Gwen Stefani

Top 20 Greatest OC Albums of All Time: #10-1

For the past 18 years, faithful readers of the OC Weekly have counted on our music section for the continuous cycle of sniffing out the local albums. It goes something like this: We search for them (yeah, we get a shit ton in the mail too), we listen to them, separate the wheat from the chaff, remin ... More >>

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Most Memorable Samples

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day where we celebrate the birth and countless contributions the good Reverend Doctor made in the name of civil rights and equality in this country. Among Dr. King's most memorable works were his inspiring speeches. It's easy to forget that in a pre-internet/mass med ... More >>

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night One - Gibson Amphitheatre - December 8, 2012

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Night One Gibson AmphitheatreDecember 8, 2012 The landscape of modern rock radio has definitely changed over the past few years.This became evident when examining the line-up for the first night of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas. Historically, the first night has b ... More >>

Product Placement in Music Videos = Tacky

We'll be honest: product placement in music videos used to not irritate us--we giggled when the Foo Fighters parodied a Mentos commercial in their "Big Me" video back in the 90s--but that was when music videos premiered on MTV--not Vevo--and artists weren't cashing in on aggressive product placement ... More >>

BIG BANG - Honda Center - November 3, 2012

BIG BANGHonda CenterNovember 3, 2012So if you haven't heard about the Korean boy-band, BIG BANG, trust me, you will soon.  Riding the K-Pop invasion into the United States, led by Psy and Gangnam Style, BIG BANG is on their first U.S. tour.  For two nights in a row, they sold out the Honda ... More >>

No Doubt's "Looking Hot" Video Gets Pulled For Looking Racist

Well, this is embarrassing. Of all the things No Doubt have been skewered for in the public eye over the years, we never thought racial stereotyping would be one of them. Over the weekend, the Huffington Post and E! Online reported that Orange County's biggest band caught some serious flack over the ... More >>

Fishbone to Play Yost Theater This Sunday

Fans of ska, funk and reggae in Orange County should be excited for this Sunday. Fishbone, along with Long Beach Dub All Stars, C-Money & The Players Inc (from Slightly Stoopid) will be performing at the Yost Theater on the last date of their U.S. tour. It's been a busy past few years for Fishb ... More >>

No Doubt's No Doubt is 20 Years Old Today

​Speaking of two-decade anniversaries, the album that started it all, No Doubt's eponymous debut, dropped on March 17, 1992. No Doubt recorded No Doubt independently, and by 1990, the band was signed by Interscope. The label insisted they rerecord the album, which had no radio singles, and it so ... 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 >>

All the Bands We Love are Old: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, No Doubt

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​This year, Metallica is celebrating its 30th anniversary. (Apparently, there will be a week-long celebration in San Francisco this December.) Rage Against the Machine and Pearl Jam are 20 years old this year too. No Doubt is 25. After the jump, watch clips of these b ... More >>

C'mon, No Doubt. We Can't Even Have a New Album Teaser? (Plus, a Collab with Major Lazer!)

​Ahh, No Doubt's new album. While we have a bunch of song titles from various Twitter posts  and Rolling Stone/Entertainment Weekly articles, we haven't heard anything from the new album. We did hear that daggering proponents Major Lazer (made up of Diplo/Switch) were collaborating with the g ... More >>

Gwen Stefani Quits Solo Career to Focus on No Doubt (!)

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​This announcement doesn't even seem plausible, and yet it makes perfect sense: Gwen Stefani just said that she's done with her solo career and is focusing on No Doubt from now on. As she told  Entertainment Weekly, her going solo was "a moment in time..It went on a li ... More >>

Checking in on No Doubt: Our Favorite Twit Pics From Our Ska Amigos

​Okay, okay, so we stole that "ska amigo" term from Tazy Phyllipz, but we do like to think of No Doubt as our ska amigos. That's when we're not stalking their Twitter feed for news on their new album. As far as we know, they're busy busy busy in the studio recording it, as you can see for yourself ... More >>

Casey Royer ODs On Heroin

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

Fiction Reform Tell a Familiar Story

[Locals Only] Old-school OC punk, served up fresh

[UPDATE: Sold to Someone Who Has No Idea Who No Doubt Is!] No Doubt's 'Beacon Street' Anaheim Home for Sale

​UPDATE, 12:14 P.M., JAN. 18: According to comments left by real-estate agent Chuck Ohlwine of First Team Real Estate, the home has been sold. The Beacon Street house is now in escrow and was sold for "not less than asking price." It was also an all-cash offer.    Ohlwine tells us the ho ... More >>

No Doubt Inspires LA Philharmonic and YOLA Expo Center Youth Orchestra

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Q: Why is there a photo of Gwen Stefani performing with No Doubt up there? A: Because four high school students who are part of the LA Philharmonic's Composer Fellowship Program will compose a four-movement piece inspired by songs by No Doubt. Q: Will the piece be performe ... More >>

Bad Grammar in Song Lyrics, Featuring Gwen Stefani, Rage Against the Machine, Sublime and Lady Gaga

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Heard Mentality stumbled upon comedy site Am I Right, which calls out bad grammar in various songs. While the list is skimpy at best, we combed through it and found a few local acts in the mix. As a grammar teacher said, "You could get lost in this...." Gwen Stefani"Bubbl ... More >>

Gwen Stefani and Guns N' Roses at Fashion Week, 'My Sharona' Singer Dead, Rage Against the Machine

"Gwen Stefani 'All Tied Up' at L.A.M.B. Fashion Week show," reports our sister paper the Village Voice.Guns N' Roses play 17-song, 90-minute set in front of extremely lucky (and small) crowd including Sebastian Bach and Kevin Bacon at former CBGB location during Fashion Week, reports Brooklyn Vegan. ... More >>

OC Christmas Treasure: No Doubt covering 'Oi to the World' in 1995 and 2001

Mere months after the release of No Doubt's 1995 breakthrough album Tragic Kingdom, the Gwen Stefani-led band performed December 19 at KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas. People were likely thrilled by "Just a Girl" "Spiderwebs" and "Don't Speak" but the real highlight of their set came via a collabo ... More >>

'I'm Cold!' Playlist

​This cold front is killing me. Literally. I think. Being from Florida, I don't do well when the temperature dips below, say, 72. I moved into pretty much the smallest, oldest bungalow on the Balboa Peninsula of Newport Beach. The place is wonderfully funky. I love it. Or loved it. For the first ... More >>

Friday Night: No Doubt, Paramore, the Sounds at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Andrew YoussefDon't be fooled! This picture is from Saturday's show!​Friday night at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater--the first of No Doubt's four sold-out hometown shows and the beginning of the end of the band's reunion tour--I sat in my seat the Irvine venue not quite knowing what to expect from ... More >>

Four Days of No Doubt Shows in Irvine Starting...Now. Almost.

​Yeah, No Doubt is obviously one of the biggest bands from Orange County of all time. (Some might say "the;" feel free to debate that point as much as you'd like!) As such, it's appropriate that their return to Orange County--after a five-year layoff, save a quickie reunion during the encore of on ... More >>

More No Doubt Tour News

Alright, so there aren't any official tour dates yet, but a few babies and weddings later, No Doubt has finally officially confirmed they will indeed be touring Summer 2009. Starting this May, the band will be making stops at larger amphitheaters and arenas all through out the United States and Cana ... More >>

[Trendzilla] Oversized Blazers and Built by Wendy

[Trendzilla] Taking the Maxi Dress to the Max

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An Introduction to Japanese Sake

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 impor ... More >>

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