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Gary Richards Was an EDM Hustler Long Before He Started HARD

With the advent of the HARD Summer line-up and its hilarious trailer circling the Internet, we couldn't help but notice how much they have outdone themselves in terms of bringing the most in the now, up and coming and sought after talent today with a diverse line-up featuring everyone from Dog Blood ... More >>

Why Suedehead Will Never Be Hands Off With Their Music

Suedehead belts out get-happy songs that swing, despite the lyrics being more lovelorn than jubilant. The swirling, soulful uptempo tunes from the brain of British ex-pat Davey Warsop are shaped by influences like the Jam and Elvis Costello.The Orange County band's new single "Lying in Bed" is sure ... More >>

Margaret Cho Gives Us the Top Five Macho Bands That Lesbians Are Secretly Into.

Comedian Margaret Cho would like you to know something about the musical taste of the average lesbian. It's not just k.d. lang and Tori Amos shuffling around in their iPods. Their musical tastes can vary as much as anyone's. And sometimes they're looking for tunes with some serious balls. As a celeb ... More >>

Unlikely Songbird Joey Diaz Gets Up Every Morning and Tweets Random-Ass Music From His iPod

Joey "CoCo" Diaz isn't really the guy you'd expect to go around singing songs in public. But we'll be damned if he doesn't post them on Twitter. Every day, the hefty, foul-mouthed comic wakes up his followers with a blast of noise, whether it's Tool or 2Pac. It's the kind of ritual that proves there ... More >>

Testament - House of Blues Anaheim - January 31, 2013

Testament House of Blues Anaheim January 31, 2013A portion of Downtown Disney was morphed into a thrash metal haven last night, as Bay Area heroes Testament played the second night of a cross country tour, to promote their new album, The Dark Roots of Earth(released in July on Nuclear Blast). Eve ... More >>

MellowHype - Chain Reaction - December 21, 2012

MellowHypeChain ReactionDecember 21, 2012This week seems to be Orange County's unofficial "Odd Future" week. The LA-based hip-hop collective has scheduled two performances here for the week before Christmas, each promising to deliver a buffet of rowdy crowds, four letter words, and clothing featurin ... More >>

Predicting the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas Lineup

In a month, alternative rock radio behemoth KROQ will be throwing down their annual Almost Acoustic Christmas concerts. After some sleuthing and perusal of other regional radio holiday shows, the dates for KROQ will be December 8th and 9th at the Gibson Amphitheater. Let's look at the potential line ... More >>

Rolling Stones, The Doors and Cold Play Docs Hit Anaheim's UltraLuxe Cinemas in November

Music lovers may not agree on much, but they will nod their in accordance regarding the merits of classic concert films, right? If you weren't able to see a band in its heyday or even a modern day outfit, this is the best way to take in the experience without plunking down an obscene amount of money ... More >>

Wise-Cracking Weedeater Mix Humor and Headbanging

The North Carolina band enjoy evil music without all the pretention

Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask

By: Jason RocheThe dark themes and strikingly gory album covers are one thing, but what makes metal inaccessible to many is its bounty of subgenres,from black to death to thrash, to say nothing of death 'n roll and pornogrind. Which is why, below, we've compiled metal's most popular subgenres into o ... More >>

Lou Reed Signing - Some of Our Favorite People And Their Items

Daniel KohnReed ready to signOn Friday, Lou Reed, did an in-store at Fingerprints in Long Beach. As expected, there were fans from all walks of love at the beloved record store. The line, per usual, extended from the store's front on 4th St. and around Elm. Unlike the recent Brian Wilson signing, th ... More >>

Lou Reed Signing at Fingerprints Tomorrow

​ Maybe you read this week's print story on Lou Reed and realized he's probably a little, uh, moody. But the legend himself is coming to Fingerprints Record Store in Long Beach tomorrow, right before he goes off to converse with Bob Ezrin at The Carpenter Center. (He's also in town for a Metal Mac ... More >>

3hree Things: Major League Baseball Players Have Horrible Taste In Music

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native. "Durr Durr Hurrka Durr Deeoodle Dee Dooo Hurka Murr Murr Hem Haw Durkle Doo..." -Stapp​Major ... More >>

