Subject: Mike Watt

• Live Review: Lemonheads at Galaxy Theatre

  Sat., Nov. 18: Too bad there's already a Best of the Lemonheads album on the shelves, and badder still that it was compiled by Atlantic Records (and not lead Lemonhead, Evan Dando): tonight's set would have made an epic greatest hits tracklist. Tunes from Come on Feel laid like cozy bed buddies with favorites off It's a Shame About Ray ("Turnpike Down," "Alison's Starting to Happen," "Rudderless") and Car Button Cloth ("If I Could Talk I'd Tell You"), saving just enough room for new numbers li

  November 20, 2006

• Celebrate Record Store Day April 19

  Currently on the endangered species list: your local record store. (You remember those, right?) In a valiant attempt to raise awareness of their existence and importance (and perhaps move some stock), hundreds of independently owned music emporia throughout North America are celebrating Record Store Day by holding special events and sales Friday April 19. Close to OC, Long Beach's Fingerprints and LA's Amoeba are participating. I highly recommend frequenting a shop or two Saturday and showin

  April 18, 2008

• Letters

  August 12, 1999

• Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

  May 25, 2000

• Last Call

  June 7, 2001

• Killer month at DiPiazza's

  I don't work in the marketing department at DiPiazza's Restaurant & Lounge, but maybe I should. I just took a gander at their April schedule and they've got some great stuff lined up. Wednesday is Adam's Dagger, a Long Beach band that just had a streaming song on Punknews. Friday is Fishbone. 'nuff said. April 10 is Mike Watt  the Missingmen, Mojo Wire (featuring Monique Powell, formerly of Save Ferris) and the Jack Brewer Reunion Band (featuring members of Saccharine Trust)

  March 31, 2009

• Over the Weekend: Mike Watt at DiPiazza's, Lemon Sun at the Light Gallery, More

  Though I was nowhere near Orange County this weekend (celebrating the religious holiday of your choice up north), there was still plenty of OC Weekly representation at shows around town. Keith May took this lovely pic of legendary punk rocker Mike Watt, of Minutemen/countless other projects fame. The show was Friday at DiPiazza's in Long Beach, pics are here. Friday also saw LA's Lemon Sun and a gaggle of local OC acts (like the New Limb, the Jakes and Dolphin City, all of whom we've written abo

  April 13, 2009

• Going Strong

  January 29, 2009

• Mind Blown

  November 27, 2008

• Crank the A.C.

  October 2, 2008

• SUCKER!

  August 24, 2000

• Ohio Screamin'

  April 24, 2008

• Numbers by Paint

  Banyan Splatter the Aural Canvas with a Profusion of Surprising Hues

  October 4, 2007

• Unknown

  Whats humming through the skulls of Orange County?

  March 2, 2000

• Pour It Like a Kettle

  December 12, 2002

• Punk Rock Gets Malled to Life

  Twelve years on, Vans Warped Tour goes through a difficult adolescence

  June 28, 2007

• The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever: 51 - 89

  June 26, 2003

• CD Review

  May 3, 2007

• Live Review

  October 5, 2006

• Get Out!

  June 15 - June 22: Os Mutantes!
  

  June 15, 2006

• Before You Say No

  2MEX and Ikey Owens work-for-hire Look Daggers

  May 11, 2006

• Shuffle Dancing in the Green Room

  Sean Striegel knows what's on Mike Watts' rider
  

  March 23, 2006

• Get Out!

  January 26, 2006

• Get Out!

  December 15, 2005

• Unknown Instructors

  October 13, 2005

• Sludge Feast

  August 11, 2005

• Goof Prevention Squad

  June 16, 2005

• 5 Other Summer Music Festivals To See Before You Die ...

  May 19, 2005

• Joyful Noise

  December 23, 2004

• Live Previews

  December 9, 2004

• Non-Fortunate Son:

  July 22, 2004

• Love Among the Mutants

  March 11, 2004

• Making It Up

  December 25, 2003

• Nerd City!

  November 20, 2003

• Triumph of Mediocrity

  August 28, 2003

• Resolved

  January 9, 2003

• Mega Watt

  September 13, 2001

• Say Watt?

  April 26, 2001

• Bargin Music, Two Dollar Guitar, Robin & Linda Williams

  March 16, 2000

• Swimming From Cambodia

  September 16, 1999

• WWCGD?

  October 1, 1998

• What Happened to the Long Beach Loop?

  Started in September of 2008, the Long Beach Loop was a monthly event that sounded genuinely fun: the first Thursday of each month, a double-decker bus took folks back-and-forth between beloved LB spots Alex's Bar, The Pike and The Prospector, each of which had concerts going on that night (with sets timed to correspond to bus stops). Long Beach acts like Greater California, the Valley Arena and Free Moral Agents all participated. Music AND a bus, get of town. Sounds rad. And all for $10!I wasn'

  May 5, 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 did), not pentatonic, major and minor scales. Balch seems to know this and has set up videos by musicians from bands such as Fu Manchu (duh), the Dwarves, Helmet, TSOL, Torche, Monster Magnet, the Dicki

  May 13, 2009

• [Sound Guy] The Long Beach Loop's Demise, Repeater Producer Ross Robinson

  May 14, 2009

• The Stooges reform (again)

  The history of the Stooges is long and complicated. Basically, the original group (singer Iggy Pop, drummer Scott Asheton, guitarist Ron Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander) recorded two albums that you should have (The Stooges and Fun House).   Alexander left, then after running through a few bassists, the group disbanded. Until they reunited. For its second go-round, the Stooges re-christened themselves Iggy and the Stooges and had a new lineup that included Pop and drummer Asheton with n

  May 22, 2009

• Jackie Ojeda on Fidotrust Fest 2009

  ​BY MICHAEL COYLELong Beach's Fidorust Records is throwing the 2009 Fidotrust Fest. It's in four Long Beach bars with mostly Long Beach bands, but Fidotrust label owner and fest promoter Jackie Ojeda hopes to draw people from all over.

  August 19, 2009

• Fidotrust Fest 2009

  August 20, 2009

• Kid Congo Powers Also Playing Anaheim Date

  ​Chris Ziegler told you all about Kid Congo Powers (center) in last week's Weekly; what with his past in the Cramps and the Bad Seeds and his new album Dracula Boots with his band the Pink Monkey Birds and their experience recording in Kansas and their show tomorrow at Alex's Bar in Long Beach and all of that.But what we didn't get a chance to tell you is that he's also playing this Saturday in Anaheim, specifically the Juke Joint. That show's alongside Southern California punk rock godfather

  October 6, 2009

• Big Whup Get Under Your Skin

  October 15, 2009