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If you wondered why I haven’t posted much in 2023, or why I stopped hosting Fridays at Oracle Tavern, well, here’s your answer…
Life’s a drag at the Dragcon LA Afterparty
If you’re going to go out in a ball of flames, make sure it’s a biiiiiiiiiiig fucking nasty, smoldering, sticky mess!
Pain Behavior brings ‘Industrial Slutcore’
“There’s a reason you like it. Trust your gut.” Read an exclusive interview with Pain Behavior…
Bat Noise: Still ‘freaking the streets’
Moira Scar stars Roxy Monoxide & LuLu Gammaray put theremin, sax, Death Rock, Musique Concrète, sci-fi & more into their dangerous musical cocktail…
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Cute & difficult & fun: Myriad Slits
Myriad Slits loves art & music & “all the crazy ladies.” And we Myriad! Check out the exclusive interview…
Friday, May 12: Dragcon L.A. after party comes to Oracle Tavern!
Life’s NOT a drag when Sean Carnage Fridays return with Pain Behavior, Bat Noise (members of Moira Scar), Myriad Slits, DJ Kyle Mabson…
Photos: Dildox, ACIDTRAIN, Two Crones & DJ Erin Eyesore
This was an amazing Oracle Tavern Friday. There were Fireworks going off in the distance & musical explosives going off in the club…
J’adore DJ Erin Eyesore
Intentionally niche. Blue eyeshadow (irl & in cienema). French coldwave. NYC No Wave. Erin knows how to turn out a dancefloor…
Dildox surfs the synth wave
’80s synth vibes, Soviet aesthetics, the body as mechanism, pain for pleasure… um, yes, PLEASE! Hear their brand new single!
All aboard the ACIDTRAIN
“Harsh, chaotic, fast, energetic.” Ryein Evan makes the kind of sounds we crave with his Doom Disco…
Sean Carnage Fridays are back this Friday, April 14
It’s the best underground music in Los Angeles. Categories be damned. A music-lover’s dream come true. Won’t you join us this Friday?
Sean Carnage Fridays return in April; support these excellent shows in the meantime!
Two underground icons—Nora Keyes & William Badgley—are booking upcoming Fridays at Oracle in my stead. PLEASE SUPPORT THEM!
An incredible show caps an incredible first year back for Sean Carnage Fridays!
Photos of Solar Wimp, Wryngwyrm, Tricky Youth, SAZA & Vitamin Wig C at Oracle Tavern. Help me plan the new season—starts February 10, 2023.
Metal, schmetal: SAZA is “like, totally medieval”
This is the serious Black Metal shit! Asher, Harley, Hazel & Will are simultaneously L.A.’s most dangerous AND most tasteful band…
Vitamin Wig C invites music fans to ‘fall in love in the Uncanny Valley’
Inside the far-out zone that Robbie Hansen’s Vitamin Wig C operates, things get mystical really fast…
Tricky Youth activates your ‘inner freak’
Press play on Tricky Youth’s phenomenal new album & be transported to a liminal state between Nü Metal and Noise, Hip Hop and Techno…
Wryngwyrm: ‘Black Metal for lonely girls’
L Coats, also known as Wryngwyrm, crafts Black Metal masterpieces in a day via the power of persona…
After 27 years Solar Wimp explodes with music
Jeremy, Mark & Justin explain the band’s history—from Peoria, Illinois to Los Angeles—& why it’s quitting time!
Don’t miss the final Carnage of 2022 happening Friday, Dec. 9 at Oracle Tavern
It’s an all-star night with Tricky Youth, Wryngwyrm, SAZA, Vitamin Wig C & the final performance of Solar Wimp. See you there?
A great freakin’ show: RIG, NOÏ, Paul Lai, A Lovely Sort Of Death & Dizparity pics from Oracle
Lots of old—and new—L.A. friends and faces. I’m so grateful to be a part of the music communities in Southern California.