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Chino Moreno Says New Deftones Album is a Little Bit Meshuggah, a Little Bit Depeche Mode

"Change (In The House Of Flies)" from the Deftones' third album White Pony maybe the archetypical song for the band. It represented a shift from their primary aggressive in your face assaults to one of tortured beauty while retaining heavy elements to the song. Deftones have shed their Nu-Metal moni ... More >>

Wayne Coyne On Celebrating His World Record and Collaborating with Ke$ha

See Also: *Wayne Coyne Says 2013 Is the Year of the Flaming Lips *Boys Noize Talks New Album, Working With Snoop Dogg and Skrillex *Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move In our print feature this week, we caught up with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne who outlin ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Says 2013 Is the Year of the Flaming Lips

See Also:* Pacific Festival: The Dunes Announced* Boys Noize Talks New Album, Working With Snoop Dogg and Skrillex*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy MoveAs the Flaming Lips pulled into New Orleans for the final show on a marathon, eight-city, 24-hour jaunt acros ... More >>

Josh Epstein of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. On Pacific Festival, His Favorite Housewife Of Orange County

See Also:* Pacific Festival: The Dunes Announced* Boys Noize Talks New Album, Working With Snoop Dogg and Skrillex*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy MoveDale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. has been laying low for the past few months and with good reason. They've been hunkere ... More >>

Boys Noize Talks New Album, Working With Snoop Dogg and Skrillex

See Also: *Remix Exclusive: Boys Noize - XTC (MMM REMIX) *Best of HARD Summer, Day 1 - Los Angeles State Historic Park - 8/3/12 *Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move Revered as one of the best electronic artists on Beatport for three years in a row, Alexand ... More >>

Brandi Carlile Explains Why She Had to Record Her Latest Album in the Middle of the Woods

See Also:*Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Hank III Doesn't Aim to e Legendary, Just Original It's been a good year for Brandi Carlile. She's got a new record, and sh ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Braid - Glass House - 8/17/12

See Also:*Post-hardcore band Braid Shout Down Obstacles to Come Out of Retirement* How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score* Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy MoveBraidThe Glass House 8/17/12Friday night saw the freshly-reunited 90's po ... More >>

Post-hardcore Braid shout down obstacles to come out of retirement.

See Also: * How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score* Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great Band "When I was a child, I always dreamt one day I'd have lymphoma," jokes singer/songwriter Robert N ... More >>

How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score

See Also:*Duran Duran speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the 80s*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandPlaying at the Soundland Festival in Nashville last fall should have been the high wa ... More >>

Duran Duran Speaks: John Taylor Says Twitter Helped Bring Their Fanbase Back to the '80s

By: Liz OhanesianSee Also:*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move*Duran Duran: Still Hungry*Young the Giant are OC's Next Great BandDuran Duran had only been in Rome for an hour when we hopped on a phone call with bassist extraordinaire John Taylor. The night be ... More >>

Hard Summer Night 2: Top Five Performances

See Also:*HARD Summer vs. Nocturnal Wonderland--Which One is Better*Best of HARD Summer, Day 1 - Los Angeles State Historic Park -8/3/12*Pacific Festival: The Dunes Announced--Mayer Hawthorne, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Poolside and Fool's Gold to PerformNight one of Hard Summer gave us our hipster fil ... More >>

Top Five Memorable Bands From This Year's Lollapalooza

See Also:*Best of HARD Summer, Day 1 - Los Angeles State Historic Park - 8/3/12*HARD Summer Night 2: Top Five Performances*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer was a Gutsy MoveSince 2005, Lollapalooza has descended upon Grant Park in Chicago every August to bring some of musi ... More >>

Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy Move

See Also: *Remix Exclusive: Boys Noize - XTC (MMM REMIX) *HARD Summer vs. Nocturnal Wonderland--Which One is Better? *Shockingly, Bloc Party's Kele Okereke Enjoys Being In a Wildly Successful Rock Band British indie rock band Bloc Party has specialized in showing American practitioners of dancey ... More >>

HARD Summer vs. Nocturnal Wonderland--Which One is Better?

See Also:*Skrillex Fans: Five Reasons They Suck*Five Reasons Why Skrillex Should Have Won Best New Artist at the Grammys *Coachella vs. Lollapalooza: Which is better? Summer may be nearing its end, but there is one more key EDM festival match up to be settled: this weekend's Hard Summer vs. No ... More >>

Krewella Wants to Play Hard With OC Fans This Weekend

See Also: Identity Management Group and Insomniac Events Create an EDM Power Merger in OC Rebecca & Fiona - Dim Mak Studios - 7/12/12 Club Snaps: Zeds Dead @ Ten Nightclub Starting as a side project in high school the new electro trio that is Krewella was formed by sisters Jahan and Yasmin ... More >>

Gang of Four Are Leeds Lads Live!

