*** Friday (December 17), 5:30pm doors / 7:00pm show, Outdoors at the MACC, $25 We're playing Peter Piper and picking Pepper, this week. Kona's own Kaleo Wassman (guitar, vocals), Bret Bollinger (bass, vocals), and Yesod Williams (drums) may be well-known here in the 808, but they've also made a mighty name for themselves abroad thanks to "numerous rounds on the Vans … [Read more...] about Pepper at the MACC, Dec 17
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Mickey Avalon and Andre Nickatina at Lahaina’s Hard Rock Cafe, Dec 4
Saturday (Dec 4), 9pm, Hard Rock Cafe, Lahaina, $42 general admission, 21+ only You know how in the movie The Matrix, you are “a mental projection of your digital self”? Well if that were really the case, I think I’d look a lot like the Minnie to Mickey Avalon (born Yeshe Perl)—gaunt, ashen and wrought like the crispy end of a chewed wire. So it goes without saying that I would … [Read more...] about Mickey Avalon and Andre Nickatina at Lahaina’s Hard Rock Cafe, Dec 4
WIN airfare and tickets to see Passion Pit on Oahu
*** CLICK HERE (mauitime.com/contests) and enter to win a pair of tickets and airfare for two, to see Passion Pit on Oahu, Dec 12 Exciting, isn't it? Nothing like the chance to win cool sh!t, especially when the prize is not just concert tickets, but the airfare to get there. See, that's always the tricky bit about big city shows when you hail from an outer isle, the whole … [Read more...] about WIN airfare and tickets to see Passion Pit on Oahu
Breaking Music News: TOOL slated for Honolulu show, Jan 14. Tickets available Nov 20.
In the days before I discovered Ween, I preached naught but the word of Tool ["and an angel of the Lord came unto me, snatching me up from my place of slumber... / and I asked, "angel of the Lord what are these tortured screams?" / and he said, "these are the cries of the carrots..."" - "Disgustipated," AEnima (1996)]. After well more than a decade of damned-near worship (OK, … [Read more...] about Breaking Music News: TOOL slated for Honolulu show, Jan 14. Tickets available Nov 20.
Iration with The Throwdowns at Hard Rock Cafe, Oct 9
Saturday (October 9), 2-3pm (all ages) & 9pm (21+ only), Hard Rock Cafe, Lahaina, $22 The "new roots" rockers of Iration are busy boys. By the Spring of this year alone, they supported 47 shows in 52 days on the Winter Blackout Tour with The Expendables, and in early March released their second full-length studio album Time Bomb, the anticipated follow-up to their debut No … [Read more...] about Iration with The Throwdowns at Hard Rock Cafe, Oct 9