This May I wrote a column titled "This Shit Is Bananas," in which I made fun of the baffling lyrics of Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl." It was a... More >>

It's a simple decision, but one that doesn't happen enough—watch for some new rock city action happening in Costa Mesa this next year. More >>

  Here's the etymology of Breakestra, according to Stones Throw Records' Egon: "Break as in 'breakbeat': that 10-second slice of... More >>

Some say heaven is a place on earth, but I say it's a piano bar in the sky—specifically, a dim, dank dive with brown cracked-leather chairs... More >>

While Bauhaus reunion hype has pretty much worn off—following a 1998 reunion tour with all the original boys, Bauhaus also played to a... More >>

There's a kind of conversation that's safe and tasteful to begin only when the most concerned party is otherwise indisposed, like indisposed with... More >>

The problem with Xiu Xiu is that no one ever takes me seriously when I play one of their songs. Some kind of question like “What the hell... More >>

When I saw Link Wray in concert a fewyears back, he seemed very much the dead man walking. Or rather, limping. Or, rather, tottering to the stage... More >>

Without his famously long dreads, newly short-haired Busdriver looks less like an MTA employee and more like a high school teacher, especially... More >>

THURSDAY, NOV. 24: Go home to Mom or go home to Dad or go grab your kids or your crummy lonely friends or something; or if you’re really... More >>