2012
Surprised to count more than 200, a new record. Doesn't seem like that many, it seemed like a slow year probably because I got so many invites and was skipping most of the shows on my calendar as well as most shows more expensive than free.
Best times would be the Punk Rock Picnic, Make Music Pasadena and Culture Collide due to overwhelming content, otherwise my favorites were CSS & Batwings Catwings or Concrete Blonde & Best Western (the country version of The Hangmen).
All the free summer shows were once again a highlight. Probably the absolute best thing about living in Southern California in the summertime.
Almost completely gave up on big arena level shows. The only one I paid full price for was 1 Springsteen show because I scored an excellent lower level seat almost on the stage.
Also got really lazy toward the end of the year, decided I don't like to go out on weeknights anymore and if a band is playing after midnight on a weeknight, they weren't meant to be witnessed by someone who has to wake up in the morning.
Arena shows have become so lame that it's rarely worth the effort even to try to score a cheap ticket.
Completely and insanely obsessed with ICONA POP. Seeing them for the first time was very exciting, and even more so again the next day outdoors in broad daylight. Will see them a few more times in February.
ICONA POP @ CULTURE COLLIDE BLOCK PARTY
Probably listened to the VIOLENT VICKIE CD more than anything.
Got to see finally longtime bucket list topper Roger McGuinn do some songs with the Rock Bottom Remainders. Hopefully he will play a full set somewhere close by in the near future.
Biggest disappointments: A Pretty Mess didn't play enough, Kill Pills fell off the radar sometime in the middle of the year. Black Flamingo and Machine Fang are history.
I am going to try to borrow more concert tapes to transfer and not go out as much. Like I say every year.
this is the list
1/1/12 Hanin Elias/Violent Vickie @ The Trip
(I was sick but took the bus all the way to Santa Monica and back because I just had to see them again)
1/5/12 Prima Donna/Greg Scott (last song) @ Viper Room
1/5/12 3 Balls Of Fire @ Redwood (last 2 songs)
1/6/12 Black Flamingo/Batwings Catwings @ Echoplex
1/6/12 Mike Watt & Missingmen/Carnage Asada (last 30 secs)/Exxtras (partial) @ Redwood
1/11/12 Idle Warship @ Amoeba
1/15/12 Occupy Skid Row (Public Enemy, Knowledge, Skid Row Drummers, The Real McCoy, X-Clan, Yo Yo, Medusa, Arise Roots, Kid Frost, Egyptian Lover, Twin, M.A.S.K, Skid Row's Finest, Freestyle Fellowship, L.A. Posse, The Lady Of Rage, Rappers Rapp Group, Ronnie Hudson, Sir Jinx & General Population, King T, Kurupt) @ 6th & Gladys
1/16/12 The Pierces/Zane Carney/No @ Bardot
1/17/12 The Pierces/Sugar & The Hi Lows @ Hotel Cafe
The Pierces "You'll Be Mine @ Hotel Cafe video
1/20/12 TurboBowl with Dethsquad Demongods, Lightnin' Woodcock, Stab City, Dethtrip Forever (partial) @ Pickwick Bowl
1/21/12 Jail Weddings @ Pins And Needles
1/27/12 Sioux City Pete & The Beggars, The Mormons, Dangerously Sleazy, School Shootings, SketchMonster @ BIP
1/28/12 Lightnin' Woodcock, Fartbarf, Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss, Miss Izzy Cox, Straight Razor Standoff @ Redwood
1/29/12 Dos, Fast Sails, Charlie Don't Surf @ Redwood (4:00pm)
