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Ohio’s ugliest doomhaulers, Fistula, are now streaming their brand-new Loser EP in its entirety on Brooklyn Vegan. Loser is due out via PATAC Records in September, and features nine sickening tracks of downtrodden, face in the gutter doom. Check the album (as well as a rough cut from their upcoming split with the mighty COFFINWORM) on Brooklyn Vegan: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2011/06/fistula_releasi.html

The Jesus Lizard played an amazing show the other in San Diego, at the Casbah. This band is one of the best I've ever seen live, they are incredibly tight, incredible musicians and David Yow is just a nutso performer. So great. I'll have more photos up in the band photos section soon enough. If you get a chance to see them on this tour, take it. You won't regret it.

As if you didn't know.

Pretty damn cool that the San Francisco library would have Ruby Ray's photos on display, and add to that a whole slew of related displays and exhibits and it just doesn't seem like that could happen anywhere else in the world... at a public library. Los Angeles is too cool, New York is to busy, London wouldn't hear of it, they're still burying that whole Jubilee-ruining boat ride... and really, there's no place else with the history. If you're in SF, you've got to go see this.

All the recent talk (in my life) of hardcore has made me think about the bands that were so important to me during that certain era of my life. Here, in rough order of discovery, are the hardcore bands that made a difference to me:
Black Flag
DOA
Dead Kennedys
Los Olvidados
Seven Seconds
Minor Threat
Bad Brains
Misfits
Ribzy (they were from San Jose and had a song on the MaxRnR comp)
Code Of Honor
Vandals (first record)
TSOL

The neighborhood kids watched two timeless punk rock classics today: the live Minor Threat video and The Great RocknRoll Swindle. They're way into the music, even if they don't completely understand the whole attitude thing, and why it's funny that they're sort of 'mall punks.' I guess it doesn't matter where they get the info about the bands, if they get it.