Nine Inch Nails

The Gibson Amphitheatre To Close Its Doors

The storied L.A. venue announced today that it will officially close in September following a special grand finale concert honoring its history. The full press release is available below...

The 10 Most Awkward '90s Songs to Listen to in the Car With Your Parents

For a moment, imagine it's the '90s again -- the era of Bad Boy Records, grunge and Bill Clinton. You're a kid again, and you're on a road trip with your parents. Maybe it's your mom; maybe it's your dad; or maybe it's both. You've been driving for a while. You're bored, staring at the electrical po ... More >>

Battle-Tested DJ Shogun Finally Returns to OC

[Locals Only] The first Asian American DJ on Armin van Buuren's trance label traveled the world to prove himself

Dave Attell on the In's and Out's of Porn Music.

Comedian Dave Attell is adored by fans worldwide and for good reason. Open like a naughty picture book in an adult library, his analogies play out like a rule book on wit and his raw style of humor makes even the dirtiest of dirty blush. Best of all, there is nothing you can do to stop it and why w ... More >>

Top Five Movie Soundtracks Made By Handpicked Rockstars

When a film is made, part of the main process of getting the soundtrack together is finding the right musician's to play for the album. Sometimes it's a single song or it is an entire soundtrack. These top five albums made for a movie by handpicked musicians have been, for the most part, nominated ... More >>

Tom DeLonge Pays Tribute

The Blink-182 and Angels and Airwaves guitarist honors his muse and producer

Remember Wu-Tang Clan's Terrible Video Game? We Do

​​In order to broach the subject of musicians appearing in video games, we're legally obligated to mention Rock Band and Guitar Hero in the first sentence, so there. Putting aside those big franchises, several other games have featured musicians in increasingly unusual capacities. Both The Beatl ... More >>

Drummer Floyd 'Bud' Gaugh Quits Sublime With Rome

[Mental Notes] Plus, 'Slayer Bob' lights up your holidays

Drummer Floyd "Bud" Gaugh Quits Sublime With Rome

​See also: KROQ Acoustic Christmas Night One The Intranets (it's a series of tubes -- look it up) is reporting that Sublime With Rome drummer Floyd "Bud" Gaugh has quit the band. Now, before anyone freaks out and burns all their Sublime With Rome merchandise, there is a sweeter, softer side t ... More >>

Five Celebrity Ex-Disney Employees

​When I was in high school I briefly worked at a crappy little hot dog stand in Milwaukee.One day, a dumb-ass friend of mine thought it would be hilarious to throw an ice cube into the deep fryer I was working as he walked by. Rather than investigate and find out the truth behind the grease geyser ... More >>

3hree Things: Major League Baseball Players Have Horrible Taste In Music

Watch out for 3hree Things every Tuesday, where Riley Breckenridge, drummer of Orange County's favorite local alt-rock band Thrice, gives his take on life in Southern California as an OC native. "Durr Durr Hurrka Durr Deeoodle Dee Dooo Hurka Murr Murr Hem Haw Durkle Doo..." -Stapp​Major ... More >>

R.I.P. Ian Curtis: Five of Our Favorite Joy Divison Covers on the 31st Anniversary of His Death

​Ian Curtis once said, "Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand." Thirty-one years ago today, he committed suicide, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American Tour. His last performance ... More >>

Josh Freese Introduces Us to 'My New Friends'

[Locals Only] Super session drummer's new release is the whole bizarre gift package

[UPDATE: 75K Package SOLD!] Josh Freese's New EP My New Friends Out Today--Also: It's Already Too Late for That Tommy Lee Seance

Courtesy of Josh Freese​UPDATE, APRIL 1, 7:40 P.M.: Well, that was fast. The $75,000 fan package has been sold to a man named Connor Trivers from Medford, Oregon. The package includes Josh Freese joining your band for a month (or he becomes your personal assistant); one of Freese's drumsets; an en ... More >>

Gang of Four Are Leeds Lads Live!

The aging rockers dust off their trusty, frequently pirated template one more time

New Josh Freese Album to Be Released on April Fool's, Sends Out Best Press Release Ever

​Drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, DEVO, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals, etc.) made headlines last year with his ingenious marketing scheme promoting his solo record Since 1972. And now he's back for more: His next solo project, titled My New Friends, is set for an April 1 release date. Memora ... More >>

Lady Gaga Coming to OC

[Mental Notes] Also, Josh Freese fills in with Paramore and WAR remembers Teena Marie

Josh Freese to Fill in For Paramore's South American Tour

Susan Sabo/OC WeeklyJosh Freese gets his hair cut by a fan in a parking lot in Downtown Long Beach. No big deal. ​According to SPIN Magazine, Long Beach resident and session drummer (and former OC Weekly cover man) Josh Freese has been pegged as the fill-in drummer for Paramore's upcoming tour dat ... More >>

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 >>

A Perfect Circle at the Avalon Last Night

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyA Perfect Circle performed their entire first album, Mer De Noms​A Perfect CircleNovember 8,2010Avalon Emerging from a five year hiatus, A Perfect Circle descended upon the Avalon in Hollywood to perform their platinum debut album Mer De Noms in its entirety to the del ... More >>

