My First Music Review For LA Weekly Now Up!
Well, I finally made the freelancing leap over to LA Weekly.
This is kind of my be my dream freelancing job that I never thought I could accomplish. Who would of thought? Me? Writing professionally about punk rock? Well, dreams do come true I guess. Ok, it’s not as easy as it sounds…trust! I stayed up until 5 AM working on this sucker for you guys. And well, a show feels different when you are jotting down notes and snapping hundreds of pictures instead of getting drunk and crowd surfing in the pit. But nonetheless, I love every single thing about it and would not change anything about my current position in life. I am ready for anything and I am finally ready for this new responsibility.
Thank you to all my homies who supported me over the years and to the never ending cycles of rebellious youth who never fail to refresh my own pledge to stay punk.
Now, without further adieu, I present to you all my review for The Casualties, JFA and Angry Samoans show last night!
By Javier Cabral
The Casualties, Angry Samoans and JFA
House of Blues
8-28-2011
Better Than…staying home and getting ready for the first day of school.
What happens when you bring together the most fundamental old school and new school punk rock bands from both the East and West coast? World-class, rebellious fun! And one of the best venue-hosted punk shows I’ve been to in a while.
The lineup of bands seemed almost too good to be true. But The Casualties are an alternative music force to be reckoned with, often among the first bands a young punk falls in love with. Having them play a show with some of California’s top, integral ’80s hardcore bands was a great idea. This show had actually been sold out a week prior, but that didn’t stop many determined punks from still finding a way to get inside somehow. Everyone seemed to have a soft spot for the New York-born “street punk” band, a style known for its exceptionally fast, loud riffs and raw verbiage.
It’s technically on the LA Weekly music blog, West Coast Sound, so click on this sentence to read the rest of it.
Cheers!
going the opposite of Gold huh? Food writing to music writing. AWESOME.
Haha. thanks Matt, he was the one that suggested I start contributing to LA Weekly Music, man, can you believe that?!! Cheers!