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the Weather Underground

on the way to New Orleans !!

About Me


.. the name, an homage to revolutionaries, as well as all other conscious souls who continue to seek something greater, even within an existential vortex. We are only a band of musicians, but our truths are always reaching... Love and Bellyaches...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/10/2004
Band Website: theweatherundergroundband.com
Band Members: Shoichi Bagley
Diego Guerrero
Harley Prechtel-Cortez
Ryan Kirkpatrick

*All EPs are available on iTunes*

CMJ
LA Times
LA Record
West Coast Performer Magazine
Indie For Bunnies (Italy)
LA Cityzine
Rock Insider
classical geek theatre
Smashed Chair
FingerTips
209vibe
Radio Free Silverlake
pecan pie (Spain)
Web In Front
la vie de kelly
Voila Music
19,000 Pages
glide magazine
W. I. F. Featured Artist
Subterranean
Yahoo Music
Influences: Guillaume Apollinaire, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, The Clash, Jack Kerouac, Nation of Ulysses, The Smiths, Arthur Lee, Billy Holiday, Luis Bunuel, Billy Childish, Bob Kaufman, Os Mutantes, Octavio Paz, Leadbelly, Khalil Gibran, Franz Kafka, John Lennon, bell hooks, Charles Beaudelaire, MC5, Miguel Asturias, jorge Borges, William Blake, Gil Scott-Heron, Television, Marvin Gaye, Nick Drake, Buddy Holly, Edith Piaf, T-Bone Walker, Desmond Deker, Etta James, Charles Dickens, Lonnie Donnegan, Otis Redding, The Make-Up, Cold War Kids, Jean-Luc Godard, The Ramones, Thee HeadCoats, Billy Bragg, Pablo Neruda, Werner Herzog, Serge Gainsburg, Kurt Vonnegut, Leonard Cohen, Ingmar Bergman, The Coral, The Velvet Underground, Slowdive, Trojan Records, The Beatles, Mojave 3, Alice Walker, Tom Waits, Marlena Shaw, Gene Vincent, Egon Schiele, Basquiat, Syd Barret, Spiritualized, The Buff Medways, Afghan Whigs, James Joyce, Creation Records, William s. Burroughs, MBV, Billy Childish, Big Joe Turner, Bob Dylan, Bobby Seale, john Sinclair, Charlie Chaplin, The Kinks, 13 floor elevators, Jimmy Cliff, Ride, Muddy Waters, The Jam, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Zombies, The POGUES, The Libertines, Teenage Fanclub, The Dream Syndicate, Sly And The Family Stone, Bernadine Dorhn, Noam Chomsky, Shuggie Otis, LOVE, Curtis Mayfield, New York Dolls, James, Chinua Achebe, Primal Scream, Upton Sinclair, Walt Whitman, Hunter S. Thompson, Delta 72, Oscar Wilde, Frantz Fanon, Gandhi, William Faulkner, WEB DuBois, Guadalupe Esmeralda Cortez, you and endless more...
Sounds Like: "Bird in the Hand" EP available now!

Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

lemonade

There is a little road we took yesterday, i-71, in Texas, where everything seems just perfect. The cows are healthy and the land is marsh. The Van is a mess. We had the best meal so far on this trip. ...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:55:00 PST

Get on the Guestlist FREE !!

We have a couple of guestlist spots open for our shows w/ Delta Spirit and Matt Costa !!We'd love to get our friends in for free!!If you would like to get on our guestlist in Dallas hit us up within ...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:37:00 PST

off the road and on again

Hey everyone,We are writing this in a shanty but charming lil ol motel of the road just on the border of Arizona and New Mexico.Hoping this finds everyone well and happy.Summer is here and we've got s...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:22:00 PST

red

thank you to everyone who came out to the California shows !!the last shows at home (the Echo) and SD (Casbah) were fantastic and it was great to meet so many new people and see all of our old comrade...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Tue, 27 May 2008 12:44:00 PST

salud

First off, we want to say that our hearts and prayers go out to the people of Myanmar and China affected by the recent natural disasters. Our thoughts are with victims and their families. In these tim...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Tue, 27 May 2008 12:59:00 PST

Interstate 5

the shows with the French Kicks have been really great!SF was fantastic as always! Sacramento treated us well and many a kind souls we've met. A great crowd for a Monday night.On the i-5 right now. He...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Wed, 21 May 2008 02:43:00 PST

U.S. Tour

Hello friends, We are happy to say the California tour is going well. Having visited some great towns and hidden corners of the state (with a one-off in Las Vegas) we will continue playing the rest o...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Fri, 16 May 2008 06:05:00 PST

preview our new ep

"bird in the hand" EP is now available throughout the internet and CD's exclusively available through our website.If you'd like you can now preview the entire EP (or any other EP) before buying it!go ...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:35:00 PST

Central Valley California ...

"part 1 california tour'...In Santa Cruz we played at the Crepe Place. The Show was great and we even managed to squeeze in a brand new song which came out surprisingly great considering how new it is...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Mon, 12 May 2008 03:25:00 PST

the record and the record

The "bird in the hand" ep is now available on iTunes and other digi-stores. We are very excited about the well reception it has gotten from our friends, fans, and in reviews. We are very proud of this...
Posted by the Weather Underground on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:22:00 PST