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What You Missed Last Night: Circles and Circles

This is where you were not, last night.  Don't worry, we checked it out for you:

Indie Tuesday: Circles and Cakes

Is it weird for a band to have an anniversary party after only one year of existence?  Maybe.  But there has been weirder anniversary parties. Really though, given the volatile nature of keeping a band together, one year actually is a reason to stop and party.

Tonight, join Circles and Circles at Starline as they celebrate their relatively lengthy togetherness.  They invited Fresno's Aspen Hollow, Akasha and LA's Ready Aim Fire, to play and eat cake with them.  Seriously.  There will be cake.

Enjoy some show related videos after the break...

Fresno likes Stone Foxes

If you were older than 19 you might have missed last night's show at Starline.  But those under that age didn't seem too.  There were a lot of them.  Frisco's The Stone Foxes played and I've never seen Starline so packed on a Tuesday night.  Was it because school's out or is Fresno all about Stone Foxes? 

A brief video of The Stone Foxes last night:

Fresgeek Weekend: Saturday night venue hopping

It's all about the Tower District Saturday night for music (like it is pretty much all the time). 

Audie's Olympic at Club Fred welcomes Spindrift with Fresno's Brother Luke & The Comrades and JohnQ (from Love, the Captive) DJ-ing.  The Starline counters with Goodbye Hidden Betty, What Hands Are For with Fresno's From Blood to Wine and The Kid's International.

It sounds like a good night to hop back and forth between the two clubs.  If you time it right, maybe you'll circumvent all the annoying waiting around in between bands and their sound-checks.  Plus it's an easy drunk-in-an-alley walk between the two places.

Some video of Spindrift if you take the jump with me:

Fresno Bootlegs #4: It may or may not grow back

Time for more bootleggin' in Fresno.  This time it's Fresno's punk boys It'll Grow Back.  This was recorded at the Dorktown Three Year Party.  It's raw and I mean that in every way: sound quality and f-bombs (from the crowd and the band).  Not very safe for work or your kid (Earmuffs, all you have to say is earmuffs).

Download saywhatmofo.mp3  "Say What Mother Fucker" recorded on 6/10/8 at Starline, Fresno.

INDIE TUESDAY: Portland Invades

There will be less dorks out this Tuesday at the Starline (that's a good thing), so it may be easier to enjoy things tonight. 

Portland's The Friendly Skies stops in Fresno.  Playing as well, Windowsill Rose and Brother Luke and the Comrades.

Indie Tuesday: All About Dorks [updated]

Just in case you aren't sick of the myspace messages and Fresno blogsphere posting [It's Mike and Heather's blogsphere, I'm just trying to write in it] we'd like to remind you our podcast is having its three year anniversary party tonight at Starline in the Tower District.  Look at the flier, it tells all.

Chrysalis, Tokyo Death March, It'll Grow Back and The Overdubs will be playing and we will be watching.

This is your chance to tell us we suck, in person, for just five bucks.  That's a friggin deal.  And don't worry, we won't get your money, that's for the folks putting it on.  We'll take your beer donations though - blogging and podcasting makes you very thirsty.

Also, we will be recording for Dorktown Episode 62 all night so if you want to be on it, talk to me.

[UPDATE: Door will likely open by 9:15, first band (probably Chrysalis) will start close to 9:30.  Check the comments for any more updates and don't worry if you get there early because the Starline Grill and Livingstones, next door, will be serving...ya lushes]

*For those who care, we'll be updating this post with probable band lineup times and any other show news, whenever it becomes available.

Fresno Bootlegged #2: Circles and The Comrades

Our first installment of a live bootlegged song from a Fresno band was indie favorite, Rademacher.  We keep it Fresno indie for our second song.  It's an unnamed (to us anyway) song from Brother Luke & The Comrades - a side project of the singer from Circles and Circles.

Enjoy the conversations and live bootleggie...ness from Starline on June 3rd: Listen to BrotherLuke.mp3

It wouldn't be Tuesday without the Starline

It wouldn't be Tuesday without a show at the Starline. This one is all Fresno bands.   Tonight's menu consists of the experimental  jazz of Emerald Fusion, the alt-rock of Coloured Pictures and the alt-progressiveness of From Indian Lakes.

If you go out to Starline tonight, it might be a good idea to start building up your ATL (alcohol tolerance level) for Indie Tuesdays.  Because in three weeks you're gonna wanna be there for our podcast's three year anniversary of saying every version of the F word to Fresno.  Details coming.

Indie Tues: Your Art Sucks!

Coming to the Tower D's Starline club tonight is Alexander T Kent and their funnyass "Your Art Sucks" song.  ATK is a side project of Say Anything's bassist, Alex Kent.  Also showing is Portland's BoomSnake with Goodnight Sunrise and The Lauderdale.

Fresno's own Flight 409 may or may not be playing.  In any case, I bet you could buy them a drink at the show.  I wouldn't mind one either.  I'll take a Stella or even a Rolling Rock, thanks.