June Caldwell
June Caldwell (writer & photographer) and husband, Rodger Caldwell (photographer) cover music and political events and trends.
For pit action photos or more of June's articles, please see her postings on undergroundmine.com or more pix at flickr.com. Please see www.photobucket.com for more of Rodger Caldwell's photos. June splits her time between music & political event coverage and doing radio airplay promotions for Bryan Farrish Radio Promotions. She covers the California music scene for artrocker.com, the largest bi-weekly new music publication in the UK; and writes for the international hip-hop and world site fly.co.uk June and Rodger are a contributing author/photography team to several newspapers including the Santa Monica Mirror and the Topanga Messenger.
For pit action photos or more of June's articles, please see her postings on undergroundmine.com or more pix at flickr.com. Please see www.photobucket.com for more of Rodger Caldwell's photos. June splits her time between music & political event coverage and doing radio airplay promotions for Bryan Farrish Radio Promotions. She covers the California music scene for artrocker.com, the largest bi-weekly new music publication in the UK; and writes for the international hip-hop and world site fly.co.uk June and Rodger are a contributing author/photography team to several newspapers including the Santa Monica Mirror and the Topanga Messenger.
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Articles by June Caldwell
April 17, 2009
Picture: The Gin Club at Musexpo 2008.
One of the biggest International music industry conferences in the world, Musexpo, involves top executives from every level and sector of the music business. The Los Angeles version is April 26 – April 29, 2009. For information: www.musexpo.net.
There is ...
March 09, 2009
Six degrees of separation: Brisbane, Australia's chart-topping indie label, PLUS ONE RECORDS launches 'AUSTRALIANACITY OF HOPE-A QUICK GUIDE TO INDIE AUSTRALIA' in the US the same week the label's ex-band members appear on Letterman.
September 06, 2008
Article by June Caldwell, Photo of Obama at Convention 08 by Rodger Caldwell
1) DANGER: posting false projection poll results today can be used to MASK stolen elections in November!
2) McCain clearly doesn't have a neck
3) Polling methods vary. The most common method tends to use 'likely vo...
September 02, 2008
Reporting by June Caldwell, Photos by Rodger Caldwell
Democratic Audacity of Scope
Against the backdrop of the pale anemic barely-alive Republican National Convention, the brilliant multi-hued Democratic Convention still shines vibrantly like fireworks that explode continually in our minds eyes ...
September 01, 2008
The following information was included is a release from Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time on Sept. 1, 2008.
Goodman was arrested while attempting to free two Democracy Now! producers who we...
July 12, 2008
Is Denver International Airport prepared for the onslaught on it's way to the Democratic National Convention this August?
June 23, 2008
Green art at a Blue Convention in Denver this summer
May 08, 2008
Article by June and Rodger Caldwell.
Photo by June Caldwell from what seems like an eternity ago, the California Democratic Convention, April 2007, one of the first appearances of all the Democratic Candidates together in California.
At the time of the writing of this article, the Democratic pri...
November 23, 2007
Picture of Dennis Kucinich by Rodger Caldwell
Global Warming and America’s Energy Future – A Presidential Forum, Sponsored by GRIST and others
Wadsworth Theatre, Westwood, California
Nov. 17, 2007
Reporting by Rodger and June Caldwell
Global Warming ‘non-negotiable’ to Youth
A huge enthusi...
October 25, 2007
Bill Maher had an outburst on national TV similar to Michael Richards’ last year. Ironically, in this case the ‘Politically Incorrect’ guru, Maher was yelling and swearing at a few audience members who were too left-wing and – that’s right- too politically incorrect for his taste. The subject: quest...
October 16, 2007
The Bonedaddys new album 'waterslide'
wwww.thebonedaddys.com
Batton down the hatches...the dance torrent, 'waterslide', has arrived! Yes, The Bonedaddys are breaking out thier much anticipated brand new album. Lead by percussionist Mike Tempo, The Bonedaddys put Los Angeles on the World music ma...
