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April 16, 2012
Five Best Guitar Moments at Coachella
See also*The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs*Coachella: Five Signs You're An Aging Hipster*Radiohead at Coachella: No Alarms and No SurprisesThis year's Coachella lineup mostly favored artists not necessarily known for guitar prowess, but let it be ... More >>
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December 5, 2011
Guitar Shaped Jimi Hendrix Memorial Park to Open in Seattle Next Year
If you're the kind of person who loves public parks and famous musicians who died at 27 of drug-related causes, Washington is about to become your favorite tourist destination.The Jimi Hendrix Park is set to open in Seattle in 2012, the year the legendary guitarist would have turned 70.
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November 9, 2011
Geek Out With Rock's Backpages
Lou Reed in 1973. If this was fat in the '70s, it's no wonder we're all considered obese now.The online music-journalism archive Rock's Backpages is 10 years old this month. If you've never heard of the site, it's probably because a) you're not a music geek or b) you don't want to have to pay to ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
Five Ways to Celebrate Leo Fender's Birthday!
It's sort of mind bending to think that the county responsible for nurturing the careers of such establishment-defending squares as Richard Nixon, Mike Carona and Deborah Pauley also produced a prolific harbinger of rock & roll. We speak of course of Leo Fender, instrumental creator of the St ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
Amy Winehouse: What a Loss
[Mental Notes] RIP renowned Chicano artist Gilbert 'Magu' Lujan
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July 8, 2011
Farewell, Space Shuttle Program: Five Classic Space Travel Songs
The Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off today in the final mission of NASA's shuttle program. The mission: run supplies to the International Space Station, and bring home as much trash as can fit in the shuttle. Exciting stuff. To lively up this otherwise dull swan song, here are five tracks t ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Tag, You're It: Singer Justin Suitor From Railroad to Alaska Interviews Singer Brandon Seger From OMAHA
Tag, You're It is Heard Mentality's weekly interview feature. The concept is simple: One local artist picks another local artist to interview, then the interviewee becomes the interviewer of an artist of his or her choice the following week.Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyUpon meeting Brandon Seger ... More >>
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May 20, 2011
Eight Things You Probably Didn't Know About Aloe Blacc
We've made no bones about our affection for Aloe Blacc in the past. There are several intriguing subjects to cover when it comes to the Laguna Hills-bred troubadour born Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III: his days in indie hip-hop outfit Emanon; his transition from MC into a traditional soul vocalist; ... More >>
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February 21, 2011
Top 10 Rockin' Songs By Black Artists
Jimi HendrixFebruary is Black History Month, and we felt it the perfect time to do one of our patented lists. Today, we are naming Top Ten Rockin'-est songs by black artists. As much as white artists get criticized for performing "black" genres like R&B, hip-hop and blues, many black artists ... More >>
Music
January 20, 2011
Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister Is Still Wild
Lemmy remembers the old days, but has no plans to slow down
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December 1, 2010
Comics Writer Charles Soule Talks About '27' and Death, You Know
Renzo Podesta; Inset: W. Scott ForbesThere's a perverse romance to the rock 'n' roll aesthetic of living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse. The fatalistic edict is both empowering and life-affirming, even if it's ultimately just an over-the-top, immature "fuck you" to one's mort ... More >>
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November 24, 2010
Record Stores Hold Nationwide Vinyl Sale on Black Friday; Here's a Handy List of Local Participants
John Gilhooley/OC WeeklyFingerprints Record StoreA few weeks ago, the people behind Record Store Day announced their plan to host "Back to Black Friday," where indie music stores will be carrying exclusive and limited vinyle and CD releases by Metallica, U2, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and the Heartbre ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
A Gimmick From Record Stores and Slayer on Black Friday? No Way!
Thanksgiving, Schanksgiving. As a music geek who lives to shop, Black Friday gimmicks are near and dear to my heart.This year has a bunch of Black Friday gimmicks that sound pretty interesting.
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June 24, 2010
Howlin’ Blues and Dirty Dogs
Long Beach Playhouse
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April 30, 2010
Top Ten Hits: Fingerprints in Long Beach
Here are the top ten selling records from April 23-30 at Fingerprints, 4612 E. 2nd St. in Long Beach, (562)-433-4996.
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April 2, 2010
Sound Spectrum's Top 10-Selling Records From the Past Week
Here's what's flying off the shelves at the quirky-retro-cool Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach.
