Black Sabbath

The Five Worst British Import Bands

​ By: Gavin Cleaver While we might have done some wonderful things for y'all with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Radiohead, we have also sent you some terrible crimes against music. And while none of this really compares to Canada foisting Avril Lavigne and Nickleback on you, it's st ... More >>

On The Line: Walter Cotta Of Alegria And L'Opera, Part Two

If there was something we learned from sitting at L'Opera, it's that this was more than a special occasion restaurant. There's no formal dress code, despite the surroundings. You could have a nice lunch without breaking the bank. The restaurant is what you made of it, whether casual or fancy. We adm ... More >>

Om Drone Metal Riffs on Religion

The San Francisco band are built on pantheism and powerful distorition

25 gorgeous GIFs From Lollapalooza 2012

 BY REED FISCHER See Also*Ten Things Your Lollapalooza Outfit Says About You*Top Five Memorable Bands From This Year's Lollapalooza*Lollapalooza Suspended, Resumed After Dangerous Weather ConditionsReady for some GIFs? To quote Ozzy Osbourne, "I can't fucking hear you!" I said, ARE YOU READY FO ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'Worship the Future' by the Deepsea Goes

The Deepsea GoesWorship the Futurehttp://www.thedeepseagoes.com/The OC/LA-based the Deepsea Goes, who play a record release party this Tuesday at Detroit Bar, are looking to reclaim a bit of momentum after some substantial hibernation from the studio. Worship the Future, their ninth formal release s ... More >>

Ask Exene: What the Hell Are My Kids Listening To?

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. If you want to ask the legendary vocalist for advice--on your love life, politics, your musical career, Armageddon, filial relationships, anxiety over 2012- ... More >>

Empty-minded EDM

[Ask Exene] Exene Cervenka answers when you ask, 'What the hell are my kids listening to?'

Ten Questions with That Metal Show's Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson

​I grew up in a town where almost every kid wore a jean jacket and worshiped at the altar of Ozzy Osbourne. KNAC blared from garages and Skid Row was played over the loudspeaker at our city's annual carnival. Needless to say, I know a thing or two about metal, which might have something to do with ... More >>

Railroad to Alaska

Tiki Bar

Johnny Ramone's Autobio to be Released, Eight Years Later (Plus, Five Other Essential Rock Bios)

​Yesterday, news of the long-awaited Johnny Ramone autobiography finally broke and is scheduled to be released this spring. It's hard to believe, but Johnny died in September 2004 and somehow his memoirs are being released now. It should be interesting to read what the iconic guitar's true thought ... More >>

Black Sabbath and Other Bands That Almost Played Coachella

​To cap off Coachella week, we here at Heard Mentality were bummed to find out that Black Sabbath were reportedly slated to headline one of the nights, but due to Tony Iommi's battle with lymphoma (get better Tony!), the band had to pull out from what would a great kickoff to the band's 2012 tour. ... More >>

A Brief History of Great Guitarists with Less Digits

Django Reinhardt​This Friday and Saturday evening at Segerstrom Hall, guitarist Dorado Schmitt will present an evening dedicated to Django Reinhardt.

Local Record Review: 'Popular Talk' by Paper City

Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer--vinyl single, full-length album, CD, cassette--we want to hear from you! Send copies, along with any photos and PR material, to Beat Blvd., c/o OC Weekly, 2975 Red Hill A ... More >>

Girl Talk Is the Best at What He Does

Audiences aren't sick of mash-ups yet, not when they're as sophisticated as Gregg Gillis' work

Hall of Shame: 10 Artists Who Absolutely Need to Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

​Each year, the old bastards at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame invite some other old bastards to join the club. Usually, they're either obvious (this year, Tom Waits, who really should have been in about 15 years ago) or questionable (Alice Cooper is cool, but he has maybe ten truly great songs in ... More >>

Bonzo: The Groove Remains the Same

Galaxy Concert Theatre

Wolfmother

House of Blues

Ronnie Arnold of K'ya Street Fare, Part Two

Photo credit: Meg Strouse​Ronnie Arnold of Anaheim's K'ya Street Fare is on the line with us this week, at the helm of a menu that spans the entire globe, from Paris to Korea. Prices are lower for the small plates than at the original K'ya in Laguna Beach, which makes it a place for sun-dazed and ... More >>

