july 17th - - - richmond, VA with the Ladies  (( i forgot where, gotta ask timmy))
july 18th ----- philly,PA with teenage whoremoans  (( dido... tba))

july 24th - - - columbus,OHIO with short dark strangers
july 25th - - - pittsburgh, PA  with short dark strangeters  ((at jimmy's house))

SUNDAY, JULY 13, 2008

Dimeras (That's the Title)

Man, the Tower is looking great. I mean that. I don’t know why I feel that way, maybe it’s all the bizarre shit drawn on the walls that make the barren room feel a little less like a squat and more like a drunken punk kids first apartment. Or maybe it was all the young tail that was there the night that the Dimeras were playing last week. Yup, probably the girls. I can't help wondering where they all parked, I rolled in with two other guys and we were all cracking jokes about how we were going to die to ease the tension from our real worries of getting stabbed in the beer store down the street.

No matter what the decor looked like or how many unapproachable were in attendance, the Dimeras still tore it down. I had caught them once before over the Christmas season at the Death Sweats show when they were playing under a different name and I’ve gotta say there’s been a progression. They provide nothing fancy but enough quickness and snot that they sound like The Stitches shit faced off a twelver of Commodore Perry. In good faith I slammed a beer per song and it just made the whole thing better. I don’t know a single song title or how many tunes they played but I can go on record by saying that none of that matters. It was Cleveland punk and that’s a welcome gift. Shades of the TKO’s and Pagans and scary enough to go head to head with any band coming through Now That’s Class. They’re playing with King Kahn and the Shrines which makes good sense but these guys could be the perfect opening match for a night with the Spits too.

Good shit for a hot summer night. That twelve pack of Budweiser that I shared with Brad Thrasher was gone before I knew it. I was swaggering in the back lot as people pissed on a yellow school bus. I always forget that this is what July is supposed to be built around; beer, broads and bands. Pardon me for being so jerky.

This is a bad show review but, forgive me, I was loaded and it was over a week ago. I’m finding the right places and the right bands in Los Angeles but nothing comes close to shows like this. Cleveland summers and the burn out bands that come with it are a delicacy that the tourism board needs to take heed of.

Some dude played afterward who wore a fucked up bunny mask, or so I kind of remember. Not bad but my head was spinning and it was time to leave before things got blurry. The next night I drank dollar beers at Johnny Malloy’s and I thanked God.

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The Dimeras

In spite of its primitivist ethos, straight-ahead punk is one of the hardest forms of rock music to truly nail. Be too dismissive of pop songcraft and you risk becoming a tuneless thrasher, amusically flailing about. Go too far in the other direction and you're in cloying kiddie-punk territory. Which is one of the reasons the Dimeras are so impressive - despite rocking out recklessly, they never fall off that thin edge of perfectly stripped-down, sneering, aggressive rock 'n' roll. Since their first gig in September of 2007, the band - drummer Timmy Fiorucci, singer-guitarist Kevin McCann and bassist Sebastian Wagner - has caught the attention of the cassette-only label Central Command Center, which will release the band's debut full-length later this winter, with a 7-inch on the Yeti Kegger label to follow in spring. Until then, self-released CDRs are always available at the band's shows, one of which you should see sometime. - Ron Krestch

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so 3 or 4 weeks ago i (sebastian) basically get the back of my leg run over by a car while i'm am at work. it hurt but what ever i'm fine now. tonight timmy is riding his bike home and he gets hit and got a ticket for it. supposedly it was his fault because he didn't have a reflector. cleveland (lakewood) sucks. nobody gives a shit about bikers.