Enemy Love

For those of you in Los Angeles with a hunger for the Darker side of things...Killing Spree, the monthly coldwave night thrown by Sarah, Gibby and myself is going down on the 8th of January.

We are very excited to have a special DJ set by Louderbach!




The beautiful flyers as always by Gibby Miller.

Come out, Get Dark, Get Weird, Get Off, Get It?

Lets go to bed.

So today is day three...that is day three in a row that I am seeing The Cure. WOW.



the first night was by far the best...they played a secret show at The Troubadour. Yep, the same Troubadour that i used to work at..it was me and like 300 other people all loosing our minds to the one of the most intimate, exclusive nights ever.



It was amazing...How amazing you may ask? well here is the set list.

Underneath the Stars
Pictures of You
Lullaby
The Perfect Boy
alt.end
The Reasons Why
The Walk
The End of the World
Lovesong
Real Snow White
Hungry Ghost
From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
The Only One
Wrong Number
Sleep When I'm Dead
Push
Friday I'm In Love
Inbetween Days
Just Like Heaven
Primary
The Scream
One Hundred Years
It's Over

FIRST ENCORE
Freakshow
Let's Go To Bed
Close To Me
Why Can't I Be You?

SECOND ENCORE
A Forest
Boys Don't Cry
Jumping Someone Else's Train
Grinding Halt
10:15 Saturday Night
Killing An Arab.


(photos by day19)

There's no love like your love...

Zach Cowie has made magic once again ladies and gentlemen.


Everything I do, I Do it For Sagan from Rotter and Friends on Vimeo.

"dude, that's the best song of all time...i pretty much peed in my pants when i heard it and ran home and made that..."

Well thank you sir...

From the Cradle to the Grave.

In the spirit of resurrecting my childhood...



THE MURDER CITY DEVILS are getting back together for a west coast tour in February!!

Holy fuck am i stoked for this one..This band always made me feel so dangerous.

They completely transformed Seattle when i was coming up. Everyone died their hair black, and wore tons of denim...it seriously looked like the streets of Capitol Hill were taken over by a violent street gang.


(from www.murdercitydevils.com)

Baker Street.

Forget About Everything from Rotter and Friends on Vimeo.

Zach Cowie...you are my new hero for making this.

Life.Love.Regret.

Saturday May 9th 2009 at The Glasshouse in Pamona,CA
Burning Fight Book Release and Benefit Show

Unbroken
Swing Kids
Undertow
Jenny Piccolo
Fast Forward
+ 1 More band

NO bands will be paid.

ALL money after expenses will go to charity

Just some of the charities/non profits that the money will go to:
Planned Parenthood
Che Café
Monarch School for troubled families
San Diego Women's Shelter
and many more!

Ummm...hello dream show, my name is Zane...and I have been waiting for you for a long time...

Unbroken.





Swing Kids.



Undertow.






For all of my mid-western friends, i may be seeing you here as well...

May 2nd - 3rd, 2009

BURNING FIGHT - 90'S HARDCORE BOOK RELEASE SHOW

featuring

UNBROKEN
DISEMBODIED
TRIAL
MOUTHPIECE
KILLING TIME
UNDERDOG
108
GUILT
SPLIT LIP
THREADBARE
REACH THE SKY
DAMNATION A.D.
RINGWORM
BANE
HAVE HEART
BETRAYED
BLACKLISTED
SOUL CONTROL
THE KILLER
HARMS WAY
CONVICTED
THOUGHT CRUSADE

* Lineup subject to change *

LOCATION
Metro
3730 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60613

TICKETS
$55.00 - Two Day Pass (Advance)
Single Day Tickets will not be available in advance and will only be
available on the day of show if the event does not sell out in advance.

Advance tickets for this event will be available at 7:00 pm (CST) on
Thursday, November 6th. Tickets will be available from the URL:
http://www.indietickets.com/events/burningfight/ or place your order over
the phone at (888) 690-9875.

http://www.indietickets.com/events/burningfight/

I also expect full style regression...back to the clothes and haircuts that you had in '97...this means pompadours, romulan haircuts, white belts, jyncos, jerseys, the whole nine...

Thorns of Life.

Blake Schwarzenbach and Aaron Cometbus have started a new band.

