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Jose Sinatra Interview Winstons, OB, 8.30.09 Click the pic below this YouTube post for the Quicktime version of the whole interview unedited…

Exene Cervenka Somewhere Gone review By J. Darren Lee Rarely does a musical artist come by who experiments in more than one type of musical genre, much less more than one type of medium and still be great at every one. Exene Cervenka, formerly of the L.A. punk band X, is one such artist, whose creativity seemingly knows no bounds. […]

[Reviewer TV] Open Air Acoustic With Clare Means Clare Means is a singer/songwriter originally from New Jersey who is currently living in Los Angeles. On the night of August 19th, 2009, she came to San Diego to play a 9pm set at Lestat’s in North Park, but stopped by the beach first to perform her song “Georgette” and do a […]

[punk pioneer profile] A Shot of Whiskeyin a World of Sugary Sweet Exene Cervenka’s new CD, Somewhere Gone, comes out in September on Bloodshot Records. by Vladimir Bloom Exene Cervenka’s name should be on the tip of every music lover’s tongue. As the front woman for the legendary L.A. punk outfit “X”, an actress (alongside her one time husband Viggo […]

Tactics Insurers Use To Dump Policyholders Ex-insurance company spokesman Wendell Potter says the industry seeks to drive the health care debate. By Wendell Potter from CNN.com Note: Wendell Potter has served since May 2009 as senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit organization that says it seeks to expose “corporate spin and government […]

No Doubt show review by Hailey Van Meeter For the second time on their massive, enormous, just plain huge comeback tour, No Doubt rocked the Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre in Chula Vista on Saturday August 8th, 2009 and proved that even if the tour is gigantic, it’s the small things that make it special. Fifty-six mainland shows in the course of […]

Make it a Double Mower Review By Vladimir Bloom mowermusic.com suburbannoizerecords.com/mower.php Upon first listen, Mower, a San Diego based semi-gansta/punk heavy metal band, hearken back to a time in music when bands like the Kottonmouth Kings, Suicidal Tendencies or Biohazard ruled the video-airwaves and movie soundtrack world. Almost every song has some brand of cheap pop culture reference that reminds […]

The Nazi-like hatred of the right wing against Healthcare For All gains the momentum of a Brownshirt movement “people rallied outside before the meeting” [I saw the video of this meeting on C-SPAN last night, on Tuesday, 8-11, which said the meeting took place on Monday. The religious fervor of the anti-healthcare-for-all protesters remarkable. It was alike a religious thing, […]