Subject: Music Festivals

• Tonight! Warped Tour Pre-Party

  Tonight the Glass House will be hosting the Warped Tour Pre-Party with Gallows and Big D And The Kids Table. For those of you who just absolutely cannot wait, the show will be just a teeny taste of one of the years most anticipated tours. Both bands playing tonight will be with the Tour during the majority of its duration. Kicking off tomorrow at the Pomona Fairgrounds, the Warped Tour will make a big ass circle around the country (and select cities in Canada) before finishing back in So Cal a

  June 28, 2007

• Looking Ahead to South by Southwest

  The annual sonic bacchanal known as South by Southwest goes down March 12-16. Every year, several thousand music-biz types, musicians and ordinary mortals with more money than sense descend upon downtown Austin, Texas, cramming five months of musical activity into five days. I'll be blogging about all the awesome and heinous stuff I see/hear while I'm there, but for now, here's a lil' sneak preview of the festivities. OC/LBC bands making the trek to the Lone Star state's capital include Free th

  March 3, 2008

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XIV

  Dave Segal and Tom Child spent the weekend in Austin for the South By Southwest Festival, which they live-blogged out of Heard Mentality. Browse the SXSW blog for their coverage here, and do scroll down and flip through some slide shows while you're there. Chelsea Ide wraps up the SXSW weekend quite nicely over here. Once again, the Reg-O-Meter (which now has a snazzy new logo - thanks, Steve!) went negative after Rich Kane fed it this week's notables from the Orange County Register. Check back

  March 17, 2008

• OC Music Fest 09 Partners with Be The Shirt for Contest

  What are you doing in May 2009? Not sure yet? Well, try to pencil in a few days for OC Music Fest 09, which happens in about 10 months in Irvine and promises to feature nearly 100 established and up-and-coming bands. In the meantime, you creative types may want to enter the Be The Shirt band/artist T-shirt design contest. For details regarding the contest and festival, read the press release after the jump.

  July 18, 2008

• What the hell is the OC Music Festival?

  Got a pamphlet in my mailbox today about next year's OC Music Fest, slated for the weekend of May 8-10. Never heard of it? Neither had I, but whoever's behind the fest sure has some grandiose plans. Here's what's being promised: 10 "A-List" acts (and allah only knows what'll define an "A-list" band); 30 "regional bands"; 60 "unsigned bands will play"; and a crowd between "40,000-60,000 . . . are expected to enjoy this seminal event." Notice that I said "Here's what's being promised" as oppose

  October 7, 2008

• Feel the Gastro-Ambient Love!

  May 25, 2000

• Coachella Rumblings

  January 25, 2001

• Welcome to Schmoozeville

  March 29, 2001

• SXSW Slices

  March 29, 2001

• LowBallVideoChatter: Cold Blooded Animal = Chinese Nirvana?

  Yesterday's Chinese hip-hop post got me thinking about Cold Blooded Animal, a band I fell hard for when I discovered them at a South By Southwest some years ago. They're usually described as a Chinese Nirvana, but they go deeper than that, and their lyrics sometimes bravely cross over into bold political pronouncements. The Chinese government, however, lets them be. Here they are playing a music fest of some sort in their homeland . . .    

  December 11, 2008

• OC Music Fest--Still Don't Know What It Is, But It Won't Happen Too Soon

  Back in October, the inestimable Rich Kane blogged What the hell is the OC Music Festival?, wondering about the proposed OC Music Festival scheduled for May 2009 that we had heard about but knew precious few details about--minor things like where it was to be held, for instance.Well, we still know very little, but we do know that the May 2009 date isn't happening (makes sense, since, y'know, there's still no information about the festival out there). According to the offical Web site, it's now s

  January 28, 2009

• OC/LBC Bands Head to South By Southwest

  March 12, 2009

• OC Bands hit SXSW

  For those of you with cash to burn, there is no better excuse for a pre-summer sonic excursion than the arrival of South by Southwest. The ability to stumble around the Austin bar scene with a new noise at every turn has turned this Spring music festival into the beast that it is today after 22 years. This year, a well-respected round-up of OC and LB bands are putting our little sliver of culture on the radar. Included are bands like Crystal Antlers (pictured) and south county darlings Japanese

  March 2, 2009

• [Trendzilla] Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewear

  June 26, 2008

• Is the Pomona Stop on the Vans Warped Tour Mosh Ado About Nothing?

