LA / LBC / OC
Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
News Bytes Twitter
Ok so I am kind of breaking a self imposed rule here of writing about a band that isn’t from the LA or OC area and isn’t touring through here either, but I just couldn’t help myself. I had to post something about San Francisco’s Dead To Me, a band made up if former members of One Man Army and Western Addiction, the latter I never listened to, but the former, I spent many hours listening and playing guitar along to as well as seeing them live when they played the Showcase Theatre in Corona some many years ago. See back then when I was in High School I was totally into bands like Swinging Utters, One Man Army, Dropkick Murphys, Ducky Boys, US Bombs, etc (you get the point).
Well just the other day I got a CD from Dead To Me and not having really paid much attention to those type of bands mentioned above for quite a few years I was pleasantly when I poped this into my CD player and was instantly transported back to my days of riding around in my car with my friends listening to The Clash and hitting up thrift stores and Spin Records (before it changed owners and went belly up).
MP3: Dead To Me - By The Throat
7. August 2006 at 8:42 pm :
[...] So I was just a week or so premature posting on Dead To Me before they announced their West Coast tour dates. Check them out below, it will be well worth the 10 spot for admission. [...]