Darby Crash

[Locals Only] California Lions Are Ready to Roar

Past the kitschy Chuck Norris photos and vintage roller skates, to the left of the 5-foot, papier-mâché sea monster, California Lions unleashed their first folky, surf-inspired songs. The location was the backroom of Seal Beach's surf and kind-finds shop, Canvas, for the band's late-February CD-re ... More >>

Bill Evans: The Black-Hole Son

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Top 25 Greatest Orange County Bands of All Time: The Complete List

Go ahead, call us a bunch of culture-less, lily-white suburbanites with a partiality to flip-flops and right-wing politics. Those kind of labels never cease to amuse us. Because one thing that instantly dooms most of the tired cliches ascribed to OC is the music--the one-of-a-kind frustration, aggre ... More >>

Top 25 Greatest Orange County Bands of All Time: 5-1

5. Thrice Most teenagers who strapped on a guitar during the beginning of the second Bush administration could can easily call out Thrice as an inspiration for the angry, distorted racket they created in their parent's garage. Knowing what concrete influence their music had on scores of current l ... More >>

Refused at the Glass House, April 12, 2012

RefusedThe Glass HouseApril 12, 2012Prior to Refused's intensely anticipated show at the Glass House, frontman Dennis Lyxzen posted a Youtube video on his Facebook artist page of punk legends The Germs performing "Lexicon Devil" at the Whisky in 1979. Lyxzen remarked that "we are going to do some la ... More >>

Los Lobos

Coach House

Alice In the Bag

'Violence Girl' contextualizes the Bags' place in LA punk history

Gnarmageddon Fest 2011 at The Glass House Saturday Night

Javier CabralBrian Brannon of JFA has been around the punk-rock block a couple of times​Gnarmageddon Fest 2011 June 18, 2011The Glass House The American Hardcore scene has produced (and destroyed) lots of amazing punk-rock legends. Darby Crash of The Germs, Stevo of The Vandals, John Macias of Cir ... More >>

Cerebral Ballzy Are Barfing Their Way to the Top

How can you not love a group with a song called 'Puke Song'?

What's Happening in OC/LB on Record Store Day? Your Handy Event Directory

​Since its inception in 2007, the fandemonium over Record Store Day has only grown. Drak, owner of Vinyl Solution in Huntington Beach, expressed his awe of fans last year who flooded into his store "like mice after a piece of cheese. It's amazing." It's no wonder they do--each year on the third Sa ... More >>

Record Store Day Releases From Our Homeboys

​Hunting for rare releases on Saturday? Might as well rep your hometown and buy releases from local bands and record labels. Hundreds of limited-edition vinyls and some CD's will be released as the main hype of Record Store Day--we present OC's contribution to the arsenal of vinyl after the jump. ... More >>

Five Ill-Advised Rock Reunions Aside from Meatloaf's

​ Buffalo Springfield, the 1960s band known for briefly employing Neil Young and Stephen Stills, announced a six-date reunion tour this summer and an appearance at the Bonnaroo festival. Since half of Buffalo Springfield's original members are dead, the tour is less an actual reunion than a pl ... More >>

Edward Colver's Greatest Hits

Hibbleton Art Gallery goes into the pit with the iconic photographer's 'The Eye of the LA Punk Scene'

How to Stop Worrying and Love the New Germs

On-Sale Saturday: The Germs, Randy Travis, More

​This is a cool one: the newly reunited Germs, featuring actor (and UC Irvine alum) Shane West, is coming to the House of Blues, Anaheim on September 6. The Germs disbanded back in 1980 after the suicide of lead singer Darby Crash (Pat Smear went on to play guitar with Foo Fighters and on Nirvana' ... More >>

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Amusing movies about depressed young men are in at the Los Angeles Film Festival

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Don Bolles Keeps His Nose Clean

Why was the legendary punk rocker busted for driving with soap?

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If it wasnt for the Adolescents, your scene wouldnt be alive

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Girls Gone Wild

Punker Shane West meets his fan base

Eight Days

The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever!: 1 - 50

Rock & Roll Detox

The Sharp Ease are an apocalyptically charismatic band for these apocalyptically Republican times

Suddenly In Vogue

The Middle Class may have been the most influential band youve never heard of

Radio Rest Stop

The Island of Lost Drinks

Stomach Pump In Reverse

The Circle Jerking Goes On

Seminal punks continue in the great circle of birth, death and self-abuse

Joan of Dark

Joan Jett can do whatever she wants

Mugs Away

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Evaporators front man Nardwuar keeps his past and present mythic

Please Don't Bite!

Stop Your Gobbin

Punk rock doc makes the music go bang

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