Grease N’ Grind celebrates its first birthday on Saturday (May 31) with a full-day blowout at Pat’s Pub. The monthly meet-up began last year as a way of satisfying booker Steve Chase’s appetite for rock ’n’ roll, rockabilly, garage, and surf music, with a nice dollop of lowbrow art and classic American car culture on top. Or, as Chase told the Straight, “Basically, Grease N’ Grind is a respite from fake, crappy, just-coz-Pitchfork says-it’s-good music.
