PATTERNS AND TONES

The Two Tens are tops! Their brand of pop-punk is right up my alley. Adam Bones and Rikki Styxx make quite the dynamic duo who can really fill a room with their infectious vibrations that sound as if there were 10 people on stage. The first time I saw them opening up for The Woggles  was a night to remember. I couldn't get their songs out of my head! A good sign indeed... Their third EP titled "Volume 3" is  aptly  coming out   on Feb 10th (2/10!) and will be the 3rd EP in a 4 part series.  Be sure to catch their release party (also on 2/10) at  The Satellite  in Silver Lake.  Volume 1  introduced me to their own take on 60's Garage and 70's Punk  references that tipped their hat to some of the greatest while making it completely their own. While Volume 2  blew my mind in half when "Can't Pull Through" started to play and was laden with hints of Damned melodies and Ramones architecture. What more could you want? This ...

Interviewing Nardwuar, the amazing music journalist from Vancouver, British Columbia, who has interviewed everyone from James Brown, Jay Z and Joan Jett to Cory Feldman, Crispin Glover and Cynthia Plaster Caster was a bit intimidating but since I've know this fun loving, sweet hearted man for over the last 18 years, I thought I would give it a go.  I was visiting some friends in Seattle last month. While having dinner in Capitol Hill at  Lost Lake , they casually asked me what I wanted to do that night. I of course asked what bands were playing in town. My friend Kerry pulled out her iPhone and began to list bands, when she suddenly mentioned The Evaporators who happened to be playing that night right around the corner at The Comet Tavern . I stopped her from listing any other bands. That was it. Nardwuar was in town and I happened to be a block away! We finished our hearty meals, headed out into the kind of rain I hadn't seen since I moved down to LA and headed ...