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HEALTH issues :: “ANTI-LIFE” + “ISN’T EVERYONE” + a flashback performance at Cloak & Dagger 2017
I thought of breaking this into individual posts. But it's just easier to lump them all together. So let's get started ...L.A.'s own industrious noise rockers HEALTH have a crunchy new single titled "ANTI-LIFE," featuring Deftone's frontman Chino Moreno. It's got crazy percussive drum-patterns, raucous guitar licks, and an audio attitude meshed between aggro grind …

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“Pepper” from Butthole Surfers

Butthole Surfers, circa 2017. Photo sourced from artist's Facebook.
My first proper experience with Texas troublemakers Butthole Surfers was back in 1989, when the San Antonio-based experimental psychedelic noise outfit came to UCLA. They were scheduled to perform in Ackerman Ballroom, which was like an extremely dated open-floor high school auditorium ... but bigger ... and deeper. The college radio station KLA was located …

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Nothing’s “B&E”

Nothing. Photo sourced from artist's Facebook.
I've always pictured this one as a sweeping John Barry score thrown headfirst into a hailstorm of shoegaze reverb. It's from Philly act Nothing, and it's called "B&E," which probably denotes something less majestic and more criminal. But you wouldn't think it from first (or subsequent) impressions.There's a definite bombast and bluster, with layers of …

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Desert Daze: Day 2, Part 2

An artistic response to the previous night's lightning storm that ended Tame Impala's set and temporarily shutdown Desert Daze.
I've been meaning to post this one for a few days.  But you know, shit happens … So here we go ... the second half of Day 2 of Desert Daze.  There's a lot great stuff that happened on this second day, and especially in the second half of the day. There's a phenomenal set …

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