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Iron Maiden

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2013

    Municipal Waste Put Their Hearts, Souls and Bloody Entrails into the Craft Brew Business

    With a style that's equal parts Iron Maiden and Suicidal Tendencies, the Richmond, Va. crossover thrash outfit Municipal Waste carved out a niche following penning party-themed dystopian concept records, and producing a raucous stage show that incorporates dress-up wizards and shit but doesn't take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2013

    MusInk Days 2 & 3 - OC Fairgrounds - March 9-10, 2013

    MusInk Days 2&3 OC Fairground March 9-10, 2013 The art of ink slinging took over OC this weekend as the sixth annual, three-day Musink Festival came the OC Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, in what was turned out to be a 72-hour celebration of body art(including tattoos and piercings), ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2013

    The People at NAMM Are Weirder Than Most of the Instruments

    Prior to parking my car on Day 2 of the NAMM convention (which incidentally was my first time ever), I'd already pumped myself up for a day full of musical exploration in this temporary gearhead paradise. But after scanning the parking lot on a rainy afternoon on my way into the Anaheim Convention ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2012

    The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

    By: Jason RocheHalloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2012

    Irvine City Council Will Try to Replace Verizon Wireless Amphitheater With the Great Park Cramphitheater...What Are They Smoking?

    It's official: By 2017 the Great Park will be the only place to see big-ticket entertainment in Irvine. Please excuse us while we struggle to contain our enthusiasm. As of last week, the Irvine Company and the Irvine City Council both confirmed that a new amphitheater is being proposed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2012

    Top 10 OC Shows of Summer 2012

    The only thing tougher than realizing that yet another summer concert season has come and gone is taking the time to sort all the best moments together an relive them in numerical order. For us, the difficulty of the latter usually means that we got to experience enough slam-dancing, chorus-shouting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2012

    KISS - Motley Crue - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - 8/14/12

    KISS and Motley Crue Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 8/14/12 See Also: *Iron Maiden at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater *Kiss at the Honda Center *Motley Crue at the Joint in Las Vegas Two of the earliest albums that sculpted my music tastes were that of Kiss's Destroyer and Motley Crue's Shout At ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Café Tacuba- The Observatory- 8/13/12 [w/VIDEO]

    See Also: *Iron Maiden - The Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - 8/9/12* Leo Dan Brings Latin Baby-Makin' Music to West Coast Theater*Tri Tone FINALLY Gives Southern California a Latin Alternative Music FestivalCafé Tacuba The Observatory 8/13/12 To say that last night's Café Tacuba concert was one of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2012

    Iron Maiden - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - 8/9/12

    Iron Maiden Verizon Wireless Amphitheater 8/9/12 See Also: *Aerosmith at the Hollywood Bowl *Van Halen at the Honda Center *Quicksand at the Glass House Southern California is a second home for the British based heavy metal legends, Iron Maiden. Their classic live album, Live After Death was recor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2012

    The Kills - The Observatory - 8/9/12

    BY: Ryan CoxSee Also: *Free Ticket Tuesday: The Kills at the Observatory*Iron Maiden - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater - 8/9/12*Of Monsters and Men - The Observatory - 8/8/12The Kills The Observatory 8/9/12I was shocked to find out that The Kills didn't sell out The Observatory last night in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2012

    Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask

    By: Jason RocheThe dark themes and strikingly gory album covers are one thing, but what makes metal inaccessible to many is its bounty of subgenres,from black to death to thrash, to say nothing of death 'n roll and pornogrind. Which is why, below, we've compiled metal's most popular subgenres into o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth: Torn Asunder, But His Destiny is in Sight

    ​Jon Schaffer is the founder and only original member left in his over-20-year-old band, Iced Earth, but they're stronger now than ever. Iced Earth is hitting the City National Grove of Anaheim tomorrow, (co-headlining with Symphony X) as a part of their World Dystopia Tour. He answers some questi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    NAMM and the Zakk Wylde Roast at the Grove of Anaheim

    ​Have you ever felt overwhelmed stepping into a Guitar Center? A bombardment of guitar squeals, bass thumps, and misplayed notes on keyboards usually hit you all at once overwhelming you auditory canals. Going to NAMM is the like walking into a Guitar Center cranked up to eleven. Thousands of boot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011
  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees Announced

    ​Fifteen rockers are up to bat for the five available slots at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this October. The nominee list (posted after the jump, along with our Top Five picks) has garnered mixed responses from the public--with some expressing outrage over the inclusion (and excl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Five Refurbishments That Can Help 'The Haunted Mansion' (The Movie)

    ​Disneyland's seasonal The Nightmare Before Christmas overhaul of the Haunted Mansion is complete (the attraction reopens today after a 17-day closure), thus kicking off the park's Halloween-themed festivities.Of course, the official launch of the park's Halloween-ness is September 30th which is w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    3hree Things: Major League Baseball Players Have Horrible Taste In Music

    Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native. "Durr Durr Hurrka Durr Deeoodle Dee Dooo Hurka Murr Murr Hem Haw Durkle Doo..." -Stapp​Major ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2011

    A Field Guide to the Metalhead

    [Mental Notes] How to find them without thrashing

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    WTF: Former Iron Maiden Singer Pleads Guilty to Fraud

    Aled Thomas​WTF:Perhaps this week's post is a more pathetic cautionary tale than a bonafied WTF. In any event, it demonstrates that iconic stars everywhere might benefit from the stern benefactoring of MASH's own Mike Farrell, who once consulted fallen stars on how to manage their fortunes. 

