Pub
The Monkey is one of my favorite Seattle dives and has one of the best jukeboxes in the city.

Natalie Woudn’t
Skylark
FREE
For JB and AFJ

Rat City Ruckus.

The Them, Rat City Ruckus
The Funhouse
You want punk rock? This bill is 100% punk rock, just like The House of Fun.

Sunday, October 12th:

Sun0))).

Sun 0)))
Berbati’s Pan (Portland, OR)
If you saw the Nick Cave show a few weeks ago, you got to see Sun0)))’s, Southern Lord band-mates, Earth open the show. Like Earth, Sun0))) is not for everyone, but that’s okay. Being different is cool. In the case of Sun0)), being different is pretty mind blowing when it comes to both your eyes and ears. Take that Nickelback.

Looking Ahead:

Since I know you’ve been preoccupied, I wanted to remind you in advance that Halloween is coming. Here are a few guaranteed good ways to spend October 31st in Seattle…

Zombie Prom with The Staxx Brothers. King Kat Theater on October 31st, 2008.

In addition to a live performance by The Staxx Brothers (and sistas…represent!) this year’s Zombie Prom will feature private burlesque shows courtesy of the girls from Teatro Zinzanni, some giant paper-mache mushrooms, more bands all while 70s Grind House Zombie movies and quotable film classics play all night long. Cherrybomb wouldn’t miss this one and neither should you.

HalloQueen, 2007. Photo by Cherrybomb. Rick Friel’s hair, is perfect. Owww-Oooo. Werewolf of London indeed…

Ahhh…it’s time to HalloQueen again. This year, the boys in HalloQueen will rock you at The Tractor Tavern in Ballard. Team Cherrybomb never misses a show. Even Wonder Woman will take a break from fighting evil in Colorado just long enough to take in the show herself.

I’ll have more Halloween recommendations in the coming weeks. Thanks also to The Staxx Brothers and to LP for their help with this weeks GTFO.  Until then, tie your mother down and Get The Fuck Out…

Wendy O did 1000 sit-ups a day just for fun. What the fuck did you do today?

Wendy O was a bit of a workout-a-holic, but who can argue with those results? The only other thing I have to say is that red electrical tape is the luckiest guy in the world.

Anyways, I’m in a shit mood (still, see Tuesday’s post), so please excuse the lack of boozy and bullet-riddled witty diatribe that you have come to expect of me. I’ll be better by Friday. And so will you.

Let’s do this, bitch. I need to Get The Fuck Out…

Thursday, June 26th

Dave Pirner of Soul Assylum does his best “Who the Fuck is Winona Ryder?”. Cherrybomb says Pirner was always too good for her. Thanks to Sleazegrinder for the image.

Sunset Strip Music Festival
Soul Asylum, Camper Van Beethoven and Everclear.
House of Blues (Sunset Strip, Los Angeles)
Occasionally, I get a little sad that I don’t live in LA. As far as I know. This is one of those times. Dave Pirner, don’t you miss Seattle? We miss you.

Wonder Woman Trailer, Season One.

Wonder Woman
SeaTac Airport

Friday, June 27th:

Reverend Horton Heat and his big-ass guitar.

Reverend Horton Heat
Supersuckers
Nashville Pussy
Showbox SoDo
Speaking of Wonder Woman, Heat follows up his gig at the Showbox SoDo with a show at the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon on Saturday. Supersuckers will bring their post-show rodeo back to Jules Maes on Friday night. Take that, Nickelback. (Thanks to the Mad Irish Man for keeping me honest on this one).

Mission of Burma, Academy Fight Song.

Mission of Burma
First Unitarian Church (Philly)

Saturday, June 28th:

Flipper. Dolphin in easy chair with bong. Ink on skin.

FLIPPER!
Hell’s Kitchen

Clinton Fearon, oil on canvas by Barbara Kennedy, 1998

Clinton Fearon & Boogie Brown Band
Nectar Lounge

Jesse Sykes.

