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[Exene Says . . .] DIY Till I Die

Exene Cervenka is a writer, visual artist and punk-rock pioneer. The OC transplant is the lead singer for X, the Knitters and Original Sinners. Contact her via askexene@ocweekly.com. In 1976, Nancy Kaufman lent a friend money to rent a 125-square-foot store on the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, April 5 Feeding PeopleFingerprints Feeding People play a delightful brand of fuzzy-buzzy garage rock seasoned with reverby vocals and spooky-circus guitar riffs. At times, they're reminiscent of the Doors (but if the Doors had made it to the late '70s.) Another way to conceptualize Feedin ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Monday, April 1 The Originalites Gallagher's Pub Since coming together as teenagers (and later recruiting saxophonist Mike Belk after an impromptu jam session at a local gig), The Originalites have risen high in the ranks of Orange County's local music scene in the span of only five years. The Fou ... More >>

Ariano is Not Going Back, Only Moving Forward on His Latest Album

[Editor's Note: Spare Notes is a new Weekly music feature highlighting outtakes and personal stories from bands who just finished working their asses off to put out new music.]It's a new day musically for Ariano with the release of Everything You Can't Take With You, the rapper/singer's anticipated ... More >>

Justin Soileau Says That Despite This Photo, He is No Longer Depressed

Justin Soileau's been a running favorite of ours here at Heard Mentality ever since the native born Texan moved out to California and began recording and performing throughout the county and elsewhere.  He's just released his first full album, a self-titled effort, last week via Bandcamp, iTune ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'Songs We All Are Singing' by the Devious Means

http://thedeviousmeans.com/The Devious MeansSongs We All Are SingingWe here at the Weekly have covered the Devious Means a few times -- here's a short introduction from a few months back -- though it seems we're a little late with an actual review of their second EP, which appeared back in ... More >>

The Mixtape No One Asked For: 'Metta World Passion' Coming Soon

Los Angeles Lakers starting forward Metta World Peace revealed on Conan last night what he has been up to since being hit with a seven-game suspension following a devastating elbow to the head of Oklahoma City Thunder reserve James Harden on April 22. While he still has two games left to sit out b ... More >>

3hree Things: Must-Haves For Unapologetic Baseball Geeks

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.If you're a baseball superfan like me, your GeekMeter™ has probably been in the red since Spri ... More >>

Official Tribute Song for Trayvon Martin Set to be Released Today

​As news continues to unravel daily surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin, a number of rappers have already recorded songs expressing their feelings about the 17 year-old African-American youth shot to death by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Chaka Khan and musical guests also went into ... More >>

Lex Land Eliminated from 'The Voice,' Vows to Keep on Singing Anyway!

​If it weren't for Lex Land, who was born and raised right here in Orange County, I wouldn't have bothered watching NBC's 'The Voice.' The sultry, dynamic singer made her presence known making an appearance on the show in late February and impressing the coaches with her rendition of Bonnie Raitt' ... More >>

OC Music Awards Announces Launch of iPhone App

​The OC Music Awards announced the launch of its free iPhone app today featuring interviews, photos and playlists of bands participating in the nine-week competition. We here at Weekly World Headquarters were rightly hooked by the word "free," and proceeded to tap furiously at the faces of our pho ... More >>

3hree Things: Random Thoughts About The 2012 Grammys

Watch out for 3hree Things (usually) every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.​ Because a column that usually runs on Tuesdays should run on a Monday. Because the ... More >>

3hree Things: A Box Full Of Cassettes And Shame

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.​I'm not gonna lie. I didn't spend my formative years as a music listener (late-80's/earl ... More >>

Mr. Chiizu Makes You Say, 'Cheese!'

