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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: 14-6

14. Reel Big FishZany, wacky, ska-rooted (though they rock harder now) Reel Big Fish elevate self-deprecation to an art form, thanks to a malcontent lead singer in Aaron Barrett, who beats you to the punch with peppy lyrics like "I'll never be anything, anything at all." He lays down these anti-What ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'We're Just Really Excited to Be Here' by Countless Thousands

Beat Blvd. is Heard Mentality's weekly review of local releases. If you're an OC musician or band with something new to offer--vinyl single, full-length album, CD, cassette--we want to hear from you! Send copies, along with any photos and PR material, to Beat Blvd., c/o OC Weekly, 2975 Red Hill A ... More >>

Bob Dylan Opens OC Fair

[Mental Notes] Also: The winners of two OCMA awards, Amateur Chemist is on hiatus

Photographer/Writer Amateur Chemist, aka Andrew Youssef, on Indefinite Hiatus

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyGang of Four​Everyone here at OC Weekly and Heard Mentality is sending out good vibes and well wishes to the photographer extraordinaire Andrew Youssef, aka Amateur Chemist. If you read our blog regularly, you've read his concert reviews, and would definitely be familiar wi ... More >>

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Gang of Four at the House of Blues in Anaheim Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Gang of FourFebruary 20, 2011House of Blues, AnaheimGang of Four's Entertainment! is one of the most important records in my life, and I'd sell my soul to have seen them in 1980. Seeing Gang of Four in 2011 at the House of Blues is kind of like seeing them in a s ... More >>

TGIF: Agent Orange, Yo La Tengo, T-Pain and Gang of Four

Brian KasnyikAgents have diplomatic immunity?​Friday kicks off the weekend with Agent Orange ripping into things at Friar Tuck's Bar and Grille in Pomona. It may seem odd to have a now-veteran act be our Locals Only focus this week, but Mike Palm has always been about the area he grew up and start ... More >>

Gang of Four Are Leeds Lads Live!

The aging rockers dust off their trusty, frequently pirated template one more time

Flier of the Week: Telomere Repair at the Prospector, Aug. 5

​Most people would be a bit nervous about moving into tilting bachelor pads like the ones on this flier.  But rocking out inside a chaotic house of sound on shaky ground is exactly the kind of thrill you get, watching the angular prog of Telomere Repair. 

Gang Of Four Offer Blood for Money. Not a Metaphor.

Above is a video of English post punk legends Gang of Four explaining their desire to adapt to a changing music industry and build stronger bonds with their fans.Not included in the video: an explanation for how the hell they came up with the idea to offer vials of their own blood to those fans in e ... More >>

77 Drummers Drumming on 07/07/07

Japanese psychedelic samurais Boredoms have arranged an amazing spectacle for what some amateur numerologists think will the luckiest day of the century, July 7, 2007. The concert happens at 5 p.m. in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, and is free, but you need to RSVP; it's probably a moot point n ... More >>

Cream of the Coachella Crop

OC Weekly offers sage advice to maximize your festival dollar

Shins-ing the Night Away: A Sounds Eclectic Evening

[photo by Marc Goldstein] Making a classic SoCal newcomer mistake, I only gave myself 45 minutes to drive from Costa Mesa to Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, where influential public radio station KCRW was holding its sixth annual Sounds Eclectic concert; this year proceeds go to help conver ... More >>

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