AFG Must Rock

Happy Halloween! Here’s a rough cut (v1.2) from The Swagger Sticks sweaty punk rock video for “She Wants Everything.” It still needs some work but here’s a sneak peak! AFG Must Rock! www.TheSwaggerSticks.com

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I saw my favorite new local band, Icky’s Ego, at The Joint last night in West LA. (full disclosure: my friend Vreny Van Elslande plays bass in Icky’s Ego but they’re still my favorite new band so there).  At any rate, these guys are very cool and here’s why: Icky’s Ego is an avante-garage rock collaboration of Los Angeles-based musicians  fronted [...]

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Five years in between records generally considered rock n’ roll suicide, unless you’re in the Rolling Stones or something where you can wait like ten years (or more) in between releases and then sell out stadiums around the world charging a hundred and fifty bucks a ticket. For The Von Bondies, who released “Love and Hate [...]

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“People have certain kinds of expectations of what a band should be like,” he says. “I’ve had guys get weirded out because I load my own stuff or because we didn’t fly to gigs. It don’t matter what kind of expectations people might have, just do what it takes to get it done. If it’s [...]

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The director for our video sent this over today…haha

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Well, since The Swagger Sticks are off until mid-November (we’re playing our video release show at The Bootleg on Sat, 11/14/09), I’m making an effort to go out and see some shows. And, since I missed The Shakers on Wednesday and The Aggrolites in Pamona on Thursday, I made sure to make it out to Alex’s [...]

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Here’s another great Hell Cat Records band, The Aggrolites. Their next show is on 10/22/09 at the The Glass House in Pomona, CA. Check it out ya’ll! AFG Must Rock! Check out: www.TheSwaggerSticks.com

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I just got a pair of tickets to The Pixies 20th anniversary tour celebrating the release of the album Doolittle.  I’m seeing them on the first leg of the show here in Los Angeles at The Palladium on Friday, 11/6/2009. Tickets were $50.50 with a $12.95 “ticket fee.” Opening that night is Rain Machine, the [...]

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So I heard that Rancid opened for Chicago bred punks, Rise Against, this past summer. I grew up in Chicago (but now live in LA) and caught the tail end of the 80s hardcore scene when bands like Naked Raygun were packing them in at the Caberet Metro. Back then I couldn’t wait to mosh [...]

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Rancid just finished up their 2009 tour of Japan a few days ago. I hope the guys had a great time in Asia and I’m hoping for more U.S. tour dates! Check out their video for “Last One To Die” below and my review of “Let The Dominoes Fall.” JAPAN TOUR 2009 Oct. 1 Osaka [...]

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   No fucking way. Jamming this record is romp through some of best punk-hardcore-ska of the decade, with the occasional nod to The Clash and the dub scene of 1970′s London, but in the end this is an original, updated version of the former.   My favorite song, “You Want It, You Got it,” is the [...]

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Well, here we are. Jay Reatard, after releasing a bazillion singles and records for the last ten or so years, now finds himself on Matador Records with his first major (Indie) label release, the self-effacing “Watch Me Fall.” So does that mean we’re all supposed to like Jay Reatard? Presumably, the requisite label “push” has [...]

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