Category Archives: About the Music
The Do-Its play Free Comic Book Day at The Comic Bug!
Look! Up there in the sky — it’s a bird, it’s a plane… It’s Free Comic Book Day at The Comic Bug!
Saturday, May 4 marks that glorious day when kids and comic nerds of all age and creed congregate to revel in the triumph of free comics! The nationwide event took form in 2002, and by 2004 our own local Comic Bug (located at 1807 1/2 Manhattan Beach Blvd.) held their grand opening during Free Comic Book Day, and have [...]
DHR at Free Comic Book Day at The Comic Bug!
Local superhero and DHR supporter Mike Wellman of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, CA told us we should have a booth at Free Comic Book Day this Saturday, May 4, where The Do-Its will be performing during the after party. And so we shall.
Free Comic Book Day is a nationwide event held in comic shops across the country (and around parts of the world), where the shops and major publishers hand out thousands of free comics to attract new [...]
A DHR quickie with Carl Palmer (of Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
In the fruitful years of 1969 and 1970, maniacal keyboardist and composer Keith Emerson was fastidiously busy in a band called The Nice, Greg Lake was preoccupied as bassist, vocalist, and founding member of the astonishingly deranged King Crimson, and Carl Palmer, after having acted as touring drummer in The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, was hammering away heavily in the Atomic Rooster. At the turn of the decade, the intertwined and overlapped sticky web that was the English rock [...]
Download Language of Shapes!
Out of South Korea, Language of Shapes has landed on DHR. They call it “Psych-fi, sci-folk” coming from “A psychedelic rainbow-fire-powered mandolin band, with bass guitar, djembe, and the occasional flute.” We call it delightful, bad ass, and necessary.
Listen here, pick up a download copy here, and decide for yourself.
Dirty Beer Pairing Series, vol. 13: Dogfish Head Birra Etrusca Bronze & Zenda Marie
For the latest installment of DHR’s Dirty Beer Pairings, where we pair beer with music, we’ve discovered a happy meeting between Dogfish Head Birra Etrusca Bronze and Zenda Marie.
We’re not entirely sure at this time, but while we believe the folk duet Zenda Marie was active in Los Angeles for a bit, it appears they’re currently based around the suburbs of Sacramento. At any rate, their debut LP Ancient breathes with the eternal resonance of an ancient magic born from [...]
Holy Faded Denim, Batman! It’s Cab 20′s new LP!
Holy Faded Denim Vibrations, new Cab 20 LP out on Mock Records. Album cover photo by Jeff Fribourg.
*Originally published in the Easy Reader newspaper on Valentine’s Day 2013. By Jeff Vincent, DHR.
It’s Valentine’s Day again, and this time around let’s be sure your arsenal of love is fully equipped to knock the socks clean off that special someone. DHR’s got you covered. Let’s see… Chocolate. Yeah, gotta have chocolate. Flowers. Yep, bingo. Card. Oh yeah, can’t forget [...]
The ABIGAILS, songs of love and despair on DHR
Newer project from Warren Thomas (lead singer of Grand Elegance and tambourine player of The Growlers), fellow former GE mate Kyle Mullarky, Ellie Mae and co. brings a record reminiscent of the despondent beauty conveyed through Alexander “Skip” Spence’s Oar (1969).
Thomas’ lead vocals overlaying what the band refers to as “drunken nylon string twang and pilled out country fusion” embodies an LP which will have you bobbing along through the dregs of mirthless hope atop a black horse in a [...]
Windmills and Giants, the Hang Dog Expression LP
Hang Dog Expression performing at South Bay Customs in El Segundo. Photo by Dawn Von Flue.
As an outsider having come to know and enjoy this band well enough to share good laughs and cold beers in between sets over the years, I’ve absorbed sufficient perspective to determine that Hang Dog Expression is a total labor of love; but with considerably less emphasis on the labor than the love.
By no means are they lazy or anything; in fact, their work [...]
DHR & Easy Reader presents: The Hollow Legs, Blac Jesus & The Experimentalists, and Saint James Band
Easy Reader and Dirty Hippie Radio have teamed up to co-procure and co-present some local shows, beginning with a monthly gig at Saint Rocke which kicks off next Wednesday, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. The general idea is to cultivate a rich night circulating around good music and good beer, while pulling in a few striking bands from outside the immediate beach bubble. It is an experiment in expanding upon local culture… with The Hollow Legs, Blac Jesus & The [...]
DHR & MOCK Records present: Cab 20′s Holy Denim Faded Vibrations record release party!
Cab 20′s debut LP on Mock Records drops Feb. 19! DHR & Mock are presenting the KXLU supported release show Saturday, Feb. 16 at The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, CA. We hope to see your dirty, happy faces there. It’s pure rock n’ roll baby!
*Limited run of faded denim blue vinyls available here.
*Listen to Cab 20 now!
