BLASTERS at Home! Downey, California, 2008

A youtube'r at the show says it was a benefit for a drive-in restaurant.  Perfect!

I See Hawks in L.A.

"Their songs are rife with mournful social commentary, environmental tragedy, wily humor, outsider guile, and political undercurrent. Seldom has there been an album with such joyous music-making, such corrosive, acid-etched lyrics."- WM Smith, No Depression

Check it out......

Rogue or False?

E-mails contradict book: from the Huffington Post.

Review of the LA Amy Farris Tribute Concert

A well written, heartfelt and insightful review of the three set Amy Farris tribute concert at McCabe's in Santa Monica, November 8.  And to Dave Alvin: add class to a long list of deserved attributes.

Sergey Brin on Google Books

"The [Google Books] agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns."

From Sergey Brin's NYT's editorial.