2010

 

 

The best in 2010 so far are MICHAEL MONROE, PAUL DI'ANNO, THE HANGMEN, CHAPIN SISTERS @ The Echo and AGNOSTIC FRONT. Sean Wheeler is one of the greatest perfomers ever but I go see him so much that I don't really have the opportunity to fully absorb individual shows and they blur together quickly. He did speak highly of the Dec 22 2009 show and I guess I would have to agree that was a great one.

 

1/4/10 Year Long Disaster/Open Hand @ Spaceland

 

1/5/10 Sean y Zander/Mark Miller @ Redwood

 

1/12/10 Sean y Zander/Simon Stokes/Peg Leg Love @ Redwood

 

1/14/10 Agnostic Front  (setlist) /Death By Stereo (setlist) @ Redwood

(This show was way too big for such a tiny place. People were diving off the tables and crowd surfing a hair length away from the ceiling. Performing Victim In Pain in it's entirety)

 

1/16/10 Mike Watt & Secondmen (setlist) /Sacharrine Trust/Gestapo Khazi @ Redwood

 

1/19/10 Sean y Zander/Gabriel Hart & 2/3rds Of The Ladies Of Jail Weddings @ Redwood

(Crying Girl from my recording currently at the Jail Weddings link)

 

1/22/10 Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Gestapo Khazi/Beat Killers/Arrow Down @ the Redwood

 

1/25/10 MICHAEL MONROE  (setlist) Press Conference and Live Performance @ Swingtown Studios (See Separate Entry below)

 

1/26/10 Sean y Zander/New Rome Quartet @ Redwood

 

1/28/10 Wayne "The Train" Hancock (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

1/28/10 Chapin Sisters (setlist) /Parson Red Heads/Social Studies @ The Echo

(One of the top 3 Chapin Sisters shows I have seen. Not sure if it was the only time I saw them "under the influence" of if they ramped it up a notch because Tom Chapin was in attendance)

 

1/30/10 Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders @ Taix

(I drank myself into oblivion at the Dokken Day celebrations down the street then came here where my memory fades immedietly with no recollection of the show. But I made a great recording. And if I can make a recording that sounds like that while totally unconscious, I don't yet have a problem!)

 

1/31/10 What @ California Kickboxing Gym 

 

2/1/10 Sean y Zander/Woolen @ Hotel Cafe

 

2/4/10 Dave Rawlings Machine (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

2/4/10 Thelonious Monster (setlist) /Sean y Zander/Horse Thieves @ The Echo

 

2/5/10 Chapin Sisters (setlist) /Sands (formerly Dame Satan) @ Synchronicity Gallery

(minus Jessica; free jello shots!)

 

2/7/10 Huun Huur Tu @ Amoeba

 (Throat singers from Tuva. Unlike most rock bands I have seen at Amoeba they actually caught the attention of people just there to shop!)

 

2/10/10 Justin Townes Earle @ Amoeba

 

2/11/10 Lady Dottie & The Diamonds @ Redwood (only caught about 75 mins - she was playing all night with no other

bands on the bill, would have been awesome if it was just a club length set)

 

2/12/10 Pearl Harbor @ Space Fifteen Twenty

 

2/12/10 Throw Rag (setlist) /Prima Donna (setlist) /The Royal Highness/Kings Of The Wild Frontier (partial) @ Spike's

(Zander Schloss was sitting in for Frank Fontana on bass, still no idea what the story on that one is)

 

2/13/10 No Age with Mike Watt and Tim Kerr (instrumental jam) @ The Family (Art Gallery/Bookstore) and a jam with 11

musicians using fiddles, banjos, spoons, jugs, washboards etc. They didn't have room inside they played out front for over an hour.

 

2/13/10 The Mau Mau's/The Gears/A Pretty Mess (setlist) @ Redwood

(this was the most crowded I have ever seen the Redwood)

 

2/14/10 Build An Ark @ Amoeba

 

2/14/10 Lasse Marhaug/Joe & Joe/Seven Depressions @ The Smell (A 2nd Mau Mau's show at the Redwood was announced from the stage for tonight but never materialized so I came here. Mainly just people making noise with laptops and accessories. I enjoyed it. Seemed like at least a third of the sparse crowd was holding recording devices)

 

2/17/10 Paul Di'Anno (setlist) /Icarus Witch/Ninth Circle @ Brixton

($10 courtesy of Ninth Circle who often has discount tickets for major shows, otherwise hope to write a full review soon)

 

2/18/10 Fanfarlo @ Amoeba

 

2/19/10 The Hangmen (setlist) /Superbees (setlist) /Barrio Tiger/The Royal Highness @ Spike's

 

2/20/10 Harlem/Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /J Worthington Foulfellows @ Spaceland

 

2/21/10 White Lung/Friendly Neighbors/Nu Sensae/NASA Space Universe @ The Smell

 

2/24/10 Visqueen (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

2/24/10 The Choke (setlist) /Peg Leg Love @ Five Star Bar

 

2/25/10 Cheap Trick (setlist) /Ricky Warwick (setlist) /The Royal Highness @ House Of Blues

 

2/26/10 The Cute Lepers/Prima Donna (setlist) /Clorox Girls/D-Rex/The Spurts/Luxury Sweets @ Redwood  (show started way early, only caught a minute of Luxury Sweets)

 

2/27/10 Prima Donna (setlist) /Duane Peters & The Great Unwashed (setlist) /Billy Bones/Sean y Zander/Motorcycle Boy/The Legendary Swagger @ Key Club

 

3/1/10 The Choke (setlist) /The Big Death Scene (setlist) /Miss Jilly @ Cat Club

 

3/2/10 Gaby Moreno @ Hotel Cafe

 

3/4/10 The Holloys @ Amoeba

 

3/5/10  Mike Watt & Missingmen (setlist) /Lite/ The Mormons @ Bootleg Theatre

 

3/6/10 Duane Peters & The Great Unwashed (setlist) /Sean y Zander/Last Round Down @ Redwood

 

3/7/10 Jail Weddings (setlist) /The Like (setlist) /Voices Voices/Manhatten Murder Mystery @ All Star Lanes

 

3/11/10 Miles Kurosky (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

3/11/10 Charly Coombes & The New Breed (setlist) /All Day Sucker @ Viper Room

 

3/12/10 Michael Monroe (setlist) /Vains Of Jenna (setlist) @ Viper Room

 

3/13/10 Michael Monroe (setlist) /Electric Dynamite @ Brick By Brick San Diego

 

3/14/10 Michael Monroe (setlist) /Vains Of Jenna (setlist) @ Brixton South Bay

 

3/18/10 Brant Bjork (setlist) @ Vacation Vinyl

 

3/21/10 Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba @ Amoeba

 

3/21/10 Powersolo/Living Sickness (partial) @ Redwood

 

3/24/10 Chatmonchy @ Amoeba

 

3/25/10 Sun Trash (setlist) /Jew Cock/Dangerously Sleazy @ Redwood

 

3/26/10 Jail Weddings (setlist) /Foreign Born @ The Echo

 

3/27/10 Dos (setlist) /Audacity/Signals/Blue Jungle @ L'Keg Benefit in a backyard in Echo Park

 

3/27/10 wHaT?!/Salem House/Los Larks/?? @ California Kickboxing Gym

 

4/1/10 Sioux City Pete & The Beggars/Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Stabbings/Crystelles @ Redwood

 

4/4/10 Jetboy (setlist) @ Viper Room

 

4/5/10 Phil Alvin @ Redwood

 

4/10/10 Jail Weddings (setlist) /Stab City/Gestapo Khazi/The Beat Killers @ Redwood

 

4/13/10 Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows (setlist) /Neon Kross/Toy Attica @ Redwood

 

4/18/10 Simon Stokes @ Viva Cantina

 

4/19/10 The Mentors (setlist) /The Conjuror @ Records Ad Nauseum

 

4/20/10 Devo (setlist) @ Jimmy Kimmel Live

 

4/23/10 Joan Jett And The Blackhearts (setlist) @ Hollywood Park

 

4/26/10 JP, Chrissie & The Fairgound Boys (setlist) @ Bardot

 

4/29/10 Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Woah Hunx/Apes Of Wrath @ Spaceland

 

5/3/10 Sweethead (setlist) /Slang Chickens/Hocus Pocus @ Spaceland

 

5/4/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Million Kids/Lose Your Fear @ Redwood

 

5/6/10 The Head Cat (setlist)/Throw Rag (setlist) /Black Robot (1 song) @ Key Club

 

5/8/10 Dante vs Zombies (setlist)  / Western Hymn/Horse Thieves/Hepa-Titus @ The Smell

 

5/11/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Girl Jesus @ Redwood

 

5/17/10 The Like/Jail Weddings (setlist) /Gestapo Khazi/Starfuckers (partial) @ The Echo

 

5/18/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Penis Envy/White Flag Down (partial) @ Redwood

 

5/22/10 Chapin Sisters (setlist) /I See Hawks In LA @ McCabe's

 

5/24/10 The Like/Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Tijuana Panthers @ The Echo

 

5/25/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Skin Flick/Hate You Baby @ Redwood

 

5/30/10 Urinals (setlist) /The Last (setlist) /Wednesday Week (setlist) @ Rhino Records (Pop Up Store)

 

6/5/10 Mike Watt & Missingmen (setlist) /Trainwreck Riders/Rare Grooves @ The Smell

 

6/6/10 Quadron (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

6/6/10 Lee Rocker (setlist) @ Universal Citywalk Streetfest

(and about 10 mins of Chelsea Williams)

 

6/6/10 Dunes/Hatchet Wound/Bi-Polar Bear/NeoNates @ The Smell

 

6/12/10 Sean y Zander/Moris Tepper (with Jon Wahl on bass) @ Taix

 

6/15/10 Legal Weapon/Million Kids/Brainspoon @ Redwood

 

6/16/10 Everest @ Amoeba Music

 

6/19/10 Make Music Pasadena with Batwings Catwings/J.D. Souther (setlist) /Karla Bonoff (setlist) /Matt & Kim/Warpaint/Jessica Fichot (partial), The Mormons (mobile unit), Faro (1 song), Cuavo (2 songs)

 

6/23/10 Robert Randolph Family Band (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

6/23/10 Brennen Leigh (setlist) /Welldiggers Banquet (setlist) @ Redwood

 

6/24/10 Future Islands (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

6/24/10 Cerebral Ballsy/Woah Hunx/Juiceboxxx/Kid Static @ The Smell

 

6/25/10 Love Me Nots (setlist) /The Mighty Kegsmen/Decapibot/VooDuo @ Redwood

 

6/26/10 Batwings Catwings/Cold Mold/XBXRX/Future Islands (setlist) @ The Smell

 

6/27/10 Petty Theft (setlist) @ Santa Monica Summer Soulstice

 

6/27/10 Goldfrapp (setlist) /Buena Vista Social Club with Omara Portuondo @ Hollywood Bowl

 

6/29/10 Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /John Carpenter/Johnny O'Donnell @ The Echo

 

7/1/10 Devo (setlist) @ Hollywood Park

 

7/2/10 The Hangmen (setlist) /Sin Alley @ El Cid

 

7/7/10 The Preacher's Son/St John & The Revelations @ Hyperion Tavern

 

(7/9/10 Faster Pussycat/Gilby Clarke @ City Walk - FP went on WAY before the advertised time of 8pm so I only got 2 songs then accidentally caught Gilby doing a Stones cover - LSTNT - looking for a restroom then just bailing)

 

7/9/10 The Superbees (setlist) /Hitchhikers (setlist) /Barrio Tiger/Red Cavalier @ Redwood

 

7/14/10 Razzle Blaster (partial)/Machine Circuits/Fancy Mansions @ 2nd Street Jazz (The Mormons were supposed to play but poor stage management pushed the schedule back by several hours and they cancelled, at least I got my money back)

 

7/17/10 Chubby Checker & The Wildcats (setlist) /Surfin' Safari (partial)/The Icons (partial but saw the song they did with Mark Tulin of The Electric Prunes) @ Glendale Cruise Night

 

7/18/10 The Swell Season (setlist) /She & Him (setlist) /The Bird And The Bee (setlist) @ Hollywood Bowl (Chapin Sisters - Abigail and Lily - did backing vox for She & Him)

7/20/10 Angus Khan (setlist) /Million Kids @ Redwood

7/21/10 The Preacher's Son/Cave Country @ Crane's Tavern

7/22/10 Barrio Tiger/Neighborhood Bullies/Stab City @ The Echo

7/23/10 Robyn (setlist) @ Amoeba

7/23/10 River City Tanlines/The Leaders/Thee Cormans/Exploding Flowers @ Mime School

7/24/10 Lee Rocker (setlist) /Flashback Heart Attack @ Pershing Square

 

7/28/10 Squeeze (setlist) /English Beat (setlist) @ Gibson Amphitheatre

 

7/29/10 Aerosmith (setlist) /Cheap Trick (setlist) @ Irvine Meadows

 

7/30/10 Stab City/Spider Problem/Queen Kwong @ Grandstar

7/31/10 The Tubes (setlist) /Zolar X @ Pershing Square

 

8/1/10 Berlin (setlist) /The Spazmatics @ Starlight Bowl

8/5/10 Rosie Flores (setlist) / Ruby James (setlist) @ Redwood Bar

 

8/6/10 Chuck Dukowski Sextet***/The Shrine/Insects vs Robots @ The Smell (*** There were only 4 people onstage)

 

8/7/10 Fishbone (setlist) /The Janks @ Pershing Square

 

8/7/10 The Mormons (12th Anniversary)/Carnage Asada/Richard Ramirez Beatdown @ Five Star Bar