1/29/12 Sioux City Pete & The Beggars, Dagons, Crystelles, School Shootings @ Redwood (9:30pm)
Sioux CIty Pete @ Redwood video
2/3/12 Mike Watt & Missingmen/Barrio Tiger/Sassafras @ Redwood
2/7/12 Lana Del Rey @ Amoeba
2/9/12 Ben Kweller @ Amoeba
2/9/12 Mark Lanegan Band/Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss @ Echoplex
2/10/12 Plainfield Butchers/Brainspoon/Barrio Tiger/Black Beverly Heels @ Down N Out
2/11/12 Petunia & The Vipers with Exene Cervenka & Phil Alvin and opening set by Phil Alvin @ Viva Cantina
2/17/12 Kill Pills/Wide Tooth Comb/The Ambient Light @ M-Bar
2/17/12 Don Juan Blancos @ Redwood (partial but saw enough to make me want to see them again)
2/19/12 Messaround 2nd Anniversary with Charles "Keep A Knockin'" Connor with guest singers (Pat Boone,
Reverend Dan from the Bloody Brains, Phil Alvin, Tex Troester, Troy
Walker), Simon Stokes (2 songs solo acoustic), Dick Deluxe, The Sloths,
The Groovy Rednecks @ Viva Cantina
2/20/12 Ides Of Gemini @ Vacation Vinyl
2/20/12 Machine Fang @ BIP (loads of bands were playing but I split, Machine Fang played a last show a few weeks later, which sucks as they quickly became one of my fave bands)
2/23/12 Cursive @ Amoeba
2/23/12 Billy's Fish Fry (Best Western aka The Hangmen, Human Drama, Inger Lorre, Michael Rozon, Destiny O'Dempsey & Lee Joseph, ) @ La Luz De Jesus Gallery
2/24/12 Deke Dickerson @ Viva Cantina
2/25/12 Mike Watt & Missingmen/Carlos Guitarlos @ Sal's (Cathay De Grande reunion, this was an all day thing but left early for:)
2/25/12 Gary 84/Sassafras/Death On The Radio/Spidersuit/Railroad To Alaska (partial) @ Silver LakeLounge
2/25/12 Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders/Long Neck Goose @Cheetah's
2/26/12 Veronica Falls @ Amoeba
2/29/12 Dethsquad Demongods/Deacon & The Devil @ El Cid
2/29/12 Green Lady Killers/Aftergloam/Shadow Fire @ Los Globos (all partial sets in different rooms, thought GLK was going on at 11, get in and see the last 2 mins, then go into another room for Aftergloam and after 6 mins they get shut down, then go down a stairway into the smoking patio and sneak back up a back stairway into the upstairs room and catch the last few songs by Shadow Fire who was really good, hope to see them again)
3/2/12 The Hitchhikers/Vice 5 @ Down N Out (Mitch's first show as just a singer and first show as a 5 piece, he kept breaking mic stands, maybe it's time for a headset mic)
3/5/12 Chelsea Wolfe @ Amoeba
3/8/12 Kill Pills/Blackhands @ Redwood
3/9/12 Dunes @ Vacation Vinyl
3/9/12 The Hitchhikers/Lightnin' Woodcock/Trash Monsters/Dimerunner @ Down N Out
The Hitchhikers "Take A Spill"
3/10/12 Thulebasen/White Magic/Lucky Dragon/Excepter @ The Smell
3/15/12 The Hitchhikers/Green Lady Killers @ Down And Out
3/16/12 Best Western (aka The Hangmen)/Tramps For The Lord/Tears Of The Moosechaser/Cyclops @ Redwood
3/17/12 Stephen Pearcy of Ratt/Lightnin' Woodcock/Ghetto Blaster/King Cotton @ The Escondite
3/17/12 Symbol Six/RF7/Civil Disgust/Standard And Poor @ BIP (Circle One on the bill, cancelled)
3/20/12 KISS @ Jimmy Kimmel Live (the only way I will see KISS these days, for free)
3/21/12 The International Swingers (Glen Matlock, Clem Burke, Gary Twinn, James Stevenson) / Merle Jagger @ Redwood