They play house shows in Brooklyn, and they are amazing...duh.

Blake says: “I can say only that it’s loud and tender and we’re called the Thorns Of Life. whether it’s more Jetsesque or Breaker-like I honestly don’t know; It sounds like a storehouse of fond hatred from the last few years and in the now.”









I'm speechless and on the verge of tears...

Thank you.

This is the Disco Rough.

This is the second KiLLING SPREE... Nov. 6th.
Medusa Lounge 3211 Beverly Blvd. 9-2 21+ Free.
Flyers by Gibby...

Goddamn Zombies.

Sometimes hate is a family value.

Thanks Ian.

KiLLING SPREE.

This thursday... gonna get dark...

"From tonight until the end of time."

So who fucking knew that Peter Cetera was a total closet goth...check the Bauhaus shirt.

Man oh man...i have loved this dude for a while, but this seals the deal right here.

"I'm a bad mother fucker, don't you know?"

Well, i saw the show of my life the other night. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds played the Hollywood Bowl with Spiritualized and Cat Power, WOW!!!





I have been waiting a long long time to see Nick Cave live and let me tell you it was well worth the wait. He has to be one of the best showmen of all time, if not just the best dressed (i would kill for suits like his). When he closed the night with "Stagger Lee", i thought the place was going to riot...or maybe that was just me.

Here is the set list...goddamn amazing.





Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds:

'Night Of The Lotus Eaters'
'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!'
'Tupelo'
'Today's Lesson'
'Red Right Hand'
'Into My Arms'
'Midnight Man'
'The Mercy Seat'
'Deanna'
'The Ship Song'
'We Call Upon The Author'
'Papa Won't Leave You Henry'
'Hard On For Love'
'Stagger Lee'

"Its like a really bad Disney movie."

http://womenagainstsarahpalin. blogspot. com/

What is remarkable to me about Sarah Palin is that she seems to have no awareness that feminists of previous generations are what have made it possible for her to present her unwed, pregnant daughter without any public shame. As few as thirty years ago, Bristol would have been shipped off to have her baby in private and the child would have been put up for adoption. Because of Roe v. Wade feminists, unmarried women can now have children free from the shame of previous generations. Every generation of feminists has a burden or hurdle to overcome. Seventeen years ago Susan Faludi coined the term "backlash", but at this moment we are experiencing something infinitely worse: it's more like "whiplash". The powerful discrepancy between the image of a woman and what that woman represents is going to result in a dangerous election for all women.

–Jana H., St.
Louis, MO


When I hear women declaring that electing Sarah Palin as VP would be a gain for women, I am amazed and heartsick. Having our hard-won rights squelched by men would be bad enough, but how much more galling and tragic to lose them because of a woman. Sarah Palin would hurt women, on a large scale. And when women are hurt, their children usually hurt, too. Palin is another Republican theocrat pretending to be a libertarian. Her pretty smile belies the fact that she is very, very dangerous.

- Margaret K.
, 55, Dayton, OH

What's the story...

OH SNAP!

One more time...with feeling.

I just got this picture from my birthday party. This is Dave, he was the face painter, magician, balloon animal maker, etc. that was hired to entertain...and entertain he did.



WOW...www.sendintheclowns.com ask for Dave...you will be stoked.

Portraits of Past.

Portraits of Past played some reunion shows in August...i had no idea. But, luckily for me and you their show from Gilman St. is up on youtube. Rumors are flying that they may be getting back together full time. Fingers crossed.


Thanks to Gibby for the heads up.

The Aftermath.

Thanks to all that came out to my birthday party...i had a blast!!!



If anyone has pictures please send them to me... Zanetrouble666@gmail.com

Cru Jones Vs. Hollywood Mike Miranda

When i was wrapping up high school, Dylan and I started a thrash band...This band was all about tearing it up, getting people moving, and really causing as much trouble as we could. Our shows got pretty out of control, sometimes violent, but they were alway fun...besides a few bruises and cuts never really hurt anyone.

This band was called Hollywood Mike Miranda, it was named after the pro BMX rider, Hollywood Mike Miranda, who races Helltrack in RAD, and wipes out 3-4 times. Dude is pretty much a tool, and was a total inspiration to our band. I found this interview with him (he comes on about halfway through the clip). Its funny we were really the antithesis of each other.