Demo of Micro Championship Wrestling: 'I Was Never Into Music Until I Started Deejaying at Strip Clubs'

Demo!​ We recently caught up with Demo, "the Worlds Smallest Wrestler," from Micro Championship Wrestling to ask him what he like to do when he's not kicking large amounts of ass in the ring. He is going to be performing tonight at the Galaxy Theatre alongside Middle Class Rejects--after the jump, ... More >>

Local Kid to Play Jimmy 'the Rev' Sullivan in Avenged Sevenfold Video

​A local group of young rock musicians is getting a boost from an unlikely source: Huntington Beach metal icons, Avenged Sevenfold.Orange County band Un D Vided, founded by 13-year-old drummer Harley deWinter, specializes in a brand of classic-style rock in the vein of Pat Benatar and Heart--Not e ... More >>

WTF of the Week: Kid Rock

​WTF?Here's a twist on an OC Weekly blog from a few weeks ago. You may remember that last month's Hotlist in Rolling Stone deemed the muse du jour of rappers across the nation to be fictional anchorman Ron Burgundy. This month's RS reported on an unlikely rapper du jour for off-kilter hip-hop ... More >>

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

3hree Songs I Never Want To Hear Again (But Undoubtedly Will)

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California, being an OC native and, of course, music.Flickr user striatic​​There are certain songs that are inescapable, that ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Bullet For My Valentine at the Grove of Anaheim

Andrew Youssef​The Hype: Armed with their latest album Fever, Bullet For My Valentine made a stop at the Grove of Anaheim for a sold-out show. Chiodos, Airbourne and Arcanium were packaged together as openers to span the different genres of metal to widen the overall appeal of the tour. The second ... More >>

Eight Questions with Katon W. De Pena of Hirax

Hirax with Katon De Pena, third from right.​Interviewing Hirax singer Katon W. De Pena is sort of a waste of time. You see, journalists (me) are supposed to find news and then announce said news to readers (you). But I shit you not when I say that everyone knows De Pena and De Pena knows everyone. ... More >>

Full Film Slate: "Imagine This," "Crude," (the Return of) "The Cove," "Coco Before Chanel" and Michael Moore's Latest Polemic

Chill the Red Bull, re-heat the coffee and warm up the crack pipe: your eyeballs are about to get a workout from local screens in the days ahead. "Imagine This" took a film crew high into the Andes Mountains. First, Laguna Beach Film Society screens the documentary Imagine This tonight. Eion ... More >>

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 ... More >>

[Special Screenings] Local Showings of Oscar-Nominated Short Films, More

[Sound Guy] The Best Tribute Bands to Never Exist

Glass House-Bound Shock Rockers GWAR Inspire Civic Pride, Fake Blood and All

CD Review: WWE The Music Volume 8 (Wal-Mart Exclusive Version)

Music critics occasionally venture a crack at reviewing WWE music compilations, but they often miss the mark, because you simply cannot just act as if this is some regular compilation CD and assess the songs simply as songs. Not for the most part. But to explain, I need to back up a little bit... T ... More >>

Tom Delonge of Angels & Airwaves Soars Out of Blink-182's Punk Orbit

Through Ness' Eyes

Taking stock of Social Distortion at 30

Shred Cred

WEB EXCLUSIVE! Shred Cred: You wanted the best—you got the best: Guitar Hero III

Tooting Our Own Horn

One California Day

Rage Against Irrelevancy

Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

Cherub Rock

A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies

Lullabies for the Deranged

Wallow in the mire of the years best scuzz rock

The Last Word on the Pixies (For Now)

OnDVD: loudQUIETloud

Commie Girl

The Game: Carrots

Get Out!

Kill them all

Goko Cafe

Whassup? Docs!

2005 is the year of the documentary at Newport Beach film fest

Over the Cliffs

LEMUR follows the crowd

Could It Be . . . Satan?!?

Stoned and Dethroned

Cuisinart Rock

From punk to metal to emo, Thrice can play it all

Rage Against the Radio

Club of a Thousand Dances

Choosing between metal and merengue at JC Fandango

In a State

Watching the Mates of State make up

Why Pearl Jam Still Matters

Yes! Pearl Jam!

Pretty In Pink

Our Crumb

Getting over the Girl, getting on with the music