3/22/12 Solar Angels/Dumb Love @ Redwood (The Hitchhikers cancelled, Solar Angels was worth the trip)
3/24/12 Imperial Teen/Radiation City/The Breakups @ The Satellite
Imperial Teen videos here and here
3/25/12 Imperial Teen @ Origami
3/25/12 Backbiter/Biblical Proof Of UFO's/Leaking Pigs @ Redwood
3/26/12 Master Musicians Of Bukkake @ Vacation Vinyl
3/26/12 Black Flamingo/Young Hunting @ The Echo
3/29/12 The Hitchhikers/Crazy Squeeze/Shiteland Ponies @ Down N Out
3/30/12 Mike Watt & Missingmen/Barrio Tiger/RF7/The X Chemical/Carnage Asada (partial) @ Redwood
4/5/12 The Pierces/He's My Brother, She's My Sister/Stephen Wrebel @ Troubadour
4/10/12 Dante vs Zombies/New Life/The Hallucinations/Daybeds (partial) @ The Echo
4/13/12 Dante vs Zombies @ Amoeba
4/13/12 Barrio Tiger/Green Lady Killers/Brainspoon/Threeway @ Down N Out
4/13/12 Fartbarf @ Redwood (last 2 songs)
4/14/12 Woody Guthrie Centennial @ Club Nokia (Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kris Kristofferson, Jackson Browne, Dawes, Tom Morello, Graham Nash, Joe Rafael, Joe Henry, Sara Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, John Doe, Van Dyke Parks, Rob Wasserman, Ronny Cox, Rob Wasserman, Mary Guthrie) David Crosby cancelled
4/16/12 Atari Teenage Riot/Otto Von Shirach @ Echoplex
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4/19/12 CSS/Batwings Catwings @ Troubadour
best show of the year!!!
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4/21/12 Kill Pills/Flytraps/Black Mambas/The Swarm/Black Sparrow Press (last song) @ Redwood
4/21/12 Johnny Thunders Tribute with New Yawk Exiles (Clem Burke, Frank Infante, Steve Fishman), Richie Ramone, Motorcycle Boy, Crazy Squeeze, The Neurotics, Sweet Justice @ The Satellite
4/26/12 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ LA Sports Arena
4/27/12 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band @ LA Sports Arena (amazing lower level seat rightnext to stage)
4/27/12 Prima Donna/Dirty Eyes (last 2 songs) @ Redwood
4/28/12 Punk Rock Picnic @ Oak Canyon Park: Skeletal Ambitions, Symbol Six, Ill Repute (first 2 songs), Radioactive Chicken Heads (most), The Gears (most), Deniz Tek, Co-Dependents (background noise while I was eating), The Mentors, Dr Bob's Nightmare (partial), Doggy Style (last song only with Eric of Symbol Six), The Grim, Death On The Radio (partial), Fang, White Caps, The Crowd (last song only), The Hunns (Corey Parks on 1 song), Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, Fear
Jello Biafra California Uber Alles video
5/3/12 Carina Round @ Origami Vinyl
5/5/12 Cinco De Mayo Festival with Los Lobos (Neko Case, Dave Alvin, Flaco Jimenez), X, Mariachi El Bronx, The 44's, La Santa Cecilia @ Greek Theatre
5/5/12 Motochrist, Barrio Tiger, The Blessings (partial) @ El Cid
5/6/12 Styx, REO Speedwagon, Ted Nugent, Stan Bush, Blake Slatkin & JoJo Alves @ Greek Theatre
5/11/12 Melvins/Unsane @ The Observatory (Unsane's regular drummer was MIA, Coady played the first part, Dale Crover 2nd part, both of them 3rd part)
5/12/12 Venice Spring Fling: The Tracii Guns League Of Gentlemen, Barry Melton Band, Cordy Bryon, Looner, Stephanie La Lallouz, Braw (lived in So Cal my whole life and this was my first time at Venice Beach!)
