Men on the Verge of Nothing also features Kate Nash, Roxanne Clifford (Patience / Veronica Falls), Tobi Vail (Bikini Kill / Frumpies) and Alana Amram (Hunx & His Punx/Habibi).
It's like a John Hughes soundtrack performed live, with Violent Femmes, The Church, English Beat, Public Image Ltd, Gary Numan, Marc Almond and lots more also playing this one-day LA fest.
Punk Rock Bowling happens in Las Vegas over Memorial Day Weekend and their just-announced late night club show schedule includes Killing Joke, Sick of it All, Murder City Devils, Pennywise, Flipper (with The Jesus Lizard's David Yow), The Dills, Le Butcherettes and mroe.
Cris talks about Phoenix punk OGs Exterminators' first-ever LP (that he produced and plays bass on) and upcoming first live show since the '70s, plus Meat Puppets stuff, Nirvana, Grateful Dead, The Feederz, Destruction Unit (who are named after an Exterminators song), and MUCH more.
Mike Watt's releasing a live album of his 1995 tour with Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Eddie Vedder, and William Goldsmith. In semi-related news, Exterminators, whose members went on to play in The Germs, The Gun Club, and more, reunited and Meat Puppets' Cris Kirkwood is in the new lineup.
"The Growlers may be the most interesting band in the world, certainly one of the coolest. Nor gypsy, nor goth, nor surfer, nor punk, yet somehow all of them." - Julian Casablancas