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2011

    Free Ticket Tuesdays: Paul Di'Anno and Three Bad Jacks

    ​Rejoice, it's Tuesday. This week, we have two very different artists, both performing at the Galaxy: we're giving away three pairs of tickets each to Paul Di'Anno's show on January 6, and Three Bad Jacks on January 8. If you aren't already familiar, Paul Di' Anno was the original singer of I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    3hree Things: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Late-Summer European Festival Circuit

    ​I've been overseas for a week, playing string of European festival dates. The fests we've played have been much like Coachella or Bonaroo back in the states; they're three or four day events, have multiple stages, feature bands of all sorts of genres, and are built around camping, imbibing, sunbu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Slayer Now Has Pinball App for iPhones

    ​Here's a more passive way to celebrate Slayer than having a slay-in: Play the Slayer pinball game. The highlight of Slayer: Pinball Rocks is a skull that eats your ball and spits it out through its eye socket. Yummy.

  • Music

    July 9, 2009
  • Blogs

    December 18, 2008

    More Favorite Things!

    In this week's Weekly, I blab about some of my favorite things in music this year. Since my ego clearly cannot be contained to just a half page on a newspaper, I've got even more favorite things here (as referenced at the end of the article--that's what we call "convergence" in the biz).

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Torture Porn: Not Just For Movies Anymore, Unfortunately

    Look, I get that metal album covers are supposed to be freaky and weird and scary. That's fine. Frequently, they're also hilarious, like the cover of Cattle Decapitation's 2004 album, Humanure.

  • Music

    June 5, 2008
  • Blogs

    June 2, 2008

    What You Missed Over The Weekend Part XXIII

    This weekend Gustavo Arellano sharpened his writing pen and wrote a post calling-out historian Chris Jepsen for not referencing his pieces on a historical blog. Alex Brant-Zawadzki reported (again) on the continuing construction cost climb on estimates for the 241 Toll Road through Tressles. Been ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 29, 2008

    Hurts So Good?

    Iron Maiden

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2008

    Last Night: Gigantour at the Long Beach Arena

    Better Than: Watching the American Idol Finals. Download: "Holy Wars...The Punishment Due" from Megadeth's Myspace page Shred is still alive and continues to thrive as the Megadeth curated band, Gigantour unleashed the demons of heavy metal at the storied Long Beach Arena. Megadeth is one of the o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2008

    Taste of Chaos Tour-Avenged Seven Fold and Atreyu at the Long Beach Arena

    It's funny how music styles always manage to come full circle, even the ones some would like to forget. Sure, people may have thrown their stretchy leotard pants and hairspray in the garbage a couple decades ago, but who says hair metal is dead? Definitely not anyone packed into the Long Beach arena ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 15, 2007

    Shred Cred

    WEB EXCLUSIVE! Shred Cred: You wanted the best—you got the best: Guitar Hero III

  • Music

    September 6, 2007

    Hasta La Muerte

    Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it’s speaking Spanish

  • Music

    March 29, 2007

    Cherub Rock

    A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies

  • Music

    March 1, 2007

    Beyond Budokan

    Big Business: Death On Four Legs

  • Music

    October 26, 2006

    Hits!

    Pepperland Music

  • Music

    June 15, 2006

    Get Out!

    June 15 - June 22: Os Mutantes!

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    September 22, 2005
  • Culture

    September 15, 2005
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    August 25, 2005
  • Unknown

    June 16, 2005

    Tell Me Im Bad

    Nightlife and more: June 16-23

  • Music

    February 10, 2005
  • Music

    November 13, 2003
  • Features

    May 29, 2003

    Rendered by Verse

    Summer music haiku-o-rama!

  • Features

    October 24, 2002
  • Culture

    August 15, 2002

    Warrens Pieces

    The visual screams of Warren Heard

  • Music

    February 28, 2002

    Cuisinart Rock

    From punk to metal to emo, Thrice can play it all

  • Music

    January 24, 2002

    Judas Priest!?

    The key, of course, is opera

  • Music

    September 6, 2001

    What The Hell?

    An interview with Rob Halford

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    Crash Landing

    Anti-El Toro Airport site grounded

  • Music

    November 18, 1999
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