Futile Effort No. 1

Futile Effort at Spanky’s Cafe in Riverside, 1989

Dr. Know No. 25

Dr. Know, All or Nothing, Klinefelter, Bad Chile, The Assailants, and Krud Running Late at El Tropico in East LA

The Nerve Agents (On Tour) No. 4

The Nerve Agents at the VFW Hall in Falls Church, VA

Social Distortion No. 54, Youth Brigade No. 55

Someone Got Their Head Kicked In North American Tour ’82 advert, Maximum RocknRoll No. 2, 1982

Circle Jerks No. 45

Circle Jerks, SNFU, Slam, Instigators, and Dehumanizers at Fender’s

New Mike Watt Interview!

Mike Watt, White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX, by David Ensminger

Read site editor David Ensminger’s new observant, keen, and lively  interview with the incredible, indelible, resilient, truth spielin’ Mike Watt, published this week in the Houston Press. It is available here.

Mike Watt Tackles the Minutemen, again

Mike Watt Jom & Terry Show, White Oak Music Hall, Houston, 25 May 2017, by David Ensminger

Though the local club (that is trying to gentrify a working class Hispanic neighborhood) barred my camera from entry, these cell phone pics do capture some of Mike Watt’s roiling energy, surge, and rumble (mixed with bouts of whispery quietude), and his fiery, fluid cross-cutting between the Minutemen’s deep vaultage/history of song last night, from “If Reagan Played Disco” and “Cut” to obscure nugget tracks off Double Nickels on the Dime and What Makes a Man Start Fires? — a high velocity jukebox of crackerjack tunes, including Roky Erickson, meant to sweep away the last embers of mundane music. “Go start your own band!” he yelped at the end, paying homage to the Big Boys, the funk-punk pioneers of Texas. Look for my interview with Watt posting tomorrow!

X (On Tour) No. 6

X at the Bluebird Theater in Denver, CO, 2009, by Mexican Chocolate Design

New John Doe (X) Interview!

Make sure to read my brand new succinct but lively interview with the legend himself, JOHN DOE, the bassist/singer/writer hero of X, one of the long-lasting firebrand icons of L.A. underground music! It published this week in the Houston Press, which you can read here.

The BellRays (On Tour) No. 3

The BellRays, House of Blues, Houston, TX, May 2017, by David Ensminger