Paul Simon

The Rhino Pop-Up Store—Isn't It Quaint?

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 >>

Ben Folds Five Shirt at Roots Show!

Or is that Buddy Seigal watching Kim Lenz and the Jaguars?

Dropping Some NYC

Or is that Buddy Seigal watching Kim Lenz and the Jaguars?

Jewboy Salvation

Admitting the hots for Simon & Garfunkel

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 >>

Vampire Weekend's Afro-Pop Influences Rankle World-Music Purists

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 >>

David Di Sabatino Is Drawn to Charismatic Christians. But Nothing Prepared Him for Larry Norman

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 >>

Letters

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 >>

Peaceful Visions

Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter

Not Particularly Reflective

A mistake for The Ruins of California, the story of someones life

Short But Sweet

A mistake for The Ruins of California, the story of someones life

Panty Waste

An extra-small-size Underpants

The Tweakings of the Decent

David Byrne apparently loves PowerPoint

The Brando of the Bata

Music as Freedom With Francisco Aguabella

Just Like High School

Mad-dogging

So More Than Anything

Dios: Still crazy after all these years

Punx Maybe Not Dead!

Dios: Still crazy after all these years

Wronging Our Writes

Dios: Still crazy after all these years

Rich Buttholes

Once dangerous, Butthole Surfers are radio-friendlier

Aggro-Rock Gets Aquabattered

Once dangerous, Butthole Surfers are radio-friendlier

We Glimpse Krishna!

Once dangerous, Butthole Surfers are radio-friendlier

Big D and the Kids' Table

Detroit Bar

Show Announcement: Vampire Weekend, Fox Theater, Pomona

Those Paul Simon worshipping rockers Vampire Weekend will wrap a hectic U.S. tour with a pair of SoCal dates including an April 14 gig at Fox Theater in Pomona. The NYC band's new album Contra, due out January 12, is streaming on their MySpace page. Yeah, it's another iteration of Graceland--but a ... More >>

Today in Music News: Vampire Weekend Hit No. 1 with More "Graceland;" Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, John Mayer

Contra--Vampire Weekend's second remake of Paul Simon's Graceland--"is No. 1 album." Sorry, but I'm pretty sure everything on Graceland bests anything Vampire Weekend has done. As if the world really needed the dead, highly talented creep jumping out that them, Grammys "to show Michael Jackson ' ... More >>

Jack Johnson at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Last Night

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​See the slideshow from last night's show here!Jack JohnsonOct. 12, 2010Verizon Wireless AmphitheaterIf you're used to listening to Jack Johnson's mellow music in, say, your backyard through poolside speakers on a lazy afternoon, or a tiny watering hole like the on ... More >>

Paul Simon Releasing New LP So Beautiful Or So What

​I know most of you don't care, but Paul Simon happens to be one of my favorite artists. I was born in the wrong era, but at least I can admit that I love classic rock. The new album, his 12th studio release, will be entitled So Beautiful or So What and is slated for release in April. Simon began ... More >>

New Red Hot Chili Peppers Album?

​Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis rapped with SPIN about the LA's funk-rock group's process of recording their tenth studio album. The Chili Peppers go through turmoil (and lineup changes) more than any band this side of Fleetwood Mac, so it's nice to see they are, in fact, releasi ... More >>

Experience The Music Never Stopped Ride

​The Newport Beach Film Festival runs annually in April (April 28-May 5 this year), but it presents the "festival experience" year-round through the Orange County Film Society. Among the special events for members who lay out $99 annually are regular sneak preview screenings of films before they h ... More >>

Five Weird Drugs (and the Stars Who Use Them)

​ Courtney Love caused a teeny stir this week when she raved about the hallucinogenic tea Ayahuasca. Sounding like a frat boy detailing his first blunt, Love shared some of the urban legends surrounding Ayahuasca, namely, that users experience identical visions of a mysterious "Black guy" (Editor ... More >>

Paul Simon at the Gibson Amphitheatre Last Night

Danielle Bacher/OC Weekly​Paul SimonOctober 19, 2011Gibson AmphitheatreSeventy years is a long time. Some countries in history did not manage to make it that long. Paul Simon, however, has endured. From teenage troubadour in Queens to one-half of the biggest folk-rock duo ever to solo superstar, h ... More >>

It's True: Brian Wilson Will Be at Fingerprints Tomorrow!

​The word "legend" applies only to a few people on this planet. One of those people is Brian Wilson. The man behind the Beach Boys is a bona fide musical genius and most certainly a legend in my book, which is why everyone reading this should stop what they are doing and go to Fingerprints in Long ... More >>

[UPDATED with Protest and After Party] Musicans Call Out Elimination of Grammy Award Categories as Racist

​UPDATE, FEB, 6, 1:56 P.M.: Presente.org and Grammywatch.org, which has its own petition in circulation, are joining forces in calling for a protest this Saturday over the slashing of Grammy Award categories. The Facebook page for the protest, which encourages supporters to bring their instruments ... More >>