Cold War Kids

Jesse La Tour: The Candidate

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Devious Means Release Their New EP Tonight at the House of Blues Anaheim

​The Devious Means' album release show tonight at the House of Blues Anaheim has been garnering a buzz for several weeks now, and is even projected to sell out. They've been in the studio since last fall have now they've taken the extra steps to make sure they send deliver their hard work into the ... More >>

To Galaxy Concert Theatre and Beyond

New owner Jon Reiser is determined to be an OC music game changer

Detroit Bar Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary

The tiny bar in a strip mall has been OC's arbiter of cool for a decade. The people behind it tell us why

'[It] Hurt Like Hell': Jack Johnson On Fighting With Andy Samberg in the Video 'At or With Me'

​You know you've really made it when you're the butt of the joke of a Saturday Night Live skit. And a few years ago, singer/songwriter/ultimate feel-good mellow dude Jack Johnson found himself in just that situation. All of a sudden, there was Andy Samberg on the television sporting that signatu ... More >>

See and Be Scenes

The many subspecies of OC bands in their natural habitats

Pop Noir By The Numbers

​Since 2004, people around Orange County have known of dance rock trio Pop Noir, founded by singer/bassist/keyboardist Luke McGarry and twin brother guitarist Joe McGarry (now with drummer Nico Saavedra). Audiences familiar with local music know, for example, that the McGarrys were born in the UK ... More >>

The 100 Club: Chris Ziegler of LA Record Talks

​Interviewing Chris Ziegler, the editor-in-chief and co-founder of dark horse music mag, LA Record, is way more complicated than your run of the mill conversation with a person-of-note. Intellectually speaking, the 32-year-old music enthusiast, DJ, and former OC Weekly music editor is sort of like ... More >>

Detroit Bar Owner Jon Reiser Shares A Secret

Danielle Bacher​Even if you don't know him by name, you've probably attended at least one show at a Jon Reiser venue in the past decade. He owns Detroit Bar with Dan Bradley, Diego Velasco, David Hastie, Mike Harris and Scott Hamilton (who also own all Memphis Restaurants and Tin Lizzie Salo ... More >>

Long Beach Band Two Guns Land Song on MTV's 'Jersey Shore'

Two Guns front man Kevin Poush woke up to a serious surprise this morning. His bassist, Harris Pittman, informed him via Facebook that the band's song "Heavyheads" had been played Thursday on the final episode of Jersey Shore, the MTV reality show that pretty much everyone has been talking about in ... More >>

Last Night: Thrice at the House of Blues Anaheim

Andrew YoussefLive at the House of Blues Anaheim​ Last Night: Thrice at the House of Blues Anaheim (11/25/09)Better Than: Going to Warped Tour or Bamboozle Left just to see Thrice.My first Thrice show was back in 2002 at the House of Blues Anaheim when they opened for Face To Face. I had no idea w ... More >>

OC Bands hit SXSW

For those of you with cash to burn, there is no better excuse for a pre-summer sonic excursion than the arrival of South by Southwest. The ability to stumble around the Austin bar scene with a new noise at every turn has turned this Spring music festival into the beast that it is today after 22 year ... More >>

[Sprawl of Sound] OC Weekly's Music Editor Bids Farewell, Bittersweetly

[Sprawl of Sound] Unearthed Gems by David Axelrod, Bill Cosby, New Nuggets From Leviathan Brothers

Diversity Reigns

OCPAC embraces indie rock and other fringe arts with Off Center

Tooting Our Own Horn

One California Day

A Week in the Nightlife

Nerdy garage rock, wiseguy jazz, Binges that purge, Goodfoot turns 9 and Holy Fuck!

Readers' Poll Winners

Dont blame us: You picked em

The Arts and Other Highfalutin' Stuff

Actors, troubadours, campfire singers, cowboy poets & purty pictures (Please don’t  shoot the piano player!)

Screw the Industry Weasels

Think small (bands) and youll have a good time at SXSW

My Morning Jacket at HOB Anaheim, 01/05/07

I haven't been excited by any music in a long, long time. Wait, wait. Was that pretentious enough for you? No? Well, how about this: I haven't been excited by any new music in a long, long time. But Friday night's My Morning Jacket show at the House of Blues, Anaheim was the first concert in awh ... More >>

Dinosaur Eating a Donut

GET OUT! Nightlife and more: Dec. 14 - Dec. 21

Keeping It Real

Bobby Brinkerhoff, Kiev

Omar in Qatar

Last year Omar Chatriwala moved from Austin, Texas to Orange County to help get Squeeze OC off the ground. Recently he decided to move again, this time from Orange County to Qatar to help get Al Jazeera's English-language channel off the ground. Chatriwala's blog, OC in OC, is among the most popular ... More >>

Letters

'For the record, no one currently in our employ was contacted or quoted. In fact, the surf industry does support Save Trestles and Surfrider Foundation'

Can Go Home Again

The Over-Reactors are over Orange County

oc weekly <3 cold war kids frank lenz

it's 5:14 on friday and i'm lazy and i don't feel like rambling on and on and on and on about how much i love music right now. so instead, i will give you the highlights of my iChat conversation with my lovely and amazing lil' assistant, miss vickie chang. i'll even break it into sections, so you mi ... More >>

Rich Man, Po Boy

In 10 years, Memphis has become the center of Orange County's hipperati universe

Like Dogs in the Street!

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Aug. 25 - Sept. 1