 

8/8/10 Blondie (setlist) /Gorevette (setlist) @ Pacific Amphitheatre

 

8/10/10 Witchburn (setlist) /Neighborhood Bullies/Sassafras @ Redwood

 

8/11/10 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts (setlist) /Cherie Currie (setlist) @ Pacific Amphitheatre

 

8/15/10 Blue Oyster Cult (setlist) /Allison Geddie @ Warner Park

 

8/15/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) @ Scotland Yard

 

8/17/10 Ted Nugent (setlist) @ House Of Blues

 

8/19/10 Crowded House (setlist) @ Amoeba Music

 

8/19/10 The Mormons/Pleasure Kills (setlist) /Facts On File/Crazy Squeeze @ Redwood

 

8/20/10 Night Horse (setlist) @ Vacation Vinyl 

 

8/20/10 Puro Instinct/Blessure Grave/Tearist/Picture Plane (10 mins then I bailed) @ Echoplex

 

8/21/10 "Pizzapalooza" with Gary84 (setlist) /Million Kids @ Garage Pizza

 

8/21/10 "Conjunction Junction" with Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Woah Hunx (2 songs) @ Malo Parking Lot

 

then back to Garage Pizza where I saw I saw some band that started with a B but I can' t remember the name for a few songs then off to

 

8/21/10 BellRays/Angus Khan (setlist) /The Superbees (setlist) @ Spaceland

 

8/22/10 Conjunction Junction with Neighborhood Bullies/Summer Darling/Barrio Tiger/Chicano Batman @ Malo Parking Lot

 

8/22/10 Lightnin' Bill Woodcock/Barrio Tiger/Dextentonado @ Atlantic Motorcycle Garage

 

8/22/10 The Mormons/The Bloody Brains @ Redwood

 

8/25/10 Los Lobos (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

8/26/10 Lynyrd Skynyrd (setlist) /Austin Hanks @ Gibson Amphitheatre

 

8/27/10 Kix (setlist) /LA Nookie @ House Of Blues

 

8/28/10 JP, Chrissie & The Fairground Boys (setlist) @ Borders Westwood

 

8/28/10 Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Miss Chain And The Broken Heels/Clorox Girls/Death Hymn @ Mime School

 

8/29/10  Shawn Lee & The Ping Pong Orchestra @ Amoeba

 

8/29/10 Chemical Brothers (setlist) /Chromeo/Yacht @ Hollywood Bowl

 

8/29/10 Batwings Catwings/Dadfag/Phones @ The Echo

 

9/3/10 The Mau Mau's/Symbol Six (setlist) /The Billybones @ Redwood

 

9/4/10 FYF Festival @ Los Angeles State Historic Park with Magic Kids (partial), Abe Vigoda, The Growlers (partial), The Blow (partial), Screaming Females, Davila 666, Best Coast (setlist), AA Bondy (partial), Off!, Unbroken (setlist), 7 Seconds (setlist), Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (setlist), Man Man, Sleep, Big Freedia, The Rapture (setlist)

 

9/5/10 She & Him (setlist) /Angela McClusky @ Los Angeles Times' Celebration Of Food & Wine @ Paramount Studios

 

9/7/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /The Livingstons/Kamikaze @ Redwood

 

9/8/10 Scissor Sisters (setlist) @ Amoeba

 

9/8/10 Sean y Zander/?? @ The Standard (I planned to stay for Boots Electric but I was having such a lousy time there I decided to see if I could make it to the Echo in time)

 

9/8/10 The Gories (setlist) /Haunted George (1 song) @ The Echo

9/11/10 Stab City/Rats Eyes/Batwings Catwings/M31 @ Mime School

9/14/10 Shonen Knife (setlist) @ Amoeba

9/14/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /The Black Widows/Skin Flick/Abactive Ramex @ Redwood

9/16/10 The Chapin Sisters (setlist) /Hi Ho Silver Oh/The Finches @ The Echo

9/17/10 Urinals (setlist) @ La Cita

9/19/10 Messaround with Troy Walker, The Gears, Simon Stokes, Tonya Watts (setlist) and a set from the band who backed up Tonya Watts & Troy Walker (Paul Williams, Harry Orlove, Dave Raven with Ronnie Mack on 1 song) @ Viva Cantina

 

9/21/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Jughead's Revenge/Heart Of Giants @ Redwood Bar

9/24/10  Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Halloween Swim Team/Nardwuar Party @ Mime School

9/28/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Dead Day Afternoon/Dead Relatives @ Redwood Bar

9/30/10 Rob Zombie (setlist) /Alice Cooper (setlist) /Murderdolls (setlist) @ Gibson Amphitheatre

10/9/10 The Mormons/Sassafras @ Casey's

10/13/10 Off! @ Amoeba (and also soundcheck @ Club Lingerie)

10/17/10 Hoodoo Gurus (setlist) /Casper & The Dark Spirits @ Viper Room

10/21/10 Slayer (setlist) / Megadeth (setlist) / Anthrax (setlist) @ Gibson Amphitheatre

10/22/10 Jail Weddings (setlist) /Sweaters/Amanda Jo Williams @ Bootleg Theatre

10/23/10 The Mormons @ Casey's

10/24/10 Bret Michaels (setlist) /Tesla (setlist)@ UCLA Tennis Center

 

10/26/10 Neon Trees (setlist) @ Universal City Walk

10/26/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Sun Ray Gravitones @ La Cita

10/26/10 The Mormons/Carnage Asada (1 song) @ Redwood

 

10/27/10 Jason Simon (of Dead Meadow) @ Vacation Vinyl

10/27/10 The Reigning Sound (setlist) /The Ettes/Parting Gifts/Death Hymn #9 @ Spaceland

10/30/10 Angus Khan (setlist) /Thunderdikk @ La Cita

10/30/10 The Mau Mau's (came in during 3rd song but got in free) @ Redwood Bar

11/2/10 Kaki King/Sweet Hurt @ Hotel Cafe

11/2/10 Symbol Six (setlist) /The Livingstons @ Redwood Bar

11/3/10 Kelli Scarr (setlist) /Camilia Jade & Mike Antone @ Hotel Cafe

11/5/10 Stab City/Queen Kwong/Bastidas/Razzle Blaster @ Old Towne Pub

11/6/10 No Joy/Le Sera/Lower Dens @ Origami Vinyl

11/9/10 Twilight Sleep/Nightmare Air @ Viper Room

 

11/12/10  Masters Of Reality (setlist) /Sean y Zander/Mondo Generator @ House Of Blues

11/13/10 A Pretty Mess (setlist) /Lose Your Fear/Evil Beaver/Improvised Explosive Devive @ California Institute Of Abnormal Arts

 

11/14/10 Zoobombs/Inazuma/Stitched Lips @ Redwood

11/15/10 El Ten Eleven @ Origami Vinyl

11/15/10  Black Apples/So Many Wizards/LA Font/Oh Darling @ The Echo

11/16/10 Symbol Six (setlist) /Brainspoon @ Redwood

11/18/10 Kitten/Pepper Rabbit @ Origami Vinyl

11/23/10 Unsane/400 Blows/16 @ Spaceland

11/27/10 Little Caesar (setlist) / The Hangmen (setlist) / Barrio Tiger / Dead Relatives @ Cat Club

11/29/10 Dante vs Zombies (setlist) /Black Apples/Jail Weddings (setlist) @ The Echo

11/30/10 Faith No More (setlist) /Creepy Creeps @ Hollywood Palladium

12/1/10 Faith No More (setlist) /Redd Kross/El Mariachi Del Toros @ Hollywood Palladium

12/3/10 Exene Cervenka/Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss/C.E. Lane @ Vacation Vinyl

12/3/10 Batwings Catwings/Black Flamingo/Bestial Mouths @ The Strange

12/4/10 LA Live Holiday Celebration with Stevie Wonder, Seal, Willow Smith, Plain White T's. ? @ LA Live

12/4/10 Batwings Catwings/Kid Infinity @ All Sets Construction & Design

12/11/10 Prima Donna (setlist) /Kim Shattuck (setlist) /The Neurotics/Tora Tora Tora/Dirty Eyes @ Redwood Bar

12/14/10 The Hi-Z's (setlist) /Million Kids/Brainspoon @ La Cita

12/15/10 Martha Davis & The Motels @ Pershing Square (setlist)

12/16/10 The Chapin Sisters @ Gene Autry Museum (setlist)

12/17/10 Halford (setlist) /Philm/Warbringer (setlist) @ Wiltern Theatre

12/17/10 The Zeros (setlist) @ Redwood Bar (last 9 songs only)

12/18/10 Killing Joke (setlist) / Lumerians @ Wiltern Theatre

12/22/10 The Beauty Shop (setlist) @ Largo

(The Beauty Shop is Abigail Chapin, Lily Chapin, Zooey Deschanel)

12/27/10 The Long Tangles @ Silver Lake Lounge

12/30/10 Battle Show III @ The Smell (Peter Pants vs TraPs PS, Narwhal Party vs Gestapo Khazi, Mock Duck vs Luna Is Honey vs Tremellow)