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Last Shot: Time Is Running Out

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in Orange County in 2012...At Least From What I Saw

Over the past year, Orange County has served as the host to many fantastic live shows. Haters may hate, but the one thing they can't deny is that the area still is one of the most influential areas in the country when it comes to producing, judging and cranking up live music. Here are some of the be ... More >>

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 >>

Heretic To Film Live DVD In Santa Ana This Weekend

See Also: *fun. - The Wiltern - 8/17/12* Phish - Long Beach Arena - 8/15/12 *How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score Since reemerging a year ago, Southern California speed/thrash metal outfit Heretic have been pretty busy. Three members from the band's formative days, gui ... More >>

fun. - The Wiltern - 8/17/12

fun. The Wiltern 8/17/12 See Also: *Phish - Long Beach Arena - 8/15/12 *How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score *Of Monsters and Men - The Observatory - 8/8/12 You have to hand it to fun. With a debut that put them on people's radar, their sophomore album took ... More >>

Phish - Long Beach Arena - 8/15/12

Phish Long Beach Arena 8/15/12 See Also: *Former Korn Drummer To Plead Not Guilty In DUI Case *How Alabama Shakes Turned a Shitty Career Break Into a Major Score *Of Monsters and Men - The Observatory - 8/8/12 Opening night of a tour can go two ways. Fortunately for Phish, they kicked of ... More >>

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 >>

Michael Cavanaugh with LBSO POPS at Long Beach Arena, March 24, 2012

​Michael Cavanaugh with the Long Beach Symphony OrchestraLong Beach ArenaMarch 24, 2012I'm somewhat of a fixture at the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra POPS! concerts, but until Saturday I never felt like I got the entire experience because I'm always stone sober. This unfortunate occurrence has to ... More >>

LBSO POPS! at Long Beach Arena, Feb. 26, 2012

​Long Beach Symphony POPS! OrchestraLong Beach ArenaFeb. 26, 2012You know you're in trouble when one of your best friends sits next to you and asks your date, "So, you don't mind him flirting with Susan Egan?" But that's exactly what happened to me last night at the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra's ... More >>

Broadway Singer Susan Egan Talks About the OC High School of the Arts and Growing Up in Seal Beach

​When I hear the term "Broadway," I think of lots of things, but mostly I think of New York City, bright lights, people wearing pea coats, taxis and how bummed I am that I never got a chance to see those failed "Spider-Man" previews. However, thanks to Saturday's Long Beach Symphony POPS! concert, ... More >>

Five Questions with Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Singer Tony DeSare

​Here's the thing about the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra's POPS! concerts: You might not think you'd want to go, but you'd be wrong. Take me for example.When I was a wee lad, I thought the music world began at the Germs and ended at Jawbreaker. I guess you could say I've expanded my horizons sinc ... More >>

Descendents Headline FYF Fest

Chad Sengstock/OC Weekly​The lineup for the eighth annual FYF festival in downtown Los Angeles was announced today and if bloggers mean anything, it sounds like lots of people are excited. Bands such as Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky, the Dead Milkmen, Guided By Voices, Broken Social ... More >>

What You Missed: Punk Rock Picnic, Jeff Beck, the Descendents

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​We had a very punk rock weekend: On Thursday night, we witnessed the Descendents reemerge from their hiatus at the Long Beach Arena (and they brought along their friends Bad Religion and Rise Against, too); on Friday, Jeff Beck threw a rock n' roll party at the Fox i ... More >>

Rise Against, Bad Religion, Descendents and Four Year Strong at Long Beach Arena Last Night

Chad Sengstock/OC WeeklyDescendents​Check out our slideshow here!Rise Against/Bad Religion/Descendents/Four Year Strong April 7, 2011 Long Beach Arena On any other night of the year, you'd be hard-pressed to say you feel sorry for members of Rise Against and Bad Religion. Both bands make livin ... More >>

The Descendents Rise Again

Singer Milo Aukerman's day-job vacation time is punk-rock time for the influential group

Slayer, Megadeth, Testament at Long Beach Arena Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklySlayer​Check out our Slayer, Megadeth and Testament slideshow here!Slayer, Megadeth and TestamentAugust 30, 2010Long Beach ArenaOriginally scheduled for January yet postponed due to Tom Araya from Slayer requiring emergency back surgery, the American Carnage tour finally co ... More >>

If It Ain't Broke

Slayer guitarist Kerry King still relishes that metal crunch

It's Reader's Choice!

