Subject: Barcelona

• Coachella lineup announced

  Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you, Yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butler Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Col

  January 22, 2008

• Funking Up the Future

  Day 2 of SXSW In my last post, I predicted Holy Fuck's set would be very hard to surpass. Well, I think it was at least equaled by a few artists on the bill at Barcelona—all instrumental hip-hop artists, in fact (Nosaj Thing, Free the Robots, Gaslamp Killer and Flying Lotus). Who would've thought such types would be standouts at SXSW? I mean, there wasn't a guitar to be found in the joint all night... But first some gigs that preceded the Barcelona extravaganza. At Soho Bar, Blues Control—

  March 14, 2008

• Low vs. Diamond and Barcelona Bring Their Tour to Costa Mesa

  In the most awesome co-headlining tour since 2004's "The Independent Tour" with Kelly Clarkson and Clay Aiken, buzz-building Seattle-originated bands Low vs. Diamond (who were here last month opening up for Santogold) and Barcelona are currently on the road together. Cool, right? What's cooler is that said tour is coming to Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa on Dec. 9. That's pretty soon! Tickets are $10, and on sale now right here. Opening up on this date is Orange County's The Shys. Here's the video

  November 18, 2008

• Gypsy Den, Habana To Debut New Nuevo Latino Restaurant in SanTana

  *Updated, with new info on the bottom...**Moved up, 'cause it's timely!The colonization of downtown SanTana by Costa Mesan pioneering hipsters is complete. Both the Gypsy Den and Memphis have long successfully operated branches in the city's Artists Village, which always made us wonder why the other LAB stalwart, Habana, never set up shop in the most-Mexican city in America. That's about to change, as the owners of the Gypsy Den and Habana have teamed up to open Lola Gaspar in the space previous

  December 11, 2008

• Bigger Than Life: Our Exclusive Preview of the Best (and Worst) at the Newport Beach Film Festival

  April 24, 2008

• First Crop of SXSW Acts Announced, OC/LB Bands Conspicuously Absent

  A certain music festival and conference held annually in the sleepy hamburg of Austin, Texas announced their initial slate of performers this year, and there's not an Orange County or Long Beach band among them. We had several acts in last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, so this is kind of a bummer. Keep in mind, though, that they only announced a little under 140 bands (I counted!) today, and there are plenty more to come--South by Southwest usually hosts about 10 times that.As usual, it looks to be

  January 8, 2009

• [Summer Guide] Fox Theater Pomona: Yet Another Reason Not to Go to LA for a Concert this Summer

  June 4, 2009

• Montreal's Plants and Animals Fly South for the Winter

  March 5, 2009

• Cynic's Paul Masvidal Puts an Intellectual Spin on His Prog Metal

  January 29, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Why Do Mexican Women Hate Spanish Women?

  October 2, 2008

• Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson Join Forces In Woody Allen's Winning 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'

  August 14, 2008

• Barcelona Comes to Fullerton Via Lizarran Tapas

  July 10, 2008

• [Web Exclusive!] Summer Grows Up: The Season of Big-Budget Bangs Uses Its Brain

  May 15, 2008

• Sprawl of Sound

  Heavenly Beats, Demonic Metal, Slack Clergy: Absorbing Seattle’s Decibel Festival, Assessing Disney’s HOB Flub, Heeding Lazy Preacher

  October 4, 2007

• Unknown

  A steaming pile of maudlin tripe.

  May 26, 2005

• Travel Alternatives

  Sultry Spanish Nights

  August 9, 2007

• Wander This World

  June 28, 2001

• Now With the Big Knives

  August 4, 2005

• Street Theater

  July 14, 2005

• Now With Less Chaudhuri!

  January 27, 2005

• Grocery Sax

  August 26, 2004

• Don Brens Phallus Complex

  June 5, 2003

• Terrible Realism

  April 24, 2003

• Westminster Rock City

  October 17, 2002

• Not Woody, Formica

  December 6, 2001

• Italy

  May 10, 2001

• Apologize for This

  March 23, 2000

• Guide to Our Advertisers

  March 23, 2000

• TONIGHT: Mae at Chain Reaction in Anaheim

  Oh, Wednesdays. To paraphrase Kris Kristofferson, there's something 'bout a Wednesday that makes a concert-goer feel alone. There's never too much going on 'round the ol' county on a Wednesday, but tonight there is this show at Chain Reaction: Virginia's Mae, pictured, along with Barcelona, Person L and Set to Sea, who were just featured in our very own pages. Mae (short for "Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience," apparently; OK, sure) have been doing their pop-punk emo thing since 2001--they have

  May 6, 2009

• Anaheim Drummer Lux Is Plucked Out of Obscurity, Put Into the Nekromantix

  July 2, 2009

• Yo Gabba Gabba! Soundtrack Coming in October

  ​Nick Jr.'s Yo Gabba Gabba! isn't a typical kiddie fare and anyone that's into music should know that by now, and it's not just those oddly appealing monsters and robots like the Gary Baseman-esque Muno. The show--co-created by Huntington Beach resident/Aquabats lead singer Christian Jacobs, by the way--has featured surprisingly hip bands so many times that it's really not surprising any more. Among the names: the Roots, Of Montreal, Mates of States, the Shins, Hot Hot Heat, Chromeo and Mark M

  September 24, 2009

• Onetime Smooth-House DJ Andy Caldwell Toughens Up His Sound

  October 29, 2009

• Dance Pick Of The Week: DJ T at Focus

  Some would credit Europe with this thing we call electronic dance music by pointing back to the pioneering work of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder and Can. They would be half right: Contemporary electronic dance music, like blues, rock and jazz, is a progeny of the interplay between black and white music. (See Juan Atkins, Frankie Knuckles and Moby). And so, for many years New York was the club capital of DJ culture, and Southern California was its backyard playground.DJ T​ But Europe has, in rec

  November 5, 2009