Subject: Aerosmith

• The Wildbirds and the Growlers, Detroit Bar, August 6, 2007

  The Wildbirds With their lean, snake-hipped, bejeaned bodies, lank hair and chiseled features, the Wildbirds have the classic 1975 rock look down pat. And their music follows suit: unapologetic rock and roll that screams Ford administration Rolling Stones/Aerosmith/Tom Petty. “421” is a hit single with the right monetary elbow grease behind it; “Shake Shake” will inspire much of its titular action; country-esque yearner “Suzanna” will cause a lot of lighter launching. All told, the

  August 7, 2007

• Anger Is a Gift

  November 25, 1999

• Nix!

  August 23, 2001

• Hate Service Fees? Live Nation Has You Covered! (For One Day, At Least)

  It's easy to hate on Live Nation, but they've been involved in some alright stuff lately, like the Blink 182 lawn seats that cost $20, straight-up--inclusive of parking and service fees and all that yakkety yak. The latest is "no service fees Wednesdays," which will run throughout the summer and starts this Wednesday (tomorrow!), June 3. As the name suggests, it removes dreaded service fees from lawn tickets from all sorts of big shows, like 311, Aerosmith, Coldplay, No Doubt and Dave Matthews B

  June 2, 2009

• This Months Gratuitous No Doubt Items

  December 28, 2000

• Re-drawing the Line

  January 10, 2008

• Blue Blood & Guts

  The Upper Crust’s Hard Rocque Has Ignoble Intentions

  October 18, 2007

• Mmm . . . Vittles

  Hardtack, biscuits & gravy, salt pork, beef jerky, burritos, falafel, & banh mi—you know, cowboy  food

  September 20, 2007

• Conflict-of-Interest Summer Theater!

  May 20, 2004

• 'Free Avian!'

  The Wildbirds' rugged-outdoorsmen rock is built to blast

  August 2, 2007

• CD Review

  Patton Oswalt, Werewolves and Lollipops (Sub Pop CD/DVD)

  July 12, 2007

• Never Mind the Shit, Here's Coachella

  Is this annual desert festival an ordeal or orgasmic experience? Yes

  May 10, 2007

• Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows

  More than three decades on, Sly & the Family Stone stand fresh

  April 5, 2007

• Get Out!

  February 23, 2006

• Best Hot Bartender

  October 20, 2005

• Buena Park

  October 20, 2005

• Scourging: the Only Word

  The week in nightlife and more: Sept. 1 - Sept. 8

  September 1, 2005

• And the winners are ...

  March 24, 2005

• Grass Skirts Optional

  March 10, 2005

• Medium-Cool

  March 3, 2005

• Diary Of A Drunk County

  December 30, 2004

• In the Midnite Hour

  Thee Midniters never cared for ethnicityothers did

  December 9, 2004

• Now Youre A Boner!

  September 30, 2004

• Aerosmith and Shakespeare together at last

  June 17, 2004

• Episode 26

  April 29, 2004

• Have Jarana, Will Travel

  November 27, 2003

• Killing Them Loudly

  October 30, 2003

• Poor, Drunk, Talented

  July 3, 2003

• SK8ER BOI

  February 27, 2003

• Movies and Metal

  January 30, 2003

• Suddenly In Vogue

  December 12, 2002

• If I Had a Hammer!

  January 31, 2002

• Its a Living

  September 6, 2001

• Active Eats

  August 9, 2001

• Rock & Roll Ass Love

  April 26, 2001

• No Goon Rants

  November 30, 2000

• Real American Graffiti

  June 10, 1999

• Knock 'Em Down

  October 1, 1998

• [CD Review] Still Flyin', 'Never Gonna Touch the Ground' (Ernest Jennings)

  May 7, 2009

• Cheap lawn tickets on sale today

  Concert promoters LiveNation are offering a pretty good deal for upcoming shows at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (and other venues across the country that, if you are reading the OC Weekly, you probably don't care that much about). The catch is, it's good only today.Anyone who buys lawn tickets to shows at the mega Irvine venue will pay only $24.99. And to make the deal even sweeter, there are no additional fees. Yeah, you're sitting a mile away, but the lawn's where all the good weed is, so

  June 17, 2009

• Live Nation Going 'All-In' Today

  The Fray kicking back.Sure, it's fun to hate Live Nation for being a giant corporation that seems to control every big concert tour in the world, but they're making it pretty tough to do so this summer. Since starting "no service fee Wednesdays" last month, they've (as one might guess) dropped those nasty service fees (I just paid $9.50 per ticket for a non-Live Nation show--ouchies!) that are a big reason people hate Live Nation/Ticketmaster/etc. so much. Nothing really worse than the feeling o

  July 8, 2009

• Outgoing: Aerosmith Cancel Remainder of their Summer Tour

  ​Sorry, classic rock fans. Steven Tyler falling off the stage in a much-publicized incident at a concert last week in Sturgis, South Dakota means that Aerosmith has to cancel the remainder of their summer tour with ZZ Top. Logically, this includes the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine date scheduled for August 23. Ticket refunds are available at the point of purchase.In cheerier news, despite Depeche Mode canceling shows including tonight's at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater in Chula V

  August 14, 2009

• Free Crap That Came In The Mail: Lullaby Renditions of Aerosmith

  ​A lot of times "Free Crap That Came In The Mail" is just taking shots at easy targets. Why not? It's, you know, easy. But this installment is actually something sort of cool, that I probably would have otherwise ignored if not for the fact that it (you guessed it) came in the mail.

  August 18, 2009

• ZZ Top to Make Up for Canceled Aerosmith Tour with House of Blues Date

  ​ZZ Top hasn't made it last for 40 years in the music biz by not knowing how to please their fanbase. So it stands to logic that in light of last week's cancellation of the remainder of Aerosmith's tour--where ZZ Top were the featured opening act--the classic rock trio has announced their on tour, with a stop at the House of Blues Anaheim this Thursday, August 20. Oh thank goodness.Tickets are on sale now for $79.50 in advance, $85 day of show. Insert beard joke here.

  August 17, 2009

• Aerosmith; ZZ Top

  August 20, 2009

• Five Regrettable Music/Video Game Moments

  ​Motörhead are currently on tour (including a stop at the House of Blues in Anaheim), they also play a role in upcoming action/adventure game Brütal Legend, out next week on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (we got a chance to play it at Comic-Con this year, it's a fun, straight-forward beat 'em up with some cool visuals). That game, with Jack Black voicing the main character and additional vocal appearances from Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and Motörhead singer Lemmy will probably be a

  October 7, 2009

• Ranking Owl City Among Rock's Most Egregious Ripoffs

  Pamela Littky​There are many reasons to dislike Owl City, the electro tweepop project spearheaded by Owatonna, Minnesota 23-year-old Adam Young. For one thing the moniker is horrible. You can name yourself after a town or a continent - say, Boston or Chicago or Europe - but you can't name yourself after a city with the word "City" in the title. That's why there are no bands named "New York City" or "Oklahoma City." The fact that it's a pretend city makes it worse.

  October 20, 2009