Billie Holiday

Five of the Best Monterey Jazz Festival Performances of All Time

This fall, the Monterey Jazz Festival will usher in its 56th annual performance along California's crystal coastline, 350 miles north of Orange County. Since 1958 the festival has hosted every major jazz musician conceivable. The first lineup alone included Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Milt Jack ... More >>

Jonathan Karrant Knows His Goddamn Jazz Singers, Talks About His Biggest Influences

See Also:***Jazz vocalist Jonathan Karrant moved to the West Coast a little over five years ago from the Ozarks. He's become a fixture in San Diego ever since, crooning his lanky tunes, missing only a martini and a cigarette for the ultimate ring-a-ding-ding feel. He is a straight-forward, unadorned ... More >>

Parker Macy Celebrates Creme Tangerine's First Anniversary

​Yes, it's really been a year since Parker Macy opened Creme Tangerine, the record store in a trailer at the Lab on March 1. It's been a challenging one for the blues guitarist-turned-entrepreneur, to say the least. There was a break-in a couple of months ago, and Macy also lost his partner Jon St ... More >>

Thee Oh Sees Are Not From OC

Still, the San Francisco band claim the geographic moniker proudly

The Miles Davis Experience at Samueli Theater in Santa Ana Last Night

​The Miles Davis ExperienceOct. 21, 2011Samueli Theater, Santa AnaWriting about jazz, to me, is just about the dumbest thing anyone could do. I mean, in a literal sense, the genre says nothing because much of the music (including the Miles Davis Experience show that took place Friday night at the ... More >>

The Return of Murder Ballads Last Night at the Echoplex

Mary Carreon​Murder BalladsOctober 20, 2011The Echoplex How often do you get to see part of the Echoplex transformed into a theater and the stage into an eerie forest? Last night's Return of Murder Ballads was not only a great show, it was a one of a kind experience. Although every performance co ... More >>

A Gallery Guide to Saturday's Grrl Fair!

​Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day and this Saturday you can continue the celebrations at the 10th annual Grrl Fair in Santa Ana. The Riot Grrrl inspired musical, artistic and educational event featured in the pages of the current edition of the OC Weekly out today ... More >>

[UPDATED: Lineup Announced] Grrl Fair Already Planning for Its 10th Anniversary

​UPDATE, FEB. 8, 12:28 P.M.: Over the weekend, Grrl Fair announced the lineup of bands ready to rock the event's 10th anniversary. Nine bands in total, ranging from blues and rock to mariachi music, will perform amidst feminist-themed workshops and more (to be announced) during the Grrl Fair colle ... More >>

Megan Mullally on Being in a Band (With Greg Kuehn!): 'People Think They are Going to Get a 'Will & Grace' Experience--But it's Not That at All.'

Danielle Bacher/ OC Weekly​Most people recognize Megan Mullally as the outrageous, booze-swilling Karen Walker from the hit sitcom Will & Grace. What you may not know is that she is a genre-straddling theater actress and singer as well. On Oct. 7-10 at the Orange County Per ... More >>

You Can't Fool Mother Nature: A Talk with Photographer George Katzenberger

Courtesy George KatzenbergerProtected Species​As Billie Holiday sang the blues over the Starbucks speakers, I paged through a box of George Katzenberger's serene landscape photos as he sat next to me, sharing anecdotes about the individual pictures.Shot in Infrared (IR), the photos are hallucinat ... More >>

Upright Cabaret

La Mirada Theater

Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

​I've been bear-hugged by Gnarls Barkley's Cee-Lo Green. Talked politics with Toby Keith. Sat with Norah Jones just weeks after her multi-platinum debut dropped and killed a pint of Bushmills with AC/DC singer Brian Johnson. All of this went down during the past decade while writing for Florida ... More >>

Kelly Fitzgerald

Renaissance Dana Point

Zee Avi Brings Her Personal Lyrics From Malaysia to Costa Mesa

Mingus Big Band

Warpaint's Live Show, Coming to Detroit Bar, Is Enough to Inspire a Pants-Off Dance-Off

[Sprawl of Sound] Bethany Owen's Vocal Impressions Will Flip Your (and Her) Wig

[CD Review] Flying Lotus, 'Los Angeles' (Warp)

To Do Tonight 5/29

A Tribute to Ms. Billie Holiday, 7 p.m. An evening of songs from the classic jazz diva in a dinner theater venue The Riverboat Angela Louise 700 Edgewater Newport Beach, CA 92661 949-633-5997 Girls Night Out, 9 p.m. Better than a night in Chronic Cantina 1870 Harbor Blvd. Costa Mesa, CA 92627 Gla ... More >>

[Sprawl of Sound] Highlights, Lowlights, A'ights and Blights From Coachella '08

A Bloggy Valentine: 20 Songs About Love

By Jeff Shaw at our sister paper, Citypages. Love is a many-splendored thing and all, but it's also dependent upon a relationship's context -- and so is the associated music. You don't want Al Green's "Let's Get Married" to stream through the car speakers during your third date, you don't want your ... More >>

CD Review

Billie Holiday, Remixed & Reimagined (Columbia/Legacy Remixed)

Them That's Got

If you belong to one of the groups targeted for a good squeezin' called on to sacrifice in the governor's budget plan-- college students, public school teachers, families on welfare-- rest assured that the truly needy will still be well taken care of. Kate Folmar reports in the San Jose Mercury New ... More >>

'I Think It's Beautiful'

Cold War Kids suggested discography

The DIY Approach

Ruthie Foster

Almost Hendrix

More talented than everyone but Jimi, Johnny Winter still runs hot

Fertile Folkie

Mary Black enjoys her wild Irish ride

Like Drugs!

Thats what Johnny Mathis voice is!

Gourmet Gone Wild!

Pork chops Doggy-style at Iva Lees

Girls! Girls! Girls!

OCMAs 150 years of women is a beautiful thing

Strange Fruit

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Hope They Die Before They Get Old

The rock & roll tragedies that should have been

Cool. Classy. Next to Vons Martini Blues enlivens HB

Nut Cutters! Aaaaaaaiiiie!

20 things I love about Etta James

Western Philosophy

Is Cornel West the most hopeful man in America?

Clap Hands

John Hammond tackles the Tom waits songbook

Hank III gets Punk

And Goulet gets ghoulish

No Vacancy

The sublime poetry of the motels Martha Davis

Brainwashed by Commies!

And Koko Taylors clam!

You! Backward-Ball-Cap Boy!

Educate yourself with some Little Milton!

Even George Argyros Cant Bum Me Out Now!

Etta James, Dr. John, King Sunny, Ray Charles, Red Meat and Chris Gaffney in one amazing week!

Kick Out the Jams!

A flood of seriously good new roots CDs

Skie Bender

Painter, writer, voice and bass player for the Fireants

Letters

The All-time top 20 pissed list

See Deke Run!

Seven days of fabulous music

Celebrate Post-Feminism Week!

Seven days worth of angry, horny women

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