Yes, one of the biggest bands in the world, Korn graces the front page of MTV.com who talks about Korn Row and the show in Bakersfield. Read the MTV review. You can even see a video still of the same image I took from a slightly different angle, see photos and more. (don't forget my Buck City Podcast audio of Korn Day)
If that isn’t enough, there are news reports all over the Internet about Korn’s new tour. Every major news source has something to say from CBS, MTV, Wired, heck even the Himalayan News out of Nepal!
Stay tuned for a special report on Bakersfield’s Paperback Writer blog right here on nlbelardes.com. You'll hear about Korn of yesteryear as N.L. follows the Korn tour news, shares more photos from Korn Day, and maybe some never before seen photos of Jonathan Davis' old band, Sex Art.
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The Bakersfield music scene just got better. Take a hometown band like Korn, mix in a hometown kick-off for a world tour that's seeing cutting edge marketing, blend in a 'Korn Row Backyard Street' moment, slip in a dose of N.L. Belardes photography with one lucky photo in the mix, sprinkle in some Korn podcast flava, then take a kind-hearted PR lady and the world's largest weekly music magazine: Kerrang out of London in the U.K. What do you get? An N.L. Belardes Bakersfield music scene photo to grace Kerrang's pages... And who do I represent? You!
Thank you Korn, Brandis and Kerrang!
Once a 2-hour radio buffer from your crappy life at work to your crappy life at home, The Puck Show is now a "Puckcast" and still features Puck and his "super-producer" and co-host Preston Nash.
If you thought you heard potty talk before from Puck and Preston, you’re about to hear uncensored fun from two of the funnest DJs around. Recently, The Puck Show was the #1 A.M. afternoon radio drive-time show in Bakersfield, California. Instead of sitting around on their asses worrying about their next radio gig, Puck and Preston have teamed up with N.L. Belardes to enter the cyber realm with a podcast that’s sure to grab fans and taunt the radio world that these guys just won’t be stopped. (Listen to the show and you can now subscribe!)
Episode Four: 'Your Vows or Mine: Part One is exclusively hosted by N.L. Belardes and Noveltown.
Tune in to Puck and Preston who talk about wedding bells. Come and listen!
Hear Puck discuss why he might be in trouble.
Find out why Puck doesn't believe in sappy pappy made-to-order marriage vows.
Discover the secret to Puck's vivacious sex life.
Hear Preston talk about the bottle.
Listen in as Puck prepares for his big day by venting on his Puckcast podcast his way or the highway.
(ding dong wedding bells!!)
Hey you!: Call in on Thursday night's 10pm 866 319 1230 and get on the show...
BUMS is on the shelf. Illpressed has officially retired from covering the music scene (JR informed me Saturday night). The local newspaper is... oh I don't know where... That leaves me (Paperback Writer), two anonymous poor-spelling mad and honest reviewers, and the occasionally music blog from matildakay.com. And don’t forget podcasts from Matt Munoz and his sidekick Dan Rathernot (Terrence from Krotch) over at Bakotopia.
So yes, 2006 started off with a bang with what seemed like an army of Bakersfield scene writers.
But now the scene is reminded they are stuck with me again as the main guy who take photos and writes about music here in Bakersfield, California. Hey, at least I am consistent.
I was going to back off shows just a little (and I have), but now it seems I should try to get to more of a mix since illpressed and BUMS have other focuses.
I hung out at Vinny’s on Saturday night, a big night after that Korn concert (expect a controversial report from me in the coming days, possibly with exclusive pics). I wanted to get out and cover local music for my blog and trying to sell a few hockey CDs. I saw BUMS Mike Generic. He sported a cool shirt with “the 28s” inked on the front and “The Politicians f******n’ rule” scrawled on the back. I saw Rob Shock and Jason from Box Jumper. I told them I wanted to see more punk on Growing Up Fighting: Bakersfield Hockey Vol. 2. They seemed cool with that...
Earlier I went to Puck’s bachelor party with Les Paw from Fatt Katt and the Vonzippers. I stayed about an hour, ate some chips, said some “hellos”, listened to ‘guy talk’, and even heard Puck discuss Green Fairy alcohol. Poor Les was sick before we had even arrived. The poor guy was doubled over and so we left and I waited to go to Vinny’s to see The Filthies, The Politicians and the Original Booty Burglars. Here’s my photo essay of the evening:
Mike Generic is a big fan of Orange County punk boys, The Politicians...
Jason and Rob Shock from Box Jumper are big supporters of the Filthies and the Politicians
The first band of the evening was the Original Booty Burglars.
The Booty Burglars had a hilarious moment where they had a neverending song ending. They dressed crazy and lifted their rock goblet to the Filthies during the skate punk song, "Condorstown"
Soda please... too much punk!
Gus McFuss
Captain Kenny Filthy pants...
An intern from the local paper worked on a photo essay of the Filthies. Let's hope his turns out better than Sara Gettys, whose photo essay bombed...
Ghost Kenny Mount sings the punk rock Embalm You blues...
chingpea from Smalltown Girls hangs out...
The Politicians! Punk rock from Orange County!!!
I was going to wear my Politicians shirt, but decided to wear my Filthies "Guns" T-shirt instead. The Politicians are an incredible punk rock band with a lot of Bakersfield fans...
Guess who got to sing with the Politicians! A classic moment that saw Jason onstage as well. I hope the Politicians didn't mind such Bakersfield rural rock punk bravado...
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Here's to you, N.L.!
Yes, Korn got a backyard street about 30 minutes ago; right behind the Rabobank Arena. That's not behind McDonalds. It's called Korn Row. That fluffy mayor of Bakersfield, the man with the ambulance empire, Harvey Hall awarded Korn with 'Korn day' and more... oh yes, Korn got a plaque on the wall in front of the arena and Mr. Davis himself said, "Maybe one day we'll get a real street name."
