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How Does a Small Band Book a Tour?

By Jessica Hopper Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is ... More >>

Top Five Videos of People Eating Live Shrimp

Did you read Michelle's post this morning on the Craigslist poster in Irvine who tried to give away a dish of shrimp because they didn't realize it included the heads? I have to assume it was those wee beady eyes. In a society where meat is often faceless, limbless, skinless and boneless, seeing the ... More >>

Boy Scouts' "Perversion Files" Add 19 Cases to Known Orange County Count; New Total: 47

Nineteen Orange County men were banned from scouting over sexual abuse allegations between 1959 and 1985, according to the so-called "Perversion Files" the Boy Scouts released Thursday under court order.Coupled with previous known cases, that makes 47 within the Orange County Council of the Boy Scou ... More >>

Datsik Fine-Tunes His TrapStyle Skills Before Migrating to SoCal

The Canadian EDM producer is moving fast with his signature blend of dubstep and hip-hop

"Peace and Dignity" Run Arrives in Anaheim

On Aug. 27, about 20 runners with Latin American indigenous group Peace and Dignity Journeys made their way from Long Beach to the La Colonia neighborhood in Anaheim, making a brief stop on the Anna Drive where the police shooting of Manuel Diaz set off several days of civil unrest through ... More >>

Richard Turley, Pedophile Boy Scouts Troop Leader, Molested 3 O range County Lads in One Night

​Boy Scouts of America leaders knew for years that troop leader Richard Turley molested boys, including three from Orange County, but the organization allowed him to move back and forth between his native Canada--and thus to continue the pedophilia on both sides of the border. The Scouts even hel ... More >>

Young the Giant Performing at the VMAs

​Young the Giant are the home boys that sneakily made good--Morrissey loves them, they've played the Weenie Roast, are opening for Incubus on tour this year...and today MTV announced that Young the Giant will make their VMA performance debut at the 2011 Video Music Awards. The lineup for VMA perf ... More >>

Crytal Antlers to Tour with Wu Lyf

Mary Bell​We've been loving Crystal Antlers' sophomore set Two-Way Mirror, to death (read all about it here), so we're excited to hear that the Long Beach band is touring with Wu Lyf this fall. (Incidentally, Ikey Owens of Free Moral Agents produced the album.) Jonny Bell, chimney sweep by ... More >>

Adele Announces Rescheduled North American Tour Dates

​Hurrah! Hurrah! Today Adele announced her rescheduled North American tour dates on her website. A few days ago she posted a note to her fans saying the decision to cancel the tour "was a devastating decision to make, but i really had no choice. i had to give my voice 2 weeks rest or risk permane ... More >>

[UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

Photos by Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklySeven of the Irvine 11​UPDATE, MARCH 11, 4:08 P.M.: The arraignment of the Irvine 11 was continued this morning until April 15 so the court can consider defense motions to seal grand jury documents, remove the Orange County District Attorney (OCDA) from the ... More >>

[UPDATE: Newport Elementary & Beaches Closed, Small Waves in OC] No Tsunami Warning Issued For California As a Result of 8.8 Magnitude Japan Quake--Yet

​UPDATE, MARCH 11, 8:14 A.M.: Newport Elementary School has been closed.UPDATE, MARCH 11, 7:46 A.M.: Southern California is now under a tsunami advisory, rather than a warning. Waves could get as high as 7 feet up in the Central Coast, but should be more in the neighborhood of 2 feet on Orange Cou ... More >>

[UPDATED] Irvine 11 Charged With Misdemeanors, Face Jail, Probation, Community Service if Convicted

​UPDATED, FEB. 28, 8:33 A.M.: The Islamic Institute of Orange County hosts "Stand With the Irvine 11: Community Town Hall and Action" at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the IIOC Multipurpose Room, 1220 N. State College Blvd., Irvine.The event flier follows after the jump. (Also, scroll down a couple posts i ... More >>

Sade and John Legend Team Up for Tour Concluding at Honda Center

​R&B singer/songwriter Sade announced that she will be joined by John Legend for her "Once and a Lifetime" tour. Yes, he will be at every single concert. The Live Nation-produced tour hits the Staples Center in L.A.  Aug. 19 and 20. Since the demand was so high, they slated their last dat ... More >>

