Testicles do NOT equal great rock ‘n’ roll. Can I just say “swollen labia” instead? As in, “Sure, on some late 70s recordings, Mick Jagger successfully mimicked the staccato exclamations and off-key groans of Richard Hell and Stiv Bators–but he never had their swollen labia!”

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GOTHIC TROPIC, MASTON, PITY PARTY, AND INCAN ABRAHAM ON FRIDAY SEP. 23RD AT LOT 1 CAFE, 1533 WEST SUNSET BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 9:00PM/ $5/ 21+

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STONE DARLING, DUNES, PITY PARTY, AND PETER PANTS ON SATURDAY APR. 23RD AT FREAK CITY, 6363 HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, HOLLYWOOD. 8:30PM/ $5/ 18+

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THE DEADLY SYNDROME, POLLS, PITY PARTY, SIGNALS, AND RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS ON SATURDAY DEC. 11TH AT THE ECHOPLEX, 1154 GLENDALE BOULEVARD, LOS ANGELES. 7:30PM/ $15/ ALL AGES.

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Jacqueline Cingolani, all with acid-wracked moaning and uncontrollable stomping foot, converged on the surrounding crowd, pulling them towards her, perhaps in hopes that the epically tall and mulleted bassist would turn into some hallucinatory lizard grandfather monster and feed, while the guitars fuzzed flowers into the cosmic universe brain.

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Download: The Pity Party – Bottom of the Hole [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (off Orgy Porgy EP self released by The Pity Party)

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How sweet it is that Heisenflei came to M in a cardboard box! Here is the Pity Party’s new music video for “Wanting Want.” Directed by Joaquin Poblete and produced by Draw Pictures, it was the band’s prize for winning 826LA’s Battle Of The Bands earlier this year. and go behind the scenes with the [...]

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During the fourth or fifth song, I watched a guy who had been bobbing to the music turn to his friend and say, “This is a good one!” Reality became heavy for him and he stopped moving, closed his eyes, his hands stayed where they were for almost two minutes. He came back to life long enough to mouth the words, “They remind me of Helmet. You remember Helmet?” He blacked out again in slow motion, not drunk, but zoned in. I wondered if he was imagining Heisenflei’s bra.

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