cd review: Don Luster Sings, Only Human

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album review: The Funerals, OINK

The Funerals, OINK The Funerals are a Mexican punkrock band from the Distrito Federal of Mexico City. Their new release of 11 tracks is on Bandcamp called OINK and it’s hardcore to the max, iconoclastic angry anti-everything, tight machine gun drums, aggressive vocals, unashamed and unconcerned with who or what is offended. My favorites are track 4, Strange Girl, and […]

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FANBOY Premier Night on The Big Screen

Thursday at South Bay Drive-in FANBOY Comes To Life by Reviewer Rob “Yeah I’m down here at the drive in making sure my DCP works (digital cinema print). This is surreal,” ~ Ben Johnson upon seeing the South Bay Drive-In screen where Fanboy would premier. Q: Hey Ben, did you get any help whatsoever from any “mainstream” movie industry sources […]

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new music: Electricity For Dreams, from Junk Parlor

[New Music] CD REVIEW: JUNK PARLOR, ELECTRICITY FOR DREAMS covered by Reviewer Rob 8 tracks, martial marching tunes for the accordian and klezmer crowd. Maybe there is some klenzmer here, I don’t know. Just seems to fit into that genre since there’s a strong eastern European spirit echoing through this music which I noticed immediately long before reading in the […]

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review: Club Decades

[You Can Dance] Stripclub Goth by Reviewer Rob This location has history which for San Diego as a navy town that was developed after the big war is rare. A Portuguese immigrant war vet prize boxer, the late Horatio Vella, built it as a touring band venue dance/night spot (not a strip club) called The Green Onion in the mid […]

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new music: LUNA DEATH TRAILS – RIDDEN COUNTRY TERROR SNOW

[Performance Art] new music: LUNA DEATH TRAILS – RIDDEN COUNTRY TERROR SNOW Friquita Francis, words & Marco Butcher, music. Recorded at Boom Box Studios, North Carolina, produced in Istanbul, Turkey, 2016. review by Reviewer Rob LUNA DEATH TRAILS – RIDDEN COUNTRY TERROR SNOW” is a big and bawdy new single track with lyrics that meander all over the emotional map […]

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Americana Dance Hall

[Photo log] The Grand Old Office The Americana dance and music scene words and photos by Reviewer Rob One night a month The Office on 30th Street in San Diego (the classic old completely remodeled Scolari’s Office space, remember?) turns into a country-western honky tonk now and it’s a free for all on stage as local talent does their best […]

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Arlo Guthrie’s timeless ALICE’S RESTAURANT

[Protest] Alice’s Restaurant Music Has Been A Way To Resist For A Long Time From The Atlantic: ‘The lyrics’ synopsis: On Thanksgiving 1965, Guthrie and some pals went to throw out garbage from the church where the titular Alice lived, but the dump was closed for the holiday. So he instead tossed the waste at an unsanctioned site, was caught […]

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