Vedder put it best when he said “There are laws in this state against things like gay marriage, but there isn’t a law in California that says you can’t lose your shit at a rock ‘n’ roll concert.” On this night, he was correct.
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PEARL JAM @ GIBSON AMPHITHEATRE
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments
EXENE CERVENKA: BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY IT IS
September 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Exene Cervenka helped invent what Los Angeles is now and helped save the best of what it used to be. She releases a new solo album Somewhere Gone on Bloodshot in October and is moving back to California after years in a historic farmhouse in Missouri. She speaks now while camping on the beach. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
DAVID SERBY: OVER THERE IN THE BACK OF THE BAR
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments
David Serby was a punk kid in Orange County and then an insurance adjuster in L.A. and took a long time and a lot of lumps to become the country singer he is now. He performs monthly at dark bars with old photos on the walls and he has just released his third album Honky Tonk And Vine. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
EXENE CERVENKA DIAGNOSED WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
Just off the wire—Exene Cervenka receives test results determining she has multiple sclerosis. Her statement—where she confirms that she’ll continue with the current X tour and her upcoming solo album—below.
STATEMENT FROM EXENE CERVENKA OF X:
After some months of not feeling 100% healthy, I recently had some medical tests run and the prognosis is that I [...]
COACHELLA 2009 @ INDIO POLO FIELD
April 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Watching X and My Bloody Valentine put into perspective all these kids making noisy pop music by recalling the rich and fabled genealogy of this newfangled uprising and putting a sincere (albeit wrinkled) face on sounds that were once something controversial and that today’s babies take for granted… it must be oddly pleasant to play a show you never would’ve been asked to play in your own heyday, knowing that tropes you helped invent are propelling smooth-skinned foals into stardom from what middle-aged critics are carelessly referring to as the “outside” or the “fringes” while you wonder where the hell that leaves you?
COACHELLA SET TIMES
April 14th, 2009 · No Comments
Although we have yet to toy around with the Coachooser, we present here (via Goldenvoice and Coachella) the set times for this weekend:
