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Touring hardcore electronica at the CYC with Everyone Dies In Utah. Also, A Faylene Sky, Through Arteries and locals like Tigerblood and Forever Rising.
A Faylene Sky:
Plus there's stuff happening at Audie's Too:
Continue reading "Music In Fresno Tonight: Everyone Dies In Utah" »
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Dorktown has always been scary ... but this episode is actually supposed to be ... sort of. Episode 101 has Bells, Mikey, Producer Becky and special guest, Michael Banti, from Weird Fresno. The group talks about: haunted places in the Fresno area, an possible EVP by Michael, ghost hunting shows, Fresno UFO and ghost stories. Plus a little bit of Dorktown and Fresno business.
You should totally listen or download by clicking the below file:
DorktownPodcast101
Length is 1:00. Music by Trumpet Solo and the Sunburns.
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Sometimes holiday weekends can kinda suck for music. Like, you know, not a lot of shows and stuff. Not this time. Plenty of shows. Good ones. Happening. So let's get into it ... let's BANDGEEEEEEEK!:
FRIDAY
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Hey, nice to see local promoters, Love The Captive, putting their toes back in the water. Style Like Revelators and more:
C.A.F.E. INFOSHOP: Quite the big show for Infoshop: Cabin Fire, Gold // Tongue, Mane Horse, Blackwater, The Milford Higgins and Skomm:
FULTON 55: U2 tribute dudes: The Joshua Tree:
STARLINE: Rock and reggae band, The White Glove Service, headline a night of local talent:
BROADWAY KLUB: Check the Friday section of the flier below. Cover is $5, Starts at 7:00, All ages:
NVS NIGHTCLUB: Fresno's From The Fallen head-up the club's rock night, hosted by New Rock 104.1. [$10, 9:00, 21+]
KUPPAJOES: Off this weekend.
THE BEL-TOWER: Off this weekend.
SATURDAY
FULTON 55: For you Fresno youngsters out there, we can't stress enough how epic this show is. The Neanderthals were the shit in the late 80s/ early 90s around Fresno. Like ... really we can't think of a proper current local band to compare them too ... they were the shit. Time to relive the shit or experience the shit for the first time:
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At Audie's Olympic is, Wayne "The Train" Hancock, bluseman from Austin. Plus Slim Chance & The Can't Hardly Playboys (outlaw country from Nashville) and Fresno's favorite rockabilly band: Motel Drive.
And/Or try this show:
At Fulton 55, the return of He's My Brother She's My Sister (Los Angeles). Plus The Mumlers (Oakland) and the kickstarters from Fresno, Fierce Creatures. [$8, 8:30, 21+]
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A *move over to the CYC for hardcore Worchester band, BANE. Boston punk band Defeater, Australian hardcore from, Miles Away. Plus Dead End Path (Boston) and Rotting Out (Los Angeles).
[$12, 7:30, All Ages]
Defeater will mind not if you'd like to join them on stage:
And BANE doesn't mind either ... even if you're Korean:
*This show was originally happening at Neighborhood Cafe.
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Gotta a cool project in need of some funding? No worries, that's what Kickstarter is around for. The latest local to use this creative method of getting capital is Fresno indie rockers, Fierce Creatures.
They are in the middle of making their first full length album and could use your help to finish it. Maybe you're thinking "Why should I help pretty people do things?" Well, as with all Kickstarter campaigns, if you back a project, you get something for your donation. And the band has some cool and creative rewards for fans.
You could get in free to every Fierce Creatures show till the end of music and time. You could have them throw you a BBQ with a personal show. You could force them to make a Swede of your choosing. Get exclusive music and shirts and all kinds of stuff. There's even something for a $2 donation. Check 'em out.
By the by, Fierce Creatures are playing Fulton 55 on Thursday and here is a reminder of the fierceness:
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Indie punk band from Seattle: Steelhorse. Local support from Bridges, Vicimless Crime, Restaurnaut and Danny Lango.
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Westerns playing a FREE show at Veni's tonight. What the hell, might as well, eh? Flier is boss:
Also, the CYC hosts PA hardcore band, Wisdom In Chains (on their first West Coast tour), with Running Scared and more things you'll have to show up to find out about ... actually if you're in a band that might fit this bill, hit up Religious Appeal. [$8, 6:30, All Ages]
Wisdom In Chains:
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UPDATE (OCT 23): It now comes to us from Edward Stewart's blog that somebody in charge of the Tower Theatre building has painted over Josh Wigger's mural on the side of Palomino's. Just like that. No disscussion, it's gone. Even if they had the legal right to do this, it's pretty bad mojo to be doing that, without disscussion, to a Tower District landmark.
ORIGINAL POST (OCT 16): Went to have some dinner at Palomino's in the Tower District this weekend. Couldn't get a table though ... because the place was closed. At 7:00. On a Saturday night.
Called Palomino's earlier in the day and the phone line has been disconnected. Maybe they did a closed-because-we're-dead-when-the-fair-is-in-town thing. But there was no signage stating this or anything else.
And this POSSIBLE closing on the heels of their next door neighbor calling it a day. Plus there's still nothing open in the old Daily Planet space. Can't be easy paying the rent on those Tower Theatre building spaces.
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This weekend, in between watching to see how many views the sweded Avengers trailer gets by Sunday and checking out downtown flea market action, we're going out to hear some live and local bands. This will be our guide. It is ... BANDGEEEEEK!:
FRIDAY
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: How bout this show is being super local and balls awesome!? Fay Wrays, Achievement House, The Quiet Americans and Brother Luke & The Comrades.
