Gavin Rossdale

Dillinger Escape Plan Talk About Sneaking Into OC to Record New Album

By the time you read this, most of The Dillinger Escape Plan will be back home on the East Coast, settling down for the holidays with lady friends and family members. But for the last two months, members of the legendary mathcore/metal band have been living under the radar behind the Orange Curtai ... More >>

Epicenter - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - September 22, 2012

Epicenter Verizon Wireless Amphitheater September 22, 2012 See Also: *Deftones Interview with Chino Moreno *Deftones at Fox Theater in Pomona *The Five Best Shows in OC This Weekend Unseasonably warm temperatures fittingly provided earthquake weather for the Epicenter Festival at Verizon Wireless ... More >>

Five of Rock & Roll's More Unique Baby Names

​We can't get enough of Blue Ivy Carter here at Heard Mentality. In honor of her birth, we decided to do a little bit more research to find more fun baby names. After paying tribute to the oddest names in hip-hop and R&B yesterday, today we're going to take at their rock brethren, who named th ... More >>

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night One Last Night

Andrew Youssef​KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night OneDecember 10, 2011Gibson AmphitheaterStarting off 22 years ago as a one-night affair with a handful of acoustic performances, KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas has swelled into a two-night, predominately plugged-in festival. Night one, usually b ... More >>

Random Ninjas Will Kill You (No, Not Really)

​West LA rock outfit Random Ninjas invades the House of Blues Anaheim on Sunday (win tickets here!), armed with a high-energy stage show that involves a, well, random smattering of influences. Anchored by guitarist Full Metal Ninja's Hetfield/Hammet-style fret work, frontlady Soozana's rangy, dyna ... More >>

Bush Is Back

Anaheim's most famous son-in-law, Gavin Rossdale, explains himself, then plays a homecoming show, kind of

Five Music Biopics We'd Like To See

​ Over the last decade, Hollywood has pumped out an increasing number of music biopics, treating us to everything from enjoyable theatrical hits (8 Mile) to wobbly, tear-jerking cable duds (Take Me Home: The John Denver Story). With Jeff Buckley, Sam Cooke and Clash movies in the works and rumor ... More >>

Casey Royer ODs On Heroin

[Mental Notes] Meanwhile, Gwen Stefani still works out 20 million times per day

Gwen Stefani: 'I Got So Big and Felt So Out of Touch and Not Cool'

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​In a Contact Music story, Gwen Stefani was quoted as saying she couldn't write music after giving birth to her second child. The No Doubt singer, now 41, said that was the reason for the reunion tour: "I hadn't planned on doing a tour. I'd had Zuma; I felt so gross--I go ... More >>

Lady Gaga Coming to OC

[Mental Notes] Also, Josh Freese fills in with Paramore and WAR remembers Teena Marie

Josh Freese to Fill in For Paramore's South American Tour

Susan Sabo/OC WeeklyJosh Freese gets his hair cut by a fan in a parking lot in Downtown Long Beach. No big deal. ​According to SPIN Magazine, Long Beach resident and session drummer (and former OC Weekly cover man) Josh Freese has been pegged as the fill-in drummer for Paramore's upcoming tour dat ... More >>

Lilith In Trouble

[Mental Notes] All-female music fest seeks free labor, Matt Costa has a new album, and Bush is reuniting

(Tragic) Kingdom Come Again, Leaving No Doubt Who Rules OC

Last Night: No Doubt, Katy Perry, the Sounds at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

No zoom on the iPhone, folks!​Last Night: No Doubt, Katy Perry, the Sounds at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Irvine; August 4, 2009.Better than: The three previous No Doubt shows at Verizon. Maybe. Actually, they were probably all equally fantastic, unless you hate Katy Perry.Number of dudes dress ... More >>

Gavin Rossdale Will Have to Rely On More Than His Looks to Succeed On His Own

On-Sale Saturday: Gavin Rossdale, Doves, More

OMG, someone tell 11-year-old Albert that Gavin Rossdale is coming to town. He was rather fond of the Sixteen Stone album. He's not afraid to admit it, despite how lame/girly that might make him sound. In my defense, I was a pretty lame and girly 11 year old.Just a few shows going on sale tomorrow, ... More >>

Coming Soon

In the last days of the Los Angeles Film Festival, a glimpse of the year’s filmic future

LAFF 2007: Bluey, Da Ba Dee Da Ba Dah

Raise your hand if you thought Gavin Rossdale of Bush could be a decent actor. Or a decent anything. Yeah, he got his face melted in Constantine, but that proved nothing. But Mr. Gwen Stefani really shows something in HOW TO ROB A BANK, as a pill-popping criminal named Simon (after Simon Le Bon of ... More >>

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Keanu Reeves in Constantine

A Geezer for Weezer!

No Doubt

Like Anaheim, superstardom is a weird place to come from