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Cirque du Twerk

[Trendzilla] Scripps Ranch High School's twerking girls make us feel old

TAPS Craft Beer Festival TOMORROW

Why should Orange and Huntington Beach have all the fun? Brea's brewing something special this weekend, as TAPS Fish House & Brewery launches its Craft Brew Festival tomorrow from noon to 3 p.m.

[UPDATED] Dispatch from Huntington Beach: New Bruxie, New N'Awlins, and Funnel Cake!

Update April 9, 2013:Bruxie released a revised opening date of Tuesday, April 23 at 8 a.m. The Bruxie Streetside window will open at 7 a.m. starting in early May.Ritter's Steam Kettle Cooking will now open their Huntington Beach location at The Strand (180 5th Street, Suite 130) before Costa Mesa (G ... More >>

Down Army

City National Grove of Anaheim

Free Ticket Tuesday Wednesday: Down at City National Grove of Anaheim

Those looking to get 2013 off to a brutal, headbanging start had best focus their attention on Anaheim this month as nasty, New Orleans supergroup Down rides on Satan's chariot to the City National Grove of Anaheim. Five years after their previous release Down III: Over the Under, metal mogul and Pa ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Says 2013 Is the Year of the Flaming Lips

After breaking a Guinness World Record, the Oklahoma psych rockers have much more in store

Wayne Coyne Says 2013 Is the Year of the Flaming Lips

See Also:* Pacific Festival: The Dunes Announced* Boys Noize Talks New Album, Working With Snoop Dogg and Skrillex*Bloc Party Speaks: Why Bringing Their Guitars to HARD Summer is a Gutsy MoveAs the Flaming Lips pulled into New Orleans for the final show on a marathon, eight-city, 24-hour jaunt acros ... More >>

Lil Wayne's New Shoe Line: Will it Suffer the Same Fate as These Companies?

​Today, Lil Wayne announced his latest foray into the fashion business with the announcement of his yet-to-be named shoe company. Weezy has had success with his Trukfit brand streetwear brand and getting into sneakers seems to be the logical progression for the New Orleans-bred rapper. Just to rem ... More >>

Free Ticket Tuesday: Curren$y at Pomona's Fox Theatre

​Your favorite stoner rapper's favorite stoner rapper is back to standing on his own two feet. After hopping offstage at the San Bernardino date of Rock the Bells this August, Curren$y broke his ankle. The injury was severe enough to keep him on crutches until mid-December, but it didn't keep hi ... More >>

Odd Future's Frank Ocean Performs at the El Rey Theatre Tonight

OFWGKTA's Frank Ocean​Whether you know it or not, tonight's a big night for L.A. music lovers. Especially those who fell for the soulful musical stylings of Frank Ocean's Nostalgia Ultra mixtape and the abundance of leaked tracks that comprises his discography. Tonight, the resident crooner of ... More >>

Five Ways French Quarter's Stephen Steinbrink Keeps Busy During the Recession

Stephen Steinbrink and his band French Quarter are frequent guests of Irvine's Acrobatics Everyday, and that's usually where they feel within their element. The singer-songwriter hails from South Phoenix, Arizona, where he eschews traditional venues in favor of basements, warehouses and living rooms ... More >>

k'ya Street Fare as Strong (and Strange) as Ever

The non-po' boy po' boy​A couple of weeks ago, I hosted a guest speaker at Cal State Fullerton who stayed at the Hotel Menage in Anaheim. After his lecture, we invited students for a post-lecture eat at k'ya Street Fare, which we reviewed way back in 2009. I had never been, but remembered Edwin li ... More >>

Curren$y

Detrit Bar

¡Ask a Comida Critic! Favorite Food-Themed Song?

​Sorry, folks: I answer what people ask. And while I have in the queue preguntas about sausage, chocolate, Aliso Viejo restaurants (or, rather, the lack of) and other more pressing issues, I couldn't help but like the query sent by Ramón:So, what's your favorite food-themed song?Hmm. I'm not sure ... More >>

Rock'n Fish, South Bay and LA Live-Bases Seafood Restaurant, Now in Laguna Beach

​Even though Laguna Beach is no longer the hippie bohemia of acid runners and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, even though the billionaires have gentrified out the millionaires from the seaside town, Laguna dining has still relatively kept the chains at bay, especially in the non-fast-food scene. ... More >>

WTF of the Week: Tom Waits to Release Single on 78 RPM

​WTF?Yesterday Pitchfork reported bluesman Tom Waits will be releasing a 78 RPM vinyl single on Nov. 19 through New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Recordings.Each side of the limited edition vinyl platter will feature a cover song recorded in collaboration with the Preservation Hall Jazz band inc ... More >>

