Show Review: Valient Thorr, ASG, Totimoshi

If you’re pondering a quiet night at home with a mystery novel and a glass of chardonnay, the Volcom 2007 Tour isn’t a good backup option. If you’re original plans included stealing a school bus, doing donuts in the Qualcomm parking lot and huffing paint thinner, I can report that this tour will give you [...]

Tonight’s the Night: Limbeck @ SOMA, Valient Thorr @ The Casbah

Tonight’s appetizer is OC’s Limbeck. Limbeck’s career arc seems to follow that of Murder by Death: first records display emo-ish tendencies the bands’ picked up in high school and college, while their later stuff moves toward country-tinged territory. Whereas MBD wind up somewhere in between Tom Waits and Gogol Bordello, Limbeck winds up closer to [...]

Set list from our last San Diego show:

Transparent Life
The Lotus Eater
Drunk under Electrics
Father in the Sky
Heads for Herod
Untitled
Drunkship Man
Lotion Party
Bottom of this Town
Atmosphere vs. the Dogs of Dawn
Ministry of Helicopters
More photos and what not to come. The little sis went home to Knoxville yesterday, meaning that I’ll be back on the horse this week. What am I looking forward to?  Limbeck at [...]

Logjam on July 31…

OK, San Diego really, really needs to help me out with more awesome shows with the following:
1. Bearded dudes, black t-shirts (both on stage and in the crowd)
2. Punk of the non-So-Cal variety
3. Rock of the non-Sunset-Strip variety
July 31 looks like it’s serving up a double helping of shows that fit that bill. The first [...]