Muggsy McMuprhy's Rock Pick: Crystal Fighters @ 7th St. Entry

MONDAY 5/28
Crystal Fighters, Is Tropical, Sexcat @ 7th St. Entry, 701 1st Ave. N. Minneapolis, MN

Crystal Antlers, Crystal Skulls, Crystal Castles, Crystal Stilts—Crystal Fighters are here to smash all those other crystal bands, right?

Muggsy's Rock Pick: Grolar Bears @ Triple Rock

3/19ths of the Grolar Bears

SUNDAY 5/27

Grolar Bears, Saltee, Max Corcoran Project, Hipshakers @ Triple Rock Social Club, 629 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN

Do you like 19 piece funk ensembles? What's that? You don't? Then you better stay the hell away from the Grolar Bears. (Did you know that when a Grizzle Bear and a Polar Bear do it, they make a grolar bear? No kidding. Arctic Fever, I guess.)

Breakfast in Collinsville

Muggsy's Rock Pick: Lest We Forget Concert, Milwaukee

Der Krüzen in der gunter gräss

SATURDAY 5/26

Lest We Forget: Liv Mueller, Xposed 4Heads, The Blackholes, The Rock-a-Dials, 3XCleavers, Dominoes, 3 on Fire, Tense Experts, Sacred Order, Die Kreuzen, Lubricants, Dummy Club, St. Bernard @ Turner Hall Ballroom, 1032 N. 4th St. Milwaukee, WI

It's Memorial Day Weekend, so why not take a little time out to remember those Milwaukee bands that  laid down their lives and reputations so that we may have punk rock today. Drink to remember, then drink to forget. That's what Muggsy does anyway.

Stuff You Need!

Reglar Wiglar Approved!

Pound the crap out of gaggles of Goblins and oceans of Orcs with ONE POUND OF DICE!!!!

BASS! How Low Can You Go?

QUESTION:

How did it go from this:

To this?:

From this:

To this?:

And from this:

To this?:

ANSWER:

Dee Dee 

Muggsy's Rock Pick: Waco Bros @ Beat Kitchen

Wacky Bros.

FRIDAY 5/25
Waco Brothers, The Riptones @ Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, Chicago, IL

Rootsy "brothers" bonding over booze at the BK!  Muggsy appreciates this type of family gathering.

Muggsy's Rock Picks: Adicts @ Metro, Chicago

Still a bunch a dicts!

THURSDAY 5/24
The Adicts, World/Inferno Friendship Society @ Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL

Don't be a dict, go see the Adicts.

Muggsy McMurphy's Rock Pick: Nickelback, Bush, Seether

The Icebacks Cometh.

WEDNESDAY 5/23
Nickelback, Bush, Seether, My Darkest Days @ Target Center, 600 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN

Muggsy is not above taking a cheap shot at an easy Target Center show, thus my pick of this festival of generic post-grunge posturing and impotent middle-aged rage. (I don't know if that's a cheapshot so much as it's the truth as I see it).

Muggsy McMurphy's Rock Pick: Kurt Vile/Black Bananas

His Vileness

TUESDAY 5/22
Kurt Vile, Black Bananas, True Widow @ 400 Bar, 400 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN

Not necessarily curt, not necessarily vile, not like the Black Banana's. Prepare to get it all shmushed.

Muggsy's Rock Pick: Lee "Scratch" Perry

Arm-length mittens are essential in performing dub and reggae.

MONDAY 5/21
Lee "Scratch" Perry, SubAtomic Soundsystem @ Lincoln Hall , 2424 N. Lincoln Ave. Chicago, IL

It doesn't get much weirder than the original Upsetter, Scratch Perry. Doesn't get much better either.

Muggsy's Rock Pick: HoZac Blackout Fest @ EB

SUNDAY 5/20
HoZac Blackout Fest with Roky Erickson, Human Eye, The Estrogen Highs, Medication, Bare Mutants @ Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave. Chicago, IL

The hair of the dog just might be what you need to drag your leaky ass out to night three of the HoZac Blackout Fest, but the hair of Roky is a guaranteed goddamn cure for all that ails yah.

Muggsy's Rock Pick: WORT Block Party!

SUNDAY 5/20
15th Annual WORT Block Party, 11am-7pm @ 600 Block of W. Doty, Madison, WI

Support the WORT, Madison!

Comic Book Trailer: WIZZYWIG by Ed Piskor

Muggsy McMurphy's Rock Pick

SATURDAY 5/19

HoZac Blackout Fest with Red Kross, Gentleman Jesse & His Men, Homostupids, Fungi Girls, Teledrome, Pleasure Leftists, Far-Out Fangtooth, Ketamines, Barreracudas, White Mystery @ Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave.

If you thought Empty Bottle could get hot, sticky and smelly on just a reglar old Saturday night, you're in for a real treat at Blackout Fest tonight. It's sure to be the hottest, stickiest and stinkiest night yet—guaranteed or your money back!*

*not a guarantee

VIDEO: Royal Headache

Music Review: Strange Hands

STRANGE HANDS
Dead Flowers (Shit Music for Shit People)

Born in Bordeaux, the French psychedelic trio, Strange Hands, pimp their lo-fi brand of endearing jangly rock on their new twelve track LP, Dead Flowers. The Hands capture the spirit of the garage with tunes that can get poppy, "Bunny Slipper", intense "Love Illusion" and instrumental, "Dead Flowers" and uneasy, "Anxious Pictures"—a bad trip but in a good way. There's something about Strange Hands that remind me of the late great Southwestern American punk rock band Scared of Chaka—probably the low quality of the recording mixed with the high energy of the performances. Stellar cover art by Lucas Donaud—Bill Balzy [Strange Hands]

Read more reviews, and always...always read Reglar Wiglar!

Muggsy's Rock Pick: Local H @ Double Door

SATURDAY 5/5
Local H, Monkey Paw, Boots with Spurs @ Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL

You gotta give credit to Local H for stickin' around as long as they have. Right?

R.I.P.: Yauch

FREE Comic Book Day May 5th!

The first Free Comic Book Day started in 32,00 BC in Lascaux, France when prehistoric comics artists invited the general public to come to their caves and check out their most recent work. On this day, the usual admission price of three mammoth bones was waived in an effort to attract future patronage. Thousands of centuries later this practice still thrives and on the first Saturday in May comic shops across the North American continent give away free comics to greedy little boys and girls (some of them well into their forties).

SATURDAY 5/5
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