My Morning Jacket

Last Shot: Struggling to Shoot Coachella

[Editor's Note: Longtime concert photographer and fellow Weekling Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events for us on top of other freelance work and holding a day job at a hospital, of all places. As ... More >>

Max and the Moon

Copper Door

He's My Brother She's My Sister

Galaxy Theater

He's My Brother, She's My Sister: 'Nobody Dances In This Town'

Mary Bell/OC Weekly​He's My Bother, She's My Sister is comprised of--you guessed it--siblings Rachel (vocals, percussion) and Rob Kolar (vocals, guitar), joined by a colorful group of rag-tag vaudevillian musicians and performers. Upright bassist Oliver Newell sported glitter eyeshadow, grandma gl ... More >>

Fall Out Boy Fail: Buddy Holly Tribute is Overproduced and Kitschy

​With what would have been Buddy Holly's 75th birthday fast approaching, record companies are predictably shifting to tribute mode and cashing in. Late June witnessed the release of Fantasy Records' compilation Rave On Buddy Holly, which featured covers of the rock pioneers songs by Paul McCartney ... More >>

June 2011: Best Concert Shots

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly Arctic Monkeys performed at the Fox Theater Pomona on June 2, 2011. Click here to see more images! ​We've pulled together the very best concert shots from June 2011 for your viewing pleasure. After the jump: Awesome pictures from Peter Bjorn & John, Weenie Roast ... More >>

Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, Hayley Williams Featured on Muppets: The Green Album

​In one of the most adorable collaboration albums of the year, Weezer, Atreyu's Brandon Saller (a local-er!), Paramore's Hayley Williams, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, OK Go, Sondre Lerche and many more artists have contributed to The Muppets: Green Album, a tribute to the music of the Muppets. ... More >>

Watch Bonnaroo from Home

Musical festival season is in full swing, and that means you're either already on a plane to attend this weekend's Bonnaroo Music Festival or staying at home and wishing you were there. This year, the likes of Eminem, Arcade Fire, Robert Plant and Lil Wayne are part of the star-studded lineup in Man ... More >>

My Morning Jacket Wants to be Dengue Fever

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Kentucky band My Morning Jacket's foray into revivalism on their latest, Circuital (out May 31),  involve making soul palatable to bros via rock & roll. Actually it's something frontman Jim James has done throughout their career, but on their latest single "Holdi ... More >>

Now Headlining a Fall Tour: Avi Buffalo! Plus, Free MP3s

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Maybe Avigdor Zahner-Isenberg and co. will take a tip from opening for a whole slew of bands (My Morning Jacket, Modest Mouse and Japandroids) this summer; Sub Pop just announced that Avi Buffalo is going on a 17-date headlining tour in early October. Check out the compl ... More >>

My Morning Jacket and Avi Buffalo at the Greek Theatre Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​My Morning Jacket and Avi BuffaloAug. 12, 2010The Greek Theatre The difference between a young buzz band and a primed-and-polished touring act shone apparent last night at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, which hosted My Morning Jacket with Long Beach's Avi Buffalo ope ... More >>

"My Body," Free From Young The Giant

​What's up with Young the Giant, you ask? The band formerly known as the Jakes are performing at the Detroit Bar three Wednesdays this August. That would be August 4, 11 and 18, with The New Limb, Melanoid, The Steelwells and more. They're also offering up the song, "My Body," for free. Download ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha's Arizona Boycott Grows

​On July 29, the government of Arizona will enact Senate Bill 1070, also known as Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act. The law addresses immigration control and regulation, which was traditionally a federal responsibility. This law makes Arizona the first state to require all aliens ... More >>

Record Review: The Roots, How I Got Over

​The Hype: Waiting for the new album from the Roots to come out has been torturous--especially for those who love them enough to endure the entire hour of the Jimmy Fallon's comedy just to watch them play every week, all the while knowing that they should be on tour with an album th ... More >>

Social D Performing At Outside Lands

MySpace / Julia Zave​Look who's performing at  San Francisco's answer to Coachella! Aside from beloved locals Social Distortion, the Outside Lands fest, is going all jammy by hosting the Grateful Dead. For the first time in almost 20 years, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir are playing the Golden Gate P ... More >>

Avi Buffalo to Join My Morning Jacket on Tour

Andrew YoussefAvi Buffalo performing at an in-store at Fingerprints on 4/27. ​Between signing to Sub Pop, and, more recently, being picked by Wilco to play their first festival ever, Long Beach's Avi Buffalo has had a really, really, really great year. And it just got better.One of our favorite ba ... More >>

OC/LBC Bands Representing at SXSW

Local acts aim to create buzz in Austin

Another Festival We'd Rather Go To: Long Beach's Avi Buffalo Added to Sasquatch!

