Hey Kids, this is borderline short-notice, if you happen to find yourself in Los Angeles tonight (Sunday October, 28th 2007) get it together champ and come on down to The El Rey Theatre and see Roky Erickson! And if you wanna kill two birds with one stone by buying me a beer at the same time, tonight is your night cuz I’ll be DJing some sweet rock n’ roll tunes before as well as between the bands (1990’s are also playing). I’ve been a pretty immersed fan of Mr. Erickson for a while now, so I’m really fuckin’ excited to see homeboy play to say the least. And my fingers are crossed that “Night Of The Vampire” is part of tonight’s set. Don’t fuck me on that dude… play it!

For those of you who haven’t already seen the rockumentary titled “You’re Gonna Miss Me”, I highly recommend doing so cuz I think it’s one of the best films ever made about rock n’ roll (aside from that sweet movie Marky Mark made called Rockstar). The film covers everything in Roky’s bizarre life including his personal battles with drug addiction (heroin and LSD binges), mental illness (struggles with schizophrenia), music “career” (including the 13th Floor Elevators), stays at Austin State Hospital and Rusk State Hospital for the Criminally Insane and his eventual recovery and return to performing music. It’s a good one dudes, trust me. Buy or borrow or rent or netflix or steal or whatever that DVD.

Trailer for “You’re Gonna Miss Me”:

As you can probably tell from the new look we’re rockin’, we’ve made a few changes around here. The obvious one being the way this place looks and is organized. Yeah Mom, we’re finally getting organized! Stick with us as we work out the bugs with this new site. We’re slowly figuring out how to work this thing out and will have some fresh new content up here ASAP. We’ve got a new batch of writers/friends as well as an editor guy that will be making sure this place gets updated a lot more frequently that it has been lately. If you’re interested in helping out around here (and don’t expect to ever get paid or complimented) then shoot Jon Weston (he’s our new editor guy) an email at jon@buddyhead.com. We’re looking for writers, photographers, illustrators and any other nerds who think they have something to offer us. In the meantime, keep rockin’ in the free world.

Love,

Travis

The Cassettes just finished an animated music video for their song Rogue Gnome, which you can find on their critically acclaimed album ‘Neath The Pale Moon! If you haven’t checked out that bad boy yet, we highly recommend you do so now by clicking HERE. Either way, check out this video… it was brought to life by Stephen Guidry and illustrated by Shelby Cinca, both dudes are in The Cassettes.