The Hollywood Christmas Parade and the party that took place in a sketchy motel

A parade that was once a Hollywood staple is now nothing more than a hang nail in Hollywood. The parade usually attracts well over 50,000 people, this year was reduced to maybe 10,000 or maybe less all around the parade route. So how did some of Big Wheel mag’s people even show up to cover this? We get a call from some old school Hollywood Punks that said hey we are gonna have a party with booze at this thrashed on place that is on the parade route, Read more

Music play list for the week ending November 30, 2008

Top 25  - In no particular order -

Bobot Adrenaline – School of Americas
Gwar – The Salaminizer
The Hives – Walk Idiot Walk
Generation X – Youth Youth Youth
Crucial Cause – No Words
Stab City – Wolfpit
Petra Haden – Thriller
Nihilistics – Black Sheep
Jane’s Addiction – Of Course
Jerry Lee Lewis – Mean Woman Blues
Anti – My Smile Is a Mask
Bang Sugar Bang – Machine Gun Song
Tiltwheel – Al Quint is an Emo Pussy
Thin Lizzy – Running Back
The Adicts – Who Spilt My Beer
Go Go’s – This Town Is Our Town
The Gears – The Last Chord Read more

D.O.A. Northern Avenger

One thing that is certain is that if there was a nuclear holocaust of the entire world, the only things that will be left will be the roaches, Cher and luckily Joey Shithead and DOA –this is a band that will thankfully never go away. Another album has just Read more

When consumers go wild

Consumerism can kill. Desperation to spend money they don’t have leads to death at a Wal Mart store.

The View at The Lemon Tree Aberdeen, UK November 27, 2008

This notorious 4 piece band from Dundee (the band set up base to write their own material in a back room of The Bay view Pub where they got there name from. The band were later ejected from their base in The Bayview, following singer Kyle Falconer Read more

To pay or not to play, that is the question – the debate on this issue continues

There are alot of bands that get caught in the pay to play snafu. Perhaps there may be some information that they can use or just use it as food for thought in making choices on the direction you want to take your band. This by no means is gospel, just thoughts and ideas on how to deal with this situation. First off a venue that asks bands to pay to play just demonstrates that they do a poor job at promoting their own venue or they are saying that your band sucks Read more

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