The Underground Mine

Departments

Oh YES boys and girls Alisha Ways is back and damn does she have some hot new reviews for you!

Film School and Ariel @ Spaceland

#1 Boredoms... she loves this band so I'm guessing I do too. Guess what LOTS more to follow!

June & Rodger Caldwell

Just in an new Interview with The Cold War Kids plus June & Rodger bring us reviews of Hurtmodel at Downtown's oldest club. Forward, Russia!, The Lashes, and Battle at Spaceland and the New York Dolls at Spaceland with Hard Lessons and Army Navy

Tim Estrada

Reviews Belle & Sebastian at Amoeba, High Violets at Silverlake Lounge, Gomez at Virgin MegaStore, and Her Space Holiday at the Troubador

Guest Reviews

Charlie White brings us an excellent review from across the Pond on Sadie Hawkins Dance, Little Hero and Breene at The Yorkshire House, Lancaster, UK.

Interviews:

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips

June interviews Wayne Coyne at the Sheraton Downtown before the party that never happened

Ken Jordan of The Crystal Method

June talks with Ken about their ever-expanding realm into all things multi-media

Get these stories and more in:

The Pit

Traxx

Muse

‘Black Holes and Revelations’

CD Review by June Caldwell

Concept 7

'The Undeniable Constant

CD Review by June Caldwell

The Strokes
‘Young for Eternity’
CD Review By Tim Estrada

The Subways
‘First Impressions of Earth’
CD Review By Nga Luu

Check it out and catch the news and press releases for new and upcoming CD releases at:

Traxx

The Biz

DNA Hacker Chronicles

The artistic Gods of underground comix at Bloodfire Studios have reworked, redone and re-released the hugely popular underground comix to tie-in with the movie.

Rodney gets his Star

It took a lot of dedicated work and a bit of misfortune for a Pop-Idol, but Rodney Bingenheimer gets his Star in 2007. By Tim Estrada

Coachella the Movie…Woodstock for the New Millennium

Movie Review by Rodger Caldwell

What We Do is Secret'

This ain't no 'Sid and Nancy'......... or is it? A look at the upcoming new film about the life and times of Darby and the Germs.

The Dark Side of Sci-Fi

A new Photo Essay with exclusive shots from the set of 'The Gene Generation' the dark new film from the award-winning director of 'Liberata Me', Pearry Teo.

Get a behind-the-scenes peek at your Gene-hacked future in:

Get the Show Biz news with an Underground slant at:

The Biz

Columns & Features

Under the Rainbow
by Tequila Mockingbird

The history of music's most famous 1.5 miles.....The Fabulous Sunset Strip.

Somewhere Under the Rainbow

LA Scoop

by Tequila Mockingbird

The new LA Scoop is in. Take a minute to catch up on the scene

Get the latest LA Scoop

UGM Special Reports

Coachella - 2007

This year Damon Kellard was on the scene and he gives us his comprehensive report of the years hottest music fest in

Coachella 2007

Pandora Radio

A NEW innovation in internet Radio best of all; it's FREE. June Caldwell interviews the founders of The Music Genome Project, Pandora

Interview withTim Westergren

Interview with Etienne Handman

Interview with Pearry Teo

Interview with Pearry Teo creator and director of award-winning underground-cinema fav ' Liberatta Me' and the upcoming dark Sci-Fi thriller, ' The Gene Generation' see what's going on in the creative mind of Pearry Teo at The Biz

Future Updates

Downloads
We will be updating the Media Download pages as our next major project so stay tuned for more good stuff.

The Underground Mall

Will be going online in the immediate future. If you have a product or service that you feel would be of interest to our readers be sure to check back daily to find out how your online business can be part of our exciting new FREE Directory.

Submissions to The UGM

Guest Contributors

If you always wanted to be writer or artist, here's your chance. We are currently seeking interns to submit articles, reviews rants and/or original artwork to The Underground Mine.

While the pay sucks, ($0 per submission), it IS a great way to get your name up on the internet, gain experience and recognition and add to a resume. You can submit your work along with a short bio and optional photo on topic of your choice:

YOUR local scene (we are interested in articles and reviews for ALL cities not just SoCal).
Band, club and concert reviews.
Game, both live-action and PC/console reviews and articles.
Anything else that you think might interest the Underground dwellers.

Calling All Musicians

If you or your band would like to be promoted in either the 'Guest Contributors' or MP3 Downloads pages please provide download links from YOUR server or send me a CD with a legal release to upload one or two songs to our server. Also include a short bio and any contact info you'd like published about the band.

UGM Submission and Contact Info

Send e-mail submissions to: Submissions@UndergroundMine.com

For CDs and other Snail Mail submissions send to:

Celeste
c/o Underground Mine
160 So. Gramercy Pl #605
Los Angeles Ca 90004

UGM Staff

Celeste - Your humble Publisher, Hostess and Proprietor.

I'm the one that runs this joint. I do the web design, publishing, editing, artwork and other assorted BS. I also decide what goes into the UGM. If I were the only one making it happen... there wouldn't be anything happening here. I thank whatever powers-that-be for all the talented people that do 90% of the REAL work around here and who make The UGM one of the most popular Underground Music sites on the Internet.

June Caldwell - Lead Journalist, Staff Photographer

June is an accomplished music journalist who also shares photo duties with her husband, Rodger at shows they cover. June writes for American Chronicle and its 17 affiliates (including California Chronicle) and a bi-weekly column on the LA Indie music scene for Art Rocker. To catch more of June's work be sure to visit American Chronicle and artrocker.com

Alisha Ways UGM Lead Journalist

On a mission to find out what’s really going on in underground music, Alisha sometimes ventures to dank and seedy spots all to bring you the noise you haven’t heard. Her avid love of music, live noise and photography propel her attempts to define the scene and illustrate with words and images all those strangely glorious things happening while you’re asleep.

Rodger Caldwell - UGM Photographer and Free Lance Journalist

Rodger is a local guitarist and music photographer Extraordinaire. His photos have appeared in Fly Global Music Culture in the UK and here at The UGM . The original photo for this page before PhotoShop got to it was also done by Jerry. He conveniently just happens to married to June Caldwell and together they are the dynamic duo of the L.A. Indie Music scene.

Tim Estrada - UGM Staff Writer

Tim is an intern in radio promotion hoping to one day walk in the footsteps of such oddball music personalities as Dr. Demento and Rodney Bingenheimer by bringing fun loving poppy music to the states.

Tequila Mockingbird - UGM Featured Columnist

Diva of the LA underground scene who for years has been chronicling local talent, clubs and events in print for Rock City News, brings her writing online at The Underground Mine. Catch up with all the local buzz in her long-running column, LA Scoop.