i think i better follow you around

How good are Dead Cross? Well, according to a (poor) writer at the OC Weekly they are so damn good live that they will make the top 6 of any festival EVEN if they don’t play. That’s just the sheer power of having Dave Lombardo, (Slayer, back when they were good), Justin Pearson (31G, Head Wound City, The Locust, Retox and a few more bands), Michael Crain (Retox) and Gabe Serbian (The Locust, Head Wound City, and quite possibly in the top 4 best drummers in the world) in the band.

They released one song a few months back:

And yes ,the song in amazing and fast and on the thrash punk metal side. But the band had already announced well in advance that they were not going to be able to play.

They are in one of those last stages of getting the album ready to be released at some point in the future. We were fortunate enough to be on their first show ever at The Casbah in San Diego on December of 2015 and it was amazing.

we’ll gladly wait for the new album to be released and we will see them when they tour again, and wherever they play you bet they will be one of the best bands that you will ever get to see and then that article might make some sense.

Well, the first trailer for the documentary Gimme Danger by Jim Jarmusch was released. What’s Gimme Danger? It’s a song by The Stooges. The Stooges are quite possibly the greatest rock n roll band that came out from America, they practically invented punk rock and Iggy Pop might be the last, and quite possibly only living, punk rock legend left alive.

This documentary was made by Jim Jarmusch. If you’re not familiar with the director well you are seriously missing out. Almost all of his films are classics or should be treated as such. Amazing artists have worked with him as well as incredible actresses and actors. He is an auteur.

Which brings us to talking about a trailer. It’s just a 2:00+ minute trailer and we are more than excited for this. It looks amazing. It looks dangerous. It looks somewhat violent and tons of fun. This looks like it should be mandatory viewing for everyone that wants to know about the history of music.

Just click on the trailer, and enjoy because…well because it’s the fucking Stooges!!!

There is a countdown clock on Depeche Mode‘s web site. The release of their Video Singles Collection is schedule for November 11.

What is this countdown about then?, new album?

Stay tuned..

It’s been 25 years since A Tribe Called Quest “Low End Theory” was released.
It’s been 25 years since an album shaped what hip hop could be.
It’s been 25 years of influencing artists of different genres.
It’s been 25 years and hip hop/rap has not been the same.

I cannot imagine being someone who has not heard Low End Theory. If you are a fan of music and have not heard this album then you are simply doing a disservice to yourself.
You can almost see/hear that there are no bad songs on this album. It’s (almost) immaculate. And it’s fitting that 25 years have passed and it still sounds as fresh.

This album simply put changes lives. It changed mine, it changed a lot of who’s who artists lives too, most recently it influenced the Low End Theory party in L.A.

Long live the Tribe.

We still miss Phife.

Here is the playlist with the music we selected last Saturday Sept.  24 at MOFO Bar.
We will be there again every Saturday night in October, hosting NO FUN nights, we hope you can join us from 9:00 p.m. until 2:00 a.m., there is plenty of parking, No Cover, 18 and up with I.D., pet friendly, patio, cold beer, delicious drinks, martinis and Oscar, (the bartender), prepares the best clamato.
We hope you like the music, follow us on Facebook and  Instagram.

Music festivals in the year 2016 have not been excellent as fast as lineups go. Yes, there are a couple of exceptions, Primavera Sound come to mind, but other than a couple more the rest have been lackluster at best. Now, maybe it has been the feel and overkill that every county in the word should have one, but not all are great. So it is a surprise when a better the good lineup comes out, actually you get all excited and giddy about it. And that brings us to this years edition of Beach Goth:

Year over year since their inception the lineups have progressively gotten better without losing their grasp on who’s who right now in the so called indie world, all around on pop-rock-hip hop- and all. And this year they’ve unveiled yet another great lineup with performances by: the amazing King Krule, James Blake, the trip hop legend Tricky, the legendary Gang Of Four, and the poet, artist and punk legend PATTI SMITH. And that’s just Saturday!!!

For Sunday you have Grimes, Future Islands, Moving Units doing Joy Division, Nicolas Jaar and more!!

By more I meant THE GROWLERS on both nights!!

This time it will be held at Oak Canyon Park in Santa Ana on October 22nd and 23rd.

You should not miss out on this it looks like it’s going to be fantastic!

We were not impressed with the series “Stranger Things”, but the soundtrack was decent, for a lot of people it was “the best thing ever”, we think those people don’t listen to a lot of music, they just listen to whatever someone tells them to.
Remember Jonathan Byers?, the older brother, the outsider, the one that wanted to be a photographer, the one with zero friends, the one that loved his little brother, in one scene he plays music to his little brother and tells him:

“..And you shouldn’t like things because people tell you you’re suppose to..” – Jonathan Byers

Well, that kid was right, we love all of those bands and everybody should listen to them, so please listen to good music.

of Montreal video for the lovely song “Let’s relate”, taken from the new album ‘Innocence reaches’

Bat For Lashes video for the song “Joe’s Dream”, from the new album ‘The Bride’.