5/14/12 Batwings Catwings/Stripper Pussy @ Pehrspace
5/15/12 Black Flamingo/Spirit Vine (1 song) @ The Echo
5/19/12 Roger Waters - The Wall @ LA Memorial Coliseum
5/20/12 Plainfield Butchers/Brainspoon @ Redwood
5/22/12 The Child @ Amoeba
5/22/12 Riverboat Gamblers/The Biters/Roll The Tanks @ The Satellite
5/24/12 Gizzelle @ Amoeba
5/25/12 Jail Weddings/Don Juan y Los Blancos/Chris Price @ The Satellite
5/26/12 Violent Vickie/Tyler Holmes/Jeffzilla (performance art) @ Sancho Art Gallery
5/27/12 Silver Lake Jubilee: NO!, Batwings Catwings, Manhattan Murder Mystery (partial), Summer Twins, Chasing Kings (partial), The Gay Gays (all gay male tribute to The Go Go's), Dharma Bums, The Mormons, Tearist, Abe Vigoda, The Soft Pack
5/27/12 Ape Machine/Black Beverly Heels @ Redwood
(Kill Pills was listed but didn't play, even though I hurt all over, I went in anyway, Ape Machine was great and it was the best Black Beverly Heels show I have seen, just because I had my head down and eyes closed doesn't mean I wasn't digging it)
5/30/12 Summer Twins (acoustic) @ The Redbury Hotel
6/1/12 8 Bit Weapon/ComputeHer @ Amoeba
6/1/12 Barrio Tiger/The Hitchhikers/Electric Falcons/The Blackerbys @ Down And Out
6/2/12 Star & Dagger/The Hangmen @ El Cid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll_TNQJcoTc
6/3/12 Exene Cervenka & Phil Alvin @ Viva Cantina
6/4/12 JJAMZ/Phantom Planet (secret show as Lithium Blue)/Damn Sons @ The Satellite
6/5/12 Boheme/Midnight Mirage @ The Mint
6/7/12 Cold Blue Rebels @ Viva Cantina
6/8/12 Ernie Watts Quartet @ LACMA
6/8/12 Long Neck Goose/Threeway/The Blackerbys/Black Mambas @ Redwood
6/9/12 Black Sabbitch/Barrio Tiger/Unk @ El Cid
6/10/12 Merle Jagger/Jim Huff/The Record Company (partial) @ The Echo
6/14/12 A Pretty Mess/Death On The Radio/Legs Of Cake @ Silver Lake Lounge
6/14/12 Sioux City Pete (solo)/Dangerously Sleazy @ Redwood
6/15/12 The Road Junkies (Merle Allin/Kevin K)/Pat Todd & The Rankoutsiders/Arthur Anderson/The Defendants @ Redwood
6/16/12 Make Music Pasadena ( in order - The Happy Hollows, RT & The 44's, Gaby Moreno, Y La Bamba, Dengue Fever, a few minutes of horrible open mic while getting coffee, Black Flamingo, Grouplove (3 songs from half a mile away), Emily Wryn, Doe Eye, Mad Parade (about 40 mins worth), Jessica Fichot (last 2 songs) and aborted attempt to see Shadow Shadow Shade but it was too crowded so it was time to call it a night)
6/17/12 The Messaround with The Gears/The Peeks/Mather Louth/The Neumans/Dick Deluxe/Toni Boller @ Viva Cantina
6/19/12 Habits/Falsetto Teeth/Paper Slang (with Anika of Machine Fang)/Telephone Lovers (acoustic) @ Redwood
6/21/12 Dustbowl Revival @ Levitt Pavilion
6/22/12 John B. Williams @ LACMA (first set only - this was 2 blocks from the El Rey)
6/22/12 Rock Bottom Remainders & Roger McGuinn @ El Rey Theatre
6/23/12 A Pretty Mess/Los Creepers @ Redwood
6/23/12 Yuna @ Levitt Pavilion Pasadena
