#dimebox

[roughridingrednecks]

Dimebox

[automatic-external-defibrillator]

damn they really slept on Cut'n'Shoot, Texas. and Dimebox. and Van. and The Colony. and Eureka. and Old Dimebox.

Most oddly named town in each US state.

[unhingedwomandiaries]

There's this whole thing now about "magic jeans" that are supposedly the new hot commodity for women who want to look dynamite without spilling copious amounts of muffin top over their waistbands. The big selling point? These babies have a "contoured waistband for no gaping at the waist" and "shaping darts to lift your silhouette." They even have hidden front pockets designed to somehow manipulate your pudge into remembering its rightful place, somewhere behind the inner lining instead of oozing out over your belt loops like the Kool-Aid Man crashing through drywall. It's like the jean scientists finally decided, "Hey, why don't we just design pants that make it look like you have the body you actually want?"

Anyway, I was doing that semi-annual closet purge where you take stock of what's so busted and disgraceful that even the scrap store wouldn't accept those ratty clothes as a donation. That's when I found not one, not two, but three pairs of jeans with crotches absolutely obliterated by nuclear-sized tears and rips that would've made Mr. Raspberry Beret squirm. My husband saw this denim carnage and was like, "Are you gonna patch those up?" To which I was compelled to respond through uncontrollable belly laughs - "Patch the crotches? Are you high right now?" Because we all know there's nothing quite as erotically disruptive as having a janky patch rubbing against your undercarriage every time you make the controversial decision to walk upright as a bipedal organism. It's the ultimate itch, the crotch scratch that can never be satisfyingly resolved. I'm too young for that sort of torment. 

So instead of patching, I did what any self-respecting former emo kid would do - I grabbed my fabric scissors and turned those jeans into jorts. Except when I put them on, they were hanging off me like a low-rent Daisy Duke impersonator who got stuck wearing her aunt's muu-muu after too many Budweisers at the terribly-named "Classy Lassy" bikini bar. Not a good look for someone who desperately clings to the dying notion that she has at least a whisper of sophistication. I ended up taking those botched denim remixes back to the store, using the pitiful amount of store credit to buy myself a pair of the "magic jeans" everyone has been slobbering over.

The tag said they were a "size 14 short" - short being the keyword, since I'm a pretty diminutive 5'1" and have been since I was seven. But when I put them on this morning to go out - holy Shaquille O'Neal, these things were like MC Hammer parachute pants made for someone with Gheorghe Muresan's inseam. I'm talking full-blown "clown drags" that would have me walking around looking like Dimebox the Third Stooge. I could hem off about seven inches and maybe have a shot at completing the magical pant transformation, but I don't have time for that bushwa. By the time I got it figured out, the ludicrous "magic jeans" idea will be as obsolete as trucker hats and silly bands. That's just how this whole vapid, lame-brained fashion treadmill works - it's all a cynical trick to get us to buy the same crap over and over under the vaporous guise of feeling temporarily better about ourselves. What a bunch of losers we all are for falling for this scam again and again.

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Kristi Callan of Wednesday Week

Kristi Callan is best known for her tenure leading Wednesday Week. She presently plays in Dime Box, The Roswell Sisters and Cheap Chick.

           Originally from Dallas, Kristi and her sister Kelly moved to Los Angeles in the mid-‘70s. The Callan sisters played with a pre-Dream Syndicate Steve Wynn in Goat Deity before forming Narrow Adventure with Kjehl Johansen (Urinals, 100 Flowers). Narrow Adventure morphed into Wednesday Week in 1983. Wednesday Week would sign a deal with Enigma Records, releasing What We Had (1987), before disbanding in 1990.

           In the 1990s, Callan formed Lucky and Dime Box. With the help of Justin Tanner, Kristi also performs with the Roswell Sisters—her three-part harmony group which includes Kristian Hoffman (Mumps, James White and the Blacks). Spacecase Records is currently working with Kristi on a Narrow Adventure LP, culling unreleased tracks from 1981-1983. COVID-19 permitting, be on the lookout for Dime Box, Roswell Sisters and Narrow Adventure shows in late 2020/early 2021.  

Interview by Ryan Leach

Photos courtesy of Kristi Callan

Narrow Adventure, left to right: Kjehl Johansen, Kristi Callan, Kelly Callan. 

Ryan: Where did you grow up?

Kristi: My sister (Kelly Callan) and I are from Dallas, Texas, originally. We moved to Oklahoma next and then to New York. Our mother is an actress. It was an interesting transition, going from Oklahoma to public housing in New York in the mid-‘70s. We loved New York City. We then moved to Los Angeles in 1976. My sister and I were pissed about it. New York City is great. You can ride the subways anywhere and do whatever you want. I was just getting into music. The Ramones were starting to break out there. There was no decent public transit system in L.A. and we knew no one. We were miserable. It took us a couple of years to figure it out. Eventually, my sister got her driver’s license and we’d go to punk rock clubs. Things started getting a lot better. Music took up our entire lives at that point and we decided we wanted to form a band.

Ryan: You’re the youngest? Your sister Kelly is a bit older?

Kristi: Yes. Kelly is three years older.

Ryan: Tell me about the Undeclared (1979). I’ve read that was your first band with Kelly.

Kristi: There was this girl, Betsy, who I met in high school. She’s the one we named Wednesday Week’s first EP “Betsy’s House” after. I told her, “Betsy, you’re going to play bass.” She did and so we had a little band in high school that never went anywhere. I was on guitar and my sister Kelly was the drummer. We would practice in my sister’s room. Betsy eventually gave up trying to learn bass, so the band became my sister and I. Kelly had just started college at UCLA. She didn’t have a major; she was undeclared. That’s where the band’s name came from.  

           My mom’s the greatest. She’d let us practice and make a loud, awful racket at home. Her friend told her, “Oh, they’re doing this fair down the street. Your daughters should play it.” So we got this slot playing in a parking lot in Panorama City. It was just the two of us—me and Kelly. It was amazing and exciting. The wind was so strong it blew over Kelly’s heavy cymbals. Her first drum set belonged to the drummer of Iron Butterfly. Kelly found it in The Recycler. We’d always go to this record store, Moby Disc.

Ryan: I remember Moby Disc. There was a store in Canoga Park up until the early 2000s.

Kelly: That’s right. The one we’d go to was in Sherman Oaks and later they had another location in Santa Monica. We could walk to the one in Sherman Oaks. I’d stare at the album covers for hours. I was so uncool. I was an awkward 15 year old. I got to know the guys behind the counter, only the cool people got jobs at record stores. I told the guys at Moby Disc that I had a band. They responded, “Really?” “Yeah, it’s me and my sister.”

           My best friend at Moby Disc was Dave Provost (later of the Textones, Wednesday Week, Dream Syndicate). Steve Wynn was friendly too and he asked me if we wanted to play together. I was like, “Sure.” That became Goat Deity (1980-1981). Steve lived with his parents on Sunset Boulevard and we started practicing at his house. We were into art punk and he was into more traditional stuff. He would play his songs with us; we’d play our songs with him. We recorded and did a show in the living room of my mom’s house. All the guys from Moby Disc turned up. After a while it became obvious that we weren’t meshing musically so we went our separate ways and our friend Kjehl Johansen, from the Urinals and 100 Flowers, said he’d play bass with us. That’s when we started Narrow Adventure (1981-1983).

Ryan: That’s interesting. Goat Deity was right in between The Suspects, the band Wynn formed at UC Davis, and The Dream Syndicate.

Kelly: Steve had been at UC Davis for school. When he finished, he came back home and worked at Moby Disc. Karl Precoda came down and rehearsed with us one day and he and Steve really hit it off. That was when we realized we were going in really different directions and decided to split off and go our separate ways. It was amicable—we all liked each other a lot, but musically it wasn’t the right fit.

Ryan: How did you meet Kjehl?

Kelly: We were seeing bands every night. I had a fake ID. My mom was cool with it, but she got apprehensive once. She read an article in the paper about punk rock being scary. So we took her to a show at the Starwood. The Plugz, who were my favorite band, were playing. Charlie (Quintana) was my age and Tito (Larriva) was always very nice to us. He bought my mom an orange juice at the show to reassure her all was well. The opening band that night was The Last. I didn’t want to see them because some obnoxious guy had told me that The Last were the best band in L.A. and I thought “I will never check them out if this guy thinks they’re cool.” But they were on the bill that night and were actually really good. Anyway, my mom saw The Last and said, “Look at these nice boys. They’re just kids like you. You’ll be fine.” She was right. They were nice and really good and we started going to see them regularly. Kelly and I got to know them, but mostly we hung around the people associated with The Last like Gary Stewart and Bill Inglot. Gary managed The Last. David Nolte, who was in The Last and who I’m now married to, said, “The Urinals are the best band ever.” He was right. It was through going to shows that we met everyone. Also, Kjehl, Kevin (Barrett) and John (Talley-Jones) went to UCLA, which is where my sister and I went. And I was always telling everyone about my band with my sister—even though we didn’t have much going on at the time.

We got Kjehl to join and then Gary Stewart got us our first show. I didn’t know how to book a show. I was 17 or 18 at the time. Gary said, “Narrow Adventure can open up for The Last at the Troubadour.” I was like, “Yeah, okay.” So, we went from a parking lot in Panorama City to my mom’s living room to the Troubadour.

Ryan: That’s moving on up.

Kristi: Right.  

Ryan: It’s interesting how The Last and The Urinals, two stylistically different groups, formed such a bond. The Last’s Vitus Mataré recorded some great material during that period. The Narrow Adventure tracks he recorded must have been your first semi-professional recordings.  

Kristi: Definitely. That was terrifying, going into that garage to record with this guy (Vitus) who I’d seen on stage but who I didn’t really know. I knew Vitus could play and I knew that I couldn’t. I had had music lessons and I knew some theory. But The Last had been playing big shows for years. I just had a big mouth.

Ryan: Tell me more about Narrow Adventure. I know you played a show on November 6, 1981, with 100 Flowers and The Last.  

Kristi: Gary Stewart had gotten us that first show at the Troubadour. Afterwards I asked him, “Okay. What’s next?” He responded, “Well, now you need to get your own shows.” Narrow Adventure played a lot. I’d book us any gig I could find. Shows on Sunday at midnight. Thankfully, Kjehl was game for it. For Kjehl, Narrow Adventure was interesting and exciting because he had never played bass before. He bought a Hagstrom 8-string bass. He was totally into it. We’d play every other week. Once in a while, Gary would put us on bills like that November show you mentioned with The Last and 100 Flowers. Those were the best. Other shows would be with bands that I’d never heard of before or since.        

Ryan: Can you describe the transition from Narrow Adventure to Wednesday Week and Kjehl leaving the band?  

Kristi: Vitus and Gary were putting together the WarfRat Tales (1983) compilation. Vitus had recorded us and wanted two tracks for the LP. Vitus is the best. We were so excited. But he said, “You can’t keep the name Narrow Adventure. It’s the worst name ever. You should change it before we put this record out.” So we had to. It just so happened to coincide with Kjehl leaving the group. I think Kjehl had completed his experiment playing bass in a band. He was great. I remember we would lean on him. At the first show at The Troubadour we were like, “Okay, Kjehl, what do we do? Do we go on stage now?” We were terrified.

Ryan: That’s funny considering The Urinals had to go to Austin, Texas, to play their first off-campus show. They didn’t know how to book one in L.A.

Kristi: I know. Everyone figures it out differently and they went to Texas. Kjehl really didn’t know what was going on either. I was like. “You’re the one with some experience!” I was listening to old live Narrow Adventure tapes recently and Kjehl had great stage banter between songs. Narrow Adventure was his opportunity to play a different instrument and do something totally different from The Urinals, which I think was his first band. I know Kjehl sometimes had different ideas than John and Kevin with The Urinals and 100 Flowers. Kjehl wanted to get a little bit better musically—take lessons—while Kevin and John were fine figuring their instruments out themselves. We provided a different vibe for him. Narrow Adventure was something Kjehl tried and then he was done. I remember the concert to promote the Warfrat Tales compilation. It was really exciting. David (Nolte) played bass with us that night. Kjehl had already left and we were going by Wednesday Week then. But David couldn’t stay long. Joe (Nolte) demanded a lot with The Last. Our old friend from Moby Disc, Dave Provost played with us for a while after that until he got too busy.

Ryan: Vitus Mataré produced Wednesday Week’s debut EP “Betsy’s House.” It was recorded at Radio Tokyo, the studio owned by the late Ethan James (1946-2003). Did you get to know Ethan?

Kristi: Ethan was great.

Ryan: He always struck me as underrated and I liked his work with Jane Bond and the Undercover Men.  

Kristi: I can’t believe he’s been gone for so long. Ethan was so patient. When we did “Betsy’s House” David (Nolte) was playing an incorrect chord so I said to him, “That’s a minor chord.” David responded, “No. It’s a major.” He was being so stubborn. He wouldn’t listen to me and I didn’t know what to do so I just put my head down. Ethan looked up and said, “David, Kristi wrote the song.” He quickly and effectively shut down that situation. That was Ethan in a nutshell. He was quiet and when he spoke it was usually the right thing to say. He respected women as musicians too which is great because it can be hard being a woman in music. Some guys won’t play with women in bands. People often talk down to you but Ethan wasn’t like that and neither were David and Kjehl. We went back and recorded at Radio Tokyo throughout the 1980s. Ethan made a lot of things happen. I liked Jane Bond and the Undercover Men too. You’re right. Ethan is an unsung hero. So many great records came out of Radio Tokyo. I go by there now and I just want to cry. It was such a cool studio and scene and now the area is completely gentrified.

Ryan: Wednesday Week’s next album What We Had (1986) was released on Enigma. How did you end up signing with the label?

Kristi: The funny thing is we were going to make a record with Rhino. Gary Stewart (Rhino’s A&R head, manager of The Last) said, “’Betsy’s House’ did well.” I borrowed money from my mother, brother and dad to put that out. Gary was right: it did well. I was able to pay them all back. Gary said, “The record sold. You promoted it.” I booked all of these tours. I had graduated college and I started freaking out: “What am I going to do with my life?” So I booked tours for us. We played a lot of colleges because they paid well. Gary was impressed and said, “Rhino will sign you and you can do another record with Ethan (James).” We said, “Okay.” I was always checking in with people back then. And I was talking with Scott Vanderbilt who unbeknownst to me was working A&R at Enigma. He asked me what I was doing. I told him we were going to make a record with Rhino and that Ethan was going to produce it. He said, “No. Enigma wants to put it out.” I was like, “Really? Enigma has all these different acts. They’re not really like us.” Honestly, we weren’t right for Enigma. Nevertheless, Scott introduced us to Bill Hein who ran the label. Bill was so nice. He was genuinely interested in signing us. He told us, “Well, if Rhino’s going to give you $5,000 to record, we’ll double it. You can go record with Don Dixon.” That sounded like a step up. Even though we liked Ethan and he was great, we wanted to try something different and grow. That was actually awful—having to go back to Gary Stewart, our biggest ally, and go, “Y’know, we’re gonna have to do this other thing with Enigma.” Of course, Gary understood it because he was Gary. But it was hard. In retrospect, we should’ve done the record with Gary and Rhino. We could’ve had a longer lifespan. Enigma was like, “Well, you didn’t sell records like Stryper or Poison. We’re done with you.” Rhino would’ve kept supporting us.  

Ryan: Enigma always seemed like a label that would sign a bunch of bands and then throw them up against the wall, so to speak. What stuck, they kept. What didn’t, they dropped. Then they’d repeat the process.

Kristi: Yep. And that’s what they did. I think we could’ve had time to grow with Rhino. They would’ve put out another record. We were trying to be smart at the time.

Ryan: Although signing with Enigma wasn’t the right move in retrospect, was recording What We Had with Don Dixon a positive experience?

Kristi: Oh, yeah. It was great. We recorded with him again in February 2020. Dixon’s the best. Do you know anything about him?

Ryan: Yeah. I like a lot of the stuff he recorded. I’m a fan of Tommy Keene.

Kristi: Right. We went out there (Reflection Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina) to record, excited and very nervous. Dixon was very easy going. He could work with women. He wasn’t going to take the instrument out of your hand and play it himself. That would happen.

Ryan: It happened to The Bangles.  

Kristi: My god. The shit The Bangles had to go through. The more records you sold, often the worse it got. “There’s too much money on the line, honey, let me play that part.” That wasn’t going to happen to us. Our response would’ve been, “Fuck you.”

Ryan: How did your brief tenure with Enigma go? Was it a situation where communication dwindled as time went on?

Kristi: Pretty much. And we were working with William Morris. That actually wasn’t a good decision. William Morris would book us on these shows that didn’t make sense. We should’ve been working with F.B.I. (Frontier Booking International).

           Another time we were trying to be smart but weren’t: when we signed our contract we knew not to give away our publishing. That’s how all those songwriters in the ’50 and ‘60s got screwed, right? So we didn’t give them a penny. The problem with that is then Enigma had no skin in the game, so they didn’t do much for us. We didn’t understand how things worked back then. We did get a couple of placements in movies almost accidentally. Many people found out about Wednesday Week through a couple of our songs being in Slumber Party Massacre II (1987).

Ryan: You and your sister started your own imprint, Sweden Spins, to release Wednesday Week 45s and cassettes after your time on Enigma. Wednesday Week wound down in 1990. Did the experience with Enigma suck the life out of the band?

Kristi: Definitely. But with Sweden Spins, my sister’s boyfriend—who’s now her husband—he always had good ideas. He said, “You guys should start a fan club.” I was like, “No! That sounds stupid.” But we eventually did it and so many cool people were in that fan club. Anyway, my sister’s husband recommended we put out a single for our fan club members. We weren’t initially receptive to the idea, but we did it anyway. And he was right—people loved them. Sweden Spins was the imprint for our fan club. We released three fan club singles.

           Getting dropped from Enigma did suck the life out of the band. We had different people coming into the group early on, but Heidi (Rodewald) solidified the lineup on bass. Then we had a revolving door with second guitar players until David (Nolte) joined. That lineup with Heidi and David was our best one. When Heidi left we thought, “Oh, it’ll be alright. We’ll figure it out.” She didn’t like touring because it’s stressful and quit right before we had a tour starting. Thankfully John Talley-Jones (Urinals, 100 Flowers) stepped in to play bass for us on that tour. It was great. But we needed a long-term bassist. We tried a bunch of different people. But the magic was gone. A group of people builds a sort of synergy. When someone leaves, it’s really hard to find it again.

Ryan: What have you been up to lately, Kristi?    

Kristi: After Wednesday Week, David Nolte, Mike Lawrence, my sister Kelly and I had a band called Lucky. Mike Lawrence had been in Direct Hits with Paula Pierce. Our first Narrow Adventure show at the Troubadour was with Direct Hits and The Last. David and I started Dime Box in the 1990s. I got to play bass on a US and Ireland tour with David Gray before he was famous when my husband was in his band. That was cool. They were great guys. The ‘90s was a period where I was playing with everybody. I sometimes forget who all I played with back then.

           In the 2000s I had kids so things got harder. Someone asked me to be in Cheap Chick—the all-female Cheap Trick tribute band. I love Cheap Trick. I wanted to be Robin Zander when I was a kid. I was initially embarrassed to be in a tribute band, but we have so much fun. We played in Las Vegas. We played in Japan.  

Ryan: I’d join just about any tribute band for a trip to Japan.

Kristi: Yeah! And we played Rockford, Illinois, and Rick Nielsen called us up. He said he had a show that night so he couldn’t come see us, but he asked if we wanted to meet up the next day. We were like, “Fuck you. You’re not Rick Nielsen.” But it actually was him! So, we had breakfast with him the next day. What a giant thrill. He was a cool guy: “I heard good things about your band.”

           My husband, our son and the drummer in my Americana group also have a tribute band to our old labelmates, The Smithereens. My husband was playing in a band (Dave Davies’ backing band) with Dennis Diken (The Smithereens’ drummer) and he thought it would be fun to make a tribute to them, so we do that now and then. Those songs are such a pleasure to play and we have a lot of fun.

I’m also singing in a three-part harmony group called the Roswell Sisters. There was a group in the 1930s called The Boswell Sisters. We do that kind of material. Do you know who Kristian Hoffman is?

Ryan: Absolutely. He was from Santa Barbara originally and played in the Mumps and with James White and the Blacks.

Kristi: Right. My husband David had been playing with Kristian a lot. They played with El Vez and Ann Magnuson together. Kristian’s husband Justin Tanner sings and arranges all the songs with the Roswell Sisters. Sometimes we do Kristian’s songs in these lush, three-part harmonies. The Roswells are me, Kristian, Justin, Lisa Jenio from Candypants and Pierre Smith who I knew from the ‘80s with his band The New Marines.

Finally, my band Dime Box plays regularly and is working on a new CD. The last release received critical acclaim and some nice airplay across the country, but the pandemic quashed the 2020 tour plans to support it. My son James (Nolte) plays with me in that band as well, along with Lyn Bertles (Cruzados), Nick Vincent (Holly & The Italians, Frank Black) and Alex Vincent (The Bots and Stop Thought). We like to keep busy. Kelly is in Dragster Barbie and, of course, Kjehl has 100 Flowers and a solo record coming out. Narrow Adventure made a video together and we are looking forward to touring to support our release in late 2021.  

Dime Box. 

[stonechild]

we’ll always have dimebox

[tishinada]

I was tagged by @cinlat, thanks! I’ve been gone all day, so just now getting back to this.

Rules:

-Post the rules -Answer questions given by the tagger -Write eleven questions of your own -Tag 11 people –As an added thing, I’m putting my questions under the cut

Alright, now the hard part. My questions:

1: When you are old, what do you think children will ask you to tell stories about?

You ask this like it’s a long time off? :D Mmm, I think some of my versions of events in American history, as taught by a prof in a Freshman history survey. For example, Samuel Adams launching the Boston Tea party (which wasn’t about higher taxes, btw) with free-flowing beer and fiery rhetoric...

2: What is your dream job?

Writer

3: Where do you get your news?

All over the place

4: What movie can you watch over and over without ever getting tired of?

Oh, there are probably too many. Favorites are Hoodwinked, Muppet Treasure Island, Clue, Birdcage...

5: What’s the best / worst practical joke that you’ve played on someone or that was played on you?

I honestly can’t come up with anything right now, sorry!

6: Where are some unusual places you’ve been?

Not sure what qualifies as unusual? Hmm, when I was a young teen, I went to a cave (Cumberland Caverns, I think?) where we camped out in the cave and they told us ghost tales before a tour the next day. I lived in a couple of tiny villages in (then West) Germany. In one of them, we lived at the edge of town, and the local wine fest band would practice for parades past our duplex. I’ve been to the top of Pikes’ Peak in Colorado as a child. I’ve been to Dimebox and to Cut And Shoot Texas (check the map, they exist.) We used to go to the big Tennessee Walking Horse show in Shelbyville, TN in August.

7: What’s the spiciest thing you’ve ever eaten?

I live in Texas, so I’d have to say some chili for a competition. I’ve had Thai food that was almost as fiery, though.

8: How did you get started in fanfiction, whether it’s reading, writing, or drawing?

I’ve written Star Wars fanfic (without knowing it was a “thing”) since just before Return of the Jedi came out. But the first thing I wrote for others to read was a one-shot I wrote for the DA Cullen fandom one weekend while we were all speculating about DAI which was due out. People started joking about what would happen if Cullen was left in charge of the Skyhold nursery, and I spewed out a draft one-shot story, “Cullen’s Charge.” Because the war room needs breadstick fights with toddlers. People seemed to enjoy it, and I kept fooling with it and it eventually got folded into a longfic called Cullen’s Charge...

9: What was your original fandom?  What drew you to it? (This one too)

Probably Star Trek (I watched TOS when it first came out, lol.) But my first online fandom was DAI. Oddly enough, I got sucked into the Cullen fandom, a character I find fascinating, but don’t necessarily adore (as written.)

10: What is your biggest obstacle when it comes to your passion/hobby?

Time.

11: What are your most important rules when going on a date?

Err, dates? I got married almost 35 years ago, and have been divorced for 17+. I’ve dodged all attempts to set me up with dates, etc. so I haven’t been on a date in almost 35 years, so, I dunno?

[nom-de-plume-system]

fair, fair, that medical debt wouldn't be a dent in their dimebox

why is society so fucked

[hrsun111]

INTOWN REPORT for 11/28/19 – 12/4/19

THURSDAY, 11/28

Happy Thanksgiving!

FRIDAY, 11/29

Doll Hut – D.I., The Hajj, + Narcoleptic Youth

Echoplex – Ensiferum, KALMAH, + Abigail Williams

Forum – Ministry, Primus, Slayer, + Philip H. Anselmo (also Sat.)

Highland Park Bowl – Maio, Black Monroe, + Talk2Strangers

Maui Sugar Mill – Arthur Alexander Band, Glimmer Stars, + Hollywood Sink Hole

The Monty – Justus Proffit, The Freakees, Macko, + Laundry Boys, free!

Moroccan – Russ Liquid

Observatory – Katastro, Bikini Trill, + Dylan Reese

Petie's Place – Dave & The Family Hustle, CJ Soul & New Embassy Band, Trudy Magnum, Collin Kozola, Jeni Jones, Pat Knox, + Dukalion & Jave (Bring a unwrapped Toy and get in FREE!)

Redwood Bar – Trevor Dury, Marjorie Fair, + Some Gifts

Regent – The Locust, + Big Business

Smell – Christian Lovers

Teragram – Fortunate Youth, Nattali Rize, + Kash'd Out

Troubadour – Transviolet, + Armors

SATURDAY, 11/30

1720 - Buku

Alex's – The Spooky, Infamous Stiffs, Loose Trucks, + more

Bootleg – Pass The Sticks, + Blue The Great

Catch One – Alex Ho, Barnt, Bianca Lexis, Blackpaw, Cromie, Eclair Fifi, Goddollars, Hyphen Hyphen, Inigo Vontier, Juan Atkins, Marilyn Bootyspoon, Paradise, Thomas von Party, + Tyree Cooper

Doll Hut – Aura, Hurt Hawks, Patient Zero, The Autopsies, + Zombillyz

Echo – JP Harris, Lasers Lasers Birmingham, + Wyman & The Wolves

Fonda – Bea Miller, Kah-Lo

Highland Park Bowl – Tokyo Lucky Hole, Nick Flessa, Shiro, + Shunkan

House of Blues – ASAP Ferg, Madeintyo, + Bas

House of Machines – The Flytraps, The Hots, + The Electric West

Junior High – Minx, Sunshine Eyes, Alvidrez, + Wyatt Smith

Lodge Room – AnnaBelle Madinnis, Slip, Vs.Colour, Ariel Beesley, Andy Clockwise, + Collapsing Scenery

Maui Sugar Mill – Billy Bones' Rockin Party with The Klub, Wayland, Stompbox Holiday, + Old Soul

Moroccan – The Greyboy Allstars

Observatory – Emarose, + Too Close To Touch (sold out)

Pappy & Harriet's – Meat Puppets, + Particle Kid

Petie's Place – Gail Sutton Project, Bandanos, Stereo Love, + Identity Crisis

Smell – Whaja Dew, Garbitch, + Birote The Musical

Teragram – Dirtwire, Maria Del Pilar, + unnynn

Troubadour – No Suits, + Honor Flow

SUNDAY, 12/1

Alex's Bar – Corrupted Youth, Police Sh*t, Street Threat, + The Deleted

Bootleg Theater – Lina Tulgren, Banny Grove, + Jonny Kosmo

Doll Hut – The Russell Watts Memotial Show with The Hajj, Nomanic, Septic Slaughter, GraveDigger, Carnal Bliss, Schizofrenic, + more

Gold Diggers – Valley Boy, Jamie-Lee Dimes, + Sie Sie Benhoff

Hollywood Palladium – bauhaus, + Azam Ali

Observatory – Crucial Star

Petie's Place – Chase The Comet album release show

Redwood Bar – Neko! Neko! Neko!, Dimebox, + Stop Thought

Resident – Slaughterhouse, Feels, + Reckling

Smell – Moon Fuzz, It's Butter, Mediocre, + The Stamp Collection

Troubadour –  Dhani Harrison, Benjamin Booker, Sharon Van Etten, Twin Shadow, John C. Reiller, Tim Heidecker, Miya Folick, Coco Reilly, Colby Cacca, Joshua Moriarty Mereki, + Zelia Day

Wiltern – King Diamond, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, + Idlehands

MONDAY, 12/2

Bootleg – Henry Hall, High School Jacob, Katie Pearlman, + Lena Redford

Echo – Zimmer

El Cid – Robbie Fulks, Corridoe, Sofia Bolt, + Orchin

The Hi Hat – Phoebe Silva, Harry Katz & The Pistachios, Brenda Carsey,+Greg in Good Company

Moroccan Lounge – Kyle Lux

Resident – Victor San Pedro, Carter Ace, Battery, + Sophie Seng

Roxy – Souly Had, 12AM, + Foggieraw

Troubadour – The Pixies, + Kristin Hersh (also Tuesday)

Zebulon – Shannon Lay, + Anna St, Louis

TUESDAY, 12/3

Bootleg – Mmmmonika, Junior Mesa, + Van El

Echo – Franc Moody

Hollywood Forever Cemetary – Mat Kearney (also Wed.)

