Monday night in this city is treated as a write-off, which is strange for a place where a third of the interesting bands live here and none of them are waiting for the weekend to exist.
Three of them are playing. The headliner sings in Spanish over punk that owes as much to the border as to anything out of Los Angeles, and the accent is not a stylistic decision — it is simply where they are from, which is a thing that really only happens within about twenty miles of that line. The other two acts are local as well. Nobody on this bill is touring through on the way to Phoenix. Everybody on it will be standing at the bar afterward, and you can talk to them, which is most of the point of a room this size.
Doors seven-thirty, first band eight-thirty, finished at a Monday-appropriate hour.
October 12, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Text the friend who keeps insisting there is nothing to do. Almost none of the bilingual punk that has come out of this county over the last twenty years was ever written about in English.
Monday night in this city is treated as a write-off, which is strange for a place where a third of the interesting bands live here and none of them are waiting for the weekend to exist.
Three of them are playing. The headliner sings in Spanish over punk that owes as much to the border as to anything out of Los Angeles, and the accent is not a stylistic decision — it is simply where they are from, which is a thing that really only happens within about twenty miles of that line. The other two acts are local as well. Nobody on this bill is touring through on the way to Phoenix. Everybody on it will be standing at the bar afterward, and you can talk to them, which is most of the point of a room this size.
Doors seven-thirty, first band eight-thirty, finished at a Monday-appropriate hour.
October 12, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Text the friend who keeps insisting there is nothing to do. Almost none of the bilingual punk that has come out of this county over the last twenty years was ever written about in English.
Monday night in this city is treated as a write-off, which is strange for a place where a third of the interesting bands live here and none of them are waiting for the weekend to exist.
Three of them are playing. The headliner sings in Spanish over punk that owes as much to the border as to anything out of Los Angeles, and the accent is not a stylistic decision — it is simply where they are from, which is a thing that really only happens within about twenty miles of that line. The other two acts are local as well. Nobody on this bill is touring through on the way to Phoenix. Everybody on it will be standing at the bar afterward, and you can talk to them, which is most of the point of a room this size.
Doors seven-thirty, first band eight-thirty, finished at a Monday-appropriate hour.
October 12, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Text the friend who keeps insisting there is nothing to do. Almost none of the bilingual punk that has come out of this county over the last twenty years was ever written about in English.