Subject: Lollapalooza

• Roque & Roulle!

  August 24, 2000

• Thank You, Jann Wenner

  Last year, the heads of the Literary Journalism Program at UCI sent out an email regarding an internship opportunity with Rolling Stone. That tempted me for about two seconds. Then I realized that it was Rolling Stone and that MTV Networks was slated to turn the whole thing into some awful reality program. That's how I want to jumpstart my journalism career! A year later and their mass-media-clusterfuck is here in the form of I'm From Rolling Stone.The surefire guilty pleasure (okay, probably n

  December 15, 2006

• My Morning Jacket at HOB Anaheim, 01/05/07

  I haven't been excited by any music in a long, long time. Wait, wait. Was that pretentious enough for you? No? Well, how about this: I haven't been excited by any new music in a long, long time. But Friday night's My Morning Jacket show at the House of Blues, Anaheim was the first concert in awhile that I was actually anticipating. Hell, I was even standing on the floor and—lucky me—next to two thirty-something bros, double-fisting Rockstars and Budweisers, with Peter Pan compl

  January 9, 2007

• All's Fair in Love and OC

  When it's the opening day of the Orange County Fair, you have plenty of time in traffic — an hour, in fact, just to get from Santa Ana to the fairgrounds — to realize just how poorly the 55 is designed. Immediately after some major road feeds into it, forcing a mass slowing as a new torrent of cars merges inward, yet another major road feeds into it, and just as soon as that's integrated, another still. Even when the freeway's just about to end, there are still major roads feeding in, and if

  July 16, 2007

• Aaron Cohen wins the Prize for Humanity

  Interconnectivity. Integrity. Immortality. The words danced through my head as I sat at my reserved banquet seat on the Queen Mary Saturday night awaiting the man of the hour, Aaron Cohen. The Immortal Chaplains Foundation was honoring Cohen with the Prize for Humanity for his work as a slave hunter, as detailed in a June 2007 OC Weekly story by Christine Buckley. The seeds of interconnectivity – the theme that would transcend all others, both the night of the awards ceremony and later, the

  February 4, 2008

• Radiohead's N. American Tour Dates Announced

  Closest the British mope-rock kings come to OC is a two-date run at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 24 and 25. Pre-sale tix are available April 9 and general on-sale April 12. Grizzly Bear support Aug. 3-15, Liars Aug. 19-28. Radiohead have good taste. August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN August 4 - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Pa

  April 7, 2008

• Café Tacvba's New Video

  April 16, 2008

• When He Was Just a Little Rolling Stone

  February 3, 2000

• Rape Him

  October 4, 2001

• Hella Coachella

  May 8, 2003

• The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever: 90 - 129

  June 26, 2003

• OMGzerz! 'High School Musical 3' Opens Tonight!

  October 23, 2008

• Greatest Hits

  March 18, 2004

• The Costa Fame

  August 24, 2006

• Incoming: Metallica at the Honda Center

  Way back when, there was this radio station called KNAC. They were based out of Long Beach and played metal. I was in middle school, so needless to say, I loved it.Every freakin' night, KNAC had a program called Mandatory Metallica. It was hosted by Poundin' Pat and it had this killer intro that went something like this:KNAC guy: "KNAC. What do you want to hear?"Then they'd run through a bunch of clips of supposed callers yelling "Metallica" as wild and hession as possible. When you're 12, it's

  March 26, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewear

  June 26, 2008

• [CD review] Matt Costa

  Unfamiliar Faces (Brushfire)

  January 17, 2008

• But What About the Hip-hop, Tom?

  Saul Williams
  

  March 15, 2007

• Detroit Bass Baller

  Ghetto-Tech Guru DJ Starski’s Hard-Cop Life

  August 23, 2007

• From Hunter to Hunted

  In his quest to free slaves around the world, Aaron Cohen thought hed seen it all. Then he went to Myanmar

  June 28, 2007

• New Adventures in Lo-Fi

  July 8, 1999

• Don't Worry, Be Arty

  Step outside, slap on the sun block and soak up some culture

  June 7, 2007

• Happy Birthday Joey Ramone

  Had he not passed away in 2001 at the age of 49, Joey Ramone would be turning 58 years young today. It's hard to believe that three of the four original Ramones are no longer with us. Yeah, there's always that "as long as the music's here, they're here, maaaann" bullshit, but I don't buy that. The tunes are in fact still here, but it's not the same cranking "Havana Affair" knowing the band that penned some of the best tunes of the 20th century barely made it to see the 21st. Needless to say, the

  May 19, 2009

• Twenty-five Years of Reliable Service

  Sonic Youth are old yet still great

  April 26, 2007

• Rage Against Irrelevancy

  Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

  April 26, 2007

• Atoned and Re-throned

  Jesus and Mary Chain resurrect the rock

  April 19, 2007

• Cream of the Coachella Crop

  April 26, 2007

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Vavak

  January 6, 2005

• Beats Rhymes Life

  November 11, 2004

• No Blood for Wesson Oil!

  March 4, 2004

• Chaos Brings Order

  November 27, 2003

• Nerd City!

  November 20, 2003

• Triumph of Mediocrity

  August 28, 2003

• Rendered by Verse

  May 29, 2003

• Big Pimpin!

  September 19, 2002

• Letters

  July 18, 2002

• Peripheral Interests

  August 30, 2001

• Invasion of the Rockrgrls

  November 30, 2000

• Why Pearl Jam Still Matters

  November 2, 2000

• Then & Now!

  September 14, 2000

• When He Was Just a Little Rolling Stone

  February 10, 2000

• What's it like to be a big-time music writer at a major metropolitan newspaper?

  December 10, 1998

• Jonathan Rach's Documentary Reveals the True Side of the Warped Tour

  June 25, 2009

• Incoming: Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit Solo Show at Detroit Bar

  When Delta Spirit played Detroit Bar back in March, the Costa Mesa venue was as packed as it's ever been. Like, "I have the sweat of 200 strangers intermingling on my skin" packed. So it stands to reason that post- the San Diego band's national tour with the Shins and their spot at Bonnaroo (with a gig at August's Lollapalooza looming on the horizon), lead singer Matt Vasquez's solo show at Detroit on July 18 will probably also be pretty packed, even if it's not the whole band. That's a Saturday

  June 30, 2009

• 3OH!3 and Lacrosse, Together Finally in Santa Ana

  ​When you think about lacrosse, you probably think about in-your-face Top 40 hip-pop.  "What an of-these-times sport, really the symbol of my plugged-in, brand-conscious and fiercely/collectively independent generation of consumers," you likely say to yourself.

  November 18, 2009