PATTERNS AND TONES

                         With the new release of their remastered album " Hallucinations " on Omnivore Recordings , Permanent Green Light are back from the 9T's.  Along with a collection of out of print favorites and unreleased demo trax,  this new compilation is also packed with rare photographs and ephemera for fans to enjoy. I recently photograph the band in picturesque San Pedro.  Michael Quercio and Matt Devine kindly gave me an interview giving us a chance to catch up and fill in the blanks on the past, present and future.  I'm absolutely thrilled  to present to you one of  Southern California's seminal bands: Permanent Green Light.  Julie Green November 3, 2018 Julie Green: What was the impetus to release these remastered recordings now? Matt: I attended The Quick  pane...

It was always with great anticipation and excitement that we looked forward to an evening watching The Imperial Butt Wizards perform. E lements of surprise and danger were always present, and you were never quite sure if you would end up injured or covered in something that never came out in the wash. A visual delicacy filled with flying debris, costumes constructed out of fun fur, plastic grapes and duct tape, their shows had a penchant for eliciting hysterical laughter from the crowd partly due to the sheer entertainment they provided and partly due to the thrill of potentially being harmed. The Imperial Butt Wizards were a band filled with some of the most creative minds hell-bent on having fun at all costs! Along with a recent interview with Paul K, Michael Quercio and Steve Housden on the origins and stories surrounding this infamous LA band, I dug into my collection of photographs I had shot at several venues throughout San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1989 and 1990, a...