Come out, Wednesdays are great. I’m here now.
JimiC and Alias play mostly 80s & indie vinyl, and it sounds great. The spectrum is from indie 80s to obscure 80s to somewhat modern indie. No 80s bubblegum.
Plus the staff and regulars are wonderful.
Jim’s crates of vinyl are seemingly endless; I’ve requested some rare tracks and he’s delivered every time.
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Last Saturday I caught The One and Only True Messiah at an afternoon show at Fremont’s High Dive. The band is fronted by Steve Van Liew (former lead singer for Sub Pop’s Bible Stud, Seattle’s ’80s metal group Overlord, and I believe Mike McCready’s old band, Shadow). I don’t know what his old hair metal voice sounded like, but his new voice is old, worn and craggy — it’s perfect. He sounds like he’s been there and done that, and probably some more. The music of TOOTM is generally moody Crazy Horse-cum-Drive-By Truckers styled singer-songwriter rock.
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