October 08, 2007
Picture of Bloc Party by Rodger CaldwellReview of 2nd Annual LA Weekly Detour Festival 2007 on Saturday, October 6, 2007Downtown LA
One of those amazing days in Los Angeles due to uproarious wind the night before, it was spectacularly clear and gorgeous. From downtown LA you could see mountains a...
October 04, 2007
Picture of James Sudakow by June Caldwell
Think there's no great local independent So Cal bands? Well guess again, they are right under your nose! So don't miss the boat, and hear about them first from some out of touch New York website claiming to have discovered them. On October 11, Santa Monic...
September 21, 2007
Photo of Kinky by Rodger Caldwell
LA DETOUR FESTIVAL October 6 , 2007, all day and night, Main Street and First Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
Think the summer of blazing rock festivals is over? Think you have to drive out to the middle of a desert to have a cornucopia of bands explode in a p...
September 06, 2007
Picture of Dusty Rhodes and the River Band by Rodger Caldwell
What better way to spend the hottest day of summer than chillin’ at a music festival in Santa Monica? What turned out to be a perfect location was Bergamot Station a couple miles from the beach, on Sept. 2.
The Summer Strummer Festi...
August 28, 2007
Picture of Howard Dean, Kalyn Free and Frank Lamere by June Caldwell
On Thursday, August 23, 2007, history was made in Indian Country at the Presidential forum following an exhaustive week of training for Native American political leaders. Three Presidential candidates and Chairman of the Democra...
August 22, 2007
Picture of Senator Mike Gravel by June Caldwell
What do you get when you put 150 Native American leaders in a room to have at it with the three Dem Presidential candidates that are too radical for prime time, and throw in Chairman of the Democratic Party, the rebel yeller himself, Howard Dean? ...
August 16, 2007
Santa Monica tonight, a rare triple header:
The legendary Patti Smith FREE on the Santa Monica Pier at 7:30 pm, on the top echalon of Rollings Stones list of 100 best performers of all time.
Then, at 9 pm a few blocks away at Santa Monica's landmark rock pub showcase, 14 Below, two of So Cal's...
August 15, 2007
Several cases of amnesia have been exhibited in accelerating numbers in Washington. The public and press have mistakenly thought this was due to lying, threats, and political deals. It has been discovered that an amnesia causing enzyme has actually been identified in the water in Washington DC that ...
August 11, 2007
Historic Presidential Forum on Morongo Tribe location in Cabazon California on Aug 23, 2007.
Richardson, Kucinich, Gravel Confirmed
Picture of Dennis Kucinich by June Caldwell
Tulsa, Okla. - Prez on the Rez, an historic forum that will assemble Democratic presidential candidates together on ...
August 09, 2007
Reported by Rodger and June Caldwell. Picture of Tom Hayden by June Caldwell.
In keeping with the media’s sudden obsession with the clothes and hair of political figures since Hillary Clinton has thrown her hat in the Presidential race, I must say Tom Hayden looked smashing in his ivory garden pa...
July 08, 2007
Impeachment Center Opens in LA on Independence Day to a Flurry of Press. Story and Picture by Rodger and June Caldwell.
The goal of the brand spankin new Los Angeles Impeachment Center is to support the movement to Impeach Bush and Cheney. Can we thank Paris Hilton for the enhanced media attenti...
June 28, 2007
Picture by Rodger Caldwell
At his award ceremony at the US Conference of Mayors in LA on June 24, Randy Jackson discussed on stage with Mayor Mufi Hannemann of Hawaii the development of a new reality show, American Idol, Mayors Edition. Jackson, one of the key judges of the astoundingly popular ...
June 26, 2007
Picture of 75th Annual Conference of Mayors, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza by Rodger Caldwell.
‘Think globally and act locally’ has been replaced with ‘act locally and resolve globally’ by the US Conference of Mayors at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, June 22-26, 2007. They addresse...
