Subject: Kings of Leon

• Indie 103.1 Goes Off The Airwaves, Lives On Online

  Edit: As you can see, the shock of this news has affected more than one of us here on staff...Acclaimed LA/OC radio station Indie 103.1--which attracted nationwide attention due to their deep playlists and unconventional specialty shows in the face of increasingly uniform FM radio formats--is abandoning terrestrial radio today, in favor of broadcasting solely online.A statement on their official site says, "Indie 103.1 was recently faced with only one option --- to play the corporate radio game"

  January 15, 2009

• Orange County's Wonderlove Is Back, With the Same Sound But Different Priorities

  November 13, 2008

• TONIGHT: Second Week of OC Music Awards Showcases at Chain Reaction

  The OC Music Awards showcases are at Chain Reaction in Anaheim tonight for a second and final week--they move to eVocal in Costa Mesa for couple Tuesdays starting next week. Playing tonight? Those guys up there, who you have probably already figured out are called The Sequence. They have a pretty quality cover of "Disturbia" by Rihanna (will playing it tonight, in light of the Chris Brown situation, be seen as a supportive tribute or kind of tacky?), but it's sort of surprising how much they see

  February 10, 2009

• [Sound Guy] The Jakes Rack Up Local Accolades and Seek National Fame

  April 2, 2009

• Albert's Favorite Things: OC Weekly's Music Editor Discusses How He Wasted His Life This Year

  December 18, 2008

• [locals only] Venus Infers

  Venus Infers . . . (the white album)

  January 17, 2008

• Caleb Is a Douche

  March 31, 2005

• Joyful Noise

  December 23, 2004

• Tuning in, turning on

  January 15, 2004

• The Jakes to Play May Residency at eVocal

  Newport Beach's The Jakes have been steadily rising in stature as of late--opening up for Kings of Leon, playing the OC Music Awards live band finals, getting their tunes on The Real World, and even being written up in the OC Weekly (don't hold that against them)--and next month they're hosting a Tuesday night residency at all-ages Costa Mesa venue eVocal. They'll be playing each Tuesday in May, along with a rotating cast of guest bands. The series is sponsored by KROQ's Locals Only show (not to

  April 27, 2009

• Weenie Roast Lineup Announced: Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Kings of Leon

  Andrew YoussefThe full lineup for KROQ's annual Weenie Roast show was released today, a whopping TWELVE DAYS! before the show itself. Seems kinda quick, right? Oh well. It still looks like a pretty good show, headlined by Weezer and Jimmy Eat World (pictured)--they toured together in 2001!--Kings of Leon, Silversun PIckups, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rancid, Airborne Toxic Event and the much-polarizing Asher Roth.Tickets for the show, which takes place on May 16 at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irv

  May 4, 2009

• KROQ Weenie Roast lineup announced

  The 2009 version of KROQ's annual summer blowout, the Weenie Roast y Fiesta, is hitting the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater May 16. That's like less than two weeks away, so get on it. Bands include Weezer (who still don't have or bassist Matt Sharp back in the band, even though everyone knows they should), Kings of Leon, Jimmy Eat World, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rancid, Silversun Pickups, the Airborne Toxic Event, Cage the Elephant and White Lies on the main stage and Hollywood Undead, Asher Roth, Anberli

  May 5, 2009

• KROQ's Weenie Roast

  May 14, 2009

• M83's Anthony Gonzalez Brings His Love of the Silver Screen to His Music and, Soon, Actual Screens

  May 14, 2009

• Listen to The Band: Oh, The Spanish Moss

  Oh, the simple joys of rocking out in a garage band. Most aspiring musicians can reminisce about the countless days spent hashing out future rock classics not yet born, sweating out their angst between a dusty tool bench, crappy Christmas ornaments and a broken lawn mower. And in many respects, the So Cal three piece Oh, The Spanish Moss are no different. Except these guys may actually make it out of the garage one of these days. With a sound combining the boot stomping blues of the Black Ke

  October 1, 2008

• Last Saturday: KROQ Weenie Roast at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

  Andrew YoussefLast Night: KROQ Weenie Roast at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater; Saturday May 16, 2009. (More pictures here.)Better Than: Wango Tango.Download: Videos from the day at KROQ.com.The KROQ Weenie Roast is typically full of surprises. With Blink 182 reuniting the night prior at a private party, the fact that TRV$DJ-AM were closing the evening led to rampant speculation that Blink-182 would be the final act. But the Blink-182 reunion didn't happen.A last minute shuffling had KROQ move

  May 18, 2009

• Venus Infers

  May 21, 2009

• Venus Infers

  May 28, 2009

• [Sound Guy] The Best of the Music Blog for the Week of June 15-21

  June 25, 2009

• Help the Jakes Get In a Video Game

  Newport Beach's the Jakes have had all sorts of neat things happen to them so far in their relatively young career--opening up for Kings of Leon, getting on The Real World, airplay on KROQ's Locals Only, making the OC Music Awards "Best Live Band" finals--but they haven't been in a video game. Yet.

  June 25, 2009

• Friday Night: Art Brut at the Echo

  Yeah, I haven't updated to the iPhone 3GS with the better camera yet.Friday Night: Art Brut, the Blood Arm at the Echo, Los Angeles; June 19, 2009.Better than: Listening to the bands Art Brut (playfully) criticized during their set (The Killers, Kings of Leon, U2).Best perk: Freebie show posters given out after the show, with Morrissey, Charles Manson, Alfred E. Neuman and Dick Tracy on them! What a crew! (They also threw out condoms to the crowd, but I didn't get any. Literally.)I wasn't planni

  June 22, 2009

• [CD Review] The Features, 'Some Kind of Salvation' (Self-released)

  July 9, 2009

• Incoming: The Whigs at Detroit Bar

  ​On the heels of yesterday's radtacular announcement that !!! (Chk Chk Chk) are coming to Detroit Bar on September 28, the westside Costa Mesa venue hits us over the head with another awesome show. This time it's the Whigs on November 18. Yeah, that's the same Whigs that's been touring with Kings of Leon, including this past Saturday at the Forum. So that's pretty cool.It's also the first OC date for the Whigs since they opened up for the Kooks at the House of Blues in Anaheim last October. Th

  August 25, 2009