Subject: Erin DeWitt

• The 100 Most Important OC Musicians of All Time

  DJ Nobody: Twice as important as most OC musicians. Orange County has been a fertile breeding ground for musicians of many stripes since the beginning of electricity. We at Heard Mentality would like to ask you—the good-looking, intelligent readers of this blog—for your opinions on this important matter [see headline]. Let us know who you think deserves to be on this auspicious list; and if you wish to explain why they merit inclusion, by all means shout it out loud in the comments box. [

  September 11, 2007

• The Clinic: The Cure or a Scourge?

  Our latest Locals Only feature by Erin DeWitt on Santa Ana-based venue The Clinic, which was full of positive quotes by OC musicians, inspired the letter below (all of which is reprinted here unedited). The clinic is one of the worst venues that i've been to in my life. All these claims of "punk" are lies and the term "Punk" should not be associated with the clinic. It was never started as a punk venue, it was started as a venue strictly dedicated to the "noise" genre. They claim to be a pu

  October 9, 2007

• What you missed over the weekend: Part II

  Freelancer Shawn Smith was at Disneyland Friday night when she noticed that the Social Distortion show slated for the evening had been pulled. We bit our nails wondering if this was the latest in Disney censorship at the venue, which Clubs editor Erin DeWitt blogged in September. But it wasn't so, thank goodness. Shawn reports that the boys simply had the flu. Get well soon, guys. Staffer LYT drove to the L.A. River Center Friday to bid Los Angeles Times editorial page assistant editor Matt Wel

  December 17, 2007

• Holy crap, we're on Perez Hilton!

  No, really. It all started with Ben Westhoff's hysterical SATIRE piece on Zac Efron and Lil Wayne. Yes, satire. Y'all think this sort of collaboration would happen in real life?! With lyrics like these: Efron sings the chorus—“Everybody all for one, a real summer has just begun! Let’s rock and roll and just let go, feel the rhythm of the drums. We’re gonna have fun in the sun!”—while Wayne raps: “I’m a dog, you’re all a bunch of fleas on my dick. Driving a Jag, er, like my

  December 18, 2007

• BUC BUC BUC: Weekend chickenshit

  So my weekly "Didja do anything cool I can throw into that Monday morning post?" note to the OCW staff was meet with *crickets* and Zzzzs. Everyone's in holiday hibernation mode and your regular "What You Missed" programming will resume next week. What I hope you didn't miss was this blog entry from last Friday, in which R. Scott Moxley challenged Sheriff Mike Carona to a duel. OK, not quite, but Mox did indicate that His Indictedness was chickenshit for not playing a couple of tapes that will

  December 31, 2007

• What you missed over the weekend: Part IX

  The Gothla Festival hit Fullerton from Friday to Sunday, and we were there in full force. Christopher Victorio took some beautiful pictures of the ladies gyrating in all sorts of intricate outfits at Saturday night's Gothic Gala. (Check those out here.) Luke Thompson and Derek Olson were also in attendance and will be posting some video on Navel Gazing later today. Clubs photographer Fever Dragon spent Friday evening on board The Rocket Boat in Alamitos Harbor for a punk lineup that included th

  February 11, 2008

• Because You're Ugly: Sponsored by Botox

  Sure, LA Fashion Week has nothing to do with Orange County, but one show did have an open bar, so OCW's Erin DeWitt and Amanda Parsons headed up to the City of Angeles for some cocktails and criticism. Plus, Kara Sahn from Project Runway (season one) was there representing Botox (Amanda needs that), so as avid fans of the show we were there in no time. The GenArt event was held at the Park Plaza hotel; a sprawling decadent venue with two separate rooms featuring designer showcases, an outside

  March 10, 2008

• What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XVI

  This weekend found OCW's Le Receptionist, Leslie Agan, at the opening night of Phantom of The Opera at OCPAC. While our oh-so-fabulous Music Editor Dave Segal was at Kitsch Bar in Costa Mesa catching the diverse and excellent Steve "aDJective" Fisch. As usual, Managing Editor Rich Kane spent Saturday tearing apart the OC Register and feeding the bits to his Reg-O-Meter. The results didn't come out too well (a.k.a. the machine broke). Meanwhile, Clubs Editor Erin DeWitt and I caught the OC Mu

