Estelle and I went to Il Corral tonight to see Dahlia play alongside our friends Explogasm. There is something very odd about being inside a performance space with a huge rope hanging in the middle of the floor. This becomes more bizarre when, after you spend roughly ten minutes dodging Tarzan wannabes, you see a guy freak the girl who is hanging upside-down from the rope like some bizarre Cirque de Soleil porno.
Anyhow, we ran into Bret from Anavan. The good news is that Anavan has a record set for release on GSL within the next few months. In the meantime, go check out the MP3s on Bret's blog. By the way, I covet his homemade Ultravox t-shirt.

Totally Rad!!! opened its set with a handful of Anavan covers. At least, that's what we were told. Mostly, there were a bunch of starts and stops filled with chaos.
"The drummer is really good," said Estelle. "I think he's the only one playing."
Although I think the sound at Sugar Shack was better, Il Corral hosted a larger crowd and I think that made for an even more energetic performance on Dahlia's part. She really worked with the audience, dragging her microphone into the small sea of scruffy music fans to dance and sing with them. She got Ned Lerner to join her in a few rounds of chorus on several song. Then, she roped McAllister, host of She Rocks on KXLU, who has been paying Dahlia's stuff for a few years now, into joining her for a cover of "Burning Up." The KXLU kids really dig Dahlia. In fact, Joey, who has also been a Dahlia champion for a few years now, is bringing her up to the station for a live performance sometime on Wednesday in the early afternoon. Here's another pic of Dahlia in action.

We only got to stay for part of Explogasm's set, on account of work and needing to get up early in the morning, but, in those few minutes, they raised hell on the dancefloor. They even played the-song-that-totally-crosses-the-line (I can't even talk about it because it makes me feel dirty). Before the show, I snapped pics of two of my buddies from the, um, is it a band or a dance troupe?

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