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Humboldt Free Radio Presents

About Me

Humboldt Free Radio Presents (aka upsidedowncross presents) is the show promotion arm of Humboldt Free Radio Alliance, Arcata's only unlicensed, free-speech radio station. HFRA DJs book, promote, and work all Humboldt Free Radio Presents shows. A portion of the profits from each show go to HFRA/HFRP to promote more shows, repair and upgrade PA equipment, repair and upgrade audio and transmitter equipment, and pay rent on studio space.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/22/2005
Band Website: www.myspace.com/_hfra
Band Members: Francois Le Rock / Skullshrinker / The Usurper / Special Agent Dale Cooper / Retardo Montalban / Billygoat / Downbeat / Toby Baker / Anna Erky / Anok / Paul Maul / Shitbird / Jimmy Bones / xBringer of Torturex / Empire / Monster / Rex Everything / Miss Terry
Influences: Here is a (almost) comprehensive list of bands we've booked over the past 6 years: The Quarterhorse, Uzmecho, The Hitch, The Jaguars, Nuns With Guns, Ding Dang, Born/Dead, Kontraklasse, The Hideous, Tion, Brainoil, Gammera, Gods Among Men, Lost Goat, Boulder, Turbo 400, FACEDOWNINSHIT, Greenhouse Effect, Manic, Scurvy Dogs, The Dt's (Bellingham), The Real Dt's (Fortuna), Keelhaul, Filthy Jim, Bible of the Devil, Que La Chinga, Teen Cthulhu, Jumbo's Killcrane, Lopez, The Dolly Ranchers, The Rubberneckers, Dustbowl, Bottles and Skulls, All Night, Party Time, Winston Smith, Tyrades, Slow Horse, Candy Muscle, The Lamplighter Ensemble, Witch Mountain, Randy the West Wabash Bluegrass Samurai, Muneca Chueca, Trash and Roll, Lana Dagales, Iron Lung, Animal Peeplehead, Kansas City Stars, Two Gallants, The Spiderbites, The Letdown, Drunk Horse, C-Average, Ociffer, Diesto, JPG, The Broken Order, Relapse, Cheapshot, Chased and Smashed, The Crooks, The Cowtrippers, The Vice, Eviscerated Soul, Black Lung, Dirty Power, Dixie Witch, YOB, High Tone Son Of A Bitch, Chainsaw, Conga Fury, Voetsek, Deliquent Order, The Electric Eye, Los Bandidos Muertos, -16-, Sofa King Killer, Grayskyz, Bottom, Porn, Totimoshi, Hillbilly Devilspeak, Low Gear, Apocalyptic Music Brigade, Muddy River Nightmare Band, The High and The Mighty, The Glasspack, Floating Goat, Smoke, M-Squad, The Black Halos, Slewfoot String Band, The Eastside Suicides, The Spiders, Darediablo, The Trauma Queens, The Rum Diary, Point Line Plane, The Planet The, Abandon, Sad Wings of Destiny, David Dondero, Phobia, Cripple Bastards, La Fraction, Nigel Peppercock, Born Dead Icons, Speedealer, Supagroup, The Phantom Limbs, Bob Log III, DRAGGEDbyHORSES, Hammers of Misfortune, Lowlights, Clampitt-Gaddis+Buck, Power of County, Blackball, Deuce, The Undercover Girls (Punkaraoke), Gun Crazy, Late Drop, Ass End Offend, Me Infecto, Sod Hauler, Graves at Sea, Bloodhag, SubArachnoid Space, DMBQ, 400 Blows, Federation X, Entheogen, Bumbklaat, Ludicra, Sonny Smith, Virgil Shaw, Shay's Rebellion, Shaking Hands, Disgruntled, Walking Bicycles, The Blue Dot, Lake of Falcons, Chinatown, MooM, Rasper, Strix Vega, Croatan, Secondafter, Scott H. Biram, The Bar Feeders, The Graves Brothers Deluxe, Boxcar Satan, Watch Them Die, Valis, Argonaut, The Sharp Ease, The Last Vegas, The Merrick Foundation, Shevel Knievel, Juanita Family and Friends, Queercore Blitz Westcoast Tour: Triple Creme/The Dead Betties/Dominatrix/ Jack Queen, Andrew Floraday and the Andettes, The Jacksons, DJ Downbeat, Rita Lynn & The ADD Boys, Hillstomp, The Natural Lights, The Cops, The Ravens, The Forty-Fives, The Lincolns, The Buffy Swayze, The Velcro Sticks, Brant Bjork and The Bros, Vic DuMonte's Idiot Prayer, Blunted Elbows and Lord Torranaga, Bleach03, Orick, E.L.F.S., Trainwreck