The Blasters News

Blending country western harmony and blues with the pile driving force of punk rock, the legendary band X will command the stage at Slim's for two nights, December 30th and 31st for a special New Years Eve performance.

Your hosts are Jim Ross and Bob Caudle. Opening Match: The Wild-Eyed Southern Boys vs.

Video: Peter Ivers, host of New Wave Theater which aired from 1981 - 1983. New Wave Theatre was "...a visionary and uncompromising" public access television show that developed a fanatical following as much for its programming of punk acts as for it's host Peter Ivers, who met an untimely death in 1983 when he was murdered inside his home.

Presented by Los Angeles Philharmonic Assn. Performers: Brian Wilson and band, Dave Alvin with Greg Leisz, the Living Sisters , Harper Simon.

Tony Ocean fans get into it at a 50th birthday party. With its Wisconsin Roadhouse vibe on rough and tumble Roosevelt Road, FitzGerald's in Berwyn has been a study in contrasts ever since its inception in 1980.

Singer-songwriter Dave Alvin grew up in California, forming a band called The Blasters with his brother Phil in 1979 that achieved cult-like status before Alvin struck out on his own.

Long before the term Americana was even a gleam in Jim Lauderdale 's eye, Dave Alvin and his brother Phil formed The Blasters , one of the coolest roots-rock bands ever to sport pompadours.

The disc arrives December 8. Written and directed by Denham and produced by OFFSPRING and THE GIRL NEXT DOOR's Andrew van den Houten, HOME MOVIE stars HEROES' Adrian Pasdar, Cady McClain and real-life young siblings Austin Williams and Amber Joy Williams; see our review here .

When Atlanta's Big Swing and the Ballroom Blasters played the first note at Life Savers Ball, diners rapidly deserted their seated dinner tables for the dance floor.

September 23, 2009 from WXPN - Dave Alvin is a Grammy-winning guitarist, singer and songwriter whose interpretation of roots music has won countless fans for its raw yet dignified power.

A founding member of L.A.'s The Blasters - with his brother Phil - and an itinerant guitarist for X, Dave Alvin helped spearhead the mid-'80s roots-rock revival.

Los Lobos will perform on Thursday at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton. By GEORGE LENKER When former NRBQ guitarist Big Al Anderson joined Los Lobos onstage for an encore at the Calvin Theatre last year, it was hardly a pre-planned move.

Collins Avenue Builders and the Saw Creek Sluggers swept their best-of-three series to advance into the Lehman Municipal Softball League Slow Pitch Arc championship series.

Guilt by association After the death of his best friend, accordion player Chris Gaffney, who died of liver cancer last year, Dave Alvin disbanded his group The Guilty Men.

August 6, 2009 -- LA rock and roots music legend Dave Alvin will bring his new all-female band of virtuosos to the Santa Monica Pier for a free concert Thursday night.

August 6, 2009 -- LA rock and roots music legend Dave Alvin will bring his new all-female band of virtuosos to the Santa Monica Pier for a free concert Thursday night.

August 6, 2009 -- LA rock and roots music legend Dave Alvin will bring his new all-female band of virtuosos to the Santa Monica Pier for a free concert Thursday night.

August 6, 2009 -- LA rock and roots music legend Dave Alvin will bring his new all-female band of virtuosos to the Santa Monica Pier for a free concert Thursday night.

August 6, 2009 -- LA rock and roots music legend Dave Alvin will bring his new all-female band of virtuosos to the Santa Monica Pier for a free concert Thursday night.

ROCK MUSIC MAY BE GETTING older and grizzlier by the minute, but there are still relatively few bands who can celebrate an unbroken 36 years together, let alone with the same line-up. Los Lobos can, though.