Madonna (Entertainer)

The Funniest Billboard Music Awards Tweets

With Tracy Morgan hosting the Billboard Music Awards this year, we were all anticipating a few shenanigans to go down courtesy of his sharp comedic tongue. Truth be told, we think he played it rather safe. Broadcasting "live" (yet somehow the East Coast once again saw it before us on the West which ... More >>

The Five Must-See Shows in OC This Week

Monday, May 6This Time With FEELINGDetroit BarFor being a "four-piece fridge rock band" This Time With Feeling sure know how to heat up a dance floor at an indie rock show. Embracing sharp pop structures,  full bodied rhythm, and Ali Coyle's vocals seething with attitude, the punchy four-piece ... More >>

Prince

City National Grove of Anaheim

The Top Five EDM Artists at Coachella

Don't be fooled by the slew of hipsters and bros traipsing around the polo fields of Coachella - the festival itself has long been a pioneer of bringing electronic dance music to the states even dedicating it's own stage for EDM lovers for years. The Sahara tent has seen the likes of everyone from S ... More >>

The MTV Video Music Awards' Five Most Iconic Performances

See Also: *Five Unexpected Cover Songs From Insane Clown Posse*Five Artists (Besides Lil Wayne) Who Think New York Sucks*Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music MomentsTomorrow night is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. For fans of music videos, it's the most wonderful time of the year--a ti ... More >>

[UPDATED with CEO Defends Octo-Auction:] Nadya Suleman Will Date You ... for a Price

See the update at the end of this post on WhatsYourPrice.com's CEO defending the auction of a date with Octomom. ORIGINAL POST, AUG. 6, 12:30 P.M.: Octomom Nadya Suleman of La Habra has continued her trolling of the Interwebs for money from saps, parlaying her recent GoFundMe.com plea for $150,000 ... More >>

Avicii: "In Buddhism it means the lowest level of hell"

See also:*Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Tupac's Hologram*Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs*Coachella: Five Signs You're An Aging Hipster*Radiohead at Coachella: No Alarms and No SurprisesAt 22, Swedish producer and DJ Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, has done more in the electronic dance music ... More >>

Tyga at The Observatory, March 29, 2012

​TygaThe ObservatoryMarch 28, 2012 Warning: This review contains explicit language, and your children should not read this--too bad you let them attend this concert.If you were at the Observatory to see Tyga perform at his sold-out show, you heard a lot--and I mean a lot--of  "Rack City," ... More >>

Five Things at Ultra Music Fest I Wish Were in OC

​Unless you've been living under a rock and where not aware, this past ten days marked the 27th consecutive year of Winter Music Conference in Miami Beach Florida. This one of kind gathering unites 10,000s of attendees including artists, DJs, record labels, producers, A&R, press, event/concert ... More >>

'The Iron Lady' Doesn't Know How She Did It

Margaret Thatcher as victimized woman

The Five Best New Acts of 2011

​Every year, a shit load of music drops. Some of it's good, most of it's bad, but it's almost impossible to sift through it all to find the juicy stuff without experiencing autotune-induced madness. Relax. We've done the heavy lifting for you. Sorting through the mess of music released ... More >>

Missing Persons

Coach House

'Higher Ground' Is About Saving Herself

Vera Farmiga tries to create a better role

Unwritten Law at the Yost on Saturday Night

​Unwritten LawAug. 6, 2011Yost TheaterSaturday night marked the much ballyhooed reopening of Santa Ana's newest entertainment hot spot, The Yost, and featured San Diego band Unwritten Law as the headliner for its maiden re-voyage. If you're not familiar with the controversies surrounding the  ... More >>

R.I.P. Jeff Porcaro: Five of the Legendary Toto Drummer's Best Songs and How They've Been Sampled, on the 19th Anniversary of his Death

​People say that even without Toto, Jeff Porcaro would've cemented his place in music history because of the high caliber of his drumming. It's said to have defined much of the music produced in the late '70s and '80s. Born into a musical family, he toured and/or recorded with Sonny and Cher as a ... More >>

Impressions of Lady Gaga: 'She's Weird and She Wants People to Buy Her Weird Music'

​It's been a Lady Gaga overload for the past year. She graced the cover of this week's Rolling Stone, and she's been featured in almost every blog almost every day for months. Frankly, I'm sick of reading about what eccentric outfit (meat dress, pregnant suit) she's sporting, what "little monster" ... More >>

New Lady Gaga Video for 'Born This Way'

​How does Lady Gaga keep topping herself visually? No matter what you may think of Lady Gaga's latest, "Born This Way" (at first listen, I was pretty sure I was hearing a methed-up version of Madonna's "Express Yourself" crossed with Cher), it has a pretty bombastic video. It's epic in every way-- ... More >>

Going Gaga: Have the "Little Monsters" Gone Too Far?

