Nice show tonight at Audie's Olympic - we need more good weeknight shows like this. With our punk boys It'll Grow Back and fellow locals Sawtooth. First we've heard of Sawtooth, and that makes them interesting.
Plus touring spacerock outfit from So-Cal: Toward Distant Suns. Joshua Tehee does a nice interview with TDS frontman Brad Baker, you should totally read-up on it.
Show starts around 9pm. Cost is $5 (we think) and Audie's is 21+.
This is Toward Distant Suns:
>>>That's not all that's going on. Good show in Chinatown at C.A.F.E. Infoshop too - you could actually get this one in before the Audie's show:
UPDATE: There is now a winner for the pair of tickets to Thursday's event: Angel. His name was drawn out of our Oakland A's hat (for realz), so congrats. And special thanks to all of your email comments, I enjoyed them greatly and I'll be paying my $5 along with you tomorrow.
Our Brothers In Blog, Fresno Beehive, are organizing another one of their Tweetups at The Chuk. It's Thursday and should be good. Highlights for us include a Tweetup goers only Thirsty Thursday booth, and the likelyhood of Barry Zito (and his pretty curveball) making a rehab start that night.
Breakdown of the whats:
WHAT: The third annual Great Fresno Tweetup, a face-to-face meetup for Fresno's local Twitter community. It includes baseball-watching, networking, games, prizes, cheap beer, possible heckling and, of course, lots of Tweeting,
WHEN: 6 p.m. Thursday, 'til whenever the game is over. First pitch is at 7:05 p.m., but our event starts at 6, which is when $1 Thirsty Thursday beers are available. Not a coincidence.
WHERE: Chukchansi Park, downtown Fresno. At the "Tweetdeck," our private party deck overlooking left field.
WHY: Because Fresno's Twitter community is: (a) Awesome, (b) Growing, (c) Full of fun people and (d) Somehow well-behaved enough that we haven't been 86'd from The Chuk after the previous two Tweetups. Also, word is that Barry Zito of the Giants will be pitching on Thursday, so that's pretty rad.
HOW: RSVP on Twitter with @fresnogrizzlies to get your special $5 tickets (which include your first $1 beer). Make sure you're following @fresnobeehive for contests both at the event and leading up to it. Keep an eye on the #GreatFresnoTweetup hashtag to stay current on the all chatter.
Alright. You know what's going on. Now is your chance to win a ticket (plus 1) to the event (courtsey of Fresno Beehive). Just email contest@thefresnan.com saying whatever you want - it could be "The Fresnan sucks ass!" - and you're entered. Easy. Winner will get sent a reply email later Wednesday night.
It's probably something boring like... like this post, yeah like this post. Boring. A lame, lazy, boring blog post about street improvements in front of bus stops. Wow - we have fallen far.
This weekend might be one of those opportunities to change things up a bit. Try some DIY punk or check out Kuppajoe's for the first time. Get reacquainted with Audie's. See if Club Retro sucks. You know, expand and stuff.
It's not realeased 'till July 5th, but part 1 of Rademacher's new three part album titled "Babyhawk" is now available for pre-order. If you enter "hadden" during checkout you get 50% off and since it's only 4.99 to begin with... that like makes it $2 and... ummm.... like ... it makes it cheap okay.
A couple of North Fresno shows (yes, can you believe two in one night?) with Westerns playing a free show at The Standard:
Plus Fresno reggae band Irie Sun playing at Eureka Burger:
And at the CYC, for the metal-ers and Downtown folk, Religious Appeal presents VYGR (Boston sludge), At Our Heels (Bay Area Hardcore), Beat Red (Fresno, ex-Pinky Swear) and probably more. [7pm $6 All Ages]
Call us old or something but we still enjoy a good local radio show. Especially when it's a local program that talks about Fresno a lot. One of those is KFSR 90.7's The Pulse.
It's a weekly show hosted by Dr. Timothy Stearns of the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Fresno State. It's a show about "...innovators and entrepreneurs who are reshaping the Central Valley."
Fucking hideous self promotion alert!: Dr. Stearns had Fresno's Town Goob on last weekend. You probably missed it because The Pulse is on at times normal people don't listen to radio. Lucky for us the new fangled Internet lets you you download recordings of such programs so you can listen whenever.
Last weekend's show has a full discussion about Fresno's music scene, a little bit of what it's like blogging against the Big Shots in town and how this whole local blogging thing started.
Any time you can get a festival going on the Fulton Mall it's a good thing. Check out all the stuff happening that day (including a nice music lineup) by going here. And there's still time to sign up be a vendor. More info is at www.fresnochilefestival.com.
Hummm, a festival on the Fulton Mall... some other Fresno festival should consider this.
Not sure why a random Tuesday in Fresno (during finals week for some) has three solid shows. But it does.
TESTAMENT TATOO PARLOR: The flier (very awesome one, btw) says there will be free beer. Free. Beer. What kind though? That's really the question. Well, even a Coors Light might go down okay if you're listening to previous Fresno visitors from Salt Lake City: I Am The Ocean. Plus Madera's Buffalo Guns and All Nite Pilots:
THE BEL-TOWER: Ska and punk night at the BT with Denver's Potato Pirates, The Endorsement (Fresno), The S.O.Bs (Firebaugh) and Iwanaga! (Fresnans). Lookie:
These are the kind of shows that remind us of the old Indie Tuesdays at Starline...
This is the Fresno Tower Records staff (the original Tower in the old K-Mart shopping center off Blackstone & Barstow) from 1978 unearthed by former worker Kent Stratford. Too cool for words.
And if you look real close you'll see a one Dale Stewart (former frontman for Capital Punishment and current FF blogger) and one dude that currently works down the street at Rasputains.
Not going to waste your time with an attempt at a clever opening today. So let's get to seeing what Fresno's music scene is doing this weekend. Let's BANDGEEK!:
FRIDAY
FULTON 55: Gotta be the pick of the weekend. This is the kind of show we were thinking of when this place opened. Ska funk legends, Fishbone. Rising local ska outfit, The Burners. Deal.
KUPPAJOES: You know, it's just fun to say The Milford Higgins. Especially with a British accent. Try it "Hello, sir. I am The Milford Higgins. Pleasure to meet you, I'm sure." Oh and look, The Young Rabscallions are playing - that's totally British feeling too. Hip hip.
The Fresnan is a blog drunk on Fresno's sweet sweet booze.
We like posting about local music and random Fresno culture junk. We like Downtown, tri-tip, South of Shaw battles, tamales and remembering when there was a fig orchard at Herndon & Palm. We like to occasionally go to River Park but tell people we never go there.
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