Soundgarden to Release First Live Album in March

​​Since the group's reunion in 2010, longtime fans of Soundgarden have clamored for new material from grunge's prodigal sons. Guitarist Kim Thayil won't rule out a new studio album, but the Seattle heroes seem to be concentrating on putting out selections from their deep vault of music from thei ... More >>

Matt Costa Announces New Album, Mobile Chateau, and Fall Tour

​It's been over two years since the release of Matt Costa's second studio album, Unfamiliar Faces, with its infectious lead single "Mr. Pitiful." But now the Huntington Beach resident has finally announced plans for his third full-length, titled Mobile Chateau, due out September 21... along with p ... More >>

6 Great Non-Hockey Quotes From Retired Anaheim Ducks Captain Scott Niedermayer

​You really can't blame Anaheim Ducks captain Scott Niedermayer for hanging up his skates. What is there left to accomplish in hockey? He led Canada to the gold medal in the last Olympics and alongside his brother Rob helped Anaheim win its first Stanley Cup in 2006-07 (the franchise's first so fa ... More >>

Ian Bagg Presents

Brea Improv

Texting, Tweeting and Facebooking Teens Are Stupid Again!

​Two weeks after a study partly funded by the British Academy concluded phone texting leads to more literate youths, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, claims messaging via cellphones is contributing to a generation of college students who can't write.Their evidence: the rising failure ... More >>

Who Else Did Ryan Jenkins Need to Kill to Rank Higher on List of TV Bombs and Blunders?

Buena Park Police Dept.The late Ryan Jenkins​At No. 30 on the list of "TV's 50 Biggest Bombs and Blunders" in the Jan. 29 issue of Entertainment Weekly is "Casting Ryan Jenkins on Megan Wants a Millionaire (VH1, 2009)":The hiring of the 32-year-old contestant--who hanged himself soon after police ... More >>

Ian Bagg

Brea Improv

Distant Karma Catches Up With the Brotherhood's Brenice Lee Smith

Was Brotherhood Member Brenice Lee Smith a Felonious Monk?

Lady Gaga Announces Tour, Skips Orange County

​OK, so we all know by now that the Kanye West/Lady Gaga show at the Honda Center, once scheduled for November 15, isn't happening. Heck, the whole "Fame Kills" tour isn't happening. But even though Kanye is dealing with his own post-Taylor Swift issues, the hope still remained that the seemingly ... More >>

Just Another Orange County Murder: Jasmine Fiore Car Found

UPDATED THROUGHOUT! The final piece in the puzzle explaining how swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore was brutally murdered and mutilated, as well as whether anyone helped now dead murder suspect Ryan Alexander Jenkins kill and/or dispose of the body in a Buena Park dumpster, could have b ... More >>

[Sound Guy] What's Up With the Color Turning Is Clear. Wth the Jakes, Less So

Warped Tour to Launch in Pomona This Year, Lineup Announced

For the third straight year, the Vans Warped Tour--46 dates in 2009-will be kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex, this time on June 26. Pre-sales for tickets start April 1 (not a prank), with the "regular" on-sale date being April 18. They've also announced the list of bands performing, though we don' ... More >>

Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-is ... More >>

[Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

The Weekly's Head Count of the 48 New Faces Who Want to Be Your Next Sheriff

The Sound of Godzilla Urinating

Skinny Puppy & Otto Von Schirach speaker-fist America

An Inconvenient Slope

Big Bears ski resorts are covered in snow despite a chronic lack of natural snowfall. So where are the crowds? Dont blame global warmingblame the media

New Film Reviews

Cape of Good Hope, The Family Stone, Finding Home, Neil N' Nikki

Lords of Acid

How the Brotherhood of Eternal Love Became OCs Hippie Mafia

Ask a Canadian!

Letters

Angels, Osmonds & Bosoms!

Let It Snow

Warren Millers Journey kicks off another ski season

Diary of a Mad County

DOA Lives!

The Shithead who would be king

Diary of a Mad County

Brea

Mall mad

Letters

Sex, Smoke and Shyness

Diana Krall gets big

Anger Is a Gift

Rage Against the Machine

Polyester Road Diaries

My life in the bush of filmic ghosts

The Unabauer Manifesto

Roy Bauer is South County colleges' professor of dissent

Letters