Rockin' Things To Do

HRC Giveaway: 2 tickets to Rockstar Karaoke at The Roxy in LA!

by hardrockchick [about 5 months, 6 days ago.]

I’m giving away two tickets to Sunday night’s Rockstar Karaoke event in Los Angeles at The Roxy.

The event, benefiting The Painted Turtle Camp- one of Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camps for seriously ill children- features an all-star lineup of guest appearances:

The event is sponsored by Wente Vineyards.

To enter, email me at hardrockchick-at-hardrockchick-dot-com. I’ll select a winner at random Friday at 10am. Must be 21+ to enter.

Genre(s): Rockin' Things To Do

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Stop the War on Fun

by hardrockchick [about 8 months, 14 days ago.]

It’s still going on….

A while back, I posted about how the ABC is doing some ridiculous things to some of our local venues.

And it continues. Visit Stop the War on Fun to see how you can help keep our local venues alive. Imagine SF without seeing the ‘NO CROWD SURFING’ sign at Slim’s, or smoking on the patio at Bottom of the Hill, or go-go dancing on a platform at DNA Lounge, or admiring the sheer beauty of Great American Music Hall. This makes me sad

You can find additional coverage of this story at SF Weekly.

Genre(s): Rockin' Things To Do

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Help Support Slim’s and GAMH! Save All Ages Venues!

by hardrockchick [about 10 months, 21 days ago.]

from the GAMH/Slim’s weekly email:

Slim’s and GAMH are under siege from the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) with regards to our All Ages licenses. We have had a great deal of legal expenses in the past year. Purchase of this shirt will go to support our ongoing legal bills and help to keep Slim’s and GAMH alive. Only $20!
***PLEASE CONTACT SENATOR MARK LENO AND LET HIM KNOW THAT YOU SUPPORT ALL AGES CLUBS IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST THE ABC!!***
senator.leno@senate.ca.gov
Thanks for your support.
Shirts are available in person at the Slim’s box office M-F from 10:30am – 6pm, or EMAIL HERE for instructions on mail or fax orders.

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Slim’s/Great American Music Hall Next Victim of ABC?

by hardrockchick [about 11 months, 8 days ago.]

Bitch, pleeze.

First, DNA Lounge. Now Slim’s and GAMH are under attack by the ABC.

Via the Slim’s/GAMH Weekly email:

AWESOME NEW T-SHIRTS FOR SALE!
Slim’s and GAMH are under siege from the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) with regards to our All Ages licenses. We have had a great deal of legal expenses in the past year. Purchase of this shirt will go to support our ongoing legal bills and help to keep Slim’s and GAMH alive. Only $20! Thanks for your support.
Shirts are available in person at the Slim’s box office M-F from 10:30am – 6pm, or EMAIL HERE (leah@gamh.com) for instructions on mail or fax orders.

Help them out!

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Save DNA Lounge!

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 0 months ago.]

DNA is one of my favorite spots to go dancing. They often play great music, people there wear great stuff, and they’ve had increasingly better and better live music. They host Death Guild and MEAT and Bootie. It’s just about the only place I can go and dance to NIN, Skinny Puppy, Depeche Mode, OhGr, Ministry, and Combichrist outside of my home. What more could you ask for?

Why does DNA need our saving? Because The Man is trying to take away their liquor license on account of some alleged nudity during some of their monthly parties, namely, Cream, a monthly lesbian gathering, and Escandalo, a gay Latino night. We’re talking a matter of seconds of flashing over a few different instances.

Really. Flashing at a club full of people who willing paid to go to a sexually themed event is making them cause a fuss? How about the homeless guy on the street who flashed me on my way into the club? Or how about the “I can tell what her hairdo is and I’m not talking about the one on her head” dresses the girls wear in the Marina? How about that?

If this were an underage drinking issue it would be a different story. But we’re just talking about a little T&A here. Grow up.

Donate here.

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GWAR’s super fun MySpace survey!

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 0 months ago.]

Heehee!

Via GWAR MySpace

Date: Feb 23, 2009 12:07 PM
Subject: GWAR survey…
Body:

This is just a non-scientific survey to see if you guys have been paying attention. Try to give just one answer to each question.

