Were the metal gods pissed at me last month? First I miss out on grind/crust legends Doom as the show gets moved far away and my buddy shows up way too late for us to go. Then it turns out we could’ve gone to see Nails instead, which I found out about the next morning.
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I like the Roxy but two days in a row? Seriously? Well, there’s a couple of reasons for this. First, I’m kinda sick like that. And second, FREE SHOW BY SCION!! (whom I’m beginning to seriously love!) This time around I got to see Lightning Swords of Death, Saviours and Midnight. You might be asking
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Reviewing a band performance when you personally know someone in it can be a tricky situation. In order to come up with an unbiased view of the performance in question you have to be able to separate friendships from a serious opinion. Brandon Baumann is the singer of Diamond Lane and the younger brother of
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If there was one show I was sorry to have missed while in Asia, it was the Metalliance Tour at Summit Music Hall. I don’t know anyone who made that show in Denver, but Genji (and Ian Mackaye) caught the House of Blues show on 4/5 and his review is like salt in the wound…
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This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… On a slow Tuesday night in Hollywood, Decibel magazine decided to bring the Apostles of Darkness tour to the Key Club. With a slew of bands on the bill including Lecherous Nocturne, Abigail Williams and Hate, this is one tour you should be
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This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… Sunday evening I was at the Echo/Echoplex here in LA for a double feature of metal, two separate shows for the price of one, separated only by a small staircase. The late show which would feature Red Fang,
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This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… For the past few years Scion has done a wonderful job pandering to the young metal community with their free show series. Have they actually sold more cars because of it? Who knows, but certainly no metalheads are complaining.
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This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… Late Thursday night I got the call from a friend inviting me to join him at the Viper Room to see LA‘s Fireball Ministry. Not being terribly familiar with them nor very eager to leave my nice
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This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent in the coming year. Last weekend I went back home to San Francisco for my friends’ 40th birthday. Wanting to prove to ourselves that we might be old in body but not in spirit, we decided to jump into
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