Manchester

Factory Records Mogul Tony Wilson Succumbs to Cancer

Because You're Ugly: Joy Division sneakers?

Sneakerhead culture's always been a little baffling to me. I think everyone knows of someone by now who dedicates their lives and entire paychecks to collecting limited edition, rare, exclusive or original sneaks... and then doesn't wear them. Ever. They'll fly to Tokyo for the latest neon patent l ... More >>

Playing Catch-Up With Avail's Tim Barry

Sneakerhead culture's always been a little baffling to me. I think everyone knows of someone by now who dedicates their lives and entire paychecks to collecting limited edition, rare, exclusive or original sneaks... and then doesn't wear them. Ever. They'll fly to Tokyo for the latest neon patent l ... More >>

Tim Barry Q&A

In case my story in this week's print edition wasn't enough for you, I was kind enough to transcribe my interview with singer/songwriter Tim Barry for your reading pleasure. Tim's a great person to talk to and I hope you have half as much fun reading this as I did conducting the interview.

Blake Miller of Moving Units Lives the Best of Both (Indie and Electronic) Worlds

In case my story in this week's print edition wasn't enough for you, I was kind enough to transcribe my interview with singer/songwriter Tim Barry for your reading pleasure. Tim's a great person to talk to and I hope you have half as much fun reading this as I did conducting the interview.

Locals Only

Costumed in Doom: Repeater, Forcefield ON, Maritime Academy Scare Up Covers for Helloween

There and Back again with dios

Chris Ziegler spent 25 days on the road with diosmaybe the 25 most important days of their careerand he ended up in a Detroit hospital.

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Chris Ziegler spent 25 days on the road with diosmaybe the 25 most important days of their careerand he ended up in a Detroit hospital.

Locals Only

Twin White Dukes: Animated Anglophiles Pop Noir bring some Manchester to OC

Dinosaur Eating a Donut

GET OUT! Nightlife and more: Dec. 14 - Dec. 21

Grease Bandits

How I learned to stop worrying and love the grease

Time Travel and T-rex

Life on Mars

Fall Art Threat

The last band lasts forever

Pretty Awesome Christ Pose

The Hacienda Tour 2006

Environment and Sports

The Hacienda Tour 2006

Better Than Being Dead

New Orders Peter Hook says its nice to please people

Environment & Sports

New Orders Peter Hook says its nice to please people

Sex & Drugs & Sex & Rock & Roll

Michael Winterbottom's monomaniacally intoxicating 9 Songs

HOT AS IN GOD

This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

Live Previews

This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

Feedback

Are You Too Late for the Trend?
28 Local Greats

Overloaded

Ground Flor is New Yorks Factory with better parking and louder sound

Clubbed!

Ground Flor is New Yorks Factory with better parking and louder sound

Undead Do Dance

Danny Boyles 28 Days Later and Guy Maddins Dracula

Their Charming Man

Dispatches from the Latino Morrissey love-in

War! Huh?

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

Letters

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

Vacation, Baby

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

Group Therapy

Airport foes share their pain online

Incoming: We Are Scientists, Dinosaur Jr. Coming to Detroit Bar

There aren't too many bands, at least to those with  quirky sensibilities, as appealing as New York trio We Are Scientists. Just check out their official site--it features "good new jokes" on the front page, like "Between Judas and the Romans, Jesus got double-crossed!" and "What did the happy ... More >>

Doves

House of Blues

Last Night: Pop Noir at Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa

​Orange County dance rock trio Pop Noir closed their November residency at Detroit Bar with a gripping, good times performance that transformed this first-time attendee into a full-fledged fan. Singer/bassist/keyboardist Luke McGarry and twin brother guitarist Joe McGarry played precise, guitar po ... More >>

Cold Cave

The Glass House

Cold Cave, Avi Buffalo, Best Coast at Glass House, Pomona

Andrew YoussefWesley Eisold of Cold CaveThe Hype: Cold Cave's dark, synthpop 2009 album Love Comes Close is the complete amalgamation of 1980s New Wave laced with dark electro. Started by ex-American Nightmare and Give Up The Ghost frontman Wes Eisold, Cold Cave began as a solo project but has evol ... More >>

Hugh Cornwell Gets a Grip

Former front man of punk pioneers the Stranglers has a firm hold on the present

"If We Don't Get On, We Don't Get On" -Liam Gallagher Talks About His Brother, Makes Beatles Movie

www.myspace.com/liam_gallagher​Liam Gallagher's newly formed film Production Company In 1 Productions has confirmed that they will develop and produce a feature film about the The Beatles' Apple Corps, adapted from the book "The Longest Cocktail Party" by Richard DeLillo. That's after Paul McCartn ... More >>

Record Review: The Fall, Your Future, Our Clutter

​The Hype: Now well into its fourth full decade of existence, the Fall has been around long enough that bands that have followed in its wake have not only broken up but had their own reunion tours. (Just ask Pavement sometime.)

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 >>

Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister Is Still Wild

Lemmy remembers the old days, but has no plans to slow down

'Streaker Fail' Stuntman's Surf City Connection

​A British builder who became an Internet sensation by streaking before bouncing into a glass wall on a tennis court has a Huntington Beach connection.Tom Annandale, a 28-year-old from Manchester, U.K., spent a year playing rugby for a Surf City-based team.He presumably kept his uniform on back th ... More >>

Taco Bell Crime of the Week: Rob a Bank, Grab a Taco, Get Nabbed!

​There's an opening line bandied around by reporters as one of the best openers in history, something along the line of "[Some criminal] died hungry," a story that dealt with a robber getting killed in the process of robbing a restaurant--or something like that. The following story is the opposite ... More >>

Watch Bonnaroo from Home

Musical festival season is in full swing, and that means you're either already on a plane to attend this weekend's Bonnaroo Music Festival or staying at home and wishing you were there. This year, the likes of Eminem, Arcade Fire, Robert Plant and Lil Wayne are part of the star-studded lineup in Man ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher's Apparent One-Night Stand-in Sara Leal said to be Spotted in Newport Beach

​According to Nik Ritchie, who broke the bit of gossip about Ashton Kutcher supposedly having sex with Sara Leal in a San Diego Hard Rock Hotel suite's balcony hot tub on his sixth anniversary with wife Demi Moore, the previously unknown one-night stand-in "has been hiding out in a 3 million dolla ... More >>