Can I just tell you how thankful I am for Mr. Joel. Check out his October/November calender, droppin' science on A possible B-Cat gig for Spottiswoode. Mr. Joel certainly suceeds in keeping us informed on shows even the one's not in the papers yet-that means his hiney is AT shows. sigh.

Here's a show at AU this Saturday the 8th. First band on is Los Hermanos Rodriguez. They are the only band I've seen in this lineup of Lunchbox, Red Line Index, Paper Doll, and The city The sea who are scheduled to appear in this order. I saw LHR at Velvet a year or more ago, at one of their first playing out gigs. It was a fundraiser gig and Arblemarble's last one I think. Anyway I am curious about this lineup. LHR was 3 piece I think and loud and tight when I saw them. Is there one of those music monikers out there called speed punk? If so, that's probably them . Somehow they resemble a metal band in sound, with political messages wrapped in. They were a happy surprise when I saw them last year and I think you should go see them now and report back to me, especially after that cruddy Citypaper article on Fugazi ruining the rock scene in DC-go listen to LHR-hopefully AU will represent and get some more shows for them.