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
The Tractor (also on Sunday)

The Whore Moans, X-Ray Eyes, Live.

Le Sexy with Jackie Hell
The Whore Moans
Wild Orchid Children
King Cobra

Devil Girl loves Hell’s Belles.

Hell’s Belles
Coconut Coolouts
The Intelligence
Wild Rose Tavern
Music Starts at 1:00pm and goes ’till Midnight. So many more bands, but only one Saturday Night. Sigh…

Sunday, June 29th:

HalloQueen, Halloween 2007. Photo by Cherrybombed. Taken while actually bombed.

HALLOQUEEN
The Funhouse
HALLOQUEEN! This is an early show. Music starts at 4:00, HalloQueen goes on at 6:00. Team Cherrybomb never misses an opportunity to see HalloQueen.

Looking Ahead:

The Legendary Shack Shakers, Poster by J.D. Wilkes.

The Legendary Shack Shakers will be back at The Tractor on July 3rd after playing a few dates with Rancid. TLSS then head to Dante’s in Portland, Oregon for a gig on the 4th of July.

The Surf Coasters (Japan)

This is a do-not-miss gig. The Surf Coasters will drop into Cherrybomb’s new favorite dig, Slim’s Last Chance Chili Shack, on September 6th. It’s pretty mind-boggling how great TSC are live, but I think the picture of them (above) might help that. If you like high-octane Rockabilly, Hamm’s Beer and cheese grits, you don’t want to miss this show. Did I mention Slim’s makes awesome cheese grits? I did? Okay, good.

Killing Joke, Eighties, 1985.

Lastly, the original lineup of Killing Joke will start a world tour this September that starts in Tokyo and ends up in Chicago in October at the House of Blues. New tour dates were recently announced for the band that include London, LA, and in New York at The Filmore. The band also cranked out some awesome vinyl re-issues, including a KJ favorite of mine, 1985’s Night Time.

Thanks to my favorite LP for her help with this week’s GTFO. You spin me right round, baby. I can’t wait till the next time we get to drink eachother under the table.

Now Get The Fuck Out.

Wendy is back…

So GTFO is back after a one week hiatus. I’m sorry that I could not be your rock and roll tour guide last week, but I was busy doing my first podcast which you can hear as a part of the Sleazegrinder Kick Ass Life podcast, Episode 18. Like I told you before, Cherrybomb has like 18 jobs. How many jobs you got?

For the love of Miss Misery, I need a drink. Lucky for Cherrybomb, I’m home in time for the famous 24 Hour Club Cherrybomb Open Bar. I didn’t even have to click my heels three times to get there. Life is sweet.

Thursday, May 29th:

Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk.

Chuck Palahniuk
Town Hall
Chuck Palahniuk will be at Seattle Town Hall reading from his new book “Snuff“. Palahniuk’s readings are almost as trippy and entertaining as his books. Snuff is the story of Cassie, a porn actress on a quest to capture the ultimate gang-bang on film. To the tune of 600 guys. One of Palahniuk’s greatest traits as a writer is in his character development. It’s so deep, that after reading one of his books, you start to see real-life versions of his characters walking down the street. I have to admit that in the in the case of Snuff, I can’t wait to see someone that looks like Gang-Bang dude, Mr. 176. I think…

The Whore Moans, Neumo’s, February 2008. Photo by Cherrybomb.

The Whore Moans
Coconut Coolouts
Comet Tavern

Does it Offend You, Yeah. The double-dong I mean…

Does it Offend You, Yeah?
Scala (London)
This gig is a benefit for the War Child International. WCI is a charity that provides international outreach and support to children affected by war. WCI estimates that there are 300,000 child soldiers, worldwide. Iggy Pop and Radiohead are also supporters of War Child. DIOYY will be playing a bunch of US dates in California, New York and Toronto in June and July. If you live in any of those places (that are sadly not Seattle – BOO) make sure you see the band that blew everyone away at SXSW this year.

Friday, May 30th:

Das Llamas. Photo by April Brimer.

