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Metallica

  • Music

    May 24, 2012

    Bassnectar Rumbles Through Lightning In a Bottle Festival

    Freeform artist Lorin Ashton reflects on the release of 'Vava Boom' and his journey in EDM

  • Film

    April 19, 2012

    Newport Beach Film Festival's Sounds and Fury

    Its music series makes more noise

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    Ten Questions with That Metal Show's Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson

    ​I grew up in a town where almost every kid wore a jean jacket and worshiped at the altar of Ozzy Osbourne. KNAC blared from garages and Skid Row was played over the loudspeaker at our city's annual carnival. Needless to say, I know a thing or two about metal, which might have something to do with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    3hree Things: A Box Full Of Cassettes And Shame

    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.​I'm not gonna lie. I didn't spend my formative years as a music listener (late-80's/earl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Local Record Review: 'Anna Vexa' by Anna Vexa

    ​Anna VexaAnna Vexahttp://annavexa.comWe here at Beat Blvd. have been along long enough to know a few truths, and one of them has become clearer with time -- there are always going to be some form of goth/prog/metal bands out there doing something anthemic, sometimes cryptically and sometimes open ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Five Music Biopics We'd Like To See

    ​ Over the last decade, Hollywood has pumped out an increasing number of music biopics, treating us to everything from enjoyable theatrical hits (8 Mile) to wobbly, tear-jerking cable duds (Take Me Home: The John Denver Story). With Jeff Buckley, Sam Cooke and Clash movies in the works and rumor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    A Gimmick From Record Stores and Slayer on Black Friday? No Way!

    ​Thanksgiving, Schanksgiving. As a music geek who lives to shop, Black Friday gimmicks are near and dear to my heart.This year has a bunch of Black Friday gimmicks that sound pretty interesting.

  • Music

    October 28, 2010

    Animals As Leaders Riff Out

    There's more to Tosin Abasi's instrumental prog-metal outfit than guitar heroics

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Uproar Festival: Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Over the Weekend

    Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyCheck o​ut our Uproar Festival slideshow featuring Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Stone Sour, Halestorm, Hellyeah, Airbourne, Hail the Villian and New Medicine here!Uproar Festival feat. Avenged Sevenfold and DisturbedSeptember 17, 2010Verizon Wireless AmphitheaterThe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2010

    Uproar Festival's Headliners Charttoppers: Disturbed's 'Asylum' Hit No. 1 on Billboard Today

    ​Today we found out that both Rockstar's Uproar Festival headliners' albums debuted at No. 1 this summer. Avenged Sevenfold held the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 album chart just a few weeks ago with their new CD Nightmare, and the eponymous single has also been No. 1 on rock radio for the thre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    TGIF: ¡Aparato!, Exodus, the Mildreds, the Mormons and the D-Strutters Plus the Last Acrobatics Everyday This Summer

    Little Teeth perform at Acrobatics Everyday​What's going on this weekend, you ask? There's jarocho rock courtesy of ¡Aparato!, '80s thrash metal care of Exodus (Kirk Hammett's old band), the Mildreds in Long Beach and the last Acrobatics Everyday set of the summer in Irvine, with Little Teet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Top 10 Orange County Concerts of 2009, No. 2: Metallica, December 10, Honda Center, Anaheim

    Editor's Note: Having spent hours perusing the Heard Mentality archives for a Concert Year in Review feature running in the print issue that streets Friday, I compiled a Top 10 list of the coolest shows to come through Orange County in 2009. Here's No. 2, the first major concert I covered after land ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2009

    Play That Riff...Literally

    Fu Manchu guitarist Bob Balch has a website devoted to music lessons. Now, that in itself isn't newsworthy, but I did a little snooping and realized he's really onto something.   Anyone who ever took a lesson knows how boring they are. A 14-year-old wants to learn Metallica riffs (at least I di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Old School Hip-Hop: Back from the Dead

    I've been a Sirius Satellite subscriber (hello alliteration) since the night before Howard Stern broadcast his first censorship-free show. But in that time, I've come to love certain aspects of the other channels and have recommended this product to everyone from friends to my parents.Sirius and XM, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Five Ways To Survive the Current Economic Crisis

    BY COLE HADDONThese are tough economic times, what with the depression that's being driven by the housing crash, and skyrocketing unemployment. It's damn near impossible in such a climate to enjoy or even splurge on our hobbies and passions. Who can afford those New Kids on the Block tickets or iPod ... More >>