6/24/12 Petty Theft/The Neal Deal @ Santa Monica Summer Soulstice
6/25/12 JJAMZ/Father John Misty - Taylor Goldsmith - Jenny Lewis/Royal Teeth @ The Satellite
6/26/12 Yuna @ Amoeba Music
6/29/12 New Rome Quartet @ Taix (Amadans listed but didn't show)
7/5/12 Freakstar/Spanish Moss (partial)/The Glimmer Stars @ Redwood
7/6/12 Sara Watkins @ Levitt Pavilion
7/7/12 Leaking Pigs/Bodysnatchers @ Redwood
7/7/12 YACHT/Papa/Mr Little Jeans @ Bootleg Theatre
7/10/12 Brian Auger Oblivion Express @ Hollywood & Highland
7/12/12 Ernie Watts Quartet @ Farmers Market
7/13/12 The Objex/Lightnin' Woodcock/Dethsquad Demongods/Deadhand/The Lowmen @ Redwood
7/14/12 Berlin/Purple Melon @ Pershing Square
7/14/12 Black Beverly Heels/Sinner Sinner/Death On The Radio @ Redwood
7/15/12 Asia Featuring John Payne @ Warner Park
(What the hell? Patty Smyth & Scandal was listed)
7/21/12 Bloomfest, Al's Bar stage, in order: Third Grade Teacher, Swords Of Fatima, Lightnin' Woodcock, Size Queen (members of Betty Blowtorch), Carnage Asada, Sacharrine Trust, Mike Watt & Missingmen
7/21/12 The Fixx/Modern English @ Pershing Square
7/21/12 A Pretty Mess/Year Of The Dragon/Dethtrip Forever (last song) @ Redwood
7/23/12 Lily Elise/Kelli Scarr/Wilderlands @ Hotel Cafe (I was the only non-employee watching Wilderlands until the last song),
7/25/12 Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss/Cunt Sparrer/Rock Bottom @ Redwood (Sean said this was one of their best shows)
7/26/12 Billy's Fish Fry with Sioux City Pete (solo), Gitane Demone, Gabriel Hart, Pierre & John from Motorcycle Boy, Michael Rozon
7/27/12 Dustbowl Revival/Two Man Gentleman Band/Whiskerman @ Redwood
7/28/12 Downtown Summer Party, in order of appearance, at Coronado's: The Long Holidays (last few songs), Johnny Two Bags, Charlie Overby, Zander Schloss, then to the Down And Out for Kind Hearts And Coronets, Bobby Jealousy, Dark Furs, back to Coronado's to stuff my face then watched Emily Oman then to the Down And Out for Jared James Nichols, The Hangmen, The Walburds, Prima Donna and the first 25 mins of The Lexingtons. Putting the Walburds between The Hangmen and Prima Donna totally killed the energy.
7/31/12 TheNewNo2 @ Amoeba
8/1/12 Dustbowl Revival/Jimmy Angel @ Viva Cantina
8/2/12 Rainbow Arabia/Puro Instinct @ MacArthur Park Levitt Pavilion
8/2/12 The Green Lady Killers/The Ballantynes/Sweet Pups/LA Drugz @ Down And Out
8/4/12 The Bangles @ Pershing Square
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsuPbVdn8D8
8/4/12 Gabriel Hart & The Fourth Wall/Brass Tax/Goblin King @ Redwood
8/5/12 Robin Zander & Cheap Trick @ Pan Pacific Park (12 Million Dog March) billed as Robin Zander solo show but Cheap Trick showed up for last 3 songs, amazing as he never toured his solo stuff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GqCrL1U0Cc
8/5/12 Dustbowl Revival @ Stewart Park (Jazz On The Lawn)