KUPPAJOES: Rising stars locally, we say, are the Old Tire Swingers. They've got a new EP out and are partying with Briertone (SLO), Doc's Holiday (Riverdale), Fort Wilson Riot (Minneapolis) and Horse Fly.
FULTON 55: Check Aesop Fables (Living Legends), Scarub, Atlantis Rizing and Azwell. Info:
NVS NIGHTCLUB: Formerly "On The Rocks" and "Bliss" the re-imagined club kicks off a rock night with Say Swear, Fields of Prey, Dislodic and Born Betty. [$10, 9:30, 21+]
CLUB RETRO: Diversify with Our Last Decade, He Cried Wolf, Failed Creation, Tigerblood, Drag Me To Shore and Your Hero Is A Villain. [$10, 7pm, all Ages]
THE BEL-TOWER: It's the Skapocalypse!! Repent! Repent!! ... in other words, there will be ska at the BT tonight. With Iwanaga, For The Record and more. [$5, 7pm, All Ages]
BABYLON: Merduh the Innoncynce, Trash Valley, Gutterfish and Tangent plus a appearance by Tim "The Beast" Eastom's and Jason "Livewire" Von Flue. [$7, 7:30, 21+]
SATURDAY
STARLINE: Pantera tribute band, Cowboys From Hell. Plus locals Chamber 7, Obsidian Seraph, 9th Level, God Fears Me. Grab some tickets here.
WOODWARD PARK AMP: We'll see if Northeast Fresno can handle THIS one. Huge festival with a mix of old rock acts and a ton of local bands, plus a bunch of crazy stuff. It's the first Rocktober Fest!. More info and a list of bands can be found on the event page and below:
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: The spirit of October is in this show with 3 Foot Chain, Claymation Horror Show, One Last Caress and DJ Dinobyte.
C.A.F.E. INFOSHOP:Seattle post-hardcore band, Mercy Ties. With locals Cabin Fire, Blackwater, Tiger Lily and more. Info:
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In case you haven't seen over at Dumb Drum or The Beehive, the Fresnans from DumbDrum.com and creators of Swede Fest made a Sweded version of the trailer for The Avengers movie and released it before the festival to get some buzz going.
They got it.
It's all over the Internet now (like, the other Internet, not just Fresno's). The video has 70k views and counting and has already appeared on sites like:
Mad props (wait, does anyone say 'mad props' still? ... fuck it we're going with it) mad props to the Dumb Drum/Swedefest folks.
Here is the actual trailer followed by the sweded version. PRO TIP: Play them at the same time and you can see how well they match up. Nice work!:
Swedefest 8 is coming November 5th and there's still time to get your own Swede in.
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Today is Fashawn's Birthday and he's going to be partying at The Standard for it. Unaware of the particulars to this (like if he's actually performing or just partying) but we bet if you wear one of his new t-shirts (above), it'll help your chances of getting in ... just don't wear it to church on Sunday. Fash starts partying at 9. The Standard is 21+.
At Fulton 55, roots rock legend, Dave Alvin, along with local folk roots superstar, Glen Delpit & the Subterraneans. Tickets.
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Finally. Our long, unprofessional, drunk, off-putting, horrible sounding, cuss filled, over six-year long journey has finally got us to Episode 100. Dorktown is a podcast for lovers and haters of Fresno. A podcast for nerds, drunks and jerkoffs - In case you forgot.
During this episode there will be too much talking about Dorktown, attempts at conversations about FUSE Fest, the Fresno Fair, Yardhouse, Fulton Mall and other stuff.
Listen up for the special call-ins by Dorktown Listeners and be ready for the Episode 100 drinking game.
Listen by downloading/clicking below:
Music by Trumpet Solo and Fay Wrays.
Thank you so much for those brave souls that have listened throughout the years. One day we'll do everyone a favor and stop. But until then, Dorktown carries on.
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So you know that Incubus is in town tonight. That's fine, they did okAaaay the last time we saw them at Save Mart Center. Surely they will be adiquate again. Godsmack will be all hard rock at the Fair on Saturday night. Audra is back in Fresno this weekend too. All good stuff. But we usually prefer the lesser traveled, smaller, local inspired shows.
The kinda shows you'll always find in... BANDGEEK!:
FRIDAY
KUPPAJOES: After a big of a hiatus, Kuppa has returned, returned strong too with rising alt-rock band, I Am Empire. They are off of Tooth & Nails Records, are from San Jose and have shared a stage with the likes of Flyleaf, Sublime, Deftones and Silversun Pickups Also playing tonight is Phinehas, Corsair, Blood & Water and Nine Lashes. [$10, 7pm Door, All Ages]
FULTON 55: Leave it to Patrick Contreras to do something extra special that Fresnans aren't used to seeing: "The Tiny Country, Big Show Concert". Please check out this page for more info on this:
BROADWAY KLUB: This venue isn't going to stay a secret for much longer if they keep getting good shows. Los Angeles punk band Naked Aggression plus All Or Nothing, The Furloughs and more:
AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Something. It's a bar too, go hang out.
SATURDAY
THE BEL-TOWER: Much respect to the little venue that could. The Bel-Tower has made it through a DIY year and would like to celebrate with a festival. It's the FYBT Fest! A BT compilation tape will be available along with all these bands!: ACxDC, Resist and Exist, Duke Nukem Forever, Ruptures, Clarence Boddigker, They As In Them, Desecrator, Tiger Lily, Glamour Tronic, Skomm, Tyrannosaurus Zebra, Iwanaga - all are local! Note the early start (because that's how festivals work, sun):
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Not enough people are talking about local rock group, Lezayr. They're very good and are playing at Fulton 55 tonight with Los Angeles alt rock band, Monte Negro. Get out and see them when you can, you won't be disapointed.
Also in Fresno tonight:
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