Del Mar, Rome and Kat, Bert Susanka and the Astronaut Love Triangle, along with Sexrat at Dipiazzas in Long Beach!

Dog Party played its first show to an audience of its peers – a room filled with more than 100 elementary and junior high school kids during a year-end talent show. "I was really nervous," says Lucy Giles, 11. Older sister Gwendolyn Giles, 13, would have been less anxious – this was her second talent show, after all; she'd played her first the year before, solo with a guitar.....

CockFight Kings, Photo by Laura Winn

Examiner Bio Throw a slab of bacon on it! Friday's Concert in the Park was sizzling hot! Literally, and figuratively...

With a single guitar riff intro, Sacramento based sisters Gwen and Lucy Giles come out of the gates with a CD that both delights in their minimal guitar and drums approach and squeezes a ton of charm out of their garage attack. This is not the bash em’ up attack of the Black Keys, but more of the charm of the early ‘90’s girl rock transported magically into 2010.

Talk about the blues. Show canceled before we started playing our blues review