  June 19, 2008

• [Sprawl of Sound] Dave Does SXSW

  March 20, 2008

• The Big Ink

  January 10, 2008

• Ba-Deep Brapp Boop

  January 10, 2008

• But What About the Hip-hop, Tom?

  Saul Williams
  

  March 15, 2007

• Cool Stuff North of the 91

  The Fullerton Music Festival

  August 30, 2007

• SXSWXOC

  Our annual South By Southwest report

  March 25, 2004

• The Aloha-ha Spirit

  Pepper’s Reggae Rock Brings Much-Needed Levity to the Warped Tour

  August 23, 2007

• Jazz, Baby, Jazz

  Long Beach Jazz Festival

  August 9, 2007

• Punk Rock Gets Malled to Life

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

  June 28, 2007

• Happy Birthday Joey Ramone

  Had he not passed away in 2001 at the age of 49, Joey Ramone would be turning 58 years young today. It's hard to believe that three of the four original Ramones are no longer with us. Yeah, there's always that "as long as the music's here, they're here, maaaann" bullshit, but I don't buy that. The tunes are in fact still here, but it's not the same cranking "Havana Affair" knowing the band that penned some of the best tunes of the 20th century barely made it to see the 21st. Needless to say, the

  May 19, 2009

• Rage Against Irrelevancy

  Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

  April 26, 2007

• Locals Only

  No Doubt About It
  OMG! New Year's Day pops with excitement!

  April 5, 2007

• Shameless Plug

  October 5, 2006

• Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

  In defense of Coachella

  May 4, 2006

• Live Previews

  April 7, 2005

• Low Ball Ass Chatter

  March 10, 2005

• The Desert Rose

  Coachellas sonic souffle

  April 29, 2004

• Confabulous!

  September 4, 2003

• Triumph of Mediocrity

  August 28, 2003

• Buchanan

  April 3, 2003

• Do Not Disturb the Sexy!

  September 26, 2002

• Texas is the Reason

  March 21, 2002

• Fear the smoking police!

  September 20, 2001

• Its a Big, Fat, Corporate Rock World

  April 12, 2001

• Cashed Out

  February 22, 2001

• Invasion of the Rockrgrls

  November 30, 2000

• Then & Now!

  September 14, 2000

• DIY or Die

  March 2, 2000

• What's it like to be a big-time music writer at a major metropolitan newspaper?

  December 10, 1998

• Tour Des Artistes

  June 11, 2009

• Jonathan Rach's Documentary Reveals the True Side of the Warped Tour

  June 25, 2009

• TODAY: Warped Tour Kicks Off at Pomona Fairplex

  Oh yes. For the third year in a row, the Vans Warped Tour is kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex (in, uh, Pomona). It's also the 15th anniversary of the Warped Tour! Hooray.Performing on this opening gig: Bad Religion, NOFX, Less Than Jake, TSOL, Thrice, the Maine, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Meg & Dia, the Ataris, Underoath, local band Janu and the Whalesharks (who, at a recent gig this month at the Gypsy Lounge, seemed surprised themselves that they were on the bill) and Dear and the Headlight

  June 26, 2009

• Hootenanny

  July 2, 2009

• Long Beach Jazz Fest

  August 6, 2009

• Incoming: Matt Vasquez of Delta Spirit Solo Show at Detroit Bar

  When Delta Spirit played Detroit Bar back in March, the Costa Mesa venue was as packed as it's ever been. Like, "I have the sweat of 200 strangers intermingling on my skin" packed. So it stands to reason that post- the San Diego band's national tour with the Shins and their spot at Bonnaroo (with a gig at August's Lollapalooza looming on the horizon), lead singer Matt Vasquez's solo show at Detroit on July 18 will probably also be pretty packed, even if it's not the whole band. That's a Saturday

  June 30, 2009