[Summer Guide] Choose your own musical adventure this summer—regardless of time, money or personal taste, we've got the concert for you

Save The Date: 6/6/10 Is The Fourth International Day Of Slayer

​Obviously launched on 6/6/06, this Sunday marks the fourth year that heavy metal fans can unite to celebrate the International Day of Slayer (IDoS for short). That, and they can "demand the official recognition of June 6 as a public holiday."Observers of this metal holiday would stage "Slay-ou ... More >>

Pennywise Makes It Official: Zoli Teglas, of OC's Ignite, Named New Lead Singer

Zoli Teglas performing with IgnitePennywise announced today that Zoli Teglas, of Orange County's Ignite, is the their "new and permanent" lead singer. Teglas has already played with the band at recent events such as the the Benefit Show for Amnesty International that took place at the Long Beach Are ... More >>

Top 10: Orange County Concerts of 2010

It's time to stop looking back and focus our attention on 2010. Sure, many more concerts will be announced in the coming months. But here are the hot ones, already scheduled, taking place in local clubs, halls, baseball stadiums and hockey arenas. These are the shows you don't dare want to miss. Unl ... More >>

On Sale Saturday: Slayer and Megadeth

​Get out those heavy coats cuz it'll definitely be reigning blood when Slayer, Megadeth and Testament hit the Long Beach Arena Jan. 22 as part of the American Carnage Tour.In my 30 years on this planet, I've been to my fair share of concerts, but never have I seen anything like what I saw the one ... More >>

Green Day on tour...not coming to OC

Green Day's going on tour to promote 21st Century Breakdown, the follow-up to the mega-successful American Idiot. For better or worse, the Bay Area trio (plus the seventeen sidemen they employ) aren't hitting Orange County. The closest the are getting is an August 20 date at the Cox Arena in San Die ... More >>

Slideshow: Ragga Muffins Festival at Long Beach Arena

MUSINK wasn't the only festival 'round here this past weekend. There was also the decidedly different Ragga Muffins Festival at Long Beach Arena on Saturday and Sunday at the Long Beach Arena, featuring reggae acts like Julian Marley (pictured). Here are some shots courtesy of Beth Stirnaman from da ... More >>

To Do This Weekend 2/20-2/22

The Great Skate, Friday-Sunday 11 a.m. through March 15Irvine's Great Park (you know, home to that dollar-sucking Great Balloon) brings the simple, youthful joy of ice skating to the park in an attempt to well, just do something fun and care-free for the community in these bleak times.Great Park, S ... More >>

Last Night: Foxboro Hot Tubs @ Alex's Bar in Long Beach

By Ryan Ritchie The last time Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool hit Long Beach, they called themselves Green Day and played at the Arena to thousands of pre-pubescent fans and those fans’ moms. Last night was a bit different. Using the moniker Foxboro Hot Tubs, the Berkeley trio p ... More >>

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 >>

To Do Tonight - 11/27

FALL OUT BOY, 7pm Doors open at Long Beach Arena – Long Beach Convention Center, 300 E. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach SWITCHFOOT, 7pm Enjoy Switchfoot live in concert. Bren Events Center located on the UC Irvine Campus SO CAL MUSIC LIVE ACOUSTIC COMPETITION, 8pm The So Cal Music Live Acoustic Competi ... More >>

Good shows coming up!

Happy new year! If 2007 goes right, you'll be able to count on this wee blog to keep you informed on all things . . . well, all things that we think you should like, I guess. That means: show reviews, band recommendations, random stuff from Ziegler and more contributions from (hopefully) more contri ... More >>

Live Review

Second Coming II: Bob Dylan at the Long Beach Arena, Saturday, October 21

Slayered in Fullerton

Slayer--of whom Oliver Hall, reviewing in the Weekly the '80s metal godheads' July 22 Long Beach Arena show, wrote: " It was SLAYER, DUDE!!! BRUTAL AS FUCK!!!"--is getting no love in Fullerton. Under the headline "No Slayer Bus Benches for the City of Fullerton, CA," Blabbermouth.net reports that th ... More >>

Faux Fear

Slayer

Get Out!

July 20 - July 27: Sue Me Baby

Get Out!

Murder and Drugs
March 16 - March 23

Get Out!

True Poison
March 9 - March 16

Get Out!

Waste On College
Feb. 16 - Feb. 23

Stupidity

Aug. 4 - Aug. 11

Puck Off!

Anaheim Deals With NHL Lockout

Ill Communicators

Politics and the Beastie Boys dont mix

Stirring It Up

Bob Marley lives forever

Rendered by Verse

Summer music haiku-o-rama!

Earth and Mirth

Diary of a mad county

Jr. Gong Show

Can Damian Marley rescue reggae?

Tenacious Pumpkins Anyone?

Crammed Down My Throat

The hating of Tenacious D

I Voted For George W. Bush!

And now Im loving Charlies Angels!

Indecision 2000!

Were voting for Nader. We think.

Rapid Eye Movement

Dreaming of Blink-182

Big Respect

The Up in Smoke tour means hip-hops all grown upand safe