International Pillow Fight Day 2010 – at Pershing Square – Los Angeles, CA

While part of the population was out Saturday at the Apple store to get their new iPad, the other half were on their way to downtown LA for some fun with friends and total strangers. This was the International Pillow Fight day that takes place every year all over the world where this loosely organized event is staged in cities all over the globe. The people at NewMindSpace who inspired this and other like event are all Read more

Alex Chilton – In Memoriam

I’m going to keep this short. A corpse doesn’t value words – he doesn’t need ‘em. But we, the living, have gotta say something. Alex Chilton, at 59 years, is dead. And at this point, I’m not even sure what that means. I’ve spent a lifetime falling in and out of love to the sound of his voice, as so many weird souls and weary rock refugees have. But I’m not going to pretend that I Read more

Big Wheel Magazine Top 9 Records of 2009

2009 is coming to a close, so now, the time has come for us to present Big Wheel Magazine’s Top 9 Albums of 2009. Why 9? Why not! Alot of input from you the visitors as well as our staff went into the assembling this list.

The list is made up of albums that were released throughout 2009 and there were a lot of excellent records that were released this year. So without any further stalling for time…in no particular order…Big Wheel Magazine’s Top 9 Albums Read more

Bad Reaction farewell gig with Gestapo Khazi – Gross Negligence – Knives – No Spectators – Unity Church Basement – Long Beach, CA – December 12, 2009

It was a rain filled night in Long Beach for Bad Reaction’s last show at the Unity Church with No Spectators, Time Bombs, Knives, Gross Negligence, and Gestapo Khazi. With traffic from the rain on the way out to Long Beach it seemed like I was going to miss No Spectators, but upon Read more

DEVO – at The Fonda Theater – Hollywood, CA

In a time when you see things that are very generic, pre-packaged, done before / updated, it’s very refreshing that an original band like DEVO exist. Tonight kicks off 2 nights of sold out shows with this band that started in the late 70’s and in 2009 they remain just as iconic today. This round of shows that dots the US and Canada to mark Read more

Liskfest 2.0 – at Oak Canyon Ranch – Irvine, CA – September 5, 2009

Last year’s Lisk Fest was a great event with highlights being performances by Gorilla Biscuits, Cro-Mags, Ignite, and H20. The fest, which is put on by Chris Lisk of Speak 714, is turning out to be an annual get together of old guard Orange County Hardcore types with big name acts Read more

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