Halloween as an adult is usually a bar charging eleven dollars to watch strangers in store-bought costumes look at their phones. You have done that version. It is not the one you remember wanting.
The alternative is a room where the band is also in costume and has been for twenty years. The Creepy Creeps play monster-movie garage surf in masks, which is the sort of commitment that stops reading as a gimmick somewhere around the second song and starts reading as a genuine belief system. Three more acts behind them, so the night has actual shape instead of one set and a DJ.
Doors at eight, first band at nine. Four bands on Halloween night means you will be there until it is November.
Saturday October 31, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Wear something. The horror-punk corner of this city is small, permanent, and considerably older than you would guess from the crowd.
Halloween as an adult is usually a bar charging eleven dollars to watch strangers in store-bought costumes look at their phones. You have done that version. It is not the one you remember wanting.
The alternative is a room where the band is also in costume and has been for twenty years. The Creepy Creeps play monster-movie garage surf in masks, which is the sort of commitment that stops reading as a gimmick somewhere around the second song and starts reading as a genuine belief system. Three more acts behind them, so the night has actual shape instead of one set and a DJ.
Doors at eight, first band at nine. Four bands on Halloween night means you will be there until it is November.
Saturday October 31, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Wear something. The horror-punk corner of this city is small, permanent, and considerably older than you would guess from the crowd.
Halloween as an adult is usually a bar charging eleven dollars to watch strangers in store-bought costumes look at their phones. You have done that version. It is not the one you remember wanting.
The alternative is a room where the band is also in costume and has been for twenty years. The Creepy Creeps play monster-movie garage surf in masks, which is the sort of commitment that stops reading as a gimmick somewhere around the second song and starts reading as a genuine belief system. Three more acts behind them, so the night has actual shape instead of one set and a DJ.
Doors at eight, first band at nine. Four bands on Halloween night means you will be there until it is November.
Saturday October 31, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Wear something. The horror-punk corner of this city is small, permanent, and considerably older than you would guess from the crowd.