​The line-up for this year's Sasquatch was just announced and hey, turns out it's another festival line-up we'd much rather go see than Coachella.Sasquatch, which is famously held at the Gorge in Washington (two hours outside of Seattle), will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 29-30. The line ... More >>

Today in Music News: New Dead Weather Album, Jay Reatard Cause of Death, Taylor Swift, the Strokes

Jack White says new Dead Weather album should be out in April. Jay Reatard died from "cocaine toxicity, and that alcohol was a contributing factor in his death," reports the (Memphis) Commercial Appeal. Click for our Reatard obit post and interview from last year. 

Alberta Cross

Detroit Bar

[Year In Review] The Top 10 Songs of the Decade

Today in Music News: Red Hot Chili Peppers Robbed, Pearl Jam Headlines NOLA Jazz Fest, New Oasis Record

Red Hot Chili Peppers robbed! The Stooges, Jimmy Cliff, Hollies, Genesis and ABBA to join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I'm just glad KISS--a band I loathe more than any other--didn't make the cut. Speaking of the Peppers, has guitar hero John Frusciante quit again?New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fe ... More >>

What You Missed: Shipwreck at the Queen Mary, Reagan Youth, Monsters of Folk

Doug Neill​Is it really over? We stopped by a few places this weekend. Things got a little messy, as you can see up there. First, photog Doug Neill had a double-header on Saturday night and stopped by both the Shipwreck event at the Queen Mary and Reagan Youth at Alex's Bar in Long Beach... you ca ... More >>

Richard Swift

Everest See the Mountaintop

[CD Review] Various artists, 'Dark Was the Night' (4AD)

Top 10 Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantasti ... More >>

The Whigs Remind Us That Great Bands Still Come From Athens, Georgia

[Trendzilla] Summer-Music-Festival Hippiewear

Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

Current TV's Fix: The Future (or Present) of Music Journalism?

Fix Extended Play is a new online video music magazine hosted by Douglas Caballero for a company called Current. The premiere episode (view all 21 minutes of it here) includes feature-y segments on Portland punks the Thermals, M.I.A.-ish electro diva Santogold, UK electronic-pop chameleons Hot Chip ... More >>

Coachella lineup announced

Via Coachella.com: FRIDAY, APRIL 25: Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, The Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, The Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoopid, Mum, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Stars, Battles, Aesop Rock, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend yo ... More >>

Coachella lineup to be announced today

That's the word coming from a story in today's LA Times. Confirmed: My Morning Jacket, Rilo Kiley (who've never been as good as they were the night I saw them years ago at Chain Reaction--so long ago, the Weekly archives don't go back that far!), Jack Johnson, the Raconteurs, the Verve (of "Bitters ... More >>

Sunday - 11/25

The SWEA Christmas Fair at the Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center, Band of Horses at the Glass House, Greyhound Adoption Show & Tell at Petco

CD Review

Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)

Trendzilla

Ironic facial hair

Secretly Good

Giving a fuck about Richard Swift

Oh, the Humanity of a Heist

Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in character-driven, theft-thriller The Lookout

My Morning Jacket at HOB Anaheim, 01/05/07

I haven't been excited by any music in a long, long time. Wait, wait. Was that pretentious enough for you? No? Well, how about this: I haven't been excited by any new music in a long, long time. But Friday night's My Morning Jacket show at the House of Blues, Anaheim was the first concert in awh ... More >>

Believing

My Morning Jacket

Kkkcuf Amerikkka

Jan. 4-Jan. 11

Good shows coming up!

Happy new year! If 2007 goes right, you'll be able to count on this wee blog to keep you informed on all things . . . well, all things that we think you should like, I guess. That means: show reviews, band recommendations, random stuff from Ziegler and more contributions from (hopefully) more contri ... More >>

Mediocre? You Can't Be Serious

In defense of Coachella

Album Review

Band of Horses, Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)

This Week in Name Changes

Dios (Malos)

The Inmates are Running the Asylum

Pink Mountaintops talk about sex, drug reform, and rock & roll

Get Yourself Arrested

The cartoon world of Gomez

Never Heard of Him? Perfect!

Ben Kweller happy to be a retread at 21