Theo Von

Brea Improv

Nine Things We Learned At The Doheny Blues Festival

Beth Stirnaman/OC WeeklyCrosby, Stills and Nash performed on the second day of Doheny Blues Fest​Last weekend marked the 13th occasion of the Doheny Blues Festival, which featured 23 blues-ish kind of bands performing Saturday and Sunday at just about the most scenic venue in Orange County: Dohene ... More >>

Radio Musings: the Generationals, 'When They Fight, They Fight,' on KCRW

For the second time this week I heard my new favorite song on KCRW. It's by an act from New Orleans--sounding nothing like what you would expect from a Big Easy band--called the Generationals. They're signed to Park the Van, the tiny indie label best known for unleashing Dr. Dog. The Generationals ... More >>

Show Announcement: Junior Brown and Cowboy Mouth, Galaxy Concert Theatre, Santa Ana

Country singer-songwriter and guitar whiz Junior Brown will share the stage with New Orleans rockers Cowboy Mouth at Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana on Friday, January 8. Brown blew me away at SXSW in 2002 when he closed a solid set at Stubb's with an amazingly medley of rock and surf covers ... More >>

Vietnamese Cajun Crawfish With Funnel Cake for Dessert: Thank You, Q Restaurant

Long Beach Bayou & Mardi Gras Festival

Rainbow Harbor

New Releases: The Mars Volta, Dinosaur Jr. and (gasp) Ginuwine!

Wow, what a great day to spend your disposable income (even if its not so disposable). After a quick scan of all the new albums that drop today, I have to say that this is probably one of the biggest days for summer releases that you're likely to see. I counted about 20 new sonic gems that include j ... More >>

When Nature Calls

Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble

It's a Quick Read 17

Orange County Register: South Coast Plaza shoppers are oblivious to President Obama's visit two miles away. If they can still afford South Coast Plaza, they are oblivious to his message, too. . . . Another Kobe Bryant court appearance, another dismissal. This time he was getting out of jury dut ... More >>

Crystal Antlers Score EW Mention

Long Beach's Crystal Antlers, who this year already netted an 8.5 on Pitchfork for their self-released EP (which was subsequently sntached up by Touch and Go) and just last night played the Bowery Ballroom in NYC as part of the CMJ Music Marathon, saw their good buzz streak continue with a mention i ... More >>

San Diego Street Scene lineup announced

The two-day lineup for this year's San Diego Street Scene was just announced today, and it doesn't look half bad, in this humble ex-music editor's opinion. Headliners include Beck, the Black Crowes, X, Tegan and Sara, Justice, plus Spoon, TV on the Radio, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Michael Franti ... More >>

Metaphor Saves Katrina-Based 'Rising Water' From Drowning at the Maverick

What's on Sly Stone's Mind?

Some ambitious comeback plans, a call for any—any—hip-hop artists to collaborate, and not a little crazy shit. Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart is about to return to the stage after a long absence. He's performing with a makeshift version of the Family Stone (rumor has it that Sly's bro Fredd ... More >>

INDIEFEST/FAIF -- DAY 3

Special Screenings

Movie of the week: The Sophisticated Misfit

Thursday's Headlines & Surprises: Can The Borg Show Compassion?

Car Booting Violence: The folks over at Universal Guaridan Holdings, Inc. in Newport Beach are smiling today because their Cobra StunLight (pictured) “was successfully used to help disable an armed assailant” recently in downtown Atlanta. They say Jeremiah Day was booting illegally parked cars ... More >>

Let the Fingers Fly

Gerald Clayton in Concert

CD Review

Billie Holiday, Remixed & Reimagined (Columbia/Legacy Remixed)

New Reviews

Becket; Constellation; Hurricane on the Bayou; The Messengers

Tonight @ Rhythm Lounge: Brenton Wood

Late notice for a Long Beach appearance by brown-eyed soul star Brenton Wood, fixture at New Orleans' world-class rock & roll fest the Ponderosa Stomp and lots more. Says Ponderosa: Brown-Eyed Soul isn't about color. It's a way of life—music that is passed from generation to generation ... More >>

Dopey and Sleepy

In Harry Shearers America, there are more small people

Cruel Summer Reading

Where summer's concerned, misery is what's icumen in

Get Out!

June 8 - June 15: End of It All

Men Among Giants

2006 Doheny Blues Festival

Letter From Mazatlan

New Orleans shows were about a single disaster from the Third World

Thank God for That Tax Cut!

Its hard to celebrate 10 years of the Weekly when youre busy hating the president

A Clockwork Orange

Live Previews

Sin, Soul & Salvation

The Helmut Stein Experience

Done Got Over It

Soul Queen Irma Thomas fronts Motowns Funk Brothers at the fair

Right Place, Wrong Time

Hoodoo moon phone calls from Dr. John

Undead

Various ArtistsBenefit for Truth & Justice: Free the West Memphis 3 Aces & Eights/Koch Re

Somewhere Off Highway 60 in Arizona