June 20, 2007
United States Conference of Mayors, 75th Annual Meeting, June 22-26, 2007 at Hyatt Regency, Century Plaza Hotel.
Photo of Rev Michael Beckwith
The nation's mayors will gather in LA for the annual meeting of the US Conference of Mayors, hosted by LA's own Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa.
The m...
June 19, 2007
Reporting by Rodger and June Caldwell. On Site Photo by June Caldwell.
Monday, June 18, 2007: A large fire broke out at a Santa Monica business located at 1928 14th St, just south of 14th and Pico around 7 pm. Two local youths in Santa Monica, grade school students Tyler Walker and Ryan Chamberla...
June 18, 2007
HURT MODEL AT THE SMELL IN DOWNTOWN LA
Reviewed by Rodger and June Caldwell
Picture by June Caldwell
We followed our noses to The Smell in downtown LA to check out Hurt Model a “math rock” dynamic duo that started the night in an energetic mode. The Smell is a small hangout in a neglected stret...
June 18, 2007
Howard Dean, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Breaks it Down in Beverly Hills.
Reported by Rodger and June Caldwell. Picture of Howard Dean by June Caldwell.
And the big three are...Hillary, Obama, and Edwards? Nope! Try: Toughness, Fairness and Fiscal Responsibility. Howard Dean...
June 03, 2007
Picture of William J. Clinton by Rodger Caldwell
Sign of the times: choose the President of the free world carefully – for your commencement speech, that is. The President you choose could make or break a perfectly fine day!
Former President William J. Clinton spoke to applause and peaceful ce...
May 21, 2007
TUESDAY, MAY 22nd, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors is about to appoint a New Registrar of Voter and Assistant ROV. Our worst nightmare is moving to San Diego, a guarantee the 2008 elections will be rigged, unless enough voices speak up while we still have the chance.
The ROV is to be a ...
May 20, 2007
Former President William J. Clinton Presents Commencement Address at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York on May 25, 2007.
Do more high-profile politicians speak at college graduations during election years, or do we just notice them more? Amidst a flurry of presentations thi...
May 17, 2007
Coachella Music Festival Recap
Friday, April 27 - Sunday, April 29
Indio Empire Polo Fields, Coachella, California
On Site Reporting by Damon Kellard
It was that time again, the time to embrace the feeling of adventure and throw away an unmitigated sense of self reliance, to witness for your...
May 12, 2007
This Mothers Day, Let's Put Flowers On and Take Oil Privatization Off the Table!
Morning Glory Picture by Rodger Caldwell.
June and Rodger Caldwell offer this to you in love and honor of our own deceased mothers: Madeline Caldwell, who served in the Woman's Air Corp in an honorable war, World ...
May 06, 2007
Story and Picture of Dennis Kucinich by June Caldwell
In a meeting with the West Los Angeles Democratic Club on Saturday, May 5, Presidential candidate and Ohio Congress Representative Dennis Kucinich revealed that the Democrats in Congress had made some secret concessions to the Republicans in t...
May 01, 2007
California Democratic ConventionApril 27-29, 2008, San Diego Convention CenterStory & Photo by June Caldwell
The California Democratic Convention hit peaceful San Diego over the head harder than a swift mallet pound by Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats had arrived! A dazzling string of Democratic Presi...
April 24, 2007
Interview with MARCY WINOGRAD, President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, on the impeachment resolution progressives submitted to the California Democratic Party for consideration at the Party's convention this weekend, April 27-29, at the San Diego Convention Center.
Thank you for this...
April 14, 2007
‘The Truth of Telling It’Prerelease Single by Think AlikeRelease date: July 2007
Have we finally moved past the overtreaded two-dimensinal synch-eighties rehash rock of clones of Franz Ferdinand and The Killers? There is hope! Deeper, more full rock n roll anthems sighted just around the bend! Wh...
