2010 San Diego Music Awards Rock Metal legends IRON BUTTERFLY accept their Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 San Diego Music Awards, 9/12/10, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey.” One of them had said something about “42 years ago…” Was that the previous time they had been on the Humphry’s stage? Photos by Reviewer Rob. “In The Garden Of Eden” ~ Iron Butterfly
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey.”
show review: In The Red, Casbah, 9/4/10
Casbah’s Back Room Gets In The Red (with The Long and Short of It , Rats Eyes , Terremoto, Gloomsday and Burl) Review and photos by Sean Ross In the days of yore in the land of yon when bands were ushered through the rites of passage amid Christmas lights, low ceilings, and throw rugs—where admirers could get up close, […]
show review: A Night At The Casbah! THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT & IN THE RED
The Raw Fun of It [In The Red as well as the other bands who played that night also have reviews forthcoming. Stayed tuned… ~Ed.] Review By Sean Ross The Casbah, known for its seven-night lineup, pool table benches, and low flying jets, will always remind you that small venues are the best places for viewing shows. Where else can […]
Video: Crystal Renn Dances ’round The Block
Art + Commerce hips us to many things. from fordmodelsblog.com. Art + Commerce hips us to many things. Their formidable portfolio of campaigns, their roster of photographers, and then there is their blog, which today of all grey days served a peach of a video featuring Crystal Renn shot by photographer Skye Parrott on set for the new Canadian fashion […]
new music reviews, eightfourseven, Buck Gooter, cheater pint …
The Experiments What Kind of Animal Review by Sean Ross The Experiments latest and free album What Kind of Animal quickly asserts itself as pop-punk teeming with classic sounds familiar to the tortured underage urban wanderers of the late seventies and early eighties—only, much tighter and impressive, more now. Songs are replete with stylized guitar punctuations, absurdly succinct and punchy […]
Three more new CDs that will rock your world!
New Concept Stomp! www.new-concept.net Esox Music www.esoxpop.com Reviewed by Kent Manthie There’s a new band in town, just off the Lufthansa jetliner from Germany: New Concept sound like they just stepped out of a time warp from a club in what was then West Berlin, circa 1982. Maybe the members were catching a show by Ultravox, Cabaret Voltaire or Spandau […]
Brand New of Montreal CD – just out!!!
Of Montreal False Priest Polyvinyl Records, 2010 Reviewed by Kent Manthie What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re Kevin Barnes. False Priest is his tenth blissful CD, released under the moniker of Montreal. Unfortunately, I was a Johnny-Come-Lately when it came to discovering this project, but then again, they hardly ever come out to So-Cal – I first reviewed them […]
book review: Neil Young, Long May You Run
[Book Review] Neil Young, Long May You Run: An Illustrated History By Daniel Durchholz and Gary Graff Voyageur Press Minneapolis, 2010, hardcover book review by Kent Manthie Into his fifth decade as an uncompromising, unpredictable and awe-inspiring songwriter Neil Young has touched the hearts and minds of many types of people: in other words, there’s no particular demographic for who […]