Riders, Boyj'azz, Scott H. Biram, Zombi, Secret Order of Tusk, Hotblack Desiato, Addicted2Fiction, Demonika and the Darklings, The Smashed Glass, The Con-tra-band, Franklin Delano, Bloodhag, Mico de Noche, Two Ton Boa, The Monster Women, I Am The Arm, Give Dad The Gristle, Girth, Stereochromatic, The Ian Fays, Snitches Get Stitches, Night After Night, I See Hawks in L.A., Rick Shea, The Rebel Spell, Jessie Deluxe, Apes, The Lamps, Motorama, Thee L.A. Gentlemen Callers, The Drip, Green Milk From The Planet Orange, Campo Bravo, The Rise and Fall of Amy Rude, The Riffbrokers, Tigerbomb!, Sciflyer, Butch vs Femme, Stinkmitt, Nicky Click, Ed Mudshi, Plants, Crimson Sweet, The Bottom Dwellers, Colin Begell, Dameon Lee, Deric Mendes, The Dirtnap Band, Rademacher, The Waxfire, alaska!, DJ Boy Wonder, Me Infecto, Irene, The Glossines, Intelligence, Sugarpuss, Fatal Flying Guilloteens Million Dollar Marxists, Lolita, Blackfire Revelation, Human Host, Ten Paces, I WILL KILL YOU FUCKER!, Jaded52, JJ Cady, Jay Slewfoot, JAPAN GIRLS NITE TOUR: Amppez/Red Bacteria Vacuum/TsuShiMaMiRe, Sugar&Gold, Dickey La La, The Long and Short Of It, The Circle Course, The Mother's Anger, Watusi Zombie, Revival Revue, Lone Elk, Basin Street, Cougar, The Signals, Book of Maps, The New Mexican Revolution, Fathom: DJ Innit + DJ Etheraum, The Transmissions, Kyozin Yueni Dekai, Thee Eureka Garbage Company, The Volt per Octaves, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Pearls and Brass, High on Fire, Hillstomp, Kerosene Kondors, Emily White, zZz, The Invasions, The Hillstreet Stranglers, Qui, Lozen, Helios Creed, JETOMI, Spider and the Webs, The Old Haunts, The Runaway Trucktramps, Dave Gleason's Wasted Days, The Spores, The Lord's Burning Rain, The Mormons, Ninja Academy, Leopold and his Fiction, Lanterna, The Bloody Heads, Natural History, Birds of Avalon, Nipplepotamus, The Neins, Stovokor, Do Not Resuscitate, Tuxedo Killers, Yer Dog, The Mighty Ghosts of Heaven, The Ovens, Henpecker, Los Olvidados, The Polar State, Rock Shop, Diamond Lane, Under Mountains, Moreland-Arbuckle+Floyd, Big Days of Tundra, Damnweevil, Zs, Universalia Jane, Marshan, The Kingdom, The Minders, Michael Mazochi, Mike Miller, The Konks, The Shondes, Dark Side of the Cop, Sindios, El Sonido, Yer Dog, The Scrawnies, Dagger van Gogh, Elba, Ride The Blinds, The Leaders of Men, Neptune Society, Genghis Tron, Monotonix, Vincent Black Shadow, Blowfly, Gorch Fock, Maystar, Meru, Frienemies, Tall Birds, Black Elk, Saros, Shellshag, SSM, Mosquito Bandito, Red Fang, Narrows, The Spiderfriends, The Binge, Run Barbara Run, Dmonstrations, Pete Ciotti, High Grade, The Broken Hearts, The Hot Knives, Rooster McClintock, Iceage Cobra, Origami Elephant, Benjamin Franklin Freeman, The Bloody Hollies, Trannysaurus Sex, Tirantez, The Heavy Hearts, Yip Yip, 31 Knots, Akimbo, Hexe, Pure Country Gold, Cicadas, The Grip, Stinking Lizaveta, Guppies, Astral, Slough Feg, Ketea, The Touchers, Space Cretins, Wepeel, Attack Formation, The Baby Arms, Drunken Prayer, Akimbo, Dooley-O, No Not Yet, Whitehorse, Giant Squid, Triclops!, Citay, Rahdunes, Lakes, Tullan Velte, 1/16th Headed, Orb of Confusion, The Nice Boys, Squalora, Mendozza, Disjecta Membra, Trigger Renegade, Birthday Suits, Pine Hill Haints, Rock 'n' Roll Adventure Kids, The Spankers, Mora Tau, Hostile Combover, Hope Is Noise, The Zygoats, Nachtmystium, Skeleton Witch, Wilma+Fred, Bret Bailey, Short Changed, Forced Failure, 33 1/3, The Common Vice, The Foxx, The Neat, Walken, Facepilot, Black Eyes and Neckties, The Zygoats, Witchcraft, Danava, Odradek, Side Iron, Tanuki, Paranaut.
Sounds Like: The ringing in my ears.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Apr 8, '06 -- Entheogen

