Subject: Billy Joel

• Elton John and Billy Joel

  March 26, 2009

• Crate Expectations

  The Crate Kings site is a national treasure. Scratch that: it's an intergalactic treasure. Somebody (or a team of individuals perhaps) with a lot of time on his hands and the kind of obsessiveness I admire almost more than anything else in the world encoded to MP3 snippets of 300 breakbeats that form the foundation of hip-hop. Hello, Mr. Nobel? I would like to nominate the cat(s) behind this Herculean project for one of your medals. Please look into it. Scrutinize the names here and you'll see

  June 4, 2007

• Bill Maher nails it!

  If he weren't such a male skank, we'd marry him... From: Bill Maher To: George W. Bush Mr. President, this job can't be fun for you any more. There's no more money to spend--you used up all of that. You can't start another war because you used up the army. And now, darn the luck, the rest of your term has become the Bush family nightmare: helping poor people. Listen to your Mom. The cupboard's bare, the credit cards maxed out. No one's speaking to you. Mission accomplished. Now it's time

  March 17, 2006

• To Do Tonight - 02/14

  February 14, 2008

• 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 intended to think you stopped listening to new records after "I Love You Just The Way You Are" was released. . .aaaand you don't want "You Oughtta Know" to come on, well, ever. Swapping out these em

  February 14, 2008

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XI

  Dave Segal moved into Detroit Bar on both Friday and Saturday nights: "Free the Robots' thrilling [Friday] live show blew away Afrika Bambaataa's moldy DJ set. Local upstarts overshadowed a legend!" And on Sat, "DJs Josh One, Hyder, James Pants and Peanut Butter Wolf spun loads of great hip-hop cuts and freaky dance tracks that didn't fit neatly into any categories." Saturday took our interns Patrick Chavis and Nate Jackson to Cal State Long Beach for the Ludacris concert/protest and the Costa

  February 25, 2008

• Worst Song Lyric Ever

  Who would you imagine has written the worst song lyric ever? Jethro Tull? Billy Joel? Vanilla Ice? Rick Ross? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and, well, close but still wrong. 3 Doors Down, "Here Without You" In fact, the pop culture perps are Escatawpa, Mississippi band 3 Doors Down, in the form of their 2003 hit “Here Without You.” Many would call the song “inscrutable,” but I have bravely attempted to scrutinize it. It seems that, while “Here Without You” in fact contains the worst song

  August 11, 2008

• Whats This Crap?!

  March 9, 2000

• Flawed Beauty

  December 28, 2000

• There He Goes Again

  March 22, 2001

• Tone Deaf

  April 25, 2002

• On Sale Monday: Billy Joel and Elton John at the Honda Center

  Question: Do you like old dudes?Question numero dos: Do you like pianos?Question the third: Do you like old dudes that play the piano?If you answered "yes" to at least a couple of those, oh boy are you in luck! The national "Billy Joel and Elton John Face 2 Face Tour" is coming to the Honda Center in Anaheim on March 28, and tickets--$54.50-$180--go on sale 10 a.m. Monday (Dec. 8). It's called "Face 2 Face" tour not because it has anything to do with the punk band, but because the show starts ou

  December 7, 2008

• Second Elton John/Billy Joel Date Added at the Honda Center

  A second Anaheim date for Billy Joel and Elton John's "Face 2 Face" tour might sound crazy. And you may be right. It may be crazy. But a second date may be just what you're looking for. But don't worry, it's not going to be a long, long time: March 30, two days after the original, now sold-out date. Tickets are $54.50-$180, and on sale Monday, Dec. 15 at 10 a.m. And I'm gonna be hiiiiiigh as a kite by then.

  December 11, 2008

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young" -

  December 19, 2008

• To Do This Weekend - 3/27-3/29

  The Airborne Toxic Event, Henry Clay People, Rademacher; 3/27 7p.m.Three rad bands, one rockin' Friday evening.The Glass House, 200 W. Second St., Pomona, CA; 909-629-0377Billy Joel; Elton John, 3/28 7:30p.m.Reuniting for the most successful concert pairing in pop history, the two music icons share the Honda Center stage during their "Face 2 Face" North American tour.Honda Center, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, CA; 714-704-2400Gary Sinise & the Lt. Dan Band, 3/29 6p.m.As Sam McPheeters desc

  March 27, 2009

• Elton and Billy spend another day in paradise

  For swarms of aging pop fans with cash to burn, tonight is a pretty big deal. We are just hours away from the second night of the Face 2 Face tour starring mega stars and all around good pals (indicated by the cute picture to the left) Elton John and Billy Joel. For those of you lucky enough to get a second shot at this sold out tour, you probably don't even care that it's on a Monday night. Besides, who needs to be fully awake and coherent at work on a Tuesday anyway? But you have to wonder if

  March 30, 2009

• Slideshows: Elton John and Billy Joel at the Honda Center, Aushua @ Detroit Bar

  Two decidedly different shows went down last night in our county, and we were at 'em both. Sir Elton John and Billy Joel went "Face 2 Face" at the Honda Center in Anaheim, and Beth Stirnaman was there to photographically receive the runoff of their ivory-tickling glory. (That sounded sort of gross. I apologize.) Also, Andrew Youssef shot the last night of Aushua's Monday night Detroit Bar residency; he also grabbed some pics of opening acts Local Native and Living Suns. Those are here! And it's

  March 31, 2009

• Game On

  Shift Happens: Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life

  January 10, 2008

• 386 Words About Nine Bad Plays

  January 2, 2003

• For Christ's Sake

  February 11, 1999

• New Reviews

  Lonely Hearts; Pathfinder; Perfect Stranger; Slow Burn

  April 12, 2007

• Exquisite

  July 20, 2006

• Sweet Sixteen

  April 6, 2006

• 4 Hands Is Easy Listening

  January 12, 2006

• Boost Police Checkpoints

  June 30, 2005

• June 23-30

  June 23, 2005

• Panty Waste

  April 21, 2005

• Playing for Keeps

  January 6, 2005

• No More Big-Haired Operatics

  January 15, 2004

• Robin Hood With Scalpel

  July 24, 2003

• The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever!: 1 - 50

  June 26, 2003

• God Damn the 80s!

  August 1, 2002

• Buddy Loves Paul

  May 9, 2002

• Its a Big, Fat, Corporate Rock World

  April 12, 2001

• Not Another #%&@$* Year-End List!

  December 30, 1999

• Teddy Morgan Is Easy on the Ears

  December 2, 1999

• Shirekin, Hollerin, Screamin, Fallerin!

  May 27, 1999

• CD Reviews

  May 27, 1999

• The Incomplete Guide to Roots Music

  August 20, 1998

• Pop-Inspired Musicals Like 'My Way' Put Asses in Seats

  July 2, 2009

• Paging Ken Burns! The Great War Between the North and South Water Districts

  Terry Teri Sforza blogs on the Register's OC Watchdog that the cities of Laguna Beach, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, as well as the El Toro, South Coast, Irvine Ranch, Moulton Niguel, Trabuco Canyon and Santa Margarita water districts, may secede from its northern partners in the water-importing Municipal Water District of Orange County to form its own South Orange County water authority. The confederacy claims the mega-district spends too much money, does not pay enough attention to

  July 23, 2009