South San Gabriel News

Slayer's eleventh studio album, World Painted in Blood, released last week on American recordings grabbed the top at Wax Trax for the week ending November 8. Themselves came in second with CrownsDown while the all-star metal band Shrinebuilder grabbed the third spot with its self-titled debut.

Monsters of Folk started playing before the curtain rose on Friday night at the United Palace, and they were playing when it came down nearly three hours later.

Fans of Centro-Matic frontman Will Johnson know that hea s a prolific musician, from the Centro-Matic sister project South San Gabriel to solo material and a seemingly endless string of collaborations and guest spots with the likes of My Morning Jacketa s Jim James .

Affectionately dubbed the Phantoms of Folk, Magnolia Electric Co.'s Jason Molina and Will Johnson of Centro-matic and South San Gabriel have a collected output on par with Neil Young's Archives .

The Garvey School District has seen fewer students each year for the past 10 years.

This video from Texas in the USA is called Acrocanthosaurus Dinosaur footprints on the South San Gabriel .

Officials arrested 17 people Thursday during a parole sweep targeting gang members in the San Gabriel Valley, authorities said.

Farrar's collaborators include My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Centro-matic/South San Gabriel's Will Johnson and Anders Parker.

Fort Worth band Telegraph Canyon has signed a management deal with Fort Worth based Spune Productions.

Ruben "Doc" Cavazos, a West Covina resident and reputed former ringleader of the Mongols motorcycle gang, entered a guilty plea to one count of racketeering and faces a life prison sentence, according to federal court documents.

Police seized Mongols motorcycle-gang paraphernalia Thursday during a Parole Probation Compliance Check of 40 locations in Rosemead and South San Gabriel, officials said.

Posted By: Greg Burgett I thought for half a sec that Texas troubadour Will Johnson might be taking things in a new direction last night, noticing the menace building behind him as he electrically strummed his Epiphone at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Drive by Truckers @ Coachella 2009 Drive-By Truckers played twice at Coachella on Saturday, April 18th.

The sting of that canceled Drive-By Truckers show in Milwaukee earlier this year still lingers a little bit.

Saturday has been designated Record Store Day, with independent music retailers across the country offering for sale limited-edition recordings by bands such as My Morning Jacket, Iron & Wine, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth and many more.