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Gilman. I was considering only writing that.

If you were really into punk rock in the late 80′s or early 90′s and lived in the Bay Area, Gilman Street was the best representatives of the East Bay punk scene (that Epicenter, the Farm and Berkeley Square.) And one of those bands that epitomized Gilman Street was Operation Ivy.

Operation Ivy was like gutter punk with some ska thrown in. Featuring future members of Rancid, Schlong and the Transplants. Check out some of their better songs below:

Operation Ivy – Sound System

Operation Ivy – Knowledge

Operation Ivy – Unity

Operation Ivy – Take Warning

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a. O’Death on Daytrotter HERE. God, what do i like more, O’death or Daytrotter?

b. AuralFitness is continuing with their post of the 50 States with Washington, part 1 HERE. Where’s the q and not u?

c. Gridskipper breaks down the NYC Hip Hop shows this Summer HERE.

d. Jeff Soto’s new calendars are for sale. Check them out HERE>

e. MFR presents Jesus Lizard. Now with more noise and video.. HERE.

f. Check out Sage Francis’ beatmaker Joe Beats, remix a bunch of Indie Rock, including Deerhoof and Neutral Milk Hotel HERE.

g. Figure this code out and you win some free Def Jux shit. HUH? Click the 69. Does that make it easier? I don’t think so.

Well, blah blah blah, I love Fugazi, …. big shocker… Anyway, I found some real nice live Fugazi shows over this Memorial Day Weekend and figured in memory of one of the best indie rock bands of all time.. Here are some of my favorite Fugazi songs live..

Fugazi – Give me the Shot (Live in Calgary 91)

Fugazi – Long Division (Live in Calgary 91)

Fugazi – Song # 1 (Live in France 90)

Fugazi – Argument (Live in DC 99)

Fugazi – Last Chance For a Slow Dance (Live from Calgary 91) .

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A. Honestly, can I be more obsessed with EL P’s “Poisenville Kids”?? Check out this performance of EL P playing live HERE. Then look around and find him making bagels and lox. Swear.

B. Check out why Kris Parker rules (still) HERE.

C. TOUR NEWS. GO to see:

Ben Davis & The Jetts and Fin Fang Foom kick-off their joint European tour in Iceland this Thursday. Their tour dates are listed below:

May 31, 2007 - Reykjavik, Iceland @ Kaffi Hljomalind
June 01, 2007 - Wuerzburg, Germany @ Cairo
June 02, 2007 - Braunschweig, Germany @ Nexu
June 03, 2007 - Hamburg, Germany @ Hafenklang
June 04, 2007 - Leipzig, Germany @ Lichtwirtschaft
June 05, 2007 - Munich, Germany @ Sunny Red
June 06, 2007 - Passau, Germany @ ZAKK
June 07, 2007 - Gossau, Switzerland @ Kubus
June 08, 2007 - France @ TBA
June 09, 2007 - Bordeaux, France @ El Inca
June 10, 2007 - Bilbao, Spain @ Easka Rock Club
June 11, 2007 - Madrid, Spain @ Nasti
June 12, 2007 - Badajoz, Spain @ Centro de ocio las cumbres de don benito
June 13, 2007 - Ubeda (Jaen), Spain @ La Nave
June 14, 2007 - Zaragoza, Spain @ Arrebato
June 16, 2007 - Sant Feliu De Codines (Barcelo), Spain @ Centro Civico
June 16, 2007 - Spain @ TBA
June 17, 2007 - Toulouse, France @ Caves de la notté
June 18, 2007 - Italy @ TBA
June 19, 2007 - Muelheim, Germany @ Muelheim, AZ
June 20, 2007 - Frankfurt, Germany @ Clubkeller
June 21, 2007 - Halle (Saale), Germany @ Huehnermanhattan
June 22, 2007 - Remseck, Germany @ HDJ/Cafe Impuls

D. Listen to the new Sufjan Stevens HERE.

E.  Microsoft announces a 10k table?  Huh?  Coasters needed HERE.

F.  A post about Christie Front Drive HERE, good times!.

I know these first two have been floating around the internet for the last few days. But maybe you haven’t heard some of the others (check out part 1 HERE):

Ryan Adams – Down in a Hole (alice in chains cover)

Marilyn Manson – What Goes Around Comes Around (Justin Timberlake live acoustic cover @ BBC Radio 1)

Klaxons – My Love (justin timberlake cover)

Editors – Feel Good Inc (Gorillaz cover)

Kind of Like Spitting – You (Bad Religion cover)

The Hold Steady – Against the Wind (Bob Segar Cover)

The Mountain Goats – Cut Your Hair (Pavement Cover live)

Kaiser Chiefs – What time is Love (KLF cover)

Final Fantasy – Sweet fantasy (Mariah Carey cover)

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Another installment of a band that I thought were going to be huge and were “this close” to being huge and somehow weren’t. This time: GAMEFACE, this Southern California punk band was what I thought was the perfect combination of punk inspired rock and melodic pop songs. Jeff Caudill‘s voice was one of my favorites in the genre.

Had their records come out a few years later, during the Blink 182 years, they would have been playing right along with those guys… Anyway, check out some tracks below:

Gameface – Ten Blue Sticks

Gameface – The Pirate Song

Gameface – Start me Over

Gameface – Four Chords, Seven Years.

Jeff Caudill – All the Way down

Gameface – Somebody Save this Boy

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a. Subterranean has blog from Grizzly Bear at Sasquatch festival HERE.

b. did I mention that 31knots did songs for Daytrotter? Well shit, get over there!!! HERE.

c. Gimme Tinnitus has a posting about The Foundry Field Recordings HERE.

d. Winners from Cannes HERE.

e. The Joker in IMAX? Say it’s SO PLEASE. read about it HERE.

f. Another Shameless Complacency post, this time about the National’s Black Sessions HERE.

g. Sufjan on a rooftop, I’m iN! check it out NOW HERE.

I totally missed the ONE YEAR thepunkguy anniversary, it was last week.  OH WELL.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY thepunkguy!!!!        Maybe ill do a lil special post about it at the end of the month!!!

the Vandals – Happy Birthday to me

So for memorial day, I figured I would give you some links.. the first one happens to be about someone who isn’t with us anymore. And by with us, I mean doesn’t live in the New York city this month..,

Read our own “danonfire”‘s blog, currently he’s traveling around Latin America with a tv show.. HERE.

Remember the Eraser by Thom Yorke? Well now there’s Lupe, Kanye and Pharrell rapping over it at Shameless Complancey … HERE.

Go to the Civil War Veterans Parade in Brooklyn today HERE>

Auralfitness asks us to remember the Long Black Veil and the stories hidden behind them HERE.

All I have been listening to is Shellac these days.  I don’t know why.  Here’s a peel session version of the song Crow.  It kicks ass.

Shellac – Crow (peel session)