The aging rockers dust off their trusty, frequently pirated template one more time

DJ/Promoter Ana Calderon: 'I Think A Lot of DJs Hate Me Because...I Made the Promoter/DJ Situation Become More of a Norm.'

Doug Neil/OC WeeklyDJ Ana Calderon (with hat) at a recent Club Mesa event. To her left is SUN Group co-founder Brendan Thomas.​If you're one of the lucky ticket bearers, the doors of the Fox Pomona will part Oct. 19 so you can witness the sold-out, ethereal post-punk glory of Interpol.  Arriv ... More >>

Today in Music News: Bono, Sting, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Blink, Bloc Party, Joan Baez, Weezer, Jermaine Dupri

"George Clooney says the 'Hope for Haiti' benefit for victims of the earthquake in Haiti will include performances from Bono, Sting, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera and Alicia Keys," reports Billboard.com."Coldplay, Blink, Bloc Party Call for Haiti Relief," reports Spin.com"Joan Baez kicks of ... More >>

[CD Review] Regina Spektor, 'Far' (Sire)

[CD Review] Maximo Park, 'Quicken the Heart' (Warp)

Last Saturday: KROQ Weenie Roast at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Andrew YoussefLast Night: KROQ Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater; Saturday May 16, 2009. (More pictures here.)Better Than: Wango Tango.Download: Videos from the day at KROQ.com.The KROQ Weenie Roast is typically full of surprises. With Blink 182 reuniting the night prior at a private ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Brings His Love of the Silver Screen to His Music and, Soon, Actual Screens

Friendly Fires Spark a Disco Inferno

Post-Death From Above 1979, Sebastien Grainger Will Survive

Last Night: Bloc Party, The Blood Arm at the Grove of Anaheim

Last Night: Bloc Party at the Grove of Anaheim, Dec. 15th, 2008.Better Than: Sulking at home while it rains.Download: The "Mercury" video from Bloc Party's Web site.Rain didn't scare away the throngs of kids who soaked up a mesmerizing performance Monday night by noted Britain indie rockers Bloc Par ... More >>

This Week in the OC Weekly

In "War & Water" Matt Coker interviews Hasan Nouri, the developer who pitched plans to stabilize Aliso Creek and his native Afghanistan, but no one listened. News has Matt Coker explaining why rising radio star Leyla Fatima is a patron saint for parents of drug addicts in "Lady Fatima."And R. S ... More >>

Shockingly, Bloc Party's Kele Okereke Enjoys Being In a Wildly Successful Rock Band

The Pretenders Coming to the Grove of Anaheim in March

Fresh off October's Break Up the Concrete, their first new studio album in six years, veteran rockers The Pretenders are not back on the chain gang but rather back on the road, with a headlining tour coming to the Grove of Anaheim on March 8. Surely a show to delight old-school fans and those that ... More >>

On-Sale Saturday: Bloc Party, Donavon Frankenreiter, More

Some good shows announced this week, highlighted by, as pictured, Bloc Party and OC's own Donavon Frankenreiter! Woop woop!

To Do Tonight 7/28

SALSA MONDAYS, 8:30 p.m. Don't forget the chips. Sachi Bar 6400 E. Pacific Coast Hwy. Long Beach CA 562-252-8434 PAJAMARAMA, 7 p.m. Bring your little ones in their jammies for some story time. Barnes & Noble 7881 Edinger Ave. Huntington Beach CA 92647 714-897-8781 CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’, until Augu ... More >>

Pop Goes Britannia

With a New Four-CD Retrospective, Rhino Records Captures the Agony and Ecstasy of Modern English Rock’s Golden Age

Faster Format

VHS or Beta channel Gang of Four, New Order and . . . Jackson Browne?

Spencer's Gifts

Electric Six are still pumping irony

Hits!

Fingerprints

Hits!

Music Revolution

It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

WEB EXCLUSIVE!: The Year In Unfair Shares

The Atlantic Divide

WEB EXCLUSIVE!: Ten bands that werent singing Yankee Doodle Dandy in '06

Get Out!

Special Summer Festival Edition: You are the star!

Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

In defense of Coachella

All Mixed Up

The 11 best music moments from The O.C.

I Want to Be in Love

Gang of Fours not in it

Stupidity

Aug. 4 - Aug. 11

The Asian Persuasion

Great Asian restaurants, and the Asians (and Chuck Devore) who love them

HOT AS IN GOD

This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

DESERT STORM

Stinkstock!

Coachella is part festival, part endurance test

Give Him Some Water so He Wont Die

South By Southwest by OC Weekly

Cons & Tricks

The Willowz: Not yet, guys

Gorge Away

The light pours out of Bloc Party

Moving Units