She Wants Revenge close the inaugural Cloak & Dagger Festival on 10.21.17

So I just found out that She Wants Revenge broke up last year. I had no idea they were amongst the casualties of 2020 - not death per se (nor do I mean to belittle actual tragedy), but one amongst the many comforts that have either closed, concluded, or fallen by the wayside. Total bummer.It's …

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 …

Flashback: Poptone @ the Cloak & Dagger Festival at the Globe Theatre on 10.21.17

Poptone perform at the Cloak and Dagger Festival at the Globe Theatre on 10.21.17. Sorry for the annoying head that blots out Kevin Haskins on drums. But this is the best pic I could find from back then.
I haven't done one of these flashback concerts in a while. I've had too many current ones to prep and post, and I'm still behind on a few of them. But tonight marks the reunion of seminal alternative goth rock artist Bauhaus, after a near decade-long absence - 13 years, if you include live performances. …