March 24, 2007
The 'Out of Iraq Peace' March at noon on March 17, 2007 from Hollywood and Vine to Hollywood and Highland took things up several notches from previous marches.
Where did the time go? Amazingly it was the beginning of the fifth year of the Iraq War! Time does fly when you are having an illegal war...
October 16, 2006
Vegoose 2006 is on! Vegoose is a halloween music and arts festival that first took place in 2005 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Vegoose has become an annual event, with the 2006 festival approaching this October. Unlike the Bonnaroo Music Festival, which is put on by the same organizers (AC Entertainment ...
October 16, 2006
GRAND AVENUE FESTIVAL AND DETOUR FESTIVAL, DOWNTOWN LA, OCT. 7, 2006;
Reviewed by: June Caldwell, Tim Estrada, and Alisha Ways. Photo by: Rodger Caldwell.
Los Angeles came alive like a sleeping giant on October 7, with not one but two festivals a few blocks from each other! The summer music fest...
October 16, 2006
So you think the worlds of rock ‘n’ roll rebels and TV advertising don’t mix? EliasArts, international TV advertising soundtrack giants, beg to differ. Santa Monica’s EliasArts has recently snared such independent music icons as Joey Santiago of the Pixies, and DJ Nic Harcourt of Santa Monica’s KCRW...
October 04, 2006
On Thursday, October 5, people will walk out of school, take off work, gather in town squares, and MARCH in cities across the country, declaring their intention to bring the Bush program to a halt.
In the past ten days, the number of cities and towns planning protests jumped from 50 to over 152. ...
August 17, 2006
On August 24, the ever groundbreaking KCRW extends their reach even further with a brand new international web radio station! And this new twist is designed to make their previous programming look tame! On Labor Day, Sept 4, you can hear the fresh spankin new www.KCRWmusic.com on their terrestrial a...
August 13, 2006
Vasco Era, the sensation from Australia had some time for a chat before their blistering set at Spaceland in Hollywood. Their sound is a wall of sheer rock n roll with a charismatic lead singer that is a growling force of nature! They hail from Apollo Bay, the tiniest seaside town in Australia.
V...
August 13, 2006
After a triumphant tour through Australia, The Cloud Room hunkered down to do some recording when they got a call that they had four days to prepare for a national tour supporting Muse at the largest stadiums in the largest cities throughout the US. They were taking it in stride, as cool as clouds d...
August 12, 2006
SAN DIEGO STREET SCENE
Aug 4 – 5, 2006
Reviewed by June Caldwell
Here we are again, has it been a year already?... racing to San Diego for the Street Scene. I call it ‘lopsided scene’ this year. Day one a whirlwind of accelerating band after band overlapping on 4 stages causing an insane dash t...
Interview with Rodney Bingenheimer About How the World's Biggest Fan Gets His Star on Hollywood Blvd
August 12, 2006
By Tim Estrada and June Caldwell
"I passed up a Killers listening party at the Roosevelt for this interview!" Rodney greeted us with, somehow making it sound like a sincere compliment ... nothing like a little pressure with our soup! The most famous DJ in the US for being the first to spin most g...
August 10, 2006
VEGOOSE 2006 INITIAL ARTIST ANNOUNCEMENT!
Oct 27 -31, 2006
Main show: Oct 28 – 29, 2006 Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Widespread Panic
The Killers
The Mars Volta
Keller Williams Incident feat. Keller Williams
backed by the String Cheese Incident
The Black Crow...
August 02, 2006
The 22nd annual STREET SCENE is set for Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5 in San Diego and will be headlined by Kanye West (Friday) and Tool (Saturday). More than 50 internationally acclaimed artists will perform on six stages in a massive 2.5 million square foot area outside Qualcomm Stadium...
July 30, 2006
Steely Dan Live at Soboba Reservation 7/21/06
As Steely Dan sauntered onto the arena stage on July 21 on an Indian Reservation at Soboba, Walter Becker said, “We’re happy to be on Indian land here, because the Wilson Brothers are suing the f--- out of us! I don’t think they can touch us here…t...
