It’s hard to describe how wonderfully odd Modest Mouse was whenLonesome Crowdedcame out almost 27 years ago to the day. The band had a low-fi recklessness and a trailer-park lyrical sensitivity, and were, to some extent, mysterious ‘round these parts. They rarely did interviews, but Isaa...
Prior to the interview for this column, the last time I spoke with Shawn Foree, the mastermind behind the musical project Digital Leather, was a couple years ago. It was late in the evening standing outside the patio door at mid-town punk club O’Leaver’s, no doubt killing time betwee...
Back downtown, The Slowdown is hosting a Halloween Throw Down with three tribute/cover bands: Fear of Ghosts (The Cure), Surfer Rosa (The Pixies) and Dead Wave (who does some original stuff along with a few Joy Division covers). I’m not sure if this is a costume thing (though the ...
Also tonight, the 3rd Annual Benson Canned Food Drive is happening at the Barley Street Tavern. Performers include Brad Hoshaw, Kyle Harvey (I guess he’s in town for the holidays), Matt Cox, John Klemmenson, Nick Carl, Bret Vovk, Rebecca Lowry and Matt Whipkey. Admission is two cans of...
Nazi Bund meetings in the Santa Monica mountains and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese rooted out of Boyle Heights and sent to Santa Anita racetrack to await deportation to camps in Arizona, Navy boys waiting for their call ups beating up zoot suiters downtown—another big canvas, I...
Basically the story is about a group of non-humans are trying to invade the human world and they were taking over this town. The king gave this fire to this monk (I think he’s a monk), this fire have the power to destroy those creatures and the monk’s journey is to deliver the...
As the set wore on we wandered out of the beer garden looking for food, but by 7 or so, Maple Street had become a blocked-off ghost town. I guess you had to get there early to get in on food booths…or maybe there weren’t any. I noticed a food truck parked nearby, but it ...