Jack Grisham

Stop Your Gobbin

Punk rock doc makes the music go bang

Accidentally Legit

Inside Americas most ostentatious, alternative music fest

You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves!

Readers react to Greatest OC Bands Ever with a poll of their own

Change Today?

TSOLs Jack Grisham looks to charge the governors mansion

Farewell, It's Great to Be Back

Punk Institution TSOL Eschew Rocking Chairs, Choose to Rock

Ressurection Pogo

TSOL, back from embalmment

You've Been Punk'd

American Hardcore: overdue homage or underdone whitewash?

Strange Days Indeed

The Gipper, Tricky Dick, American Hardcore, The U.S. vs. John Lennon and deja vu all over again

LOWBALLASSCHATTER

The Gipper, Tricky Dick, American Hardcore, The U.S. vs. John Lennon and deja vu all over again

This Slaphappy Summer

Corndogs and Paella in OC; Braunsweiger in the Governors Mansion

Suddenly In Vogue

The Middle Class may have been the most influential band youve never heard of

VH1 Says Were Hip!

Which means Orange County must be finished

Weird Paradise

Steven Blush on the birth of Orange County hardcore

Social Tones of Liberty!

Steven Blush on the birth of Orange County hardcore

Kottonmouth Komrades

Music, marijuana and one bands battle for your civil liberties

It's a Wu-Tang After All

What's your Wu-Tang tag?

Letters

What's your Wu-Tang tag?

I Was Just an Asshole

Remembering the bad old days with Jack Grisham

Jerry Roach of Cuckoo's Nest: Not Dead

Photo by John GilhooleyJerry Roach is not dead.​Controversy and the Cuckoo's Nest--it's as if Jerry Roach never left us. But many assumed the owner of the former Costa Mesa punk rock club had left permanently. "People thought I was dead," he tells me with a chuckle.

T.S.O.L.'s Jack Grisham to Get HB Arts Council Award

​Jack Grisham, T.S.O.L.'s vocalist, is set to receive the Distinguished Performing Artist Award from the city of Huntington Beach Arts Council tomorrow. Aside from T.S.O.L, Grisham also performed with the Joykiller, Tender Fury and Jack Grisham and the West Coast Dukes.On his site, Grisham describ ... More >>

TSOL Singer Jack Grisham: 'That's Right--I'm Supporting the Arts. I Got a Fucking Award For it. I'm An Award-Winning Artist.'

Danielle Bacher/ OC Weekly​Jack Grisham's life has taken more twists and turns than the PCH. The 49-year-old gained early notoriety as the lead singer of seminal Orange County punk rockers TSOL. After five years fronting the group, Grisham left amid rumors of substance abuse and acrimony from the ... More >>

TGIF: We Can't Wait for Halloween Either, with Franki Doll and the Broken Toys, Dammit Janet, the HorrorPops and DJ Shadow

​Today, the big SoCal comic book show that isn't in San Diego-the Long Beach Comic Con-settles in at the convention center, with a performance that evening by Franki Doll and the Broken Toys. Our featured Locals Only artist this week, Franki Doll is clearly all about the frenetic exhibitionism and ... More >>

The Show: As commonplace as punk music has become over the years, there's something incredibly esoteric about watching the genre's hardcore pioneers. Last  night as several bands from punk's early days celebrated Frontier Record's 30 year anniversary, group after group connected intensely with ... More >>

Frontier Records' 30th Year Anniversary at the Echoplex Last Night

​Frontier Records' 30th Year AnniversaryNov. 7, 2010EchoplexAs commonplace as punk music has become over the years, there's something incredibly esoteric about watching the genre's hardcore pioneers. But last night, as several bands from punk's early days celebrated Frontier Records' 30th year ann ... More >>

Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L.: Bedeviled

In his new book, the infamous OC punk rocker describes how he exorcised 'An American Demon': Himself

Jack Grisham

Grand Romance River Boat

Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L. is on Our Cover: Here's Why

​ Vickie Chang's awesome story on OC punk legend, T.S.O.L.'s Jack Grisham, is on our cover this week, and it's full of stories that make you rethink Orange County's antiseptic reputation. There's sex, there's violence, there's music...stuff that self-aggrandizing legends are made of.  Read it ... More >>

Five Shocking Excerpts From Jack Grisham's New Book, An American Demon

​As Lille pointed out earlier today, our cover story this week is on T.S.O.L. front man and author Jack Grisham and his journey exorcising An American Demon--himself. You can read the article in its entirety right here, but what we didn't have room for in the story you can get right here.In his ne ... More >>

TSOL at the Grand Romance River Boat Last Night

John Gilhooley/ OC Weekly​TSOL Grand Romance River BoatMay 1, 2011Old school punk rock as a genre has a tendency to sound the same song after song--especially to those unfamiliar with the genre. Luckily for TSOL, they rely on a unique combination of sonic wizardry (think keyboards and chorusey gui ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

John Gilhooley/ OC Weekly​TSOL Grand Romance River BoatMay 1, 2011Old school punk rock as a genre has a tendency to sound the same song after song--especially to those unfamiliar with the genre. Luckily for TSOL, they rely on a unique combination of sonic wizardry (think keyboards and chorusey gui ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

John Gilhooley/ OC Weekly​TSOL Grand Romance River BoatMay 1, 2011Old school punk rock as a genre has a tendency to sound the same song after song--especially to those unfamiliar with the genre. Luckily for TSOL, they rely on a unique combination of sonic wizardry (think keyboards and chorusey gui ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

John Gilhooley/ OC Weekly​TSOL Grand Romance River BoatMay 1, 2011Old school punk rock as a genre has a tendency to sound the same song after song--especially to those unfamiliar with the genre. Luckily for TSOL, they rely on a unique combination of sonic wizardry (think keyboards and chorusey gui ... More >>

Dayglo Abortions

Alex's Bar

3hree Things: Moonlight Graham

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, in which 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.courtesy of Moonlight GrahamGentlemen* of Orange County, 2200 square feet of absolute awesomeness ... More >>

'I Want to Hold Your (Dead) Hand'--10 Best Songs About Necrophilia

​Sex, drugs and violence are fodder for all kinds of music, but there's a special class of artist that can wax poetic about the idea of corpse-fucking. From the Misfits to Tyler, the Creator, here are popular imagination's best musical translations of the ultra-taboo act.

[UPDATED with Slideshow:] We Were Feared, Punk Rockumentary on Cuckoo's Nest, Has Hollywood Close-Up

​UPDATE, NOV. 10, 10:43 A.M.: The Cuckoo's Nest documentary We Were Feared rolled on a screen at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood Wednesday night, and contributing photographer John Gilhooley was there, just as he had been for the world premiere at the 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival.Click here to s ... More >>

[UPDATED] Jack Grisham of T.S.O.L. Needs Your Help to Write Another Book

​UPDATED, NOV. 10, 9:08 A.M.: $7,000 goal reached as of 9 A.M.--$7,184! ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 8, 10:35 A.M.: Jack Grisham, T.S.O.L. frontman, Weekly coverboy--is following up his first novel An American Demon with a work of fiction that he won't tell us the title of ("because it's cool and I don't w ... More >>

KROQ's Almost Acoustic Lineup Is Out

[Mental Notes] Jack Grisham is writing another book, and Chris Marrs Piliero is giving away music-video mementos

Gary Tovar Has His Goldenvoice

The iconic concert production company birthed Coachella, helped punk-rock luminaries early in their careers—and isn't done yet