Britney Spears

Gustavo's First Time With the OC Roller Girls, Orange County's Rockingest, Sockingest Bunch of Gals!

We've been praising the OC Roller Girls for years in these pages, even when they didn't exist--hell, Lowery was writing about skating's renaissance a decade ago, back when femininity was defined by Britney Spears and tramp stamps. We've named them on our Sexiest People list back in 2011, do slidesho ... More >>

Nervo

Yost Theater

The Five Best Shows in OC This Week: Nov. 9-11

Friday, November 9Haymarket SquaresSlidebar The Haymarket Squares specialize in a quick clip brand of folk music. Using mandolin, piano, and whistling, they weave a folk tapestry while busting lyrics about righteous anger and the songs of Britney Spears. N ... More >>

Haymarket Squares

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The MTV Video Music Awards' Five Most Iconic Performances

See Also: *Five Unexpected Cover Songs From Insane Clown Posse*Five Artists (Besides Lil Wayne) Who Think New York Sucks*Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music MomentsTomorrow night is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. For fans of music videos, it's the most wonderful time of the year--a ti ... More >>

Ju-Ju-Be Pairs With Tokidoki to Create Diaper Bags for Hip Moms

[Trendzilla] The Costa Mesa company makes baby lugging downright hipster

Manila Luzon on Her Budding Music Career: 'If Kim Zolciak Can Do It, So Can I'

​Manila Luzon, our favorite contestant on the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race (and the "next to next drag superstar," aka runner up) was recently featured on HuffPo talking about her music career. Apparently making the leap from lip-syncing into actually singing! Not only is she working with ... More >>

The 10 Worst Music Videos of 2011

​Every year, the MTV Video Music Awards give the best music videos of the year with a statuette. But personally, we think its way more fun to laugh at the stupid ones. So this year, for your amusement, Heard Mentality will recognize the worst music videos made in 2011 (gold statuettes are, unfortu ... More >>

Justin Bieber Is Officially the Most Searched Musician Of 2011

​Bing.com, Microsoft's search engine, recently compiled its 2011 search trends for musicians and came up with some interesting results.Their list of the top ten most searched musicians is entirely made up of femme powerhouses (Who run da world?), save for the top slot, which was nabbed b ... More >>

Director Chris Marrs Piliero Gives Away Music Video Memorabilia

​One of our favorite contemporary music video directors, OC native Chris Marrs Piliero, is giving away a ton of ultra cool music memorabilia from videos he directed. The contest is open on his site, marrsattacks.com until Nov. 19, and the mementos include items from the sets of of Ke$ha, the Bl ... More >>

Ten Musician Stamps We'd Like To See

​ The US Postal Service, desperate to stop 15 years of bleeding caused by email and private competitors, announced that it will soon feature living people on stamps (the post office has long had a policy of placing only the dead on postage). Of interest to this column, the USPS will consider fe ... More >>

Chris Marrs Piliero Shot Britney Spears

And other tales of music-video directing from former local musician Chris Marrs Piliero

Britney Spears

Honda Center

Britney Spears' Setlist Revealed!

​ [via Digital Spy] Here's what to expect when Britney Spears comes to Honda Center with Nicki Minaj on June 24 for her Femme Fatale world tour. There's a bunch of old and new: "Hold It Against Me" and "Till The World Ends" are in there with "Baby One More Time" and "Toxic." Covers include Madonna ... More >>

Leaked: Britney Spears' After-Party Plans

​ Britney Spears has had a busy week, announcing a pair of June SoCal shows as part of her Femme Fatale tour and popping up unexpectedly at a club with Nicki Minaj, causing such a stir that six fans collapsed from hyperventilation. Not wanting to miss out on the excitement, we used our connecti ... More >>

Britney Spears Confirms Honda Center Date

​Britney Spears just announced her SoCal dates with Nicki Minaj. Nervo and Jessie and the Toy Boys will also be opening. Spears will be at the Staples Center on June 20 and the Honda Center June 24. Tickets go on sale Saturday, April 30, at 10 a.m.

[UPDATED: Poll May Be Fake] OC Poll Names Britney Spears the 'Greatest Gay Icon of All Time'

​UPDATE, FEB. 21, 2:39 P.M.: We've been alerted that this could all be a hoax. South Florida Gay News (SFGN) reports that the poll--shared last week by The Washington Post, Toronto Sun, celebrity news sites and (yup) us--is fake, a made-up story by Examiner.com. SFGN writes that they "discovered ... More >>

Britney Spears to Become Comic Book Heroine

​Britney Spears' career has seen many shifts, from young Mouseketeer to pop diva to tabloid queen. But comic book character? It will soon be a reality. Spears will feature as the latest pop culture protagonist of the FAME series of comic books, to be released in March.

Jordin Sparks

The Grove of Anaheim

A Mystery No More!

Discover Miike Snow, so very disco

Tuesday Karaoke

Ripples

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

OC Fairgrounds

[CD Review] Ciara, 'Fantasy Ride' (Jive/RCA/LaFace)

To Do Tonight - 4/20

The Wall, 8 p.m.It's international pot smoking day. Why not partake in this trippy experience? Thanks largely to illustrator Gerald Scarfe and his constantly morphing, slightly disturbing and completely spellbinding images, The Wall is an hour and a half of absolutely mind-bending provocation set to ... More >>

Britney Spears

Honda Center

Rad Local Shows for Those Staying in Town This Weekend

Don't feel like sweating your balls off? Or dropping 269 bizones to get the opportunity to sweat your balls off? Weird, but you've still got options around OC if you're not heading out to Coachella.

Rumored/Confirmed Coachella Artists Start to Trickle In

LAist has about 20 artists they say are "confirmed" for Coachella (coming up soon! April 17-19!), and many more that are "rumored"--and given that just about every act of note is "rumored" for Coachella at this point in the year, a classification that's about as meaningful as last night's Golden Glo ... More >>

Albert's Favorite Things: OC Weekly's Music Editor Discusses How He Wasted His Life This Year

More From Jingle Ball!

This guy next to me is eating a baked potato. That's like the weirdest thing you can eat at a concert. Well, in the realm of possibility, at least. I guess like, elf meat would be weirder. Because elves are fictional, natch.They're playing all sorts of goofy videos between sets, like thinly veiled c ... More >>

Another Show Announcement! Britney Spears in Anaheim

Britney Spears, an American popular music singer you may be passingly familiar with, is going back on tour--"The Circus Starring Britney Spears"--with a stop at the Honda Center in Anaheim on April 19. It's her first arena tour in five years, her press release kindly informs us.The tour is named aft ... More >>

[Aural Reports] Long Beach's Erick Coomes Lives High on the Low End

Computer Love

Ingrid Michaelson

CD Review: WWE The Music Volume 8 (Wal-Mart Exclusive Version)

Music critics occasionally venture a crack at reviewing WWE music compilations, but they often miss the mark, because you simply cannot just act as if this is some regular compilation CD and assess the songs simply as songs. Not for the most part. But to explain, I need to back up a little bit... T ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Expensive Kids' Clothes: Why?

Hits!

The Noize Music

OC Weekly Holiday Party

It was hard to top last year’s party on that beautiful boat in Newport, but this Saturday the OC Weekly Holiday Party & Fashion Show hit an all-time high with one of the best parties of the holiday season (if I do say so myself). Britney Spears may have been a no-show, but that didn’t seem to ... More >>

Hits!

Stacks the Vinyl Authority

New Britney Songs Leaked

The new Britney Spears album wont drop until November 13, but 4 of her songs have been "accidentally" leaked into the internet. It looks like a publicity stunt to arouse interest in the former pop queen's new work (come on, four songs got leaked???), but if the rest of the album is as bland as thi ... More >>

Three's a Crowd

'What I learned from being the other woman, even if I was only a girl

Who's Got Crystal Balls?

The Weekly wants your '07 predictions

Paging Prognosticators

Will the Ducks win the Stanley Cup? Will the Angels make it to the Series? Will Tawny Kitaen stay out of jail? Will terrorists hit one of our local targets: Disneyland, the San Onofre nuke plant or TBN headquarters? Should they hit Disneyland? Will home prices collapse? What will happen first: our t ... More >>

Bands We Like: Henry Clay People

It's been a few slow days for blogging 'round here (what could I possibly show you that Brit-Brit already hasn't?) so I let our rockin' intern Miles Clements do a little work while I took a four hour lunch. Let's read what he has to write: There needs to be more bands willing to crank out good ol ... More >>

King of the Chaff

Keven Federline makes a case for the American Chav

Making Snow Cones

Champions on Ice

The Nip Slip

Want Sushi, Slacks and a Massage With That Mercedes?

How the rich buy cars

Diminishing Returns

Learning the rules at the Prospector, the HB Art Center and the Art Theatre

Taxi Driver Confessions

Are you flirtin with me?

Behind the Music

Star Crossed

Celebrity-bashing thrives, gets its own search engine