Entheogen at The Alibi another two-set night at the alibi for entheogen.  if i remember correctly, this was a good turnout, better than their previous alibi show several months earlier.  mo...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:57:00 GMT

Apr 2, '06 -- Blunted Elbows

Blunted Elbows and Lord Torranaga at The Alibi i believe this was the night that blunted elbows and his crew were plagued with equipment problems.  the result was a set that really never got to ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:01:00 GMT

Apr 1, '06 -- Trash and Roll

Trash and Roll + Dave Gleason's Wasted Days at The Alibi dave gleason's wasted days were awesome.  wish the turnout would have been better because people missed out.  a three piece for this...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:54:00 GMT

Mar 28, '06 -- Juanita Family and Friends

Juanita Family and Friends + The Runaway Trucktramps at The Milk Barn now this show was fucking awesome.  always love having the juanitas, the milk barn was a perfect setting for this show. ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:35:00 GMT

Mar 27, '06 -- Spider+the Webs

Spider+the Webs + The Old Haunts at The Alibi the big draw here was that tobi vail is in spider and the webs and the old haunts had a new record out on kill rock stars.  never been a big fan of ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:28:00 GMT

Mar 26, '06 -- Helios Creed

Helios Creed + JETOMI at The Alibi let's see if i can ever get caught up on these, my memories of a lot of these shows are faded, yet an obsessive streak in me prevents me from writing about the more...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:19:00 GMT

Mar 25, '06--The Glossines

The Glossines + The Monster Women at The Alibi so, to anyone reading these, i understand they aren't the most interesting show reviews.  i've got a lot of catching up to do, and i don't want to ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:14:00 GMT

Mar 18, '06--Lozen

Lozen and Qui at The Alibi this was the third, and finally successful, attempt to book qui at the alibi.  qui is matt and paul from thee l.a. gentlemen callers two-piece sludge metal band. ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:24:00 GMT

Mar 12, '06--Hillstreet Stranglers

Hillstreet Stranglers The Real DT's at The Alibi punk, punk, punk, punk, punk, punk, and more punk.  fun had by all.  hillstreet stranglers from san diego.  the real dt's from san fo...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:43:00 GMT

Mar 11, '06--The Monster Women

The Monster Women + The Invasions at The Alibi both bands seemed happy to be playing with one another and both played good sets.  a good night of local music.
Posted by on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:39:00 GMT