  March 31, 2008

• What You Missed Over the Weekend Part XVIII

  This weekend had so many festivals going on that both Navel Gazing and Heard Mentality were working through the weekend. First, we had Luke Y. Thompson pulling double duty blogging his little heart out at the Newport Beach Film Festival AND attending his big movie premiere in Hollywood. While Dave Segal and Erin DeWitt were off at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio listening their little ears off for our reading pleasure. Speaking of a festivals, Gustavo Arellano attended th

  April 28, 2008

• What You Missed This Weekend Part XXI

  May 19, 2008

• What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XXII

  Memorial Day Edition Long weekends aren't just for relaxing. OC Weekly staffer Luke Y. Thompson kept himself busy by going to the Scottish festival at the OC fair, where he found some of his very distant relatives from the Clan Graham. He also attended a cookout with a bunch of other (relatively) young movie critics, among them Todd Gilchrist, Brent Simon, Dave White, and Alonso Duralde. But all of this action didn't stop him from writing his weekly Fast Food Review, this week features the many

  May 27, 2008

• Pitchfork Lavishes Love on Crystal Antlers

  Long Beach's Crystal Antlers received a coveted “Best New Music” recommendation from popular webzine Pitchfork today, along with a lofty 8.5 rating for their self-released EP (produced by Ikey Owens). Expect the stormy rock quintet to enter a new tax bracket any minute now. (Check out Erin DeWitt's Crystal Antlers review in our Locals Only column from April 10.) Crystal Antlers open for Dax Riggs at the Glass House, June 13 and play the Little Radio Summer Camp with Imaad Wasif and Two Part

  June 11, 2008

• Crystal Antlers Score EW Mention

  Long Beach's Crystal Antlers, who this year already netted an 8.5 on Pitchfork for their self-released EP (which was subsequently sntached up by Touch and Go) and just last night played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC as part of the CMJ Music Marathon, saw their good buzz streak continue with a mention in national mag Entertainment Weekly's music section this week (the issue currently on stands with the cast of the more boring than ever "Heroes" on the cover). Getting in EW is an accomplishment in i

  October 26, 2008

• Tonight: Francisco the Man!, The Sweet Sweet Things, Free at Detroit Bar

  One thing that I've noticed since moving here is that the local TV news, the ABC affiliate at least, seems to be obsessed with "Dancing with the Stars." Sure, it's a popular show (still?), I get that, and it's filmed in LA and our local news is from LA. I've been known to watch it a time or too myself (OK, I used to blog about it regularly, and I once was a guest on a Canadian talk radio show as a "DwtS" expert. Fine). But is it really something that deserves coverage right up there with the ong

  November 17, 2008

• OC Weekly Local Music Compilation 2008

  Whew! We made it. OC Weekly is proud to present the best of Orange County. Download one or download 'em all! (we recommend them all, of course)

  November 26, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 25, 2008

• TONIGHT: Last Night of Mothers Sons/Daniel Morones Detroit Bar Residency

  After you've completed your traditional Chinese New Year meal--your fish, your long life noodles, your mandarin oranges--and you're looking for something to do, you should seriously consider heading to Detroit Bar for the last night of the Mothers Sons/Daniel Morones residency, a chance to see both of these fine OC acts for the always appealing price of free. Is there a better way to ring in the year of the Ox?The ever effervescent Erin DeWitt reviewed Daniel Morones last year in Locals Only; I

  January 26, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Evil Dead 2,' 'Carrie,' 'Dracula,' More

  October 23, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  November 27, 2008

• TONIGHT: OC Music Awards Showcases Continue at eVocal

  The OC Music Awards showcases just keep going--after tonight, they'll have featured 36 local acts, if my math is correct--and tonight's free, all ages show at eVocal will include Costa Mesa's The New Limb, who are not only pictured here, but also featured in Locals Only in the latest Weekly. They're opening things up at 8:30 p.m. Also playing: Daniel Morones (who Erin DeWitt wrote about back in August), Francisco the Man! and Yellow Red Sparks (who, along with The New Limb, were both on KUCI's P

