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The Sunset Junction street fair<\/a> is pretty sweet (if a bit warm) and has some solid live music and a great vibe. I’m not really sure what to call the kind of rock that\u00a0 Something For Rockets<\/a> (shown) plays (there are so many new-fangled adjectives for rock music nowadays, it’s hard to keep track), but they’re pretty good and\u00a0 they have some cute 16 year old groupies ;-). I also liked Weapon of Choice<\/a>, who had much more of a new-wave funk thing going (think Prince and the Revolution without the looks). Ian<\/a> recommended Gravy Train!!!<\/a>, which was an awesomely energetic show, only enhanced by the random guy in the hula skirt dancing on the roof of a nearby building. Gravy Train!!!’s music is definitely an acquired taste and I’m kinda glad that it was an outdoor show, because I’m not too sure I would want to be stuck in a confined space with some of their fans (I’m just sayin’…), but I had a good time. The last band I watched was The Walkmen<\/a>, which was by far the best known of the day. They were definitely energetic, but I did find their set to be a bit anti-climatic (maybe it was just the beer wearing off and the dehydration kicking in). <\/p>\n

One thing that struck me was the number of teenagers braving the heat to check out these no-name bands and really getting into the shows, which gives me hope for our American Idol\/Top 40 entertainment culture (of course, then I see The Bravery<\/a> doing a Saturn commercial on the VMA pre-show).\u00a0 Anyway, it was a great day…and it reminded me that I don’t see nearly enough live music. So, if you know of any good unknown bands (I much prefer small shows) playing in LA or the Bay Area, lmk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sunset Junction street fair is pretty sweet (if a bit warm) and has some solid live music and a great vibe. I’m not really sure what to call the kind of rock that\u00a0 Something For Rockets (shown) plays (there are so many new-fangled adjectives for rock music nowadays, it’s hard to keep track), but … Continue reading “Good Music @ Sunset Junction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jstrauss.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}