This is the best intro/outro to any movie ever...hands down...no question.
It is also from my personal favorite movie of all time. RAD. I have no idea just how many times i have watched this movie, hundreds? Thousands? It pretty much defined my entire childhood...my adolescence as well.



Long Live HMM.

I will be this many...

On September 2nd i will be turning 27. To celebrate i am having a birthday party this weekend. The party is going to be my (2)7th birthday party, this means that the party is going to be a party for a 7 year old. Filled with things that a 7 year old Southern Californian child would love.

A Clown
Face painting
Balloon Animals
Pinatas
Costumes
Games
Booze

and El Bronx playing Mariachi.



We tried to get a bounce house but our backyard isn't big enough (DAMN!)

Happy Birthday to me!

And Thank You For Being a Friend.

R.I.P Estelle Getty
7/25/1923 - 7/22/2008

Highways of Gold.

I just got home from a month in Europe with Jaguar Love, the tour started in Sweden.


Where the sunsets at 3AM.



And rises at 4AM.

We stayed at a hostel in a very quaint little town.







Quite, Calm, Simple, a great way to start the tour.

I wanna see movies of my dreams.

happy tree friends vs. regurgitate.

Male Odor Monsters.

Male Odor Monsters
A group exhibition featuring original works by:
Brian Chippendale

Matthew Thurber

C.F.

Carlos Gonzales

Wednesday, July 16, 7pm - August 5

Hope Gallery - 1547 Echo Park Ave 90026

Featuring four artists known for their visionary work in comics, this show presents new pieces that explore collage, watercolour, silkscreen, acrylic, and crayon, with the same inventiveness of form as their narrative work.

A founding member of Providence's Fort Thunder collective, Brian Chippendale was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial (as Forcefield), and shown at Deitch Projects (Panic Room, 2006), and D'Amelio Terras (2006). He has published two graphic novels with PictureBox, Ninja (2006), and Maggots (2007). He is also drummer in the band Lightning Bolt, and has collaborated on projects with musicians such as Bjork, Thurston Moore, and the Boredoms.

Matthew Thurber is the creator of the ongoing comic book series, '1800-Mice' (PictureBox), and has had work included in the anthologies Kramer's Ergot, and the Ganzfeld. As a performer he has appeared as Ambergris at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and as Saxophonist in Soiled Mattress and The Springs, shared bills with Gang Gang Dance and No Age.

C.F. is the alias of Christopher Forgues, creator of the serialised graphic novel 'Powr Mastrs' (PictureBox). His work has appeared in exhibitions at Loyal Gallery (Stockholm), The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Watari, Japan), and New Image Art (Los Angeles). Under his musical moniker Kites, he has several recordings with Load Records.

Author of the xeroxed comics, Slime Freak, and Rat's Cocoon, Carlos Gonzales' work featured in Kramer's Ergot 6. His musical project, Russian Tsarlag has released cassette tapes on the Unskilled Labor label.

Hope gallery is jointly curated by the bookstore 'Family', and the record label 'Teenage Teardrops'. familylosangeles.com teenageteardrops.com

Hope Gallery
hopegalleryla@gmail.com
323 782 9221

Slaughter of the Soul.

Here is the set list from the NYC show....thanks Brendan.

01. Slaughter Of The Soul
02. Cold
03. Terminal Spirit Disease
04. Raped By The Light Of Christ
05. Under A Serpent Sun
06. Windows
07. World Of Lies
08. The Burning Darkness
09. The Swarm
10. Forever Blind
11. Nausea
12. The Beautiful Wound
13. Suicide Nation
14. All Life Ends
15. Need
16. Blinded By Fear
17. The Flames Of The End


FUCK ME ITS GONNA BE GOOD.

LA, JULY 27TH....GET SOME!!!!!

Dead Souls.

Ian Curtis' Gravestone Missing



"It's not really how we want to kick off our holiday weekend, but we just got the sad news that the gravestone of Joy Division's Ian Curtis has been stolen. The headstone simply read "Ian Curtis. 18-5-80. Love Will Tear Us Apart."

BBC Manchester reports that it was stolen from Macclesfield Cemetery sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning; and Chesire police are asking people to contact them if they have any information. You can do so here.

A police spokesperson told BBC "There is no CCTV in the area and there are no apparent leads as to who is responsible for the theft. This is a very unusual theft and I am confident that someone locally will have knowledge about who is responsible or where the memorial stone is at present."

So wonderfully wonderfully wonderfully pretty.

Tonight i am going to see the cure at the Hollywood Bowl.



It will be my first time ever seeing them.



They have been one of my favorite bands since forever...and responsible for most if not all of my many goth phases.



I had his haircut for a long time too...It won me "best hair" my senior year of high school.

Let's Get Started...aka homesick.

Saw this on Cali's blog today...and then went on to watch it prolly 10 times in as many minutes.

As i drive from NYC to Boston, i cant help but get homesick for summers past,

The Mosh Hogs Crew and melee shows in JP and Sommerville, road trips with Noogies and Boozy Mike...leaving on a whim with no real reason other than to just go, BKLYN rooftop bloodbath, and staying up to watch the sunrise

But at the same time i am excited for the summers of the future.

Los Angeles right now is a magical place filled with many amazing, talented, creative people....I am proud to call the city home and i can't wait get back.



Thanks to Cali for posing this on his forever inspiring blog, and thanks to the lovely people who made the film...you truly made my day.

All i do is party...

Here are some shots from the Fools Gold x Dim Mak Screaming Bloody Murder tour. I should have put them up a while ago, but you know how it goes...


A-Trak & Sinden






Sammy Bananas




Jokers of the Scene

Thanks to Nick Catchdubs, Sammy Bananas, Sinden, Steve Aoki, A-Trak, Kid Cudi, Jokers of the Scene, and everyone else who made this tour a great time...

you can see more pictures from the tour on my flickr page.

punch it


Sean Agnew is a genius.

No Chiefs Allowed.

So today is the first day of tour with EL-P and Dizzee Rascal, we are in the bus on the way to D.C. as we speak. Should be a good one.

Lets get weird.

Thu 05/08/08 9:30 Club Washington DC
Fri 05/09/08 First Unitarian Church Philadelphia PA
Sat 05/10/08 Webster Hall New York
Sun 05/11/08 Middle East Downstairs Cambridge MA
Mon 05/12/08 New Capital Music Hall Ottawa ON
Wed 05/14/08 Crofoot Ballroom Pontiac MI
Thu 05/15/08 The Abbey Pub Chicago IL
Fri 05/16/08 Triple Rock Social Club Minneapolis MN
Mon 05/19/08 Neumos Seattle WA
Tue 05/20/08 Berbatis Pan Portland OR
Wed 05/21/08 1015 San Francisco CA
Thu 05/22/08 El Rey Theatre Los Angeles CA

We're Out For Blood.

Last nite Dylan, Zach, his boss Cheryl and her ladyfriend Audrey headed on a mission into the heart of Orange County, to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play at the Honda center in Anaheim.

We all met up at the Arena at 3:45 to try and get pit passes (right up at the stage). The way it works is like this... everyone with general admission (floor) tickets shows up super early and is given a wristband with a number on it. Then at 5PM one of the numbers is called out, and that number becomes #1 the first 300 numbers after said number get into the pit. Well we our 5 numbers started at 490....and unfortunately the lucky number was 680 or something and there were a total of like 900 wristbands given out so we didn't get to touch Bruce or get sweat on or anything....but that most certainly did not stop us from having a great time.

WOW

Homeboy played for about three hours and was on for the whole show... here is the setlist.

Light of Day
Radio Nowhere
Lonesome Day
Gypsy Biker
Murder Incorporated
Magic
Trapped
Reason to Believe
Because the Night
She's the One
Livin' in the Future
The Promised Land
Working on the Highway
The Ghost of Tom Joad (w/ Tom Morello)
Devil's Arcade
The Rising
Last to Die
Long Walk Home
Badlands
Out in the Street
* * *
Girls in Their Summer Clothes
Rosalita
Born to Run
Ramrod (w/ Bobby Bandiera)
American Land (w/ Marty Rifkin and Marc Anthony Thompson)

Screaming Bloody Murder.

