• Featuring:
  • Los Pinguos
  • Fitter
  • Aztlan Underground
  • Cuchata
  • Nick Mundy
• Free Parking across from the venue:
  625 Lincoln Blvd., Venice, CA 90291
• 8:00pm, 21+
• $10.00

more information, including ticketing info can be found at indieonthewestside.com.

May 17th, 2010 by Electric Wizard

Free Vodka! Free Cigarettes! Free Admission! Show starts @ 9:30, free stuff between 9:30 and 10:30

May 16th, 2010 by Electric Wizard

To the critical thinkers of the world
To the human beings of earth

It is with great disappointment that SB 1070 was signed into law in Arizona this past Friday. However, the current western political and social construct is built upon the illusion of territory and centralized power which upholds and allows the notion of exclusivity and hierarchy among the human family. The passage of SB 1070 illustrates this paradigm.
The reality is that the earth is too small to ignore our interdependence and interconnection as a human family. To ignore this fact is to uphold archaic notions of superiority of one group of people over another. Specifically white supremacy. We seek to implore all of our human relations to process and re examine the right for all human beings to live in peace and liberty instead of relegating those rights to members of one nation and denying the rights of members of another nation. This is what defines nationalism and exposes the archaic essence and nature of the idea that human dignity is a privilege and not a right.
Let us see SB1070 for what it is; Devolution. Let us evolve together as a human family and abolish racism and nationalism forever.

Aztlan Underground

April 25th, 2010 by yaotl

• Performing will be:
  • Black Party Politics (12:00)
  • Aztlan Underground (11:00)
  • Fitter (10:15)
  • Piel (9:00)
• The Boogie Den
  3121 Union Pacific Ave; Los Angeles, California 90023
• 8:00pm, All Ages, open bar for 21+ with ID
• $10.00

April 7th, 2010 by Electric Wizard

• Featuring the music of:
  • Aztlan Underground
  • La Bestia
  • Push Play
  • Cara de Mil Putazos
  • an acoustic performance by Scott Rodarte of Ollin
• …and the artwork of:
  • Raul Paulino Baltazar
  • Pete Carillo
  • Eduardo Espinoza
  • Jose Cortez
  • Toltecayotl artwork of Joe "Peps" Galarza and Marisol Torres
• Salon de la Plaza
  1866 E. First St.   Los Angeles, California 90033
• 8:00pm, All Ages
• $10.00

 

Note that Sin Remedio will not be playing as originally scheduled and Push Play will fill their slot.

March 12th, 2010 by Electric Wizard

Sacred Circle lyrics

SACRED  CIRCLE

I never knew pride and i never knew dignity

I never lived truth cuz ive only lived insanity

humanity insanity this is what youve done to me

this is what you do to me

so now its land and liberty

This is the reality the gava has gave

from the slayer to the slave

and the cradle to the grave

a world with no windows

and a world with no mirrors

a world with no doors

and a world with no tears

no mother since my birth

cuz i never touched the earth

and i never touched sky

cuz i never knew why

see i never knew the moon

and i never knew the sun

i never knew humanity and nature

were all one

cuz i never lived the circle

see ive only lived the square

ive only lived the square

cuz they taught me not to care

you know think for yourself

put compassion on the shelf

compete until you die

and defeat to get by

see I never knew to question

all the things that i was taught

I never realized the falseness

of their thoughts

from the slayer to the slave

and the cradle to the grave

the direction of my path

had i not been saved

i was saved by my roots

yes my true culture

i saw through the lies

of that western vulture

the western culture

and all its inhumanity

ravages the earth

as it perpetrates insanity

humanity insanity

this is what youve done to me

this is what you do to me

so now its land and liberty

      a Ho

      Mitakuye oyasin!

      In the spirit of Cuitlahuac

      In the spirit of Zapata

      and in the spirit of Crazy horse

Respect to your mother

all my sisters and brothers

la sagrada tonantzin

the sacred earth mother

the sacred earth mother but shes only half alive

shes only half alive but we need her to survive

we need her to survive but we lost all our connection

our connection to the circle and the sacred 4 directions

the sacred 4 d and its manifestations

reveals ometeotl and all its creation

from the mother to the earth to the sky to the father

to the earth, to the air, to the fire, to the water

to the north, to the south, to the east, to the west

when we use to live in harmony we use to live the best

we use to give and take we use to take and give

we use to be in balance thats how we use to live

this is sacred circle this is our connection

now our mother is sick and shes cut up all in sections

how it was and how it shall be

unless we understand this we will never be free

we will never be free unless we live in harmony

we will never be free unless we realize prophecy

cuz prophecy is aztlan and aztlan’s destiny

destiny is aztlan cuz aztlan holds the key

aztlan holds the key for our people to be free

aztlan holds the key for the world to see

that aztlan will save the world eventually

repeat 9x

A-ho mitakuye oyasin! All my relations!

March 8th, 2010 by yaotl

Photo by Fabiola Torres Circa early 90′s

Tonight is the service for one of the original MC’s of the group MC Serpiente. Although he was in the group for one year early on in AUG’s career, he left a strong imprint on ourselves as people and our intentions for the existence of the group.  He continued to support us from afar and was always with us in spirit and will continue to be with us in spirit for as long as we exist. We send our condolences to his family and wife. We are very sorry for his early departure from this realm….with all of our heart we grieve his passing. With all the love in the world….MC Serpiente!!!  Presente!!!!!!!!

February 19th, 2010 by yaotl

Aztlan Underground, The Stains, La Bestia, Cara de Mil Putasos

By Jonny Whiteside

From the mid-1940s pachuco-boogie boom to the soul-garage glories of the mid-’60s and the following decade’s punk rock conflagration, East Los Angeles’ musicians have consistently set higher standards for America’s pop underworld. Theirs is an unrivaled and closely linked tribe, and with each generation informing and expanding upon the forebears’ achievements, the fast-moving Eastside scene always demands — yet is too rarely accorded — close attention. Between the tense, explosive punk of chronically superb hell-raisers the Stains, the intense sound of Rocio Ponce and Rudy Brat’s La Bestia and the fearsome, brain-pulping metallics of untamed duo Cara de Mil Putazos, expect a vortex of unimpinged creativity and old-school slam. Nicely tempered by the more pacific (but no less pointed) sociocultural observations of Aztlan Underground, not to mention screenings of several rare punk rock documentaries, this should be a swarming, sincere and altogether intoxicating affair.

[Source]

Don’t forget to check the Events page for show info!

January 27th, 2010 by Electric Wizard

• Featuring:
  • Funkahuatl
  • The Stains
  • Aztlan Underground
  • La Bestia
  • Cara de Mil Putazos
  • DJ/VJ: Jake from Crucifix
• The Blvd
  2631 Whittier Blvd, Boyle Heights, CA 90023
• 8:00pm, 18+
• $10.00

UPDATE: corrected address for The Blvd. Apologies for any inconvenience.

January 7th, 2010 by Electric Wizard

As promised, we have a new t-shirt design:

[store link]

December 7th, 2009 by Electric Wizard