Total Trash Weekend

FRIDAY MAY 1st @ Thee Parkside, $10, 9PM
THE SPITS, PERSONAL AND THE PIZZAS, the Ebonics, Culture Kids, Wild Thing, DJ- Stickerguy David Bruce (RENO)

SATURDAY MAY 2nd @ the Knockout, $5, 5PM
TY SEGAL, the Guilty Hearts (Los Angeles), Reptillian Civilian (Portland), The Impediments

SATURDAY MAY 2nd @ the Hemlock Tavern, $7, 9PM
THE DOGS, the Ebonics, the Primitivas

SATURDAY MAY 2nd @ 1234GO! Records, 423 40th st. Oakland, CA, FREE 6-9pm, Opening for the Nobunny and Owen Cook (www.theeowencook.com) art show before Total Trash kicks off over at Ghost Town and and and Nobunny will be doing a solo acoustic show! This will run from 6pm to 9pm (the Ghost Town show starts at 9:30). There will be drinks and general snackables available.

SATURDAY MAY 2nd @ Ghost Town Gallery, $9, 10PM
THE SPITS, NOBUNNY, Hunx and His Punx, The Pets, the Pity Fucks (Portland), DJ- Duke of Windsor (Oakland)

SUNDAY MAY 3rd @ the Knockout, $9, 3PM
THE FLAKES, AUDACITY, The Rantouls, Shannon and the Clams, C'Mon Everybody, the Lateenos, the Teutonics, DJ- Real Boss Hoss (Los Angeles)

MONDAY MAY 4th @ the Knockout, $9, 9PM
THEE OH SEES, TRADITIONAL FOOLS, Movie Star Junkies (Torino Italy), Rock n Roll Adventure Kids, Dead Ghosts (Vancouver BC), DJ- Ayapapaya (San Francisco)

Coachella - Sunday

The Night Marchers

Fucked Up

Brian Jonestown Massacre

Murder City Devils

Paul Weller

My Bloody Valentine

Coachella - Saturday

Superchunk

Band Of Horses

Turbonegro

Mastodon

Coachella - Friday

I had a blast at Coachella last weekend, so many great bands and great people!

These were my highlights...

Los Campesinos!

Morrissey

Silversun Pickups

The Festival Grounds

Patton & Rahzel

Paul McCartney

Genghis Tron

Cool Shows

TONIGHT
Dr. Dog, The Cave Singers, Golden Boots at The Fillmore
Glasvegas, Von Iva at GAMH

FRIDAY
Trainwreck Riders at Hemlock Tavern
Wanda Jackson, Red Meat at Slim's
Turbonegro at GAMH

SATURDAY
The Aimless Never Miss, The Sleepover Disaster, Silian Rail at El Rio

SUNDAY
Mastodon, Kylesa, Intronaut at GAMH

Coachella

I'm heading to Coachella later this week, and it should be a sweaty good time. I'll post some pictures and video clips when I return.

These are the bands I'm looking forward to most:
A Place To Bury Strangers, Genghis Tron, Bob Mould Band, Drive By Truckers, Dr. Dog, Superchunk, Glasvegas, Turbonegro, Mastodon, The Night Marchers, Fucked Up, Murder City Devils, Paul Weller, My Bloody Valentine.

Classics Of Love

Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Big Rig, Common Rider) has a new band called Classics Of Love. They describe their sound as "mid-tempo melodic punk", I describe it as awesome. Their record release show is on May 23rd at 924 Gilman.

Clarity Vinyl

Jimmy Eat World repressed their classic album Clarity on 180 gram vinyl for their recent "Clarity X 10" tour, and copies are now available in their online store. The original goes for over $100 on eBay, so this is great news for collectors.

Cool Shows

WEDNESDAY
The Bay Bridged presents:
Vetiver, Richard Swift, Adam Stephens at GAMH

Marissa Nadler, Eric Shea at Cafe Du Nord

THURSDAY
Dexter Romweber Duo, Sassy, The Touch Me Nots at Thee Parkside

FRIDAY
Bart Davenport, Miranda Lee Richards, Trust at The Knockout

SATURDAY
Made Out Of Babies, Giant Squid, Grayceon, Mammatus, Brave Young at 924 Gilman

Pelican Poster Series

A poster series for the recent Pelican tour was commissioned by Mitch from OMG Posters, and it looks awesome.

The Alan Forbes poster can be purchased through Secret Serpents, and the others can be purchased through PostersAndToys.

Brad Klausen - March 19 Little Rock, AR
Florian Bertmer - March 22 Austin, TX

Brian Morris aka oooOOOooo - March 25 Tempe, AZ

Drew Millward - March 26 San Diego, CA

The Silent Giants - March 27 West Hollywood, CA

Alan Forbes - March 28 San Francisco, CA

Tyler Stout - March 29 Portland, OR

Mike Saputo - March 30 Bellingham, WA

Michael Munter - April 2 Salt Lake City, UT

Arik Roper - April 3 Denver, CO

David D'Andrea - April 5 Chicago, IL