Erin DeWitt

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Monday, May 13 This Time With FEELING Detroit Bar Refrigerators don't get much love in rock music, save for This Time with FEELING's subscription to the label of 'fridge rock' to describe their music, infused with genius melodies and coy vocals by the band's resident chanteuse Ali Coyle. TTWF unra ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Weekend

Friday, May 10 Lil' B The Observatory Lil B, the heavily tattooed Berkeley, California rapper with a gleaming grill and oversized earrings, entered the hip-hop game in 2006 as part of Bay Area rap group The Pack. Over the last three years he's garnered a tremendous Internet following, popularizing ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Monday, May 6This Time With FEELINGDetroit BarFor being a "four-piece fridge rock band" This Time With Feeling sure know how to heat up a dance floor at an indie rock show. Embracing sharp pop structures,  full bodied rhythm, and Ali Coyle's vocals seething with attitude, the punchy four-piece ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Monday, March 25Night BeatsBurger Records Armed with a snarling fuzz guitar and lo-fi vocals, Night Beats will likely remind you of your favorite Nuggets compilation album. Originating from Seattle, Washington, Night Beats craft a raw, psychedelic sound that harnesses the best instrumental influe ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, February 25 Ramona Falls Constellation Room Brent Knopf was the polymath co-founder of Portland's Menomena, the impressively (or was that intimidatingly?) creative band that would reverse-engineer their live songs from an insane collection of custom loops--kind of like an indie rock band d ... More >>

Top Five Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, February 11 St. Lucia The Constellation Room For the purposes of this blurb, St. Lucia is not the Swedish figure known for wearing a wreath of candles in her hair bearing gifts for Scandinavian children. Rather, it's the nom de plume of musician Jean-Philip Grobler (doesn't sound pretenti ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, February 4 Social Distortion House of Blues Anaheim With few shows happening this Monday, you might consider trying to check out Social Distortion's umpteenth gig at the House of Blues this month. Perhaps setting a record for the most shows played at the Anaheim venue by a single band in o ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, January 14 Pop Noir The Constellation Room After spending a year laying low, Huntington Beach's own Pop Noir are ready to resurface with a month-long residency at The Constellation Room in The Observatory. Brothers Luke and Joe McGarry have used this time out of the limelight to carefully ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Week

Monday, January 31New Year's Eve With Kendrick LamarThe ObservatoryLike Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet, Kendrick Lamar's self-explanatorily titled Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City is about children lost to overmedication. A casualty of first-world comfort, Lamar raps of being strung out on pharmaceu ... More >>

The Five Best Shows in OC This Week: Nov. 12-16

Monday, November 12 Future FixDetroit BarBands in Orange County often start out as a bunch of buddies sitting around in a garage. Many, unfortunately, sound pretty similar--adhering to a style as common as tight jeans in a coffee shop. But sometimes, a group of friends come together and find so ... More >>

'We Will Live to Fight Again'

Election Day dispatches from around the county

Pat Boone Tied to Annoying Sales Pitch By Huntington Beach Company to Southern California Elderly for "Safe" Bathtubs

Has your grandmother ever gotten annoying telephone calls that mention R & B hits-stealing, Christian Right-lovin' Pat Boone and the wonders of a bathtub specifically designed for the elderly? Informercials for the Safe Step Tub feature the aging spokesman who is heard benevolently asking " ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

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 DeWit ... More >>

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

Saturday - 11/17

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

Sprawl of Sound

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

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