  February 24, 2009

• Free Crap That Came In The Mail: The Slow Poisoner Strikes Again

  I feel some definite cognitive dissonance (cog dis, if you will) for calling this "Free Crap That Came In The Mailm" because the negative connotation of crap--things that are worthless and lame--doesn't seem to apply. This is actually all kind of cool. But the more non-judgmental meaning of "crap," as in, just a lot of random stuff, as in "I got to clean up the crap in my apartment." (Because it's probably not literal crap that's making your apartment messy, it's probably your belongings, that y

  February 26, 2009

• TONIGHT: The Valley Arena at Detroit Bar

  Detroit Bar's weekly "Busy Work" night is known for its DJs (like resident "spinner," ugh, hate that term, Dan Sena), and getting folks from bands--like Efrem Schulz from Death by Stereo, to name a recent one--to man the 1s and 2s. But tonight, there's an actual live band performing there, as well? What in the world?Yes, it's Long Beach's The Valley Arena, who are readying the release of their third album this May. They're busy this week--last night they were over at the Prospector in their neck

  April 8, 2009

• [Coachella 2009] Everything New Is Old Again--and Vice Versa

  April 9, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  October 2, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Breaking Away,' ' Cry-Baby,' 'Hero' and More

  September 4, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Big Wednesday,' 'Back to School,' More

  August 28, 2008

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Back to the Future,' 'Scarface,' More

  July 24, 2008

• [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

  June 12, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• Letters from OC Weekly readers

  February 14, 2008

• IN A COUPLE OF HOURS: Audacity Beach Party in HB

  Hey, here's some short notice for you: Fullerton "teenage space punk" band Audacity are playing a free show the Huntington Beach pier (corner of Main and PCH) at 6:30 tonight--a beach party, if you will. Beach blanket bingo, perhaps, even. Quick, leave work now!It's an event put on by Burger Records, home of Audacity and Thee Makeout Party!. Erin DeWitt wrote about Audacity in Locals Only just last month. and they were part of our Citizen Blast local music comp. Thanks to LA Record for the heads

  April 14, 2009

• Saturday - 11/17

  “The Science of Gingerbread” at the Discovery Science Center, Glass House Swap Meet, Money Mark at Detroit Bar

  November 22, 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

  October 18, 2007

• Sprawl of Sound

  Heavenly Beats, Demonic Metal, Slack Clergy: Absorbing Seattle’s Decibel Festival, Assessing Disney’s HOB Flub, Heeding Lazy Preacher

  October 4, 2007

• Confessions of a Comic-Con Virgin

  A non-geek follows the king of geekdom into the heart of dorkness

  August 9, 2007

• Letters

  'Take you, your family and all the shit-smelling pho houses back to SE Aisia'

  June 28, 2007

• About OC Weekly

  March 29, 2007

• Claira's Daze

  Never heard of them and not sure of how they found me, but an Orange County group named Claira's Daze just befriended me on myspace. After listening to a couple of tunes, I figured they were worthy of promoting their show Wednesday night at Kona Restaurant in HB.   I won't pretend to know anything about them that I didn't read on their profile, but our Erin Dewitt said nice things: "Claira's Daze easily go from folk to upbeat dance songs, which makes the band incredibly entertaining." &nbs

  May 4, 2009

• To Do Tonight - 6/29

  Movie Madness Edition!Casablanca, 8 p.m.In my humble opinion, Casablanca the best movie ever made and it's playing at my favorite local theater, which makes tonight's showing it a perfect storm of awesomeness. Bay Theater - Seal Beach, 340 Main St., Seal Beach, CA; 562-431-9988The Windmill Movie, 7:10 and 9:50 p.m.Because, sadly, our lovely calendar editor Erin DeWitt's hosted screening of the film and Q and A session with the director was canceled last night at the last minute, we urge you to

  June 29, 2009

• Fullerton's Audacity Start US Tour This Week

  ​Though Fullerton's Audacity called Orange County's music scene "a joke" in a recent interview with the District, we still heart them and their sloppy poppy ways. So it's cool to see them about to embark on a 15-date national tour, starting this Thursday in Tucson, AZ, and joined by a variety of opening acts. They're also hitting three spots in Texas, Memphis, Philly, DC, two NYC dates, Chicago and a bunch of other stops. They're going to be busy dudes! Also cool: this tour poster, lovingly re

  August 4, 2009