Orson Welles tells us it’s “9:41 in the morning, and says to watch The Lady From Shanghai”. Thanks Orson!
Legendary LA punk rock band Bad Religion return to Southern California for four shows in March of 2010. Click the pic link above to get your tickets before anyone else.
Thanks to KROQ for the promotion.
(via misterpeace)
AFI - Very Proud of Ya LP 1996
A damn fine album that I used to listen to again and again as a youngster. AFI the band has certainly progressed as a unit, unbound to whatever “punk scene” they were attached to in their past. Sometimes it’s hard to believe today that this is the same band I normally chatted with at The Glass House nine years ago.
Much like their heroes and friends Rancid and The Offspring, AFI worked their asses off constantly touring and not being afraid to change their musical style, and I think it seemed to have paid off.
AFI - Who Said You Could Touch Me
Formally hosted on blogspot, this blog begins with two topics: Los Angeles + music, how they have affect each other, and how they both have effected me.
The majority of my posts here will be based on music; established artists and well-known songs, and new bands who you really need to here because they are cool, daddy-o!
This blog will updated more frequently than it’s predecessor; I will attempt to post at least daily (taking advantage of tumblr’s daily hosting), multiple times if I can find a new, free, file host, or if the songs are already hosted. Case-in-point: In four years I achieved only one hundred posts. Unacceptable.
I also have two tumblr blogs I fiddle around with on an ongoing basis: captaincook, my personal anything-goes blog, and comic books! my comic book -related blog.
Because I am a fucking nerd.
I hope you enjoy this, as I have a feeling I will enjoy doing this a lot ;)
—Ivan
email: ivan at blogawayLA dot com
The Replacements - Kids Don’t Follow 
blogging away in LA moves to Tumblr -
So it’s come to this.
I’ve been posting more music over at my tumblr blog than right here. I’m sorry, but aside from reading friends blogspot’s I spend more time on tumblr.
Not to say tumblr is perfect, but I do get a more ‘community’ feel out of using it. You can ‘like’ and reblog other posts, and follow people, and they can openly follow you! The major downside? It gets slow and the downtimes are constant. But when it works, it looks cool.
By the way, I am no longer listed in The Hype Machine, which is with merit as I haven’t updated this blog in a long time now, mainly due to several factors which I would not like to get into right now.
To the bands, groups and management who reached out —thank you and I promise to get back to you all on the new blogawayLA.com —though until the process is complete it’s called:
http://blogawayla.tumblr.com
Thank you and thanks to blogger.com for four very awesome years together. I’ll post one last time here when the switch is official…
—Ivan
email: ivan at blogawayLA dot com
James - Sit Down
The Traits - Nobody Loves The Hulk
