Dee Dee Ramone – Birthday Memorial Show on September 18, 2010

Dee Dee Ramone will forever be an enigmatic Punk rock icon. While most are familiar with his musical legacy as a founding member and songwriter in the world famous Ramones, many are less aware of his talent for art and painting. Like Dee Dee, the work is rebellious, dynamic, eccentric and comedic. We have assembled an exhibition of over thirty original pieces, -many of which will be displayed for the very first time at this extraordinary event sanctioned by Dee Dee’s Estate to honor the rock legend.

Rare, vintage images of Dee Dee have been cherry-picked from the critically acclaimed, Jenny Lens Photo Archive and will be available for purchase as oversized, signed, numbered, museum quality prints. Hailed as the most published first-wave west coast punk photographer in the history of the movement, Jenny will share her experiences with the Ramones at the opening night reception, specifically citing Dee Dee as the reason she picked up a camera initiating her prolific body of work from 1976-1980. Read more

Emo – We are even more confused now than before

Something that confuses most people is the whole Emo thing. One of our loyal site visitors wanted to do some more research so that he could better understand the life and times of what Emo is. In the course of that research he came across this You Tube channel called Emo World TV (www.youtube.com/emoworldtv). In looking through the videos it is hard to tell if this is actually real or not because these videos are pretty hilarious and are hosted by people who talk on various subjects in a matter of fact tone. This You Tube channel could very well be the work of black propagandist to discredit people who are devotees of Emo because the videos seem to speak to every stereotype possible. None the less our site visitor wanted to pass this along to us to see what he found out there and he leaves this area of research even more confused than when he started.

   WHAT’S YOUR EMO STYLE? Skater? Punk? Nerd? Fat? MySpace?

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Patti Smith’s memoir of a rock-poet

"Just Kids" is a tale of scrambling toward relevancy as the ’60s morphed into the ’70s, makes a kid from the Reagan-Bush years yearn for the galvanizing turbulence of an era gone by.

Nostalgia is never more suspect than when the person romantically harking back is too young to have experienced the era firsthand. But reading Patti Smith’s memoir "Just Kids," a tender recollection of her coming of age as a singer-songwriter alongside her artistic soul mate, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, I couldn’t help envying the cultural ferment of the late ’60s, early ’70s and wondering how we could recapture some of the dirty magic. >>> Read more

Finally, learn how to be Punk – There are videos for this

Here’s a site that you can have some fun wasting a bunch of time at or actually look for how to do something. The site is HowCast.com. They have tons of videos on all kinds of stuff, some of the videos are very quirky and ironic while others straight up illustrate how to do something. Go check it out and have some fun. Below is a video they had on How To Be Punk… we thought the video was funny and laughed… so all you way too serious/nothing is funny kind of Punks, please don’t flood us with emails about how terrible this is and on and on… we know it’s terrible… that is why we are laughing at it.

   How to be Punk video

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Win tickets to go see Youth Brigade, Krum Bums, All or Nothing HC & Destruct

Enter NOW to win some tickets from us to these shows to come hang out with us

Win tickets to go see Youth Brigade, Krum Bums, All or Nothing HC & Destruct
 at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA on September 4, 2010
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Win tickets to go see Screeching Weasel and The Dollyrots
 at Club Nokia in Los Angeles, CA  on September 19, 2010
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Win tickets to go see Street Dogs
 at The El Rey Theater in Los Angeles, CA  on October 9, 2010
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Historic L.A. Punk Venue Madame Wong’s to Close for Good in August “again?”

The historic Chinatown Punk venue, Madame Wong’s, will be closing for good on August 14.

"It’ll probably never be a music venue again," said Aquarium Drunkard’s Justin Gage, who broke the news via a Twitter post this afternoon. "So anyone that wants to get a sense of that old L.A. Punk rock culture, get in while the getting’s good."

This was actually the space’s second run as an intimate host to some rather high profile performances. Founded in the early ’70s, Madame Wong’s was originally a Chinese restaurant with a Polynesian dance floorshow.  >>> Read More HERE

For the most part the shows that were held there were on the down low but none the less it was cool that these guys kept the DIY spirit alive in this hallowed space.

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