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  • alon portraitItalian-born and Californian-based Alon Delon is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter who played guitar in Donita Sparks and the Stellar Moments, Sparks’ post-L7 project, and appears on the 2008 album “Transmiticate”. 

    He later formed the Los Angeles dark-rock band Shiteland Ponies with bassist Dat Ngo, combing shoegaze and dark pop with glam and heavier rock influences.

    Delon played in the Hollywood hard-rock band Shire. A notable piece of his history is that a young Izzy Stradlin briefly played bass in Shire alongside him. Henow plays in Hector Penalosa Gang.

    Whether or not I get to rock with this brother, I think he is an amazingly bad ass underground rock ‘n’ roll motherfucker, whose work is pretty much impeccable…my kinda songs, my kinda bands, my kinda style.

    Don’t believe me? Here’s what some other people say about him:

    "I love the Shiteland Ponies, and think Mr. Delon is a marvellous human. I'm very proud to call him my friend. I always enjoy watching their live shows, and look forward to their next record..." -John Easdale, Dramarama.

  • evad fromme moonchasers liveOur common friend and fellow traveller, the outrageously talented Tom Sanford of Winter Killsand Beachwood Sparks, introduced me to Evad Frommein some secret rebel rocker social media group online about a decade ago.

    We became fast friends and kindred brethren.

    Evad is one of the best frontmen and underground rock ‘n’ roll performers and songwriters in the Divided States Of Fear And Slavery we've seen since probably the long gone heyday of Raji's and English Acid, when bands like Celebrity Skin and Stars From Mars and Raw Flower and the purple-haired Zeros ruled the dive bars.

    Of course ever since the mid-‘90s, the Wall Street land barons have been tearing down all of rock ‘n’ roll's most venerated landmarks, from CBGB to Tower on Sunset, to build always more unattainable, prohibitively expensive condos and hotels for lawless hedge fund managers and big pharma and private prison shareholding rich people. In the war crazed USA! USA! mockingbird Big 5 corporate mainstream, the entire media has been disgracefully hijacked and weaponized to promote forever war and a fascist police state for the past 25 years. So no high quality rock’n’ roll gets heard on our public airwaves. They can't ever really kill it, but it's all back underground, now.

  • calling from nowherelandCalling From Nowhere Land: Live in Vancouver 1994 – Pillbox (Vicious Kitten)

    Pillbox wasn’t a household name in the 1990s – unless you lived in what was left of New York City’s Lower East Side tenements and had a big jones for swaggering sleaze rock.

    The band’s solitary long-player, “Jimbo’s Clown Room”, came out on CD way back in ’93 and despite being re-released on vinyl, their output remains so far from the mainstream of modern popular music to qualify Pillbox for lifetime outsider status. Just like you.