Subject: Foo Fighters

• Around and Back Again

  April 24, 2003

• To Do This Weekend 10/24-10/26

  Pre-Halloween Party, Friday, 9:30 p.m. Johnny Madcap and The Distractions; After; The Sweet Dominiques $6 Fitzgerald's Pub 19171 Magnolia Ave. Huntington Beach, CA 714-968-4523 The Toledo Show!, Friday, 9 p.m. Burlesque show featuring The Cats, The Dames, the whole Dirty Deal. $10. The Cellar 201 E. Broadway Long Beach, CA Grimm's Fairy Tales, Saturday, 2 p.m. Alive Theatre's newest project re-invents five classic fairy tales including "The White Snake," "The Traveling Musicians," "Briar Rose,

  October 24, 2008

• Last Night: Face To Face @ HOB, Anaheim

  Last Night: Face To Face at the House of Blues, Anaheim on November 8, 2008 Better Than: hearing "Disconnected" on KROQ. Download: "I'm Trying" music video from Hurley.com [http://www.hurley.com/ms/music/warpedtour/downloads.cfm] Is Face to Face really back? A staple of the punk rock scene, Face To Face put out one of the first albums on the influential Fat Wreck Chords label. I originally thought their appearance at the Bamboozle Left festival in Irvine earlier this year was a one time even

  November 9, 2008

• NAMM Stories: Reports From the Frontlines

  Photo by Andrew YoussefBY RYAN RITCHIEApparently, scoring a ticket to the NAMM show is like the hair farmer version of acceptance into Disneyland's Club 33. Just ask my friend Brian, who was turned away from the event on Saturday even though I pleaded with the press people using my otherwise indefensible charm. I said adios to Brian and met up with photographer Andrew Youssef, who I bonded with earlier that week over the Jets to Brazil reference in his email address (I'll let the readers try to

  January 19, 2009

• Daily Coachella Update: Still No Lineup, but There is a Fake One

  It's getting to the point where the idea of the Coachella lineup is actually more appealing than whatever the eventual Coachella lineup will be, even if the actual lineup is really impressive. It's like Spock said, "having is not such a pleasing thing as wanting."So yeah, still no official Coachella bill, but a relatively entertaining fake one has made the rounds, with a mix of heavily rumored names (Paul McCartney, The Killers, Fleet Foxes), reasonable estimates (The Knux, She & Him, Yeasay

  January 28, 2009

• Drag the River Make the Gypsy Lounge a Valentine's Day Tradition

  February 12, 2009

• TONIGHT: Joey Cape, Chris Shiflett, Jon Snodgrass at Alex's Bar

  Three dudes best known for the work with pretty famous bands are in concert tonight at Alex's Bar in Long Beach. Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape (pictured) headlines--he released his first solo album, Bridge, last fall. Also on the bill are Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett and Drag the River's Jon Snodgrass. Our own Rex Reason interviewed Snodgrass in the most recent Weekly, read that here. OC's Limbeck opens. $10.

  February 18, 2009

• Friends: Lend Us Your Coachella Stories!

  Exactly one month from now we'll be in the midst of Coachella, that annual sweaty, magical musical festival in the brutal yet glorious desert of Indio. It's also the 10th anniversary of the thing (well, kind of--the 1999 one took place in October).In the spirit of getting ready for this glorious event, we're curious to hear the best Coachella tales from our local Orange County/Long Beach readers: were you mesmerized by the Pixies return show in 2004? The Rage reunion in 2007? Did you meet your f

  March 19, 2009

• [Sound Guy] The Disorienting Power of Coachella Can Make Strange Bedfellows (and Beds)

  April 9, 2009

• Fee Waybill and the Tubes Have Survived More Than Three Decades of Rock. Somehow

  January 1, 2009

• Hand It to Him

  OnDVD: The Science of Sleep

  February 8, 2007

• Homme, Bittersweet Homme

  Queens of the Stone Age spearhead a network of hard-rock badassery

  July 19, 2007

• From Hunter to Hunted

  In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

  June 28, 2007

• Live Review

  August 17, 2006

• This Week in We Are All in Love

  October 20, 2005

• Virgin Megastore Costa Mesa

  August 25, 2005

• National Compact Disc

  June 30, 2005

• Letter from Coachella

  May 9, 2002

• Two Minutes, Please!

  January 17, 2002

• Eric Blair

  January 25, 2001

• Pot (Hed)

  November 16, 2000

• Tom Mitchell

  September 21, 2000

• Godfathers of Emo

  October 5, 2000

• Pact with Satan?

  August 3, 2000

• Various ArtistsDope America Volume 1dopeamerica.com

  June 15, 2000

• Not Another #%&@$* Year-End List!

  December 30, 1999

• Life Wont Wait

  December 23, 1999

• Incoming: Sunny Day Real Estate

  If you call yourself emo and don't know Sunny Day Real Estate, then it's time to learn your history. The foursome -- singer/guitarist Jeremy Enigk, guitarist Dan Hoerner, bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith -- helped create the template for dudes with loud guitars to play music that shunned anger and welcomed sadness.The orginial quartet broke up in 1998, but Enigk, Hoerner and Goldsmith reunited a few times with a couple of different bassists once Mendel joined this little group c

  June 23, 2009

• 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's Unplugged in New York album), but reformed recently wish West, who played Crash in 2007 biopic What We Do Is Secret. On sale at 10 a.m. tomorrow (August 8), $17.50 in advance; $20 day of show.And th

  August 7, 2009

• Set Your Goals Keep Up the Pace on Their Second Album

  August 13, 2009

• Phoenix Radio Station's New Logo Oddly Similar to Indie 103.1

  In a story first reported by Martin Cizmar over on Up on the Sun (the music/culture blog for our sister paper Phoenix New Times) long-running Phoenix-area alternative rock radio station (and a former employer of mine) The Edge 103.9 has debuted a new logo; one that looks eerily familiar.Here's the new Edge logo:Ringing some bells? Yes, no, maybe so?

  July 8, 2009

• Saturday Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the House of Blues, Anaheim

  Andrew Youssef​Saturday Night: Sunny Day Real Estate at the House of Blues, Anaheim; October 10, 2009. Better Than: The Creed reunion. The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids, and Sunny Day Real Estate all made waves in the early '90s with their heart-on-a-sleeve lyrics and alternating quiet/loud guitars to be unfairly tagged as "emo." While bands like Fall Out Boy have sullied the genre, it is good to see these bands come back on the scene and reclaim their glory.

  October 12, 2009

• Before It Gets Old: Guitar Hero: The Beatles

  OK, so the jokes in this video will surely fly over the heads of all but the most ardent rhythm game enthusiasts, but there are a ton out there at this point, so I feel pretty secure in posting this. Tomorrow is Beatles Day across the globe--what with the much anticipated release of not only The Beatles: Rock Band, but also the entire remastered Beatles catalog and the Stereo and Mono boxed sets. Everyone seems to agree that The Beatles: Rock Band is much more "Norwegian Wood" than "Yellow Subma

  September 8, 2009