Access to behind-the-scenes band life has become increasingly banal. Between "reality" television and coverage of performers hoping to lower the... More >>

As a working musician in Orange County, Mike Barnet travels anywhere the people—and occasional dollar—congregate. Tonight, it's a... More >>

These guys who come from Detroit have stories that they don't much tend to mention—Timmy Vulgar used to live in an abandoned factory and... More >>

Piers Faccini, Tearing Sky (Everloving Records, 2006) The last line on Piers Faccini's online biography is a bad omen: "A storm is tearing across... More >>

* * * OC Weekly:How did you meet Nokie Edwards? Deke Dickerson:He's one of those guys that's around—you've either got to know somebody or... More >>

Three-plus hours after the doors opened, an hour-plus after the house deejay had spun every last funk record in his milk crate, and 12 songs into... More >>

Ann Lynn What Love's Meant toBe EP Self-released     In a few weeks, The O.C. will quietly go off the air, an unceremonious end to a... More >>

In the age of Vice magazine and exposed-brick hipster lofts, it is sometimes hard to recall that Brooklyn was once a very scary place. Living in... More >>

Wires on Fire sound like they could've been pulled right out of the mid-'90s—their jerky, guitar-heavy rock could've been thrashing around... More >>

The Blank Tapes could be anyone—even you—as long as Matt Adams is there. Would it be fair to call the Blank Tapes a one-man... More >>