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Irvine City Council is Scared of the Big Bad Vans Warped Tour

By Nate Jackson Wed., Jun. 13 2012 at 12:13 PM
Categories: Tour Diary, curmudgeonliness
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This is a place for families, not a haven for the great unwashed!
Just days before the Vans Warped Tour steamrolls into the Great Park, Irvine City Council members are jumping up to say "not in my backyard!"

Following Tuesday's council meeting, it was reported that council members representing the safest city in America are having some serious objections to the festival, held on June 21. Councilman Jeffrey Lalloway apparently used his ace Googling skills to look up festival headliners like Anti-Flag, and found the band's songs like "Fuck Police Brutality" to be offensive. 

"That's crossing the line," Lalloway says. "We need to have a family friendly venue out there."


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Missives from SXSW: Exene Cervenka on How Her Week Ended

By Exene Cervenka Mon., Mar. 21 2011 at 4:04 PM
Categories: SXSW, Tour Diary
Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.
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Exene at Red Eyed Fly
Saturday
Saturday morning: Lay in bed. Saturday afternoon: Hung out and lay in bed. Saturday evening: Played Bloodshot showcase at Red Eyed Fly.


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Missives From SXSW: Exene Cervenka (of X) Sings With Old 97s, Thinks of Japan

By Exene Cervenka Fri., Mar. 18 2011 at 1:36 PM
Categories: SXSW, Tour Diary

Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.

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Raven Lorthos
Old 97s at Antone's
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On Wednesday, March 16, I picked up my wristband at 9 a.m. at the Convention Center and went to my first show. It was an awareness-raiser for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Sea Now.

Ironically, they have stopped the whaling in Japan. They do great work trying to save a part of the world that they care about. Before me, a band from LA played, Blueblood. Snare, bass drum, acoustic and steel/electric. They were very compelling, electric folk. Their new record, Reverse the Curse, is being mixed now. Look for them in OC at some point.


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Missives From SXSW: Exene Cervenka Finally Arrives at SXSW

By Exene Cervenka Wed., Mar. 16 2011 at 8:34 AM
Categories: Tour Diary
Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.

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​Traveling across the West for three days. Listening to Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo, Phil Alvin Live at the Redwood, The Plugz. CNN on the radio. Endless drive. Lots of towns dying, broken houses falling down, people still living in them. Poverty and depression. Sad how America is falling apart.

Finally today got to the Texas hill country. Passing bands' vans pulling trailers, and then, at last, Austin!

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Missives From SXSW: Exene Cervenka (of X) Blogs On the Road

By Exene Cervenka Tue., Mar. 15 2011 at 12:22 PM
Categories: Tour Diary
Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete archive here.
 
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Raven Lorthos
Arizona!
​I'm in Texas somewhere. Tomorrow, we arrive in Austin. It's the 25th year of SXSW. I think I've done at least 10 of those. But all I can think about is Japan. When I get to Austin, I'm sure I'll get more in the groove; I'm just not in the mood right now.

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Missives From SXSW: Exene Cervenka (of X) Blogs On the Road

By Exene Cervenka Mon., Mar. 14 2011 at 4:37 PM
Categories: Tour Diary
Most famous as a punk-rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival.

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​Just stopped in Casa Grande, Arizona. The GPS (Gremlin Positioning Satellite) kept telling me to turn right and go to Mexico, but I stayed on the 10. Traveling with my Memphis friend, Raven.


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