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March 26, 2010
Fingerprints' Top 10 This Week
Top 10 selling records from last week at Fingerprints in Long Beach. The shop specializes in a wide variety of underground music, introducing customers to new bands while still selling mainstream stuff. Don't forget to check out the free live performance by Exene Cervenka at Fingerprints Apr ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
Sound Spectrum's Top 10-Selling Records From the Past Week
Sound Spectrum in Laguna Beach is a venerable record store with an incredible reggae selection and albums from local artists. The store opened in the late 1960s and remains a small time capsule of Laguna from back then. The shop has some sweet finds, like original psychedelic calendars and gifts. Ow ... More >>
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February 17, 2010
Green Day Tops Lollapalooza Rumors, Jimi Hendrix's 'Rock Band,' Hole, Peter Gabriel
Green Day, Lady Gaga and Soundgarden rumored to play Lollapalooza reports Spin. Is yet another festival landing better lineup than Coachella?Jimi Hendrix soon to have own Rock Band game. No word yet on playing-with-your-teeth feature or if you get extra points for lighting faux guitar on fire. New ... More >>
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January 12, 2010
Today in Music News: 'New' Jimi Hendrix Album, Thom Yorke, Wu-Tang Clan, Pavement
"New" Jimi Hendrix album, Valleys of Neptune, featuring choice, previously unreleased material (officially anyway), due out March 9 via Sony Legacy. Click to hear leaked version of title track. And another one with vocals. Album also includes only studio version of "Hear My Train A Comin'" (see cli ... More >>
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December 31, 2009
Top 5 'Auld Lang Syne' Covers
Whether or not you ever took the time to memorize the lyrics, it's virtually impossible to escape the age-old New Year's anthem "Auld Lang Syne." First penned by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 (hooray for geeky trivia), this poem-turned tune has been sung by scores of orchestras, guitar wieldi ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
Eight Questions with D-Strutters
Long Beach has a lot of bands, but none of them exemplify pure rock 'n' roll as well as D-Strutters. The group--singer/guitarist Joe Roads, guitarist George Velvet, bassist Tony and drummer Heath--leave all pretense behind for a straight-ahead bombastic blast like the Stones would be writing if t ... More >>
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September 17, 2009
Legends of Rock Festival
Irvine Lake
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July 9, 2009
Mike Hynson, Co-Star of 'The Endless Summer,' Resurfaces With Tales of the Brotherhood
Irvine Lake
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April 20, 2009
Happy 4/20!!!!
To boring people, April 20 means two things: the anniversary of the Columbine massacre or Hitler's birthday. To stoners, it's something way cooler.Because stoners can't agree on anything other than, yes, they should smoke another bowl, the origins of 4/20 vary. Some say it's police code. Some say it ... More >>
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March 12, 2009
The Best OC Cover/Tribute Band...Any Votes?
As tragically bad or corny as some might be, good cover bands (or tribute bands, whatever) are the salt of the earth. You take a group of reasonably talented musicians who all love one band enough to copy their songs for a room full of drunk people that could never afford tickets to see the real thi ... More >>
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December 25, 2008
King of Hearts
B.B. King
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November 20, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Jaime Hendrix?
B.B. King
Culture
June 26, 2008
[Trendzilla] Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewear
B.B. King
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May 8, 2008
Nautical by Nature
Blank Blue's Elvin Estela, right, picks five watery/blue classics (and is Joni Mitchell pissed). In this week's Sprawl of Sound column, I review Blank Blue's Western Water Music, Vol. II. I had hoped to include a list of the duo's favorite albums with the words “blue” or “water” in their ... More >>
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October 18, 2007
Blue Blood & Guts
The Upper Crust’s Hard Rocque Has Ignoble Intentions
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August 30, 2007
Cosmic Children
John Van Hamersveld
Blogs
July 3, 2007
Voo Doo Burlesque Show Opening At The Basement
Saturday night was the opening of Voo Doo, a new club-show-concoction at the Basement Lounge in Long Beach. Advertised as a “burlesque show” to begin at 11 p.m., I brought my friend Angie who is a burlesque dancer herself, that way I could get an opinion from a professional’s point of view. ... More >>
Music
August 10, 2006
Love Is Dead
Arthur Lee, R.I.P., again
Music
July 20, 2006
Don't Need a Cure
Listening to Blue Cheer and fucking
Blogs
May 15, 2006
Nixon called Warren Commission "a hoax"
The vaults of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and John Lennon COMBINED got nothing on those fab Nixon tapes -- now on their way to Yorba Linda! Recent listenings revealed that: * The Dick referred to the Warren Commission report that concluded Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone killing JFK as "the greatest ho ... More >>
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April 13, 2006
Library Music
Plugging the holes in your record collection with The Monks
Music
February 23, 2006
120 Percent
Buddy Guy: Giving it to you
Music
December 29, 2005
This Week in Devil Music
Dick Dale
Music
October 6, 2005
Yoo Doo Right
Dungen: One man, one band, one monument
Features
November 18, 2004
The Big Nowhere
Why does so much good music come from this place?
Music
June 26, 2003
The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever!: 1 - 50
Why does so much good music come from this place?
Music
October 3, 2002
Aint Love Grand?
Arthur Lee is Free and says youll get your moneys worth
Features
June 27, 2002
Hope They Die Before They Get Old
The rock & roll tragedies that should have been
Music
May 17, 2001
Stimulating!
Getting off with the Vibrators
Culture
May 17, 2001
Quiet Genius, Damn Loud Guitar
The works of Leo Fender
Culture
May 3, 2001
Creepy, Squirming Larvae
The death of jazz
Music
October 5, 2000
George Fryer
What the hell are you listening to?
Music
April 27, 2000
Pretty In Pink
What the hell are you listening to?
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November 26, 1998
Classical Punk
Bach, Bartok, Hendrix scream from Kennedy's bow
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