The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show

​Today begins what will hopefully become a weekly Monday feature, although that may depend on if there is enough content to make that happen. Otherwise, it will go up when there are enough items to make it so. What am I yammering on and on about? The Orange County Interwebs Horror Show, a coll ... More >>

Autolux at the Glass House Over the Weekend

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​AutoluxSeptember 17, 2010Glass HouseA six-year interval between full length albums is very rare these days. Most bands would have possibly broken up or dissolved into other bands. Autolux received many accolades for their 2004 debut album Future Perfect, which found them o ... More >>

Shooter, Straight Up

Shooter Jennings lives up to his father's legacy by not doing what's expected of him

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 >>

No More AC/DC! Five Songs That Should Be On A Blockbuster Action Movie Soundtrack

​I spent Memorial Day taking my son to Iron Man 2, and while watching -- or rather listening to -- the movie, I became depressed. The original Iron Man soundtrack had Suicidal Tendencies and Ghostface Killah tracks. The sequel, though, is wall-to-wall Angus Young, which gave me a massive Batd ... More >>

What You Missed: World's Tallest Guinness, Down & Derby, Misfits, Pablove Foundation, the Big Pink

Too soon, Monday, too soon! What did you miss out on this weekend? We hit up a few places: Tustin, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa and even slightly-out-of-jurisdiction Pomona and--gasp--Los Angeles for some way worthy events. Keith MayBringing back the roller disco​First up: On Sunday night, a bunch of ... More >>

Ghostland Observatory Fuses the Best of Man and Machine

Last Night: The Raveonettes at the Detroit Bar

Andrew YoussefLive at the Detroit Bar​ Last Night: The Raveonettes at the Detroit BarBetter Than: breaking Phil Spector out of jail to produce new albums.How could the Raveonettes top their fuzzy masterpiece album Lust, Lust, Lust? More focus and a little less fuzz. In and Out of Control is aptly ... More >>

Last Night: The Horrors at Detroit Bar

Andrew Youssef​Last Night: The Horrors, Japanese Motors at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa; September 30, 2009.Better Than: Well, I don't think Creed were ever nominated for a Mercury Music Prize...Best Free Snacks: The Popchips given away outside the venue. They were giving them away at Street Scene, t ... More >>

The Horrors Embrace Familiar Territory With Their Sophomore Album

With Bauhaus Once Again Buried, Peter Murphy's Solo Career Rises From the Dead

Music-Inspired April Fools' Day Jokes Meet Mixed Results

Everyone likes to get in on the fun on April Fools' Day, but perhaps not everyone should.

Daily Coachella Update: Still No Lineup, but There is a Fake One

It's getting to the point where the idea of the Coachella lineup is actually more appealing than whatever the eventual Coachella lineup will be, even if the actual lineup is really impressive. It's like Spock said, "having is not such a pleasing thing as wanting."So yeah, still no official Coachella ... More >>

Last Night: LiskFest @ Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine

Last Night: Liskfest at Oak Canyon Ranch in Irvine on October 11,2008 Better Than: seeing a festival in the middle of summer. Download: "Oi, To The World!" by the Vandals from their Myspace page Hope, change, and unity were used as themes in hardcore music long before the current political ... More >>

Last Night: Vampire Weekend @ The Glasshouse

Last Night: Vampire Weekend at the Glass House September 16, 2008 Better Than: taking your garlic pills. Download: "Oxford Comma" from the Vampire Weekend homepage. Buzz and critical acclaim can be a double-edged sword. Vampire Weekend wielded the sharper side last night by performing a biting se ... More >>

George Michael, at Honda Center Friday, Refuses to Play the Good Pop Star

Video Savant: Portishead's “Machine Gun”

To commemorate Portishead's world-beating performance at Coachella Saturday, this edition of Video Savant focuses on “Machine Gun,” a track off Third, which comes out today. “Machine Gun” is unlike anything in Portishead's canon, which is indicative of most of Third; all reports point to a ... More >>

Homme, Bittersweet Homme

Queens of the Stone Age spearhead a network of hard-rock badassery

Aural Reports

Guided Missions: Nick Bogardus works the angles for Cold War Kids, Thrice and others

The Sound of Godzilla Urinating

Skinny Puppy & Otto Von Schirach speaker-fist America

Mistress of Puppets

Heather Henson hones the family craft to a fine art

But What About the Hip-hop, Tom?

Saul Williams

Panic in Anaheim!

Dancing With Myself

How White Collar Wednesdays at the Hustler Club killed the lust in my heart

Stupid Tanned Hot Chicks

Always bringin me down!

Johnny Cash

Neither Doo Nor Wop

Soul, pop, folk and Neon Leon

Ball Busting

And does anyone pray to the Lord of the Dance?

Peter CaseFlying Saucer BluesVanguard Records

Real American Graffiti

Rhino exhumes the scariest rock of the 1950s, buries Alice Cooper