  • Music

    January 8, 2009

    [Sound Guy] The Best Tribute Bands to Never Exist

    BY COLE HADDONThese are tough economic times, what with the depression that's being driven by the housing crash, and skyrocketing unemployment. It's damn near impossible in such a climate to enjoy or even splurge on our hobbies and passions. Who can afford those New Kids on the Block tickets or iPod ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2008

    No More Virgins Left in Orange County

    Virgin Megastores, that is. Just got back from a lunch break to find out how true today's report on the Register's retail blog is, and the answer is . . . very. The Virgin Megastore at the Block in Orange will indeed be closing. The plug gets pulled January 4. In the meantime: bargains! I grabbed a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2008

    Lamb of God: Too Dangerous for LA, Just Right for Anaheim

    Faithful Central Bible Church, the owners of The Forum in Inglewood, have (again) deemed Lamb of God not worthy of playing in their arena. They were scheduled to open up for Metallica there on Dec. 17 and 18. The good news, though, is that even though the band, whose debut album was called Burn the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2008

    This Week in the OC Weekly

    Faithful Central Bible Church, the owners of The Forum in Inglewood, have (again) deemed Lamb of God not worthy of playing in their arena. They were scheduled to open up for Metallica there on Dec. 17 and 18. The good news, though, is that even though the band, whose debut album was called Burn the ... More >>

  • Music

    July 10, 2008

    [CD Review] Melvins, 'Nude With Boots' (Ipecac)

    Faithful Central Bible Church, the owners of The Forum in Inglewood, have (again) deemed Lamb of God not worthy of playing in their arena. They were scheduled to open up for Metallica there on Dec. 17 and 18. The good news, though, is that even though the band, whose debut album was called Burn the ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 24, 2008

    ¡Ask a Mexican!®

    Three-question special

  • Music

    November 29, 2007

    Steep Learning Curve

    Don Caballero’s Jazzbo Metal Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts

  • Blogs

    October 23, 2007

    Pigs* Bust OiNK

    The BBC reports that British and Dutch police today have shut down the popular and flagrantly illegal music-downloading site OiNK and arrested its overlord, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, England. That sound you hear is the celebratory high-5ing of major-label employees worldwide and Metall ... More >>

  • Music

    September 13, 2007

    Sprawl of Sound

    Putting Rock in Your Electro (and Vice Versa): Dan Sena’s Busywork Night Is Anything But Drudgery

  • Music

    August 2, 2007

    One Door Closes, Another One Opens

    The Cult get their mojo risin again

  • Music

    July 19, 2007

    For Those About to Schlock . . .

    KNAC/DC supply the metal, you shout at the devil

  • Music

    June 28, 2007

    Northern Light Junkyard Music

    Under Byen orchestrate a Danish treat

  • Music

    May 24, 2007

    Danzig's Lost and Found

    Underground auteur unearths hits from hell

  • Music

    March 29, 2007

    Cherub Rock

    A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies

  • Film

    November 16, 2006

    Radical Chick

    You cant tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

  • Music

    July 27, 2006

    Tapping All Levels

    Veteran hip-hopper V.I.T.A.L. Emcee steps out on his own

  • Film

    June 15, 2006

    New Reviews

    Dog Lover's Symphony; Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties; The King; Korn Live on the Other Side

  • Film

    March 30, 2006

    Troubled Man

    The deeply disturbed life and times of a musical prodigy

  • Music

    March 30, 2006

    4,100,000,000 Flies

    How High On Fire do Hadean (not Hitchcockian) heavy

  • Music

    December 22, 2005

    Oxxnard

    Live review

  • Unknown

    July 7, 2005

    HOT AS IN GOD

    This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

  • Food

    April 28, 2005

    Goko Cafe

    This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    Live Previews

    This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

  • Music

    August 28, 2003

    Triumph of Mediocrity

    This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

  • Music

    August 14, 2003

    Evil-free!

    This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

  • Unknown

    March 13, 2003

    Could It Be . . . Satan?!?

    This week in nightlife and more: July 7-14

  • Music

    September 5, 2002

    Chase Frank

    Singer and guitar player in Quiverfish, Producer of Curve and Songwriter's Supper Club, DJ Trytophan.

  • Music

    August 16, 2001

    Johnny Jones

    Singer/Songwriter, Artist, Hot Wheels Collector

  • Music

    December 7, 2000

    In a State

    Watching the Mates of State make up

  • Columns

    May 18, 2000

    Call Your Mother!

    Henry Rollins sweats pure love

  • Music

    December 16, 1999

    Were Winning the War Against Crappy Music!

    Henry Rollins sweats pure love

  • Music

    November 4, 1999

    A Week of Bad Manners

    Oh, and the well-mannered Derailers, too

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