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October 14, 2010
Pensive, Yet Airborne
[Best of OC 2010] Yuri Tag's 10 OC Survival Tips
Blogs
June 30, 2010
Flier of the Week: West Coast Wednesday at The Crosby, TONIGHT
If you don't know why this glorious portrait of revered West Coast rap legends was picked for flier of the week...you betta' ask somebody.
Blogs
March 31, 2010
Free The Robots Record Release Show in LA
What's up ese? Santa Ana's Free The RobotsSanta Ana's multitasking Chris Alfaro, a.k.a. Free The Robots, is a busy man. Somehow finding time between co-running Orange County's beacon of all things hip the Crosby, he's written and produced one of the year's strongest local albums.
Blogs
December 7, 2009
What You Missed: Miss Double D-Cember, Holiday Projection, Ugly Sweater, Hot Pants Party
Chris VictorioHot pants, check... now where are the ugly sweaters? We demand a total weekend do-over. Like, right now. Our weekend? Well, our weekend was kind of, sort of filled with T&A. Hooray?First, on Friday night we headed over to Sutra Lounge in Costa Mesa for their Ugly Sweater, Hot Pa ... More >>
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July 20, 2009
The Crosby to Offer Scorpions for Dinner?
The latest issue of Giant Robot checks in with Chris Alfaro, he of musical outfit Free the Robots and one of the trio who runs SanTana hipster heaven/emerging restaurant the Crosby. I don't have the copy on me, and GR's website is impossible to navigate, but I do remember this: Alfaro ate scorpions ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2009
Free the Robots Featured in Giant Robot Magazine
Chris Alfaro--DJ, Free the Robots whiz, co-owner of the Crosby in downtown Santa Ana and former OC Weekly co-cover subject--is featured in a Q&A in the latest edition of Giant Robot magazine, seen here with this nifty cover by Oakland-based artist Deth P. Sun. In it, Alfaro talks about his May t ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2009
Question: What Does a Crosby Owner Have Against Downtown Santa Ana Mexican Restaurants?
Answer: It gives him the runs.At least that's what can be surmised from the latest issue of Giant Robot, the excellent magazine of all things Asian and Asian-American co-created by OC native Martin Wong. In it, he interviews Chris Alfaro, one of the three guys behind The Crosby, the downtown SanTana ... More >>
Music
November 13, 2008
Dennis Lluy of Koo's Cafe Brings a Bunch of Bands to Santa Ana With the SoundDowntown Festival
Answer: It gives him the runs.At least that's what can be surmised from the latest issue of Giant Robot, the excellent magazine of all things Asian and Asian-American co-created by OC native Martin Wong. In it, he interviews Chris Alfaro, one of the three guys behind The Crosby, the downtown SanTana ... More >>
Blogs
October 7, 2008
The Crosby Still Not Ready for Prime Time
We like the Crosby, we really do. We cheered their fight against the idiot SanTana bureaucrats. We like co-owners Chris Alfaro, Phil Nisco and Marc Yamaoka 'cause they always sport a smile and some weird-ass T-shirt (one of their workers was wearing one with Steve Urkel's mugshot--I remember that ep ... More >>
Music
August 7, 2008
[Sprawl of Sound] OC Weekly's Music Editor Bids Farewell, Bittersweetly
We like the Crosby, we really do. We cheered their fight against the idiot SanTana bureaucrats. We like co-owners Chris Alfaro, Phil Nisco and Marc Yamaoka 'cause they always sport a smile and some weird-ass T-shirt (one of their workers was wearing one with Steve Urkel's mugshot--I remember that ep ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2008
The Crosby's "Official" Grand Opening Party
Better late than never? Sure! Weekly cover boys Phil Nisco, Chris Alfaro and Mark Yamaoka turned a weekend long extravaganza into The Crosby’s Official Grand Opening Party. So what if they opened two months ago? According to Nisco, the lineup of events this weekend just seemed like the perfect opp ... More >>
Music
May 22, 2008
[Sprawl of Sound] The Crosby's Grand Opening, Nigerian Music Not by Fela Kuti
Better late than never? Sure! Weekly cover boys Phil Nisco, Chris Alfaro and Mark Yamaoka turned a weekend long extravaganza into The Crosby’s Official Grand Opening Party. So what if they opened two months ago? According to Nisco, the lineup of events this weekend just seemed like the perfect opp ... More >>
Music
April 10, 2008
[Sprawl of Sound] Getting Wowed by Autechre's Live Show, Gaslamp Killer at the Now-Open Crosby
