Last night all eyes would be focused on Lee "Scratch" Perry's performance at the House of Blues in Anaheim. Honestly? I was only there to catch the all too brief performance by Mexican Institute of Sound. I had just arrived, roughly thirty minutes after the "arrive at 7" marker - and glancing up at the big screen tv, I see that my boys had already taken the stage.
Balancing a cup full of Stella Artois, Billy Joe ( happy birthday, cousin! ) and I dashed down the staircase and into a room of, we
Prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh announced this morning he will try a second time to send convicted killer Michael Alan Lamb, 33, to San Quentin State Prison's notorious Death Row.
An Orange County jury convicted the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad hit man in July for the execution-style murder of a fellow gang member and the attempted murder of an undercover Anaheim police officer. After the penalty phase of the trial, the panel heard testimony about Lamb's vicious adult personality (fro
Black Lips, Pierced Arrows and The Growlers
At Detroit Bar
February 10, 2008
Better than: Staying at home and perfecting the 10-key.
Download: "O Katrina" by Black Lips.
You know a show is awesome when you leave drenched in sweat and covered in silly string. Also, I think I'm now slightly deaf. That, my friends, is how the Black Lips do it!
Last night's mosh pit was everything a cozy-sized venue pit should be! Or, well, shouldn't be - did anyone actually read the warnings taped to every co
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Thanks for the Work! An open letter to District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Sheriff Mike Carona, and t
Will Billy Joe's Suck Up to Prison Gang Work?In what may have been acclaimed homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh's easiest conviction, a jury this afternoon found Billy Joe Johnson--the notorious, wide-eyed and lisping Costa Mesa white supremacist--guilty in the 2002 conspiracy to execute a fellow pro-Hitler gangster who committed an apparently unforgivable sin: talking to Fox News.Today's relatively rapid decision likely was not a surprise to Johnson, who previously took sole credit for kill
