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Sep 13, 2017 Save Music in Chinatown 13 recap with CH3, Neptunas, and 16 Again

by Martin Wong

On Sunday, Wendy and I embarked on our fifth year of putting on all-ages matinees to raise money for the public elementary school in Chinatown where our daughter attends fourth grade. Even after thirteen shows, it still hasn't gotten old--maybe because I see so many friends and family and only ask bands that I love...

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Sep 05, 2017 Save Music in Chinatown 13 with Channel Three, The Neptunas, and 16 Again

by Martin Wong

This may sound like a broken record, but it's a really good one--a scratchy slab of vinyl that you scored at a thrift shop with that killer song that was on a lost mix tape or perhaps last heard on Rodney on the Roq decades ago when you were a kid. Anyway, for the thirteenth...

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Jun 17, 2014 7Seconds at The Roxy with CH3

by Martin Wong

It's amazing when a young band makes music, hits the road, and stirs up a movement. 7Seconds' first EPs and albums were not only among the first to fly the hardcore punk flag in the early '80s but also introduced a humanist agenda (in the face of nihilism) and launched the youth crew concept (that...

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Feb 11, 2014 Save Music in Chinatown 2 Recap

by Martin Wong

[caption id="attachment_9594" align="alignnone" width="790"] Top row photos courtesy of Ben Clark[/caption] Since yesterday's gig was the second Save Music in Chinatown show, which I've been single-handedly been promoting for weeks on end, I have to admit that I'm getting worried about writing the same things over and over again. Thrilled to parlay my background in indie...