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  • Blogs

    June 16, 2008

    You're Going to Hurley

    Hurley Entertainment is hosting a day-long music/fashion/sports event Wed. June 18 at its Costa Mesa headquarters (1945 Placentia Ave.). Action starts at 2 p.m., with bands playing at 4 p.m. Vans Warped Tour 2008 acts Beat Union (Clash/Jam/Joe Jackson-style new wave/punk from Birmingham, England), ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 20, 2008

    Beat Skank

    The English Beat

  • Culture

    August 2, 2007

    Bond, Edward Bond

    Rude Guerrilla turns its focus to the most important playwright you’ve probably never heard of

  • Music

    April 12, 2007

    From Tears to Smiles

    How the English Beat goes on

  • Music

    March 15, 2007

    No Sir, I Don't Like Him

    Eric Clapton polls low

  • Music

    November 30, 2006

    Death Grunts

    Napalm Death

  • News

    September 21, 2006

    'I've Never Been to America. America Came to Me'

    Ex-Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg recalls his three-year journey through Americas war on terror

  • Columns

    July 13, 2006

    Diary of a Mad County

    July 5 - July 11

  • Music

    March 30, 2006

    The Plague of Ska

    The English Beat have another go at America

  • Music

    July 14, 2005

    BECK

    Guero (Interscope)

  • Music

    December 30, 2004

    Muh-Merica

    Hurricane Melvin, meet Hurricane Jeanne

  • Culture

    March 25, 2004

    You Know! For Kids!

    Because were family-friendly like that!

  • Columns

    September 4, 2003

    Diary of a Mad County

    Because were family-friendly like that!

  • Music

    May 8, 2003

    Sound Salvation

    Kat Jetson on Broadcast

  • Culture

    July 18, 2002

    Last Night on Earth

    The final 24 hours of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    What The Hell?

    An interview with Rob Halford

  • Music

    April 26, 2001

    Albino Brown

    Social commentator, Radio Host/Producer (SP Radio One, The Ska Parade), Filmmaker, Breakdancer, Street Poet, Music Historian

  • News

    May 25, 2000

    Coin Return

    Social commentator, Radio Host/Producer (SP Radio One, The Ska Parade), Filmmaker, Breakdancer, Street Poet, Music Historian

  • News

    March 25, 1999

    Is That a Badge in Your Pocket? Or are you just happy to see me?

    Are OC's cops a little too excited about busting men for gay sex?

  • Culture

    August 27, 1998

    Can You Smell the *^@#?

    It's in the first act of Curtains-but it does get better

  • Calendar

    July 30, 2009

    Reel Big Fish, English Beat

    The Grove of Anaheim

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2009

    Orange County to Lose Bankruptcy Crown to Jefferson County, AL?

    ​Am in Chicago right now for an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) conference, and during a meeting at a bar, three good ol' boys went up to me. "So you're from Orange County, California," one drawled. Yep. "Home of the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history?" Why yes. "We're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Night Horse's Frontman Sam James Velde Says, 'Hit It and Quit It'

    ​Fronted by Sam James Velde--once singer of LA's Bluebird and co-founder of Cold Sweat Records, which deployed records by Devendra Banhart, Lavender Diamond and pre-No Age trio Wives from the same mighty mailing address--and reinforced with several members of saga-song heavy band Ancestors, Night ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Broadcast Singer Trish Keenan Dies From Pneumonia

    ​We lost another great musician today. Warp Records (the band's label) announced that lead singer Trish Keenan of British electronic-pop band Broadcast has died from pneumonia-related complications this morning. Her manager, Martin Spoke, announced, "She had been in Australia and had stayed on to ... More >>

  • Music

    April 7, 2011

    Duran Duran: Still Hungry

    For too long, John Taylor and the boys have been a pop group without a hit. They mean to change that

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