Das Llamas
Black Eyes and Neckties
The Funhouse
Das Llamas has a new record coming out on June 24 called Class Wars: K-12. Black Eyes and Neckties are my favorite Bellingham band right now. This bill totally kills.

Cancer Rising
The Physics
King Cobra

Nazareth. Old Then and Now. Still Son’s of bitches…

Nazareth
Londrina Country Club (Brazil)
I would like to take this opportunity to share a weird Nazareth story. Former Nazareth guitarist Manny Charlton has pissed off his old Scottish band mates by touring around the US under the name Nazareth. The real Nazareth (or the real version that still includes original vocalist Dan MacCafferty) was so pissed that the band posted this urgent message on their website urging fans not to be taken in by the fake, mostly Yankee version of Nazareth.

In other weird Nazareth news, MacCafferty’s Nazareth is in the middle of a massive tour in honor of their 40th anniversary and new record, The Newz. The tour only gets as close to the US as Canada, to Cherrybomb’s chagrin.

Son of a bitch…

Saturday, May 31st:

Adrian Connor rules…

Hell’s Belles
Hell’s Kitchen
Busy on Saturday? The hottest kitchen in Tacoma also has the Belles on Friday, May 30th and one of Cherrybomb’s favorite local bands, Plaster!

Sunday, June 1st:

The Queers
El Corazon
I told you about this show a while ago. Did you forget? Did you? I mean, I’m not saying that you did forget. But I am saying if you DID forget, you better un-forget how lame you are by Sunday, and get to El Corazon. Also, in relation to your hangover on Sunday, The Queers live are the perfect cure. That and some hair of the dog, that is…

MonsterBra – one size fits all?

Full Moon Horror Road Show
Showbox
If you are a true Horror fan, you do NOT want to miss Full Moon Horror Road Show. Let me put it to you like this. Full Moon makes movies called Assault of the Killer Bimbos and Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death, with Adrienne Barbaeu. Full Moon also made a little movie called Castle Freak, which was directed by the Re-Animator himself, Stuart Gordon. Full Moon makes something called a MonsterBra. Although I doubt the “one size fits all” MonsterBra claim, Full Moon can do ANYTHING. Including taking their naked-chick-in-a-bloodbath show on the road. MonsterBra not included.

Looking Ahead:

Brothers of the Sonic Cloth. Oil hero worship on canvas.

On June 6th, Tad Doyle of Tad and his new band, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth will be at Jules Maes. BOTSC will also play the Gutter Twins show along with Skullbot in July at the Showbox. If you happen to be in San Diego on June 6th, head over to The Beauty Bar and catch The Bloody Hollies. I can personally attest that The Hollies are as good as the surfing in SD. And that’s really good.

It’s finally Summertime and that means it’s all about the return of your favorite cover bands to your local club scene. Here is the line-up so far for Seattle:

Led Zeppelin ain’t gonna tour but you can still see them. Sort of…

So many tribute bands, only so much time, so here we go. Supernauty, the Seattle-based Black Sabbath cover band, will be at Nectar Lounge on Wednesday, June 25th. On Saturday, July 5th, Revolver, A Beatles Tribute, will be at The Triple Door. A mere five days later, on Thursday, July 10th the all-girl Led Zeppelin troupe, Zepparella (not to be confused with Lez Zeppelin, the all-girl Zep tribute that played Bonaroo this year) plays the Tractor with Witchburn. Witchburn is fronted by Jamie Nova, who belts ‘em out for the supergirl-powered AC/DC tribute, Hell’s Belles. And since there ain’t no such thing as too much Zeppelin, Led Zepplica, the So-Cal Zeppelin tribute band will play two shows at the King Kat on July 25th & 26th.

Cash’d Out.

Lastly, on Friday, August 15th you can see the Pink Floyd tribute band, The Machine at Neumo’s and follow that up with Cash’d Out, a trib to Johnny Cash on Saturday, August 16th at the Tractor. Phew.

Now Get The Fuck Out already…