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Fingerprints Records

Fingerprints Celebrates Record Store Day With Jimmy Eat World, Best Coast and More

If you're like us, the arrival of April means Record Store Day is almost upon us. On April 20, our favorite LBC music shop Fingerprints is celebrating in a big way. This year the shop's in-store performance lineup boasts FM alt-rockers Jimmy Eat World along with L.A.'s own Best Coast, Grammy-winning ... More >>

Five of the Best Monterey Jazz Festival Performances of All Time

This fall, the Monterey Jazz Festival will usher in its 56th annual performance along California's crystal coastline, 350 miles north of Orange County. Since 1958 the festival has hosted every major jazz musician conceivable. The first lineup alone included Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Milt Jack ... More >>

The World Famous Doll Hut Closes its Doors...Again. This Time For Good.

Last call, folks. For good this time. Recently, beloved punk rock gem the Doll Hut announced via Facebook that the bar has been sold to a new owner who will likely turn it into something very different than it is now. For the past 11 years, owners Blue and Anthony Castaneda have run the place, takin ... More >>

Mike Watt

DiPiazza's

Acrobatics Everyday Presents Open Melody 2011 at UC Irvine This Saturday

Dos (Mike Watt and Kira Roessler)​Another school year means another slate of underground and unexpected concerts at UC Irvine courtesy of the Acrobatics Everyday crew, with mid-November being the time when another Open Melody festival takes place. And, unlike something like, say, Playground Fe ... More >>

Album Attack: Fugazi's 13 Songs at The Prospector Saturday Night

David Thornton​Album Attack, Fugazi's 13 SongsOctober 15, 2011The ProspectorAs has become the custom in Long Beach, a hodgepodge-supergroup of local musicians took the stage at The Prospector on Saturday to play through an influential indie album in its entirety. In the spotlight this month--Fug ... More >>

Dave Grohl, Pat Smear, Eddie Vedder Join Mike Watt & the Missing Men On Stage in Seattle

One of our favorite perma-performing musicians around, Mike Watt, was joined on stage last night at the Triple Door in Seattle during his encore by Dave Grohl, Eddie Vedder and Pat Smear. The group performed "Big Train," the first track off Watt's 1994 debut solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?--which yo ... More >>

What You Missed: Chowderfest, Datarock, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​What'd you miss this weekend? We kept busy--there was the Best of the Chowderfest at the Aquarium of the Pacific, Datarock at the Glass House, Mike Watt at the Echo and Exene Cervenka at Big's (sponsored by Heard Mentality!). After the jump: more images, info and lin ... More >>

TGIF: The Wonder Years, Social Distortion, Jandek, Three Bad Jacks and Many More!

Michael MinichielloThe Wonder Years​On Friday, the Wonder Years play at Chain Reaction in Anaheim--and yes, we feel your eyes rolling a bit at the name. We still haven't quite gotten over Crystal Castles and Final Fantasy ourselves, to name just two. But the Philadelphia-based band, who look more ... More >>

Jandek Brings His Monastic Mystique to OC

The reclusive outsider-music icon will play his first SoCal show at UC Irvine

Top Five OC Artists to Follow on Twitter

These days, you can't go online without reading about Kanye West letting fans know about his latest drama, or 50 Cent on either how lonely he is or his hilarous racist rants--all on Twitter. And while no local artist is as candid as Kanye or Fitty, here are some of the best OC acts to follow on Twit ... More >>

Derf Scratch and Susan J. Miller Remembered

[Mental Notes] Notables in the local music scene pass away

Mike Watt Remembers Derf Scratch: "We Must Be More Intense Before We Lose More!"

Keith May/OC WeeklyMike Watt and the Missing Men at DiPiazza on April 10, 2009.​Mike Watt (Minutemen, dos, fIREHOSE, the Stooges) shared a special musical connection with fellow bass player, the recently deceased Derf Scratch, formerly of FEAR.Watt, one of the hardest working musicians we know, ma ... More >>

R.I.P. Derf Scratch, Founding Member of Fear

myspace.com/derfscratchDerf Scratch, DOB unknown--2010​UPDATED: MIKE WATT REMEMBERS DERF SCRATCH.Frederick Milner, better known as Derf Scratch, bass player for FEAR from 1977-1982, passed away on July 28 after a long battle with an unspecified illness. Scratch was an original, founding member of ... More >>

Thank God It's Thursday: Our Weekend Picks

Electric Children will be performing at the Puka Bar in Long Beach​Don't know where to go this weekend? Heard Mentality makes it easy--here's the rundown of great music coming to town.

Last Night: Wilco's Nels Cline with Norton Wisdom as Stained Radiance at DiPiazza's, Long Beach

The Hype: Guitar virtuoso Nels Cline of Wilco fame making an appearance at DiPiazza's in Long Beach?  An enticing proposition, indeed. Performing with visual artist Norton Wisdom under the moniker Stained Radiance, the nagging question permeating the small dining room was, why would Cline be shari ... More >>

Over the Weekend: the Riverboat Gamblers, Mike Watt and the Secondmen, Throw Rag at Alex's Bar, Long Beach

The Hype: The bar that has served as the setting for scenes from the HOBO series True Blood and Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, not to mention a slew of top-shelf local and touring music acts, has triumphantly put one decade to bed. Saturday's show was another proverbial notch on the belt fea ... More >>

[Locals Only] Local Artist Chris Schlarb Speaks Wednesday at Cal State Long Beach

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 ... More >>

Fidotrust Fest 2009

Alex’s Bar, The Prospector, The Cellar, Que Sera

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.

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 ... More >>

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 >>

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 set ... More >>

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. Th ... More >>

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 Fish ... More >>

Going Strong

Alex's 9th Anniversary

Mind Blown

Mike Watt, Moris Tepper, Crystal Antlers

Crank the A.C.

Hellride

Ohio Screamin'

Horrors of Toledo

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 Sto ... More >>

Numbers by Paint

Banyan Splatter the Aural Canvas with a Profusion of Surprising Hues

Punk Rock Gets Malled to Life

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

CD Review

Unknown Instructors, The Masters Voice (Smog Veil)

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 wi ... More >>

Live Review

School House Rock: The SeaMonsters at Haskells Prospector, Long Beach, Tuesday, Sept. 26

Get Out!

June 15 - June 22: Os Mutantes!

Get Out!

White Lightening
Dec. 15 - Dec. 22

Unknown Instructors

Goof Prevention Squad

Famous friends make Sublime tribute album

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

... or that might kill you

Live Previews

Triumph of Mediocrity

Mega Watt

Mike Watt comes to town with a new band and an old sound

Say Watt?

J Mascis comes to Anaheim, drags along punk legend

Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

Bargin Music, Two Dollar Guitar, Robin & Linda Williams

Swimming From Cambodia

Stranger Death 19 recall horrorand joy

WWCGD?

What would Commie Girl do?