So i am gearing up to go out on tour again. I leave next week with the fools gold tour, the line up includes A-Trak, Sinden, Steve Aoki, Sammy Bananas, Nick Catchdubs...and a bunch of special guests in different towns.



Come and hang out, hit me up when we are in yr town....see you soon.

Wonderful Rainbow.

Lightning Bolt.




Muppet Bolt.



god bless youtube.

Gravity's Umbrella.

Rihanna with the klaxons....kiiling it.

"I'm Skinny, but I'm Tough."

This dude is the best....He makes me so excited for America right now.



Swept D.C., Virginia, and Maryland today...



IT'S OBAMARAMA!!!!

Banned in DC.

So MTV's "band of the week" this week is Bad Brains, and they are just showing the sickest sickest footage...today i watched an entire beauty and the geek marathon just for the minute or so before every commercial...such a bummer but totally worth it.

Flex Yr Head.

R.I.P. Sean Finnegan, Drummer From Void

Man that is a bummer... here is what pitchfork has to say on the matter.

Sean Finnegan, drummer from Washington, D.C.-area hardcore band Void, passed away Wednesday, January 30 of an apparent heart attack, according to a press release. One of the first acts associated with Dischord Records, Void appeared on the label's 1982 Flex Your Head compilation. They made their proper debut with a 1982 LP split with fellow D.C. locals Faith.

Void parted ways in 1983. At the time of his death, Finnegan was working on the HBO television show "The Wire". He was 43 years old.

Kid Congo Powers.

This Sunday Los Angeles gets awesome.



can't wait for that mustache.

Time to Pretend.

So my love affair with youtube continues....this song has been stuck in my head for like a week, and today i saw the vido for the first time...MAN OH MAN that is some good business right there.



Oh, Big Time comes to town tomorrow for the weekend....Los Angeles is stoked!

Dig yourself.

Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Holy Geez... Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Have a new record coming out in the beginning of March!!! Pumped!!!

here is the video for the new self-titled single plus some dirt!



The brand new video for 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' is now available to view on YouTube and at nickcaveandthebadseeds.com.

The video was directed by British artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, who also made the DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! album trailers currently on YouTube.

The track 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' is taken from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 14th studio album DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! which will be released on 3rd March 2008 on Mute (April 8th on Anti in the US).

Produced by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Nick Launay who worked with the band on their last album Abattoir Blues/ The Lyre of Orpheus, the new album was recorded over the summer of 2007 at State of the Ark Studios in Richmond and mixed by Nick Launay at British Grove in Chiswick.

DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! features artwork by Brit artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster.

So So Stoked!!!

Sick Sick Sick.

Oh Man, Los Angeles has had such a great week of shows.

first, last tuesday was Abe Vigoda, Health, Ultimate Reality, and Dan Deacon


Health


Ultimate Reality


Dan Deacon

This one is hilarious

Dan Deacon and Liam Lynch

Then on friday the mighty Chromeo played! Oh man i was so so psyched on this show!


Chromeo


Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin'

WOW! RIGHT!

On sunday my goat brothers (our brutal tattoos) Book Of Black Earth came down from Seattle and played at the relax bar, best metal around right now serious... give it a minute and these dudes are gonna be huge!!!


Hank the Bitch


Book of Black Earth - @ the Showcase in Corona.

After the show Joe sat on a wine glass that was on his drum cases. He had to go to the hospital and have surgery, luckily he is OK. Get better soon Joe!!

To top it all of i finally got to see Trash Talk play last night. Now lemme let you, i have been looking for a good hardcore band to come along and wake me up. I found them... these dudes rip mass hard! For real, my new favorite hardcore band!



Go and see this band, buy their records, do whatever you can to get ahold of their stuff cuz its all good!
http://www.myspace.com/trashtalkfu

WOW!!! WHAT A WEEK!!!

For more on some of these shows see Dylan's blog... http://www.roadietogo.blogspot.com/

You're the one for me, Lexi.

We just got back from Hawaii...prolly the most amazing vacation that i have ever been on...(activities pics up soon!)





Yup, it was all beautiful sunsets on the beach and tropical drinks for us!



But there were some other things on the menu for this trip...



Thats right .... WE GOT ENGAGED... i am now making Lexi Ben-Meir a Landreth and she is pumped!





Congrats to us!