Better late than never? Sure! Weekly cover boys Phil Nisco, Chris Alfaro and Mark Yamaoka turned a weekend long extravaganza into The Crosby’s Official Grand Opening Party. So what if they opened two months ago? According to Nisco, the lineup of events this weekend just seemed like the perfect opp ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2008
Spit Monthly Debuts at The Crosby Tonight
LA DJs Gaslamp Killer and Kutmah kick off their monthly event Spit (happening on first Thursdays at 9 p.m.), bringing the rhythmic fire tonight at the newly opened Crosby club in Santa Ana (we missed the "soft opening" April 1 because we were out of town, damn it). Want to hear hip-hop being mold ... More >>
Music
March 27, 2008
[Sprawl of Sound] Black Ghosts In the Booth, Gaslamp Killer On Disc, and the Crosby (Finally) Opens
LA DJs Gaslamp Killer and Kutmah kick off their monthly event Spit (happening on first Thursdays at 9 p.m.), bringing the rhythmic fire tonight at the newly opened Crosby club in Santa Ana (we missed the "soft opening" April 1 because we were out of town, damn it). Want to hear hip-hop being mold ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2008
Last Night: DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist, Kid Koala at House of Blues
The Hard Sell Tour with DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist, Kid Koala House of Blues (Anaheim) February 14, 2008 Better Than: Damn near every DJ set you’ve ever witnessed. Download: Excerpts from the Hard Sell set. I missed opening DJ Kid Koala’s set by five minutes, but Free the Robots' Chris Alfaro said ... More >>
Blogs
February 4, 2008
Sneak Peek of The Crosby
Phil Nisco and Chris Alfaro of Free the Robots/The Crosby. Please. Open. Via this video of a Free the Robots practice session for their NYC show. Plus, you get some Big Apple footage. Progress definitely has been made at The Crosby, the venue that, we predicted back in September, would revoluti ... More >>
Music
December 20, 2007
Sprawl of Sound
Rewind, Selectah! The best releases and shows of 2007
Blogs
November 26, 2007
The Far-out Sounds of Saturn
Saturn: Currently shopping demos to several labels. With a sound that's been honed over billions of years, the planet Saturn has developed quite a beguiling musical signature. It's doubtful that many Earthlings will hum along to it, but I think it may be my favorite strain of music of the spheres. ... More >>
Features
November 15, 2007
Wax-scratch Fever
FEEDBACK: The analog-digital wars rage on as OC DJs debate their weapons of choice
Blogs
November 8, 2007
Free the Robots on Dublab Today
Free the Robots, about to drop some next ish. From noon till 2 p.m. Pacific Time, Santa Ana's Free the Robots/DJ Urthworm (Chris Alfaro) “will be DJing, possibly doing some live shit, and leaking some new cuts” on the LA-based Dublab, one of the webwide world's finest sources of beat-centric m ... More >>
Music
October 18, 2007
Sprawl of Sound
Punk, Funk and Ganked: The Clinic Shrugs Off Barbs, Orgone’s Funk Proves Reich’s Theory Wasn’t Bunk, Crosby’s Ill Fortunes
Blogs
September 27, 2007
Free the Robots, Detroit Bar (Busywork), September 26, 2007
Click the photo for more snaps from the show. I had absurdly high expectations for Free the Robots' OC live debut—and, knock me over with a feather, those expectations were exceeded. That experience is so rare, I'd almost forgotten what it feels like. Seeing Free the Robots (SanTana impresario/mu ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2007
Free the Robots' Live OC Debut
Alfaro (far left) and Nisco (second from right) will be soundbombing Detroit Bar tonight. Recent OC Weekly cover boys Chris Alfaro (aka Free the Robots) and Phil Nisco (Black Lung Pop) will be joining forces tonight for their first live performance in an Orange County venue. The Santa Ana musicia ... More >>
Music
September 13, 2007
Three the Hard Way
Marc Yamaoka, Phil Nisco and Chris Alfaro wanted to open a hot new nightspot—But first, they had to fight Santa Ana City Hall
Blogs
August 31, 2007
Introducing pepperandbutter dot com
Chris Alfaro, putting on airs. Santa Ana musician/DJ/entrepreneur Free the Robots (Chris Alfaro) alerts us that his soon-coming club/restaurant The Crosby now has a video blog (wittily titled Kenny Bloggins) that will provide several entertaining hours of “mindless escapism.” It includes the ... More >>
Music
July 19, 2007
Aural Reports
He Is the Robots: Free the Robots twists music into weird new shapes

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