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BANDGEEK: Even With No Bel-Tower, Live Music In Fresno Still Rules!

After raising some money for a Downtown business to get its license to sell beer, you might as well go enjoy some live and local music. That's what we're here for. It's... BANDGEEK!!:

FRIDAY

KUPPAJOE'S: Rock and hardcore adjust to the "clean stage" of Kuppa, plaing is To Speak Of Wolves (Greensboro, NC), Write This Down (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Future Ghosts (Greensboro, NC), Phinehas (La Mirada) and Operazoo (Madera Ranchos). Info:

STARLINE: Fresno and Visalia blues rock meet to tear the stars off the walls of Starline with Electric Grease and Trey Tosh:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: These are always a good time, as is anything Soulflower Group: 

FULTON 55:  

C.A.F.E. INFOSHOP: Nevermind what the flier says, it ain't happening at The Bel-Tower. This show has been moved to CAFE Infoshop (just don't tell the fuzz). Show features locals like Sci-Fi Caper, Still Stoked and The Velisha:

The Fresnan Presents: Pliny The Tounger Tour - Dorktown #107

Road trip time for Dorktown as Mikey and Bells tour the 99, 580 and 101 as they head up to Santa Rosa. Why would somebody leave Fresno to visit Santa Rosa? Beer. Pliny The Younger at Russian River Brewery, to be more specific.

Along the way there's talk of: Clovis, fog, first Fresno jobs, Bullard & Palm, Casa Corona, Pliny The Younger, beer-ride wait times, drinking, puking, Santa Rosa, sponsorship and Fonzy Eyyys.

Download or just play this:

Pliny The Younger Dorktown 107

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Tonight @ Audie's Olympic: Backstabbing In Stab City

Go to Audie's because it'll be badass with: Fresno space-rock band Between The Cities Are Stars. Fresno punkass band, It'll Grow Back. Los Angeles tour-kicking-off-in-Fresno band, Stab City. Fresno genuine punk rock band, The Backstabbers. It's gonna be loud, just the way we like it.

Focused On Fresno: 80's Fresno Punk Flier Edition

WAIT! Don't get confused, this show isn't happening tonight. It's from the 80's - kinda doubt they'd let a punk show into the Wilson these days... but ya never know. And it is proof that the Circle Jerks played here once. Pretty fuckin' awesome.

To find more cool old punk scene stuff like this, make sure to like 80's Fresno Punk Scene History and check out Stage Dive Records.

Maybe We Should Just Shut Our Stupid Blogger Face

Just as a small update, after the big meeting Monday, The Bel-Tower is still closed. Yes, there is hope they can work it out but... well, we should stay positive but experience says not to hold your breath. The city doesn't make things easy to run a venue, no matter how many times they say they're cutting more red tape. A meeting with the Fresno Fire Department Wednesday will yield more info.

In a related thought, Famous Whitewater's post about The Bel-Tower got us thinking and commenting: Maybe we should just shut our nerd-trap about shows at DIY places like The Bel-Tower. These venues are sorta meant to be underground and not listed on Fresno's mainstream blogs - yeah we're not mainstream but work with us here.

Not saying a lot of people read this blog but it just takes one sorta Internet savvy city official, cop, (or big venue owner that's getting annoyed that these kids are putting on all these shows and not paying the same permit fees they're paying) to read about all the shows happening and call the city to go over there and shut it down.

We saw on the facebooks that a lot of the Bel-Tower shows are getting moved to another DIY venue, a place we know. But now we don't want to post the info and make it easier to find THAT venue and inadvertently help shut IT down... what to do, what to do...

New Music Tuesday: Fields Of Prey "Perfect Dark"

You probably remember singer Alley Her from the rock band, 12 Gauge Serenade. No? You should have, jerkass. Well it doesn't matter now because Alley is in a new band called Fields Of Prey and they just may be better. One listen to their new EP "Perfect Dark" almost has us convinced. A second may get us to completely buy in: