Last Friday I dropped by Amoeba to pick up a gift certificate for a friend of mine who graduated college - DJ Nobody from KUSF - and I saw that the Dirtbombs were playing for free. Since I already had a ticket to see them that night, I thought I might as well stay and watch them twice. They were cool. They played about 6 songs or so - all from the new record - and the band was interesting to watch. The drummers became more and more complex with each song (there are two drummers) and the “fuzz” guitarist is interesting to watch too.
Then I went to the show later that night at the Independent and it was much better. They rocked me out of my skull. It was crazy. I was dancing and moshing and having a great old time. They played for a couple of hours and did two encores. During the second encore, one of the drummers came out into the audience where I was standing and got us all moshing and moving. It was cool. I highly recommend seeing them live.