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Listen To This!: Dorktown #112 – Your Jackass Friends Won’t Get This.

A fresh episode of Dorktown is here to start your new week off. It's maybe more local talk and cussing than you could want or need but it's free so suck it up. Seriously though, thanks for listening and tell your cool friends. They'll hear stuff like:

New WWE tag team: Dork Town.
Low budget marketing with $1 shamrocks.
The best time to go to Art Hop is when you're invisible.
Mutants in Millerton Lake.
New Fresno bars.
Pagers ruled.
NEW!: Dorktown News.
MUSIC BREAK: Achievement House "Summer Spirit"
Audie's is still the best.
REMOTE: Tokyo Garden "Is It Metal"?
FONZY EYYS!

Listen by clicking the file below:
Dorktown112.mp3 [37:14]

You can also listen to Dorktown by downloading from iTunes. Leave Dorktown a message 559-492-0542.

BANDGEEK!: If You Don’t Want To See Any Of These Shows… You Suck

If you're here then you like music. Local music to be precise. Nothing else needs to be said, other than: this is BANDGEEK!:

FRIDAY

C.A.F.E. INFOSHOP: Fresno's 'Ska Wars' – you would think this would be going down in the Mos Eisley Cantina on Tattooine but no. The lineup is Checkered Past, The White Glove Service, Valley of Ashes, Iwanaga!, For The Record and The Deadbeats:

STARLINE: There is no question this show is metal with Gristle, Obsidian Seraph, At The Hands Of An Architect and from Providence RI, it's night #1 in Fresno for The Empire Shall Fall. For info click:

FULTON 55: The dude (or is he a robot?) with the box on his head, Collecto, with Sci-Fi Caper:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Something… beer and tunes of some sort for sure Oh wait, this just in, it's going to be a cool show of local musicians. Nevermind the flier's date it's tonight:

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BANDGEEK!: What Does Let’s Go Bowling, The Soma Holidays and Bang Tango Have In Common?

Yet another fruitful weekend of music for Fresno. Sure hope you have Saturday morning to recover because Friday is going to be rude. Let's BANDGEEK!:

FRIDAY

FULTON 55: It's not often that one of Fresno's top bands of all time, Let's Go Bowling, plays so this one moves from a show to a EVENT:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: If you like the Fay Wrays, then you probably like (or will like) The Soma Holidays. That's 'cause The Soma Holidays are kinda the Fay Wray's grandad… or something. It's a big reunion show for the Holidays (we told ya about this, complete with free mp3 downloads) because it's been seven years since they've played together. Keeping the stage warm for them is Achievement House, The Red Coats and straight from Portland (via Fresno and Nashville) is Kat Jones. Good times. [$8, 9pm, 21+]

BABYLON: Diehardz Music presents The Accident Experiment (with Marcos Curiel from P.O.D) Also doing stuff is Down Word, Outside the Wire, Clockwork Hero (Stockton), Kinship, and S.K.O.P.E:

KUPPAJOE: Sacramento alt rock guy, Josiah James. Plus Quiet Science (Merritt Island, FL), Omotola and My Beautiful Surrender. How terribly awesome is this flier?:

THE CYC: The promoter wisely put an early start time for this one as there are a dump load of bands playing: Brotherhood, Limits, Phoenix Emerge, Head Over Heals, Fatty Cakes, Dependence and Lover Boy:

THAI PALMS: Homegrown Fridays returns with a familiar face: This Planet Prelude. Plus I Do Not Exist and No Cause For Alarm:

STARLINE: It was the late 80s (or maybe early 90s) and Bang Tango was a band. That played. Music and stuff. Well God bless them they're still doing it, and frankly…Why the hell not!? Locally supported by Six Day Truce, Hammerdown Sindrum and Tipsy Gipsy:

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BANDGEEK!: Fast Cars, Blake Joneses, Wise Cubs, Motel Drives, Six Ounces and Wild Blues

Fulton 55 has two shows with returning (again) Fresno legends. The CYC has goes all weekend long, Starline has Layne Staley as a girl and KFSR could use your donations. ALL in this weeks… BANDGEEK!:

FRIDAY

THE CYC: Wow this all California lineup is kinda huge with… hugeness. Joyce Manor (Torrance), TSOSIS (Elk Grove), Tidemouth (Santa Clarita), New York Taxi (Glendora), Mane Horse (Fresno), Fast Car (Fresno) and Tough Stuff (Garden Grove):

KUPPAJOE: Check it: The Roos, Saving Temperance, Mongrel City, Wise Cub, & Frontier:

AUDIE'S OLYMPIC: Metal up with Fe Talis, 9th Level, Ruthless, and Hymn of Rlyeh:

FULTON 55: So bigtime Fresno rock dudes, Six Ounce Gloves, are still around and don't seem to be going away after all. Speaking of, just when you thought rising Fresno metal band, Mercury Bullet, had gone away too THEY have come back big. "New" Fresno rock band Relax Reload (seems like maybe it's Say Swear), will open it up:

STARLINE: Mix it up with locals Dislodic, The Dirty Dirties, Siren Singing and The Long Black Veils:

THE LAMP POST: Like seeing some acts, that normally play the under 21 circuit, playing at the Lamp Post. Restaurnaut, Fatty Cakes, and Control Noodle. [$0, 9pm, 21+]

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The Fresnan Presents: Brother Luke and the Dorks – Dorktown Podcast #111

Hey Dorktown listeners, long and interesting one with local musician Luke Freeman from Brother Luke and the Comrades. The Dorktown crew gets to drink some beer and hang out with Luke and talk about a buncha cool junk. Stuff like:

Bubba is not gay and grants wishes.
Does home-schooling produce assholes? Nope.
Mikey was bullied… let's all cry about it.
Bells went to Fresno High?
The beginnings of Luke's music life.
Weeknight shows can be rough.
Grilled cheese sandwiches in Clovis.
MUSIC BREAK: Brother Luke plays live!
What is Baja Sauce?
Dorktown gets sad.
Portland.
ValleyWho and Mike Oz.
The lowdown on Luke's VVV's residency.
FONZY EYYYS!
FCC and Master.

There's a healthy amount of swearing so look out.

Click the file below to listen!:
BrotherLukeDorktown111.mp3 [1:18]

Make sure to look in on Luke playing with special guest musicians at Veni Vidi Vici's, Monday nights all through April!

Dorktown is also available on iTunes. Go like Dorktown's Face. Email the show: mike@dorktown.net.

[Picture of Luke stolen from local stud, Ryan C. Jones]

BANDGEEK!: Bands Are Going To Be Doing WHAT This Weekend Exactly?

A St. Patrick's Day Weekend in Fresno is just like any other weekend in Fresno: Lots of drinking and lots of live local music. It's BANDGEEEEK!!:

FRIDAY

KUPPAJOE: Awwww, Kady Danger, look at them down there. Such sweet boys. Sweet boys THAT FUCKING PLAY BADASS METAL! Raise some money for their tour and see Your Hero Is A Villain, Head Over Heals, Infinate and The Day I Ate The Moon: