Inside the club-like Sonora tent on the grounds of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Gary Tovar is inching closer to the stage. As ever, he’s snapping pictures on his phone, and shooting bits of video, to be shared online later. Onstage on this opening weekend of the festival is the Los Angeles … Read more
In the early 1980s, at the peak of the punk rock scene in Fullerton, the interest and demand for punk in Orange County reached a boiling point during one particular TSOL show at Fullerton College. The band was playing a room filled to capacity when an overzealous throng of people stormed the back door, causing … Read more
This past Friday, the singer David Johansen, perhaps best known as the debauched, preening front man of the New York Dolls, a band essential to the genesis of punk rock in New York City in the nineteen-seventies, died of cancer, at age seventy-five. The Dolls released five studio albums over a thirty-eight year period, beginning … Read more
