Tag archive for The Throwdowns

This Week’s Picks: Surf’s Uplifting
Sunday (June 19), 8am-3pm, Kanaha Beach Park, Kahului; free
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It will turn your stomach to see how much organ-pumiced plastic is cut from the guts of dead seabirds—animals who’ve starved to death, their entrails filled with our indigestible excess. …

Midday Saturday, May 25, 1996. Checkout time at the Oceanview Motel. Long Beach-based band Sublime was slated to play at San Francisco’s Maritime Hall—but lead singer Bradley Nowell was face-down, unresponsive.

“I saw my best friend, naked, lying on the bed with his feet on the floor,” Sublime drummer Floyd “Bud” Gaugh later recounted. “I remember laughing, thinking he had gotten so drunk the night before he couldn’t make it into bed. But when I got no response from him… that’s when the world came to a screeching halt.”

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, …

“Woo hoo” for The Throwdowns and “nana nana boo boo,” to the naysayers. I can’t help but feel utterly celebratory for this band–one that is as sugar-and-fire as the torched tops of creme brulee. More than simply talented and spirited, they’re just some of the gosh-darned nicest people you could ever hope to meet. Late last year, I thought

The Throwdowns aren’t just growing up, they’re dragging the rest of us with them.  Instead of getting complacent and bored with Maui’s bite-sized music scene and moving to some smoggy place like L.A,they’re firing up Maui’s musical community and demanding that bands reach out of …

311 is from So. Cal, right? No Sir… the members of 311, this marijuana-loving, reggae-skanking, rock band, hail from Omaha, Nebraska (The Cornhusker State.)  We almost never got the chance to experience their musical talent due to a case of severe burning.  On their first-ever …

Mana’o Radio (broadcasting at 91.5 FM and www.manaoradio.com), is Maui’s Free-Form Live, Commerical-Free, Non-profit Radio Station.  Help support their good-intentions to continue to provide music for Hawaii by celebrating their 8th anniversary and remembering the co-founder, Barry Shannon, this weekend.  Hopefully by when the festival opens, these overcast skies and …

Words by Erin Smith / Photos by Darcie Walker
While in Canada this December, shooting a music video for their single “Stolen Car,” and an episode of Aux TV’s show Band Foto, Maui’s own The Throwdowns took some time to test the waters. The frozen waters …

After the cancellation of their first Pinktober Event, Hard Rock got Bad Brains coming October 28th at 9:30 pm. Straight to Hawaii after their appearance at the Smokeout Festival in San Bernadino, California. Well its no festival over here, but the Hard Rock is doing …