Archive for June, 2010

Liberation Tourology with ALO #3

When your band is popular there will always be offers, so the temptation and pressure is always there to do more and more. When is it ever enough? Never. Because very few people in the music business feel totally secure with what they’ve got.

thoughts from the road

2 June 2, 2010

The Mission Was Clear: Fly down to Joshua Tree National Park. Impress natives. Rock that festival like its back ain’t got no bone. Fly home and open two nights for Soulive1.
read on and find out what’s worse than zombies

6 June 2, 2010

Insights into his favorite snaps by our Lead Photographer Josh Miller

Mike Ness Guitar

Photo: Josh Miller

Shot: Mike Ness of Social Distortion

The first week the Fox Oakland Theater reopened after being closed for 43 years, Social Distortion played and tore the newly renovated structure to pieces. Management was pleased.

3 June 2, 2010

Liberation Tourology with ALO #2

Note to self: If you’ve been making a night of tequila shots and someone hands you a Jagerbomb, don’t drink it.

read Dave’s check-in from the airport

1 June 1, 2010

Grinderman, a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds side project, will put out their long awaited follow-up to their 2007 debut on September 13, 2010. Grinderman 2‘s release will be followed by a 20-date European tour, and it’s to be devoutly wished that the quartet returns to the States this winter. The Impound caught them at Slim’s in San Fran on first tour and we’ve still got rugburns from the experience. Huzzah!

1 June 1, 2010