July 30, 2006
MUSE LIVE AT THE GREEK THEATER IN LOS ANGELES July 19, 2006
We had waited patiently for two years to see Muse, our favorite band, live again... AT LAST!! Maybe just to see if the experience of seeing them live was as much of a, well, ‘muse’ as we remembered. As in the Greek definition of an inspi...
July 27, 2006
Giving the term ‘washboard abs’ a whole new meaning – or perhaps it’s original meaning - Boulder Acoustic Society combined fiddle, marimbas, stand up base and (you guessed it if you are paying any attention at all) …washboards!! to lay down a rollicking roller coaster ride of bluegrass, rock, barber...
July 26, 2006
How will this Brooklyn band of local heroes, peppered with some international buzz - just beginning to hit their stride - do with only 4 days to prepare for a national tour as the support band for Muse, the number one band from the UK?
The Cloud Room takes on the challenge and the curious crow...
July 26, 2006
Vasco Era is an amazing trio from Apollo Bay, the most sleepy teeny surf town on the shores of Victoria, Australia. Blazing onto the scene in the wake of Wolfmother and the John Butler Trio, they solidify Oz as the home of blues rock updated. Their set was a glory of no-holds barred thunder from dow...
July 12, 2006
LIVE REVIEW OF KINKY CONCERT IN DOWNTOWN LA ON JULY 1, 2006
How did six guys from Monterrey Mexico single-handedly give me my hometown LA on a silver platter? I have lived in LA most of my life. To experience the free Kinky concert smack dab in the middle of downtown LA was a dream come true. Ne...
July 02, 2006
Not knowing what to expect live, I was pleasantly surprised at Apollo Sunshine’s blazing set at Spaceland in LA on June 27. Apollo Sunshine translates well live, as their self-titled and ‘Katonah’ album have a live feel. On the Spaceland stage where bands from all over the world hit when they hit LA...
June 26, 2006
PEARRY TEO TALKS ABOUT GENERATING 'THE GENE GENERATION’
INTERVIEW BY: JUNE CALDWELL, RODGER CALDWELL, STEVE CARVER, AND TIM ESTRADA
Pearry Reginald Teo, film director/producer (b. 23 July 1978), also known as Zhang Pingli, is the first Singaporean movie director to make a Hollywood film. The m...
June 26, 2006
Review of The Futureheads Live at the Fonda Theatre in LA and New Album 'News and Tributes' by June and Rodger Caldwell.
The literal meaning of ‘Beserker’ is “Norse warriors who worked themselves into a frenzy before a battle” which pretty much sums up The Futureheads new album ‘News and Tributes...
June 26, 2006
MUSE LAUNCHES LONG AWAITED WORLD TOUR AND NEW ALBUM!
‘BLACK HOLES AND REVELATIONS’ TO BE RELEASED JULY 11, 2006!
REVIEW FOLLOWED BY TOUR SCHEDULE BELOW:
‘Muse Fills US Black Hole of clone Brit bands with new Revelations’
Having heard a prerelease of this album, I'm convinced that ‘Black H...
May 31, 2006
The landscape of talk radio is changing. No more primarily the playing grounds of whichever right wing extremist can yell the loudest, good ol' radio is (albeit kicking and screaming) slowly making room for some healthy debate, and becoming relavant for much needed changes. This just in from www.usa...
May 27, 2006
JOSHUA TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2006 JOSHUA TREE, CALFORNIAMAY 19 - 21, 2006
Reviewed by Rodger and June Caldwell
The atmosphere at the Joshua Tree Music Festival is like stumbling across a campsite of a large family reunion full of cousins whose names you can't remember, but they are still glad to s...
May 27, 2006
Interview with Co-Founder and Chief Officer of Pandora by June and Rodger Caldwell
Imagine a day in the life of the founder of an online radio company spending most of his time traveling the country meeting his users face to face. Not just paying lip service to listening to his users, I had the ad...