1. If you could pick one GWAR song to hear right now, what would it be?

2. Who would you like to see GWAR kill? This can be anyone from past present or future. Real or imaginary.

Try to pick someone we haven’t killed before!

3. Which old character (ally, enemy, monster, politician, celebrity, whatever) from the entire history of GWAR, would you like to see again?

4. Have you seen GWAR live? If so how many times?

If I find this interesting enough and feel like it, I may post the results.

But don’t hold your breath!

Your Dad,
Beefcake The Mighty

Gawd I <3<3<3 GWAR!

My answers:

1. Tomentor
2. Sarah Palin
3. Killing Bush never gets old
4. 2

Genre(s): Rockin' Things To Do

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Audium: “Sound Sculptured Space”

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 0 months ago.]

Audium has been on my to do list for a while now, and I finally was able to check it off last night.

I really didn’t know what to expect. The site basically gives you a little history, how much it costs ($15), and what time to be there (8:15p).

Nestled in Pac Heights, you enter the odd looking space and pay- cash only!- for your ticket. As you walk into the ‘waiting room’, you are treated to a sneak hear at what awaits you, as the sixties mod style space is sparsely decorated with crafty art projects that generate the sounds.

Then, like Willy Wonka, an elderly man appears from the space pod-like entrance to the theater and gives a short spiel about what you about to experience. He mentions that the sounds may invoke memories or dreams, along with the standard silence your cell phones announcement.

We enter the circular theater, where folding chairs are lined up in circular rows. Shortly after taking our seats among the 30 or so people, the lights slowly dim away, and the sounds begin. To be honest, at first I had a hard time not cracking up, because the whole thing is a bit odd. But then I relaxed and got lost in the sound. There were morning noises, horses trotting, water, xylophones, thunder…lots of different things coming from everywhere. I knew that I used sound to orient myself, but after awhile I did experience a bit of vertigo…in a good way. At first, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was in a Kubrick film. Then, the memories really started coming in for me. I think my mind was forcing visualizations into the experience. They were really weird and random memories, too. I thought, this is really cool, because when you go to see a film, or a concert, or even an art museum- sure, everyone experiences it differently, but I can imagine that at this place, everyone experiences it in radically different ways.

There was a short 5 minute ‘intermission’ where the lights gradually came back on, but no one left. As they dimmed again, I was reminded that the person behind me was a serious fidgeter, and it was screwing with my mojo. It was in this second half, which began with a voice saying slightly nonsensical things like “micro, macro, tuttle, tobo…” that I had my epiphany.

When I was a teenager, I used to buy a CD, go home, and listen to it lying in bed, or next to the speaker. Even in the car on the way home from the record store. Either way, it was a very intense, focused experience, similar to what Audium is. And I never do that anymore. I listen to things on my laptop, or ipod, or iphone, piecemeal, and while doing something else. And that made me really sad. It made me want to go home and re-listen to my favorite albums of the past 10 years in a dark room with candles.

The lights came up again. After an hour of listening to sounds and reviewing my recreated memories, the visuals of the room were disappointing at best. Me & my imagination…

Audium is an hour long experience that isn’t for everyone. I imagine that it makes some people uncomfortable, others bored, others fall asleep, but for some, it is a relaxing, insightful ride.

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Josh Freese’s Interesting Solo Album Promotion

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 0 months ago.]

image from wikipedia

Major lol. I guess he learned a thing or two from the NIN Ghosts release.

From the East Bay Express:

Take Shrooms and Cruise Hollywood in a Lamborghini

Josh Freese, journeyman drummer for Nine Inch Nails, Devo, A Perfect Circle, Sting, and the Vandals, has unveiled a unique promotional plan for his new solo album, Since 1972, which is available in stores on April 14. According to a press release that just went out, the album will be available in a total of eleven configurations, ranging in price from $7 to $75,000. At the low end of the scale is a simple digital download that includes three videos, while the $75,000 package includes such items as “Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna,” “Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one),” “Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story,” and of course “Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.”

The full list, with all eleven price points, is included below.

JOSH FREESE: SINCE 1972

$7
-Digital Download of “Since 1972″ (including 3 videos)

$15
-CD/DVD Double Disc Set
-Digital Download

$50
-CD/DVD Double Disc Set
-T-shirt
-”Thank You” phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like “Is Maynard really THAT weird?” or “Which one of Sting’s mansions has the comfiest beds?” or “Are Devo really Suburban Robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of Dads from Ohio?” or “Why don’t the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?” It’s your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
-T-shirt
-Signed Drum Head and Drumsticks.
-Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you’re into.)

