Okay, no; we don't have a dumb knock-knock joke here. And you're welcome. We do have a little beef, however. We'd really like to know why nobody's done a documentary about Frontier Records founder Lisa Fancher. We just looked through this year's film schedule for Allison Anders' fantastic Don't Knock The Rock festival, and while we have absolutely no problem whatsoever with the lineup, it seems like every other seminal LA punk figure has been made the focus of a filmmaker's lens. What gives? more ›

The history of LA punk is a great one, and a story that has been told many times in the twenty-odd years since the initial flowering of the scene. Amidst the many bands that made it up, there's one little band that is often forgotten when looking at the greater whole: The Minutemen, the three-man powerhouse from Pedro. more ›