May 27, 2006
Interview with Etienne Handman, COO of Pandora by June and Rodger Caldwell
I first met Etienne Handman online by emailing some questions about Pandora. Pandora is the highly customized online radio experience that allows you to enjoy your ?personal online DJ? to create radio stations full of new m...
May 18, 2006
JOSHUA TREE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2006
Looking for an excuse to escape to the high desert this weekend? to find a weekend of music, love, food, a lake, and dancing?
Well, you're in luck! Just check out The Joshua Tree Music Festival 5/19-5/21/2006
In Joshua Tree, California.
It's a giant World Mus...
May 07, 2006
Review by June Caldwell with additional reporting by Rodger Caldwell, Nga Luu and Tim Estrada
We sweated, we danced, we laughed, we cried! All the more poignant against a backdrop of rumors that this is the last year it will be in this, it?s flagship location, the Empire Polo Field in Coachella Ca...
April 25, 2006
Couldn?t miss ?New York Dolls, ?The Hard Lessons? and ?Army Navy? at Spaceland in Silverlake! After wondering why we are so doggedly determined to stand in line around the block in unseasonably cold weather for a band that I thought vaguely must have broken up, died of various heroin overdoses, or ...
April 25, 2006
Not able to resist a free concert, it?s off to East LA to Spaceland on Monday to see Forward Russia, The Lashes and Battle.
The Lashes
Since we were kicked out of a party at SXSW where The Lashes were playing (?this is a private party, no badges!? You?re kidding! They sure put us in our place, d...
March 21, 2006
The South by Southwest Music Convention in Austin, Texas, celebrated it's 20th year anniversary on March 15-19, 2006. With 1500 bands at shows and parties in every bar, arena, club and garage in Austin, it was a cornucopia for the ears. St. Patrick must be turning in his grave, as the Brit Invasion ...
March 01, 2006
Madonna has joined this year's line-up for the seventh annual COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA (Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30)! Look for Madonna Sunday in the Sahara dance tent with a performance that comes prior to the launch of her summer conc...
February 24, 2006
Not to be confused with their ball breaking sound, or a very painful surgery, actually the split of Test Icicles marks the demise of the Brit band most likely to rise to the top in the US. After taking the UK by storm, the post-punk Test Icicles band was slated to go the way of Bloc Party, The Subwa...
February 20, 2006
We don't expect you to buy into our bull.
Quit giving up so easily, wimping out.
Why do you listen to our tired music on Jack radio?
Why do know more about music from the 1970s than I do? In fact, why do play 80s retread music?
We said we were the only generation to count, we scoffed in the ...
January 25, 2006
Coachella, the documentary, features two-hours of highlights from the previous six years of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Check it out at theatres in your area. Visit www.coachella.com for more information on the movie and presale for the festival.
Reviewed as described by Rodg...
January 08, 2006
The Flaming Lips clearly have discovered the secret to living without sleep. What else would explain their upcoming 2006 releases of not only a full new album, a cd/dvd reissue of a classic, and a theatrical movie no less?all squeezed into their continued tradition of non-stop touring, popping up at...
January 01, 2006
Dave Dean, the event’s organizer lost $1.5 million in one day as a result a source disclosed, and was very disappointed and shocked at The Standard downtown while news reporters convened upon him. Fire officials had warned that since the full 6 city blocks could not be covered for attendees, the att...
December 30, 2005
Interview with Dave Dean, founder of 'Giant Club' and producer of 'Giant Village 06'
On New Years Eve this year, 6 blocks of downtown Los Angeles will be transformed into Giant Village 06, a huge party featuring Crystal Method, The Black Eyed Peas, Z-Trip, Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, and mo...
November 25, 2005
‘Art Brut’, one of London’s biggest new music underground’s live draws these days, had been waiting a whole year to sing their crowd pleaser, ‘Moving to LA’ to an actual LA audience! “When I get off the plane/The first thing I'm gonna do is/Strip naked to the waist/And ride my Harley Davidson/Up a...