(killer 15 minute long cover of You Can't Always Get What You Want)
8/5/12 Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss & Zander Schloss solo set @ The Escondite (I usually can't stay out this late on Sunday night's but it was such an amazing day for music I couldn't go home just yet)
8/8/12 Dustbowl Revival/Troy Walker (partial) @ Viva Cantina
8/10/12 Lynette Skynyrd/Black Tongued Bells/Paul Jacques @ Viva Cantina
8/11/12 John Doe/Gram Rabbit @ Pershing Square
8/12/12 Broken Numbers Band/RT n The 44's @ Grand Ol' Echo
8/12/12 Manhattan Place, 2 songs outside Pinkberrry in Little Tokyo, teens playing jazz
8/12/12 Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss & Zander Schloss solo set @ The Escondite
8/16/12 Nikki Hill/Big Jay McNealy @ Viva Cantina
8/18/12 Reverend Horton Heat/Dead Rock West @ Pershing Square
8/19/12 Jefferson Starship/Dennis Jones Band/Shoemaker Brothers/Stellar Sons And Daughters (partial) @ Woodland Park
8/19/12 Prima Donna/The Phenomonauts/The Knits @ Redwood
8/23/12 A Pretty Mess/Brainspoon/Green Lady Killers @ Down And Out
8/24/12 Icky & The Splooges/Don Juan Y Los Blancos/Midnite Snaxx/The Flytraps/Bombon @ Redwood
8/25/12 Dustbowl Revival @ John Anson Ford Theatre (10:00am family show, I was getting dirty looks for showing up without a kid)
8/25/12 Echo Park Rising (all day)
Taix Outdoor Stage: Hott MT (last 2 songs), Gothic Tropic, Foxygen (most)
Stories: Driftwood Singers
The Echo: Manhattan Murder Mystery
Taix Outdoor: Dante vs Zombies
Origami Vinyl: The Holloys
iam8bit: Batwings Catwings
Backside: Stab City, Mothers Of Gut
8/25/12 Dustbowl Revival @ Piano Bar (10:00pm)
8/28/12 Redd Kross @ Amoeba
8/28/12 LA Philharmonic/Carmina Burana @ Hollywood Bowl
8/30/12 Billy's Fish Fry with The Purple Gang, Prima Donna, Michael Rozon & The Rozonettes, Buddy Zapata, members of Motorcycle Boy
8/31/12 Mugen Hoso, Evil Beaver, Bishop vs Spy, Barrio Tiger, Brainspoon @ On The Rox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3iRu-A8u8
9/2/12 The Hi-Z's @ Redwood
9/2/12 Ape Machine/Black Beverly Heels/Brainspoon/Alligator Republic @ Down And Out
9/6/12 Rosie Flores (with Ruby James, Kim Lentz, Marky Ramone) @ Viva Cantina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSKWUnFOn40
9/7/12 Terry Malts @ Amoeba
9/7/12 Negativland @ La Luz De Jesus Gallery
9/7/12 Dustbowl Revival, Crooked Jades, Triple Chicken Foot @ Echoplex
9/8/12 Tommy Santee Klaws/Madame Headress @ Echo Country Outpost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSfVGGcBIPQ
9/13/12 Dustbowl Revival/Defibulators/Homesick Elephant @ The Satellite
9/15/12 Devo/Blondie (& The MVP's - a cover band) @ Taste Of Newport
9/16/12 Messaround with The Mau Mau's, Groovy Rednecks, Dick And Jane Family Orchestra, South Bay Surfers, Dick Deluxe @ Viva Cantina
9/17/12 Brass Tax/Gabriel Hart & The Fourth Wall @ Echoplex & partial sets by Power Mallets/Lavender Diamond @ The Echo
9/18/12 Blondfire @ Federal Bar