There were lots of folks in the media there... Duffy, Lydia, MTV, the ska king of Bakotopia, and me from Buck City and Paperback Writer...
It's Korn Day in Bakersfield... oh yeah...! It's about time Korn got respect from its own city. Took a while... how many years, Harvey?
Danny Spanks got the crowd all fired up with Korn chants...
Then the band comes out and JD waves to the crowd...
Congratulations to the winners of the to Korn contests on nlbelardes.com and noveltown.net.
Beau Braisher won the big Korn-Cash-Grill raffle by purchasing Thick White Crust as an e-book and then having his name drawn at random. He gets two tickets to killer seats in row A, $50 in Macaroni Grill grub, and $50 cash to buy himself a Korn T-shirt.
A hearty congratulations to Shaun Alaniz and his sidekick pal for being the first to email in the correct numbers from the four podcasts (so dreadfully easy). These dudes get to go to the concert and sit next to Beau...
The winning numbers were: 4, 3, 7, and 25
Thanks for playing.
And a special thanks to Dorktown, The Puck Show, Smalltown Girls, and me (Buck City)
*Prizes unclaimed by 5pm on February 24th will be awarded to some other unlucky soul.
A few big puffs of air and I was as dry as a Bakersfield summer hillside of foxtails just before a brush fire. That's the air inside the smoke hole, ala the Silver Fox bar, one of the favorite hangouts for Bakersfield musicians. It's a risk every time I go. You know you have to brave the ash-filled air, but it's all for the good music, the friendship and a few good photos.
Thanks to Mike Generic's good marketing and email hounding, I went out to the show. If bands would harrass me the day of a show the way Mike does, there would always be a better chance of me showing up. And it's mostly just because I am busy and forgetful. I don't keep a calendar, so I'm always flying by the seat of my hiney...
Here's my photo essay of this night of music...
It all began with sound problems. Mento Buru's ska king was on hand to lend a crack, er, professional bit of sound tuning...
We've seen him at his most vulnerable.
And when he's the sexy Ricky Ricardo on the mic at the fish fry.
The crack disappeared, the sound got fixed and the 28s got into their punk.
Clay Pigeon started off by singing what should have been a duet.
The song was called, "Heath Dobbler is spam".
Heath Dobbler seemed happy enough about his crown of spam.
When Clay sings it's hard to tell what he's saying.
It's punk rock, OK? And it's good.
And the music gets the blood flowing.
Doug as F*** smashes drums the way Generic drinks the brews.
I set out for the night with Les Paw. He plays a mean stand-up bass.
The night started with the moon over Mento/ It makes sense
the night would end with the ghost of the ska-king watching
over Mike Generic.
This is open to all local artists and will be a great publication put out by Cerro Coso: metomorphoses. Spread the word, please... and submit!
Let’s see what’s going on that I have heard about recently:
Korn is in town tomorrow. I’m sending 4 lucky winners to the show and two lucky winners will get cash and Macaroni Grill grub. This is a monumental podcast moment featuring The Puck Show, Buck City, Smalltown Girls and Fresno’s Dorktown. Still time to try and win… oh yeah, Korn got a back alley industrial garbage bin road named after them, right behind the Rabobank Arena called Korn Row. Better than I will probably ever have. So, yeah…
N.L., the Bakersfield Condors and some very creative folks will be working on music videos for hockey songs…
Noveltown will be launching a bigger music division than ever before… news to come on that includes a much anticipated Volume Two Hockey CD announcement
Norfolk is playing shows again after their lead man busted his elbow in a soccer brawl
Lostocean is headed to Nashville to record their new CD with EMI
The Filthies played to 7,200 peeps at the Rabobank last weekend
Three Chord Whore will be known as TCW in the Rabobank and promises stickers to be dropped from the Condor blimp. Big Gossip: Marc DeLeon, Dirty Spanglish and Meathead from KRAB will be singing backup for the song “Zamboni Zombie” from Growing Up Fighting: Bakersfield Hockey Vol. One. Order today!
BUMS is taking a break because of school. Please help purchase Mike Generic a new school uniform.
Illpressed isn’t writing much on local music these days
Heath Dobbler of the IN-denials thinks I’m fluffy. He just hates that I write about bands he doesn’t like
Matildakay.com was in a car wreck
Another Year's drummer broke his shoulder
Filthies still claim to be hitting Europe soon
The 28s are playing the Smoke Hole tonight with THE RUMOR (cough, too much smoke)
There was a Rage Against the Machine Tribute Spanish Rock show at the Dome that everyone missed including me
Soulajar is teaming up with Mento Buru to form a new band called Soul Boojar (Just kiddin’) They are going to play a show together soon…
Preston Nash is still creating a music sensation on The Puck Show by tricking Puck into playing gay songs (now a podcast) (just kidding, Preston)
This Plain Morning, are they still recording?
Throatshot is playing a few shows in town at Jerry’s and the Dome
Box Jumper is going to debut March 17th. The following weekend the spawn of 3 Cent Nickle will be storming into the Mint: Box Jumper, The IN-denials, and the 28s
And look at these shows at Studio 99:
Feb 25 2006 8:00P
Stand Down, Krotch, My October
Bakersfield , CA
Mar 2 2006 8:00P
Empath, FIORE, Seven to the Right, Vesper, The Rumor
Bako, CA
Mar 10 2006 8:00P
**Sara FEST**
Bako , CA
Mar 11 2006 8:00P
**MIDNIGHT PANIC**, 33 DEGREE, more TBA
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