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  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Getting Down to Bass Tacks with Krist Noveselic

    Ex-Nirvana/current Flipper bassist Krist Novoselic discusses his four favorite 4-stringers over on our sister paper Seattle Weekly's blog. Hint: They're all from British bands except one, the exception being Chaim Witz, that enterprising gent with the extraordinary tongue. Here's another hint:

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Ongoing: NAMM Show in Anaheim!

    The annual NAMM--National Association of Music Merchants--show is currently ongoing at the Anaheim Convention Center, through this Sunday.Now, before I moved here, I had no idea what a NAMM show was. Apparently it's a pretty big deal, though! If you're a music merchant, at least. Looks like lots of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Attention: Petaluma and West Palm Beach

    Fathers, lock up your daughters: Alfunction's coming to town.It seems as if a little band named (hed) PE has upcoming shows and needs a bass player. Something about their regular bassist having work visa programs. I don't know... Anyway, like every smart set of musicians in Orange County, when stuck ... More >>

  • Film

    November 6, 2008

    'Role Models' Is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie

    Fathers, lock up your daughters: Alfunction's coming to town.It seems as if a little band named (hed) PE has upcoming shows and needs a bass player. Something about their regular bassist having work visa programs. I don't know... Anyway, like every smart set of musicians in Orange County, when stuck ... More >>

  • Features

    July 27, 2000

    American Cheese

    The Feedback Music Quiz

  • Food

    April 3, 2003

    Fire In the Hole!

    A nickel-bag of platters to paint your uvula red

  • Columns

    December 26, 2002

    Lott-a Love

    No, not the BBW! They playa-hatin!

  • Music

    May 18, 2006

    Get Out!

    Party's Over!

  • Music

    March 23, 2006

    Library Music

    Plugging the holes in your record collection with . . .
    Pentagram, First Daze Here (2002, Relapse)

  • Unknown

    March 31, 2005

    Live Previews

    Plugging the holes in your record collection with . . .
    Pentagram, First Daze Here (2002, Relapse)

  • Music

    April 1, 2004

    Armageddon It!

    Plugging the holes in your record collection with . . .
    Pentagram, First Daze Here (2002, Relapse)

  • Columns

    June 26, 2003

    Letters

    Plugging the holes in your record collection with . . .
    Pentagram, First Daze Here (2002, Relapse)

  • Music

    August 30, 2001

    Wings of Desire

    Bird3s pilgrimage to mega

  • Music

    March 30, 2000

    Our Annual South by Southwest Report

    Bird3s pilgrimage to mega

  • Columns

    December 31, 1998

    Good God, Y'all!

    Just another day for you and me in paradise

  • Film

    September 3, 2009

    With 'Extract,' Mike Judge Goes Back to Work

    Just another day for you and me in paradise

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Gettin' Made: Whip It Good

    Girls in fishnets on roller skates, going by Garbage Pail Kid worthy aliases like Tara Armov and Gori Spelling and beating each other up -- that's the first impression most people have of roller derby. Photo by Gayle Boxx Members from LA Derby Dolls teams Tough Cookies and Varsity ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Tonight: KISS

    ​KISS plays tonight at the Honda Center. And while I've always wondered what in the hell anyone sees/hears in this shitty band, I do have to respect grown men who've taken some of the worst rock songs of all time and turned it into a franchise. For example, for those of you going to the show tonig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Last Night: KISS at the Honda Center

    Last Night: KISS at the Honda Center Better Than: watching Gene Simmons on his show Family Jewels  Andrew YoussefLive at the Honda Center​KISS changed my life. My earliest memories of listening to music involve clutching my older brother's vinyl album of KISS Alive and wondering what it woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Slideshow: OC Weekly's November Month in Review

    Keith MayThe Pomona Pet Expo​Click through out handy pictorial month in review--and see everything from Gene Simmons' still really fucking disturbing tongue to puppies and kittens and hipsters and...

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    What You Missed: Tet Festival & Parade, Reverend Horton Heat, JFK, Super Bowl Party Shots

    Roderick Pullum/Dallas Observer​What'd you miss this weekend? We checked out the Tet Festival and Parade, Reverend Horton Heat's show in Anaheim, JFK of MSTRKRFT DJing at the newly named City National Grove of Anaheim... and our Dallas brethren has shared some awesome Super Bowl party shots with u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Five Lame Causes Embraced By Musicians

    ​ Last week, Queen guitarist Brian May interrupted a performance of his musical We Will Rock You to denounce the Welsh government's plan to reduce its badger population. Audience members were not only puzzled by May's lousy timing, but his passionate support of the badger, a sort of white trash w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    KISS's True Crime Report: The Secret History

    ​Former KISS guitarist Vinnie Vincent was arrested last week for allegedly assaulting his wife and keeping the carcasses of dead dogs in his Tennessee home. The arrest has astonished the public, but to insiders, Vincent (birth name Vincent Cusano) and his former colleagues in KISS are not only on ... More >>

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