Ruby Ray photographed confrontational artists like Devo, William S Burroughs, Crime, Nico, The Avengers and Z’ev at the nexus of punk & industrial subcultures for Search & Destroy magazine in late 70’s and early 80’s San Francisco. Her photos are a vivid documentation of decades past that still seem as vital and necessary today
Indie Rock Icons
Kid Congo Powers joins Greg Dale in a performance of Walking With The Beast shot on Kid Congo’s birthday
Stellar Performance By Spike And His Me First & The Gimmes Band Mates Caught Live at Slims in San Francisco
Redd Kross is on tour promoting new album #BeyondTheDoor but still dealing with the fact that its getting uglier every day.
Shotwell is a San Francisco punk band with a new album out in 2019 that’s been around with various lineups playing underground shows for a quarter century
NOFX has toured and tortured the known world from Iowa to Israel, Moscow to MPLS and somehow only gets more popular… we examine the data why and exclusive early video evidence shot circa 1992
Fronted by the fearless gangly nymphette Arrow de Wilde on vox, LA’s Starcrawler has re-emerged to “Devour You”. Pick up yr tour tix and preview their new Nick Launay produced LP here
Highlights of The Mekons 2019 Deserted Tour at The Chapel
Chip Kinman with his son Giuliano on drums perform the The Dils song Class War at a sold out show in San Francisco at Bottom of The Hill