Desert Daze Day 1 Gets Sweaty, Smelly and Savage — King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Steal the Night   All music festivals are experiences that go beyond simple musical performances. Your experience is largely what you make of it, though it can be influenced by extraneous factors. Sure, like any regular concert, the crowd’s […]

The first annual Hi-Fi Rockfest is coming to the Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach on Saturday, September 26th for the ultimate day of punk rock, garage, and hardcore musical mayhem. Brace yourself because it’s gonna get loud! Expect badass performances from Dead Kennedys, Street Dogs, Naked Raygun, The Sonics, Richie Ramone, Luicidal, Dirty Filthy Mugs, […]

Photo Credit: Merri Sutton Garage-soul living legends The Sonics are back with their first new album since 1967. This Is The Sonics dropped in March via their own imprint, Revox and features all original members: Gerry Roslie, Larry Parypa, and Rob Lind. The original trio is joined by Freddie Dennis (the Kingsmen/Liverpool Five) and Dusty Watson (Dick Dale/Agent Orange) […]

The Sonics are back with their first album in 48 years! As previously reported, The Sonics will release their first album since 1967, titled This Is the Sonics, set for release March 31 via their own imprint, Revox. As expected, The Sonics have added a Los Angeles headlining date to their recent tour announcement. The […]

When most old school rockers come back to cut an album decades after their prime, their new music just doesn’t hit that same sweet spot. We saw it with the New York Dolls, we saw it with Iggy Pop, even the Stones — however, the Tacoma Washington garage-soul legends, The Sonics are back with a new […]

Iconic and influential ’60s garage-soul rockers The Sonics are all about pure rock n’ roll energy and there will be no shortage of that when they headline The Roxy on Friday, August 15 – time to party like it’s 1965! With support from Long Beach shredders Crystal Antlers and East L.A. rock legends Thee Midniters, […]

Now this makes us happy. The iconic 60s garage rock ‘n’ soul band, The Sonics have a headlining show coming up at the Roxy on Friday, Aug. 15th! The last time we caught the Sonics live was at Ink ‘n’ Iron in 2009, as you can imagine, we are very excited to see these legends […]

Get your tattoos and hot rods ready! Ink-N-Iron returns the to the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA for three fun rockin’ days of music, tattoos, babes and hot rods. The three-day festival will take place June 10-12, 2011 aboard the Queen Mary. This year’s line-up looks insanely good. Iconic garage rockers, The Sonics return […]

Damn was it a boiler on Sunday at Sunset Junction. You know how guys get arm-pit sweat stains, well chick with nice racks get booby sweat. You could tell which ones weren’t wearing a bra this steamy afternoon. I arrived towards the end of the set for Local Natives and was stoked with what I […]

You know, LA a really is the place to be—especially for MUSIC! In case you forgot, Sunset Junction is this weekend! Making it a total festival weekend with Sunset Junction and both Long Beach’s Busker Fest and Fidotrust Festival! Sunset Junction’s hot-on-the-heels of it’s 29th year and by far one of the best, most eccentric […]

In its 29th year, Sunset Junction is the hippest and realest music festival LA has to offer. Check out the review and photos from last year here. For this year’s all-star line-up and goods, click on the flyer below! For tickets and more information, visit sunsetjunction.org.

Ink N Iron went off this past weekend, June 5 – 7, at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif. Tattoos, live bands, classic car show, sexy burlesque and more, the event was a great time. Considering it was an eventful weekend, I was only able to attend Saturday, the night The Sonics headlined and […]

Whether you’re coming for the tattoos, music, car show, or hotties, Ink-N-Iron is needling it’s way to Long Beach’s Queen Mary, June 5 – 7. There’ a lot of cool events going on that weekend, but you should definitely check Ink-N-Iron out for at least a day. I’ll be there on Friday for The Eagles […]

I can’t tell you how fuckin’ excited I am to hear that The Sonics will be playing at the Ink-N-Iron Festival on Saturday, June 6. Their song, “Have Love Will Travel” is some-what the theme song to my life. I got addicted to this tune on my first long-term trip abroad (South America) back in […]

Coachella may have kicked off the spring/summer festival season, but small live shows are looking good and plenty this season. So many things to do and people to see, yet such little time. These are Grimy’s hot picks for May 2009: The Silversun Pickups – April 30 at the Echoplex in LA. Unfortunately, this sold […]