Friday Double Feature: Faded Paper Figures and School of Rock All-Stars at the Glass House

​With the weekend fast upon us, the Glass House is preparing to maximize their Friday show schedule. Kicking off tomorrow afternoon with a benefit concert for Haiti from the School of Rock All-Stars (just like kids from that Jack Black movie, only better), the Pomona venue hosts a celebr ... More >>

Ozzy Osbourne Book Signing

Barnes and Noble

Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister and More at NAMM Day 2

The musician sightings at NAMM, which runs through Sunday, heated up Friday as I passed Tom Dumont (No Doubt), Kenny G, Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), Neal Schon (Journey), Billy Zoom (X), Tim Mahoney (311), Rikki Rockett (Poison), Peter Frampton, and Hollywood-based hard rock hero, Lemmy Kilmister ... More >>

Happy 4/20!!!!

To boring people, April 20 means two things: the anniversary of the Columbine massacre or Hitler's birthday. To stoners, it's something way cooler.Because stoners can't agree on anything other than, yes, they should smoke another bowl, the origins of 4/20 vary. Some say it's police code. Some say it ... More >>

LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 5-2-08

There's really only one, isn't there? I mean, sure, if you live near an L.A. art-house theater, you can and should go see SON OF RAMBOW, unless you already caught it at the Newport Beach fest. But I don't need to tell you what the main movie to see this weekend is. [Adopting Beavis and Butt-head v ... More >>

Bronze Metal

Best of Metal Tributes

Om, Lichens, Echoplex, January 20, 2008

Lichens (Chicago guitarist/vocalist Robert Lowe) has balls. Before a crowd of metal heads who wanted to rock the fuck out on cochlea-threatening volume and controlled bombast, he began his set with field recordings of birdsong, while seated off to the left side of the stage. You could sense he was s ... More >>

Vincebus Eruptum

Blue Cheer

CD Review

Tusk, The Resisting Dreamer (Tortuga)

Locals Only

Magic Lantern

Blue Blood & Guts

The Upper Crust’s Hard Rocque Has Ignoble Intentions

Cool Stuff North of the 91

The Fullerton Music Festival

Aural Reports

Like a Bitchen New Mustang: Wild horses couldnt drag Sister Morphine away from hard, bluesy rock

Mammatus' The Coast Explodes

Mammatus The Coast Explodes (Holy Mountain) Release date: April 23, 2007 Curb Your Cynicism is a recurring blogtastic feature in which the music editor pithily enthuses about new releases and reissues he thinks will enhance your life and erode your cynicism about the state of music, circa now. A ... More >>

Locals Only

Fu Manchu as loud and proud as ever

Hits!

THE NOIZE MUSIC

Sabbath Was the Blob

Get Out! Nightlife and more: Nov. 30 - Dec. 7

Tonight @ Detroit: Totimoshi / Fu Manchu

Buck Owens is Black Sabbath and Totimoshi knows why: distinctive guitar tone and songs about Satan make a boy from Bakersfield do good, and Totimoshi guitarist Tony Aguilar learned the necessary lessons from both. Central Valley-raised—where he grew up on country/western as much as rock & ... More >>

The Devil Plays for Mater Dei

Mater Dei High is a haven for cover-ups (see our Ex Cathedra archives), but none are lamer than the one attempted by head football coach Bruce Rollinson in today's typical OC Register Mater Dei blowjob. Register sports writer Carlos Arias (who is a great boxing writer--too bad nobody sees the sport ... More >>

Get Out!

Party's Over!

4,100,000,000 Flies

How High On Fire do Hadean (not Hitchcockian) heavy

Library Music

Plugging the holes in your record collection with . . .
Pentagram, First Daze Here (2002, Relapse)

SXSW Report

Live Reviews from Austin's annual music fest

CD Review

Early Times
Early Man and the Lost Songs of the Caveman

Wotta Country

DEC. 1 DEC. 8

Black to Comm

Black Mountain, obscured by clouds

Sissssssssssssies!

Aug. 11 - Aug. 18

Get Googled

The Hidden Hand cant stay hidden

Into the Void

A psychonauts guide to Black Sabbath

Killing Them Loudly

When Tributes Attack

Various ArtistsBenefit for Truth & Justice: Free the West Memphis 3 Aces & Eights/Koch Re

Notes From the Revolucion

The futura is now