9/18/12 The Stains/Foggy Nation/Underground Alliance/Boost @ Redwood
9/21/12 The Hangmen/Long Neck Goose/Savage Gospel @ Down And Out
9/22/12 Sioux City Pete & The Beggars/School Shootings/Red Roses/Death On The Radio/Legs Of Cake @ Redwood
9/23/12 Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra @ Amoeba
9/23/12 Lightnin' Woodcock/Michael Van London/The Blackerbys (last song) @ Redwood (one of the best Lightnin' Woodcock shows ever, and it sounded like he was about to throw in the towel)
10/3/12 Culture Collide Kick Off Party - Panoptica Orchestra (DJ), School Of Seven Bells (DJ), Penguin Prison, The Chevin, ProbCause (joined in progress)
10/4/12 Culture Collide #1:
Taix 321 Lounge, Happy Hour Poland: Kyst, Coldair
Origami Vinyl: Touchy Mob (last 2 songs), Monster Cat, Immanu El (acoustic)
Taix 321 Lounge: Immanu El (electric)
Echo Park United Methodist Church: Marit Larsen
Taix Champagne Room: Of Verona, Blood Red Shoes, Tribes
(showed up in 2 pictures with Blood Red Shoes, got the stage setlist signed, they were the "it" band of the festival for me)
10/5/12 Culture Collide #2
Origami Vinyl: The Trouble With Templeton (last song)
Taix 321 Lounge: Moss
United Methodist Church: The Trouble With Templeton (partial)
Taix 321 Lounge: Huddles (partial)
The Echo: terminal
Taix Champagne Room: Magic Wands (partial)
Taix 321 Lounge: Resplandor
Echoplex: School Of Seven Bells
Taix 321 Lounge: The Moog (last 1 minute)
Taix Champagne Room: Unknown Mortal Orchestra (partial)
Taix 321 Lounge: The Balconies
10/6/12 Culture Collide #3
Origami Vinyl: Efrat Ben Zur, Moss, Ewert And The Two Dragons (first 23 mins)
United Methodist Church: Efrat Ben Zur
Taix 321 Lounge: Young Buffalo (partial)
Taix Champagne Room: Boxeur The Coeur (partial)
Echoplex: Ewert And The Two Dragons, Gold Fields, Icona Pop, Of Montreal
10/7/12 Culture Collide #4
Taix 321 Lounge: Mimes Of Wine
Taix Champagne Room" The Trouble With Templeton (a few songs)
Red Bull Soundstage: Chancellor Warhol
S-O-Terik Mainstage: Icona Pop
Taix Champagne Room: Huddles
Red Bull Soundstage: Colorfeels (last song)
S-O-Terik Mainstage: Class Actress
Red Bull Soundstage: The Royal Teeth
Taix 321 Lounge: Monster Cat
Taix Champagne Room: Coldair (last few songs)
Taix 321 Lounge: The Standards
Taix Champagne Room: The Moog
S-O-Terik Mainstage: Of Montreal (I walked out of Taix at 8:06, they were scheduled at 8:00)
Red Bull Soundstage: The Wombats
Taix Champagne Room: Sudden Weather Change (last 3 songs)
the front lounge was full, next in the Champagne Room was Gold Fields, I couldn't remember if I liked them or not, the place was totally filling up with people from the block party outside, decided it was a good enough reason to split. Would have liked to have captured Efrat Ben Zur and Marit Larsen again today as well as Niki &The Dove and School Of Seven Bells outside but there wasn't enough of me to go around.
