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They'll return to Tulsa in January to finish mixing and recording with Stephen Egerton of The Descendants and All, and will likely release it in Spring 2010.

Better Than: flying around in my mom and dad's homemade hot air balloon... Vivian Girls a Vivian Girls started its first ever Dallas set Thursday night at the Cavern with a song consisting of four words: "Sound check one two." Ah yes, the classic, beguiling sound-check song that has every hipster moving until they realize what's really going on.

Quite the bill at The Cavern tonight as Vivian Girls , who Daniel Hopkins caught up with in this week's paper , stop through town for a gig that also features area favorites True Widow and The Uptown Bums .

If you've already inked your fingers on our paper edition this week, then you know a lot more about The Uptown Bums than that the band's opening for Monotonix tonight at Rubber Gloves.

In recent months, The Uptown Bums went from churning out catchy, yet sloppy garage pop to producing a more confident, streamlined brand of, well, technically speaking, kitchen punk.

Start the weekend with the Colecovison-on-crack sounds of MATH THE BAND onA Thursday at AS220, with Austin's DANIEL FRANCIS DOYLE and locals 3D MYSTERY and PEOPLE OF COLOR ; and head back to Empire Street onA Friday for a homegrown lineup of varied rock featuring ska vets SBT , punk vets TONY JONES & THE CRETIN 3 , FOR THE LOVE OF SLOANE , and ...

Rising from the ashes of the veritable crash-and-burn of last month's Ska in the Park show , the California Street Music Festival is the upcoming musical phoenix for August.

Rising from the ashes of the veritable crash-and-burn of last month's Ska in the Park show , the California Street Music Festival is the upcoming musical phoenix for August.

Riverside ska-punkers Voodoo Glow Skulls are giving back to up-and-coming SoCal acts with the California Street Music Festival at the Glass House in Pomona on Saturday.

As Jersey laments the passing of a sopped and sunless June, we set our hopes high for the coming of Independence Day weekend, when the fire in the sky can't compare to what sears on the stage.

It's been a strange road to reuniting L.A. hardcore punk pioneers the Germs, who disbanded following the suicide of lead singer Darby Crash in 1980.

Seminal, reunited punk band the Germs play Neumos tonight with Poison Idea, Krum Bums and the Bloodclots .