[Trendzilla] IPhone app lets you create your own Japanese-style photo booth

3hree Things: My 12 Favorite Albums Of 2011, Vol. 1 of 4

Sangsouvanh Khounvichit​It's that time of year again. The time of year in which we are inundated with year-end lists; bests, worsts, mosts, leasts, blah, and blahs. Honestly, I'm a bit tired of lists (maybe some of that has to do with the fact that I make one for this column every week), but there ... More >>

Kanye West and Jay-Z Confirm New North American Dates for Watch the Throne Tour

​As we reported earlier, Jay-Z and Kanye West have new dates for the Watch The Throne Tour due to the "overwhelming response to presale tickets." The North American tour will now begin on Saturday, Oct. 29 in Atlanta, Georgia at the Philips Arena. All fans who purchase their tickets online will r ... More >>

Rebecca Black Tries Again

[Mental Notes] Info on Thrice's new album and Pennywise guitarist's tattoo parlor

The Best of Riley's 3hree Things: He's BACK!

​Last January, Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice and author of the snarky, often hilarious and mostly thoughtful column Riley's 3hree Things, took a hiatus due to family matters. On Tuesday next week, he'll finally be back to give us more of hi ... More >>

[UPDATE: 75K Package SOLD!] Josh Freese's New EP My New Friends Out Today--Also: It's Already Too Late for That Tommy Lee Seance

Courtesy of Josh Freese​UPDATE, APRIL 1, 7:40 P.M.: Well, that was fast. The $75,000 fan package has been sold to a man named Connor Trivers from Medford, Oregon. The package includes Josh Freese joining your band for a month (or he becomes your personal assistant); one of Freese's drumsets; an en ... More >>

Meet Patrice Wilson, a.k.a. Man 'Friday' (It's Now the Most Disliked Video on YouTube!)

​Today is Wednesday, and you know without a doubt that two days from now, someone on the Internet will be playing the Rebecca Black song brought forth by vanity production company Ark Music Factory. CEO Patrice Wilson, a.k.a. the rapper who calls Rebecca "RB" while driving his car, tells Gawker th ... More >>

Rebecca Black: 'Friday' Part 2?

​ Speaking of Rebecca Black, Oh No They Didn't today published a screen capture of "Friday" director Chris Lowe's Facebook page, on which he talks about . . . the second Rebecca Black video!The video, which now has more than 10 million hits on YouTube, is also on iTunes' top 100. So it's not a str ... More >>

Odd Future Book Glass House Show, Give Away Frank Ocean Mixtape

The band that everyone in the music world currently have a hard on for, Odd Future (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All a.k.a. OFWGKTA), just booked a show at the Glass House for April 1. They're already going to be at Coachella on April 15. Get tickets on Ticketfly for ... More >>

Justin Soileau Brings the Texas Heat

[Locals Only] A Big Star sensibility from a Lone Star State transplant

Orange Bits: Stacy Clark, Lights Over Paris, the Steelwells

The Steelwells​In this week's edition of news we didn't write, we have the Steelwells, Stacy Clark, Lights Over Paris and more...If you ever wanted to know more about Fullerton's the Steelwells, here is a nifty new video interview from USFTV. [YT]

Antoine Dodson, BedIntruder.com is For Sale! Why Don't You Own It?

​Now that Antoine Dodson is an endorser for the Sex Offender Tracker app, on top of a best-selling Halloween costume (made for dogs and humans!), on top of a milkshake named after him at Millions of Milkshakes and an iTunes charttopper, he's hoping to be a spokesperson against assault in the black ... More >>

3hree Things: Essential Rainy Day Albums

​Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native.Apparently, we're in for an uncharacteristically damp and gloomy week in Orange County. I can ... More >>

Mishka the Husky Sings on the iPad, Probably the First Dog to Sell a Song on iTunes

​Remember Mishka the Husky? She was really good at saying "I love you," and is probably the most famous dog on the Internet. She has a Twitter account, a YouTube account, a Facebook fan page (with 20,621 fans), has appeared on TV with Kelly Ripa and Bette Midler--and is now probably the ... More >>

Facebook to the Rescue of Local Theater?

​The past few months have seen more reviews about local theater than at any point in OC history. But you're not seeing them in traditional print publications. Times are very tough in the ink-stained wretch industry. Pages are shrinking, and the space for editorial content in those pages is tou ... More >>

Five Best Covers of Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder Song," Now No. 3 on iTunes' R&B/Soul Charts

​You might notice that this blog is filed under "Before It Gets Old"--well, Antoine Dodson's "Bed Intruder Remix" NEVER gets old. Ask anyone who's seen it (like we have, daily, on repeat, for the past week and a half). Today we discovered that the "Bed Intruder Song feat. the Gregory Brothers and ... More >>

Labzter - Lobster Flavored Crackers

Edwin Goei​Name: Labzter - Lobster Flavored Crackers Origin: Philippines Found at: Manila Groove, Tustin

"Trust Your Eyes and Instinct": Lessons from "Herb & Dorothy"

​One of the primary joys of Netflix is being able to see films that you wouldn't get a chance to see in local movie theaters. One of those is director Megumi Sasaki's extraordinary 2009 documentary Herb & Dorothy, now available on DVD, iTunes and Netflix's streaming video. I saw it a few days ... More >>

See You At The Liquid Aloha Fest! Marc B Talks Summer Soundtracks

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Muse Gets Lead Single On The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Soundtrack

www.myspace.com/muse​Muse's song, "Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)" is the lead single off The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's original motion picture soundtrack, due in stores June 8. The movie will be in theaters nationwide on June 30.

Free The Robots Record Release Show in LA

What's up ese? Santa Ana's Free The Robots​Santa Ana's multitasking Chris Alfaro, a.k.a. Free The Robots, is a busy man. Somehow finding time between co-running Orange County's beacon of all things hip the Crosby, he's written and produced one of the year's strongest local albums.

Wax On, Wax Off: Surfing, Violence and You (Pt. 2)

Flickr user MikeBaird I've continued to ask local surfers to share their thoughts and experiences on surfing-related violence in Orange County. Here are some additional thoughts that have come in since yesterday: "Orange County is just as bad as anywhere else. Some 40 year old man tried t ... More >>

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 yoursel ... More >>

New Thrice Album 'Beggars' in (Physical) Stores Today

​Beggars, the sixth studio album from Irvine's Thrice is out in stores today. Well, "real" stores. Like, ones with doors that you can walk into. ("Physical retailers," "brick and mortar," whatever you want to call them.)

Six Albums That Came Out on 9/11

September 11, 2001 was a lot of things, but it was also a Tuesday, meaning that it was the day new CDs were out in stores (the iTunes Store was still a year and a half away from existence--how did we survive back then?). And not just any records, but quite a few fairly significant ones. Here are six ... More >>

VIDEO: Stacy Clark Song in Canadian Palm Pre Commercial

Normally, a television commercial hyping the Canadian release of a cell phone that's been out in America for nearly two months wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it is when the spot uses music from one of our local Orange County artists. It's "Touch and Go" by singer/songwriter Stacy Clark, a song ... More >>

[Locals Only] Yellow Red Sparks Are Traditionally Good

Local Hip-Hoppers Speach Impediments Keep On Movin' Despite Obstacles

Five Ways To Survive the Current Economic Crisis

BY COLE HADDONThese are tough economic times, what with the depression that's being driven by the housing crash, and skyrocketing unemployment. It's damn near impossible in such a climate to enjoy or even splurge on our hobbies and passions. Who can afford those New Kids on the Block tickets or iPod ... More >>

Another Show Announcement! Britney Spears in Anaheim

Britney Spears, an American popular music singer you may be passingly familiar with, is going back on tour--"The Circus Starring Britney Spears"--with a stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim on April 19. It's her first arena tour in five years, her press release kindly informs us.The tour is named aft ... More >>

Absorbing 'Death Magnetic,' Metallica's Latest Badass Opus, Entirely in Video-Game Form

[Summer Guide] 18 Essential Songs of Summer

Last Night: Look Daggers, LD & Ariano @ The Prospector in Long Beach

Last Night: Look Daggers, LD & Ariano @ The Prospector in Long Beach 5/29 Better Than: Being a San Antonio Spurs fan last night Nothing caps off a Thursday night like a swirling mix of basketball, break beats and booze. Hell, it’s a good night if you can manage to enjoy even one of those things. ... More >>

[Locals Only] Review of Map's Regrets, Silhouettes, and Distractions

Hit Tingles

Crinkle your nose to Colbie Caillat's bubbly folk-pop

CD Review

The Appearance, Lost in Aurora (Adrenaline)