Legendary Punk Band X Hit the Road

If November 5 is a bad day for some of you out in Cali, there is a slightly less energetic, and definitely less noisy, alternative. The Santa Monica Museum of Art is displaying a selection of X singer Exene Cervenka's approximately 100 journals, plus some "mixed media collages", in an exhibit called "America the Beautiful", which will be up until November 26. According to the museum's website, the journals contain "rough drafts of songs and personal reflections rendered in a baroque calligraphic script." We hope that means there's dirt about Cervenka's ex-husbands, X bandmate John Doe and actor Viggio Mortensen, hidden somewhere in the exhibit.

There, we've namedropped every band member but the drummer. D.J. Bonebrake:

11-05 Long Beach, CA - Vault 350
12-02 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade *
12-03 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall *
12-04 Norfolk, VA - The NorVa *
12-05 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
12-06 Baltimore, MD - Sonar *
12-08 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts *
12-09 New York, NY - Roseland Ballroom *
12-10 Boston, MA - Avalon *

* with Juliana Hatfield

Doe himself is heading out on a European trek next week, supporting his latest solo album, Forever Hasn't Happened Yet, which came out on Yep Roc in March. Joining him on most dates are fellow singer/songwriters Peter Case (of the Plimsouls) and Michael Weston King (of the Good Sons).

We're desperate:

11-08 London, England - Rough Trade Shop, Covent Garden (in store)
11-08 London, England - Luminaire
11-09 Trondheim, Norway - Credo
11-10 Oslo, Norway - Muddy Waters *
11-12 Gent, Belgium - Handelsbeurs *
11-14 Paris, France - Java *
11-15 Dublin, Ireland - Whelans *
11-16 Belfast, Northern Ireland - Errigle Inn *
11-17 Birmingham, England - Glee *
11-18 Newcastle, England - Little Theatre Gateshead *
11-20 Glasgow, Scotland - Brel *

* with Peter Case, Michael Weston King

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