Moroccan – Deb Never, Jean Dawson, Natalie Green, Postcard Boy,+Twang Clark

Redwood Bar – Sodaboxx, Ale, Deep Waters, + Masomenos

Resident – The Pink Slips, Vaguess, + The Living Roomers

Zebulon – Motor Sales, Sondra Lerche, Jonathan Ames, + AO Gerber

WEDNESDAY, 12/4

Echo – Anna Calvi

El Rey – Mr. Carmack

Fonda – Chloe x Halle

The Hi Hat – NASAYA, HUDI, Brandon Banks, + Danny Dwyer

Lodge Room – Battles, + Palm

Maui Sugar Mill – The Reciprocity Project, Tar & Flowers, + Gilbert Louie Ray

Moroccan – Odezenne

Observatory – Snoop Dogg, Lily, + Ultra Q

Roxy – Heart Attack Man, Microwave, + Boston Manor

Satellite – Wacko, The Manx, Skullcrack, + Graf Orlock

Troubadour – Magic Giant

Zebulon – The Make-Up

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12/4 – Launcher

12/11 – Otneil y Los Condors

12/18 – Dangerously Sleazy

12/20 – Livation fills in for Demolisten with special guest Bruce Duff! 6-8pm

12/25 – Lucky Otis

12/27 - Livation fills in for Demolisten, 6-8pm

1/1 – Buzz Clic Adventure

1/8 – Crises Actor

1/15 – PR Shake

2/12 – Ley Valentine

2/26 - JesuCrisis

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‘Untitled’ 2018 Acrylic paint and watercolor 40”x16” gallery wrapped canvas (at Dimebox Gallery)

[omarkhanca]

deep learning > Breaking News | Dimebox releases machine learning fraud predictor that combats evolving fraud trends | 2018-06-02T15:21:31.000Z

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New Post has been published on Payment-Providers.com

New Post has been published on https://payment-providers.com/dimebox-launches-third-party-integration-solution-for-psps/

Dimebox launches third-party integration solution for PSPs

Dimebox has announced the release of Connect, expanding its gateway platform with connector functionalities for payment service providers.

With Connect, PSPs can interface with any third-party payment processor, import externally processed payments data, and add inspection metadata to every transaction in real time.

The company’s solutions, including transaction processing, fraud prevention, and data analytics, are offered through one platform with a unified API. With Connect, clients can choose from a list of existing connections to go live, Dimebox being able to integrate new third-party connections on demand.

The solution features three types of connectors:

Processors – offer a broad selection of payment processing options, enabling clients to choose from a menu of card acquiring processors and alternative payment methods, or to request new ones.

Importers – enable transaction data relating to payments processed elsewhere to be imported into the Dimebox database to facilitate reporting and analysis.

Inspectors – scan through the details of a transaction request and use third-party data sources to add additional metadata in real time, such as IP geolocation or card attribute analysis.

For more information about Dimebox, please check out a detailed profile of this company in our dedicated, industry-specific online company database.

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We’re so happy to celebrate the start of your new year and new beginning together. We wish you a lifetime of love and happiness! #beautifulbrides #nyewedding #mrspowers2018 (at Dimebox Ballroom)

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Payment Technology Provider Dimebox Integrated and Now Live With FourStop

COLOGNE, Germany, Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- 4Stop ("FourStop GmbH") a KYC, compliance and anti-fraud risk management company, announced today they have partnered with Dimebox, a global payment technology provider. The integration of FourStops proprietary risk management technology as...

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Dreamy light, couple in love , and film. Film has my heart. . . .#ishootfujifilm #dimeboxballroom #austinweddings #albarosephotography #albarosebrides#bridesofnorthtexas#fineartweddings#dallasfineartphotographer#destinationweddings #destinationphotographer#fineartbride #bridesofokc #austinweddingphotographer#fortworthweddingphotographer#nothingisordinary_#posepatch#stylemepretty#theknot#inspiredbythis#luxuryweddingphotographer#dweddings#dallasweddingphotographer#thatsdarling#destinationweddingphotographer#texasweddingphotographer#easttexasweddingphotographer #southernbride#tilinsiders#dallasfilmphotographer | www.albarosephotography.com | dallas, tx and worldwide destination wedding photographer (at Dimebox Ballroom)

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New York to Paris airplane model 1927 pocket watch

A pocket watch made to celebrate the first flight over the Atlantic New York to Paris in 1927. Recently purchased at a local estate auction in Dimebox Texas. Last one sold for little over a $1000 at a auction. Make me an offer.. no scams I won't repl [...] from Craigslist http://austin.craigslist.org/atq/5990098793.html Fraud Bloggs made possible by: http://circuitgenie.wix.com/techsupport

[matthewsketch]

‘A-Basin’ 2018 I am always happy when at ski resorts. Pretty much just grateful to be there. I lived in Colorado as a child and didn’t know the resorts existed, they were way out of the scope of activities my parents could afford. (at Dimebox Gallery)