10/8/12 Last In Class/Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss/Immanu El/Jeordie White @ The Satellite
10/13/12 Taste Of South Lake: La Santa Cecilia/Dustbowl Revival/Quetzel Guerrero/Jessica Fichot
10/13/12 Methadone Kitty & The Daily Dose/1 song by Jada Wagonsomer @ Stories (stumbled across this by accident when I was walking to Lot 1 and heard Jada singing and followed her voice to the bookstore patio but she was done within a minute of me getting there, watched Methadone Kitty & The Daily Dose, Brass Tax was going to play later but I had to go to:)
10/13/12 The Trembling Tabernacle Of Piorek (formerly The Preacher's Son, full band electric) @ Lot 1 Cafe
10/14/12 Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss @ The Echo
10/21/12 The Messaround @ Viva Cantina with in order: Cody Bryant, Troy Walker, Mather Louth, Troy Walker (again), Simon Stokes, Night Of The Living Dead Kennedys
10/24/12 Web Of Spider/Burning Of Rome/Dead Day Revolution/Canto @ Los Globos
10/25/12 Billy's Fish Fry with Concrete Blonde, Best Western (The Hangmen), Soda Gordecki, Michael Rozon, Greg Behrendt, Mark Knutsen (billed as Johnette Napolitano & Friends, it ended up being a 45 min Concrete Blonde performance in a small room at an art gallery, easily one of the top 5 of the year, feel kinda dumb for not paying enough attention way back when)
10/26/12 Freakstar/Blank Expressions @ Redwood
10/26/12 Don Juan Y Los Blancos/Sound Decisions (partial) @ Viva Cantina
11/2/12 Gypsyblood @ Origami Vinyl
11/3/12 Black Flamingo @ Origami Vinyl (Kimi's last show, I am heartbroken)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrr0xC-byA
11/3/12 Saint Etienne/Maria Del Pilar @ Music Box
11/4/12 Dustbowl Revival @ Melrose Trading Post
11/6/12 Check Yo Pony Tail 2nd Anniversary with Andrew WK/ICONA POP/Diamond Rings/Cherie Lilly/Aleister X and Skrillex and some other dude turning knobs, surprise appearance but it was late and I left @ Echoplex
11/9/12 Plainfield Butchers @ Down And Out
11/10/12 Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss/Miracle Parade @ The Echo (opening for Spain but I left early for...)
11/10/12 Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss @ Tam O'Shanters
11/11/12 Notes From A Punk Rock Crash Pad: Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss (live) & readings by Pleasant Gehman, Iris Berry, Cherry Vanilla, Chris Bailey, Joey Altruda @ Skinny's Lounge (easily one of the best S&Z shows ever)
11/18/12 Go Betty Go/The Peeks (partial) @ Viva Cantina (this was a Messaround, didn't feel like hanging out all day so went just for Go Betty Go)
11/20/12 Prima Donna/Emily's Army/Images @ Redwood (Images was late so Prima Donna did a 4 song mini-set as a 4 piece to open the show)
11/26/12 Psychic Friend (with Will from Imperial Teen!)/Rah Rah @ Bardot
11/29/12 Billy's Fish Fry with Prima Donna, Dick And Jane Family Orchestra, Skip Heller Hot Five,Destiny O'Dempsey & Michael Rozon @ La Luz De Jesus Gallery
12/3/12 Aerosmith/Cheap Trick @ Staples Center
12/4/12 The Starvations reunion (!!!)/Jail Weddings/Detective/LA Drugs/Joseph Mattson @ The Echo
12/7/12 Gaby Moreno/Katie Boeck @ Bootleg Bar
12/7/12 Double Naught Spy Car (last 2 songs only) @ Taix 321 Lounge
12/8/12 YACHT/Jacques Renault/Bobby Birdman @ Echoplex (YACHT's 10th Anniversary show)
12/15/12 Masters Of Reality (acoustic) @ Delicious Vinyl
12/15/12 Masters Of Reality (electric) / Lightnin' Woodcock @ Three Clubs
12/16/12 Festivus: The Fabulous Miss Wendy/It's OK/Million KIds/The Hi-Z's/Panic Movement @ Redwood
12/17/12 YACHT @ Sony Store Westfield Plaza Century City
12/18/12 Rolling Stones Tribute Night @ The Satellite (in order: The Walcotts, The Sister Ruby Band, Paul Chesne Band, Tsar, Michael Des Barres, Brian Whelan & Mitch Marine with special guest Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants, Brett Anderson of The Donnas, Harlan, Dustbowl Revival)
12/21/12 Rough Church @ Taix 321 Lounge
12/23/12 Rebecca Black/Jamie Beeman/Cole Citrenbaum @ House Of Blues Anaheim
12/27/12 Qui with special guest David Yow/Lozen/Tacos @ The Echo (apparently David Yow is no longer a member of Qui but he sang the last 3 songs)
12/31/12 Prima Donna/Dirty Eyes/The Magnificent/Bad Cop-Bad Cop @ Redwood
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