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​After Lady Gaga released "Born This Way," which sounded extremely reminiscent of Madonna's "Express Yourself," fans and critics alike had the same reaction: what the fuck? Even so, her hardcore fans adore her. But what is somewhat disturbing is all of her "little mon ... More >>

For Your Special Someone: Our Sexiest Valentine's Mixtape

​Valentine's Day may be a holiday made up to sell candy and diamonds and greeting cards, but it's still nice to spend it with someone you can actually stand to be around for a whole day. In the end, though, Valentine's Day tends to mean one thing: doin' it. And what's wrong with that? To that end, ... More >>

Strip Tease

Set in a sleazy NYC club, Abel Ferrara's 'Go Go Tales' is actually kinda sweet

White Elephant Mix: Honeypie

Myspace.com​Huntington Beach folk-pop lovelies Honeypie tackle the totally un-PC Christmas classic "Santa Baby" with understated aplomb. The recording is spare, just Trisha Smith's girlish vocals and Ryan Radcliff's reverb-soaked guitar picking. It may not be an earth-shattering rendition (Cynthia ... More >>

A Believe-It-or-Not Interview With Imperial Stars

[Mental Notes] Are the 'Traffic Jam' band idiots or marketing geniuses? Or both?

Lady Gaga, Tonight at the Staples Center

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Are you a little monster? Do you enjoy simultaneously shallow and elaborately dressed performance art pop sirens?Lady Gaga has descended from the sky and touched an elegantly platformed foot--perhaps filled with gold fish or the essence of rainbows--on the streets of ... More >>

Robyn and Kelis at the Music Box Over the Weekend

Fierce headliner, bad dresser: Robyn​Robyn and KelisJuly 23, 2010Henry Fonda Music Box Theater When Swedish electro-popster Robyn and R&B singer Kelis announced a joint U.S. tour, a quiver of delight went through their fans. Both one-named celebrities have new albums, but their similarities do ... More >>

Pop Noir By The Numbers

​Since 2004, people around Orange County have known of dance rock trio Pop Noir, founded by singer/bassist/keyboardist Luke McGarry and twin brother guitarist Joe McGarry (now with drummer Nico Saavedra). Audiences familiar with local music know, for example, that the McGarrys were born in the UK ... More >>

Boob War Fourth of July Special: 13 Original Pairs of Breasts That Made America Great

​A holiday is a great excuse to run an overused concept into the ground. That's why the Fourth of July is a perfect opportunity for a Boob War Special Edition (cue percussive theme music) that takes a historical look at the pioneering woman--and their breasts--responsible for making our country g ... More >>

Jeffree Star Talks Some Trash, Some Sense

burn this forever photography​Local native Jeffree Star may remind you a lot of 2006, but he's back with Beauty Killer, his second album and performing all over the country this summer. He'll be at the Galaxy this Thursday (we're giving away tickets!) if you want to get your untz untz untz on. Sin ... More >>

Today in Music News: 2010 Lilith Fair Lineup, Radiohead, "Hope for Haiti Now," Kanye West, Lady Gaga

"Loretta Lynn, Heart, Norah Jones, Cat Power, Gossip and More Added to the 2010 Lilith Tour Line-Up."Radiohead to perform a "Haiti benefit show this Sunday, January 24, at the Music Box at the Fonda in Los Angeles."Watch everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Beyonce to Madonna to Taylor Swift on tonig ... More >>

A-Rod Manages Steroid Crisis With Aid of Newport Beach PR Firm

Outside Eyes, a Newport Beach-based crisis PR firm, is among the agencies that have been brought in to help Alex Rodriguez deal with the firestorm of controversy that has been generated by the New York Yankees slugger's admission to using performance-enhancing steroids. The firm knows cris ... More >>

Looking Back at 2008: The Celeb-Reality Edition

It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who opined that a new truth is better than an old celebrity-tinged news item, or at least he would have opined that had he lived in our celeb-obsessed times. So it is in that spirit these 15 Orange County brushes with famous folks in '08 are unveiled.   1) Newpo ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were de ... More >>

Snoopermarkets?

In an interview with MTV, famed Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg shared a few of his New Year's resolutions with the kids. No, he's not talking about leaving his weapons and/or marijuana at home before he tries to board airplanes, and no, he's not promising to finally release a rap album that doesn't to ... More >>

Club Call Sick On Friday

UPDATE: Club pix are up. Thursday night was a little bit different from the usual dance party that is Call Sick On Friday. It brought the best of both nightlife worlds: the beginning was dedicated to live music, the end belonged to digital. Held at Que Sera, this week’s Call Sick opened with L ... More >>

Beatallica: Because the Beatles & Metallica Need the Money

Ever wonder what Beatles songs done in Metallica's heavy, hyper style would sound like? Me neither. But the clever buggers in Beatallica thought this would be a smashing concept; hence the forthcoming release of Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band (out July 10 on Oglio Records). The group consist ... More >>

Making Snow Cones

Champions on Ice

Vintage Sleaze

Alice Cooper

Diary of a Mad County

Awwww hell. Angels owner Arte Moreno tells Bill Shaikin...

Goof Prevention Squad

Famous friends make Sublime tribute album

More Guidebook Than Manifesto

The Motorcycle Diaries follows a young Che Guevara on a lengthy detour

More Cliche than Risque

Bordellos and Boudoirs has no climax

Lowballasschatter

Clubbed!

Vince Pileggi's Top 5

Milano entertainment group, Orange

Serious Stuff

Whitey and War

Z

The Jewish Gaucho

Osvaldo Golijov makes it all come together

As the Doll Hut World Turns

9: Obsequiotic Achievement in Getting Jiggy as All Hell

The Problem With Being Great

Sax man Charles McPherson survives in the supermarket of American music

Letters