$500 (limited edition of 15)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download
-T-shirt
-Signed Cymbal and sticks
-Meet Josh in Venice, CA and go floating together in a Sensory deprivation tank (filmed and posted on youtube)
-Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 Steak and “all you can eat” Shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
-T-shirt
-Signed Cymbal, Drum head and Drumsticks.
-Josh washes your car OR does your laundry….or you can wash his car.
-Have dinner with Josh aboard the “Queen Mary” in Long Beach, CA
-Get drunk and cut each other’s hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)

$2,500 (limited edition of 5)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
-Get a private drum lesson with Josh or for all you non-drummers have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome)
-Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or DEVO (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the “Spearmint Rhino”
-Signed DW snare drum.
-Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve)
-Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
-T-shirt
-Josh writes about a song about you and make available on iTunes.
-Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the youtubes.
-Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland
-Get drunk together. If you don’t drink we can go to my Dads place and hang out under the “Tuba tree”
-Stone from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on “Since 1972″

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download
-T-shirt
-Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle’s 2003 tour.
-Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking)
-Twiggy from Manson’s band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe’s Chicken n’ Waffle in Long Beach for dinner.
-Josh takes you and guest to “Club 33″ (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror)
-At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in Josh’s Volvo station wagon. It’s all yours….take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download.
-T-shirt
-A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour.
-Maynard James Keenan, Mark from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on youtube)
-Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd St where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining “Nirvana.” See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted using a Fake I.D. at when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg’s high- school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live. For another $25 he’ll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut.
-Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the “Ghosts And Legends” tour. (separate rooms…no spooning.)
-Josh writes 2 songs about you and it’s made available on iTUnes and appears on his next record (you can sing back up on em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever….)
-Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again…couples welcome and discreet parking available)
-Pick any 3 items out of Josh’s closet.

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download
-T-shirt
-Go on tour with Josh for a few days.
-Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
-Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)
-Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL’s Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
-Josh will join your band for a month…play shows, record, party with groupies, etc….
-If you don’t have a band he’ll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
-Take a limo down to Tijuana and he’ll show you how it’s done (what that means exactly we can’t legally get into here)
-If you don’t live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he’ll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
-Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robins place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.

Josh’s site.

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Saul Williams’ Sends Out New Track, The Government, on Morning of Historic Inauguration

by hardrockchick [about 1 year, 1 month ago.]

saul

saul williams

via email ‘Tardust Liberated’

We have overcome.

Except those of us now in Gaza. Except those of us whom police kill. Except those of us who are suspects. Except those of us whom the church hate. Except those of us damned to taste good. Except those of us held by fate. We are meeting in the capitol. Word is, freedom will not wait.

All that once was never shall be.
All they could do won’t be done.
All we sang of is now happening.

[note to self:]
Must write
new songs
to become…

…And so it was. Through the collective imagination of the people, the force of will and human potential, and an unflinching ability to hold himself to task, Niggy Tardust was liberated. His ability to see beyond the boundaries and obstacles of ‘genre’, ‘race’, and suppression, allowed him to encompass a grace and sound that embodied the all. All that had stood against him, now stood with him. All that had claimed a lesser harmony, now craved voice and resonance. He stood with poets, painters, dancers, students, children of the night who had transformed themselves into a million bright ambassadors of morning, and proclaimed,

“We declare declaratives and deny the official. Based in the landmark of the G-spot, we have overtaken ourselves and overthrown our forefathers. Let there be light within the light and let it answer to the name of Darkness. We are forever risen from the deadly: the anti-virus and the All Stars. Granted power by forces unbeknownst to us. Made in the likeness of kindness. We offer anger to the angry and fear to the fearful. We dance at our own funerals to forsake the mourners…

…This is no time to cry! This is no time at all! Here is the moment of the overlooked and the unforeseeable. We are the elected officials of the people: poets and artists. We are the declarative statement of the inarticulate, the irreparably damaged goods of the bad meaning good. We are the government! We are the government! We are the government!”

DOWNLOAD THE GOVERNMENT

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