November 06, 2005
Rodger Caldwell contributed to this article.
The Strip? Fugeddaboutit! The sold out Vegoose Festival was the place to be in Las Vegas this Halloween weekend! The stellar mix of bands included the mega-stars Dave Matthews, with the best international alternative new music like The Arcade Fire, Bec...
November 05, 2005
Ashley Capps of AC Entertainment teamed up with Jonathan Mayers of Superfly Productions to bring us the renowned Tennessee music fest, Bonnaroo. On Halloween weekend of this year their magic struck again. They brought us Vegoose, which turned Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas into a sell out two day mus...
October 23, 2005
Ever been late to a great concert? The 405 South was jammed & the doors to Long Beach Arena open in 45 minutes. With miles to go I clenched my teeth & cursed the idiot in front of me, fully realizing that there were several hundred idiots in front of him that were really the problem. After creeping ...
October 16, 2005
Halloween weekend and tired of the same old costume party? Well imagine a huge costume party ? and mega concert - rolled into one, in the place that is one big costume party all year round, Las Vegas! That gives you a hint of what to expect at VEGOOSE. Saturday and Sunday, October 29 and 30, at Sam...
October 10, 2005
Al Jourgensen’s long awaited compilation with tons of new material hit record stores Sept. 27, along with a North American tour to support it and a contest to win a free copy of Rantology at undergroundmine.com.
I had a chance to get some firsthand rants from the man who arguably single-handedly...
October 09, 2005
Was televangelist Franklin Graham taking notes from a left wing activist last year to regurgitate his ideas in reverse? Reading Robert Paul Reyes’ article “Franklin Graham Sees Hurricane Katrina As Judgment of God” in the California Chronicle, I could not help but be reminded of an ironically simila...
October 09, 2005
‘This is…King Britt’ is a decade retrospective to be released December 9, 2005 on the V2/Nurture Label, seeking to answer the question “who is the real King Britt”? I had a chance to interview King Britt about his classification-defying career. Elusive as a chameleon, King Britt seamlessly flows fr...
September 24, 2005
Thousands of dollars spent on a smear campaign by the meat industry and animal experiment advocates to try to get Hollywood’s elite to boycott the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) 25th Anniversary Gala were clearly barking up the wrong tree.
Attendance surpassed expectation, wi...
September 24, 2005
Hard to believe summer is already over! In Southern California, land of no weather, you’d only know it by the monstrous outdoor rock concert season winding down for another year. The end of herding into big outdoor marathons, with the alcoholics all huddled in beer garden lines missing the music, wh...
PETA Gala Celebrates 25 Years of Dogged Devotion as Lone Voice Howling in the Wind for Animal Rights
September 06, 2005
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) celebrates it’s 25th Anniversary this Saturday, Sept.10 with a star-studded Gala. Not waiting until there is a national disaster, they have been fundraising nonstop to help those who can't speak for themselves. The event's fantasy quotient will be t...
August 30, 2005
Abigail Hopkins from the UK is in Los Angeles this week supporting her ethereal, passionate new cd, ‘Blue Satin Alley’. Her music, already getting formidable attention in the UK, is now breaking in the US. Her silky single ‘I’ll be Waiting for You (In the Name of Love)’ will be hitting US and Canadi...
August 29, 2005
Drive south on Pacific Coast Hwy to the next huge mega-city after Los Angeles that used to be the epitome of a sleepy beach town, and you get San Diego. The San Diego Street Scene festival has evolved in much the same way as the city.
The festival once known for it’s local quaintness held amidst...
August 26, 2005
Always the test of a new cd from a veteran group like Pennywise with a notoriously unforgiving punk fan base, will the audience ‘boo’ (or worse!) the new songs, impatient to hear the old favorites they came for? They needn’t have worried. The songs from their new cd, ‘Fuse’, just released two days b...