Public Enemy

The Top Five Post-Break-Up Rap Debuts

With the release this week of rapper Big Boi's sophomore album Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, we're reminded of how truly great his 2010 solo debut Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty truly was. It's rare that a rapper hits a home-run when making their first effort as a solo artist fol ... More >>

Canyon High's 'YOLO Cholo' at Center of Mexi Dress-Up Day Scandal Tweets "#NOREGRETS at Role, Blasts Hero Student

Some kids never learn...Elias, the Canyon High grad who came to school wearing house shoes, a sureño blue rag and a buttoned-at-the-collar shirt during June's infamous "Seniores and Señoritas" day is unrepentant about his actions, which include posing between two border patrol blondes faking arres ... More >>

Top Five Acts You Can't Miss at Rock The Bells

See Also*Rock the Bells 2012 Lineup Announced*Juicy J, Smoke DZA, Joey Badass, Fat Trel - The Observatory - 8/4/12*House of Campaign: Five Rap Songs Looking for Your Vote The twilight of the summer festival circuit is fast approaching, and hip-hop's foray into all the sweaty, sometimes expensive act ... More >>

We Check Up on the Long Beach Addresses in Sublime's Riot Song "April 29, 1992 (Miami)"

Yesterday marked 20 years since the acquittal of four LAPD officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King incited several days of violence and looting in South Central Los Angeles. But it's also been 20 years since a similarly motivated uprising erupted in nearby Long Beach, resulting in numerous ... More >>

Today has Been Declared Mötley Crüe Day in West Hollywood

​Today the City of West Hollywood will declare August 18, 2011 Mötley Crüe Day, and honor the originaly partying hair metal band as the 2011 recipients of the "Elmer Valentine Award" for their contributions to the history of The Sunset Strip.The award ceremony at the House of Blues will kick off ... More >>

Top Five Worst Black Rappers Ever

​I bet seeing Chuck D's photo below the headline "Top Five Worst Black Rappers Ever" almost made you shit your shorts, huh? Believe me, I love Chuck D. I just put him up there to grab your attention.Remember when I wrote this post about the top five worst white rappers ever? And then remember how ... More >>

The Sunset Strip Music Festival Begins and Ends With Mötley Crüe

​Mötley Crüe is kicking off the three-day Sunset Strip Music Festival on Aug. 18 with a special tribute at the House of Blues. They're going to be presented with the Elmer Valentine Award for their contributions to the history of The Sunset Strip. The City of West Hollywood will also recogniz ... More >>

Common Catches Heat From Conservatives Over White House Invitation

facebook.com/thinkcommon​Rapper Common suddenly finds himself in the midst of controversy after accepting an invitation to be part of the White House's "Poetry Night" this week. The Chi-town MC, who will join Jill Scott, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Alexander and others as guests of President Barack O ... More >>

Big 4: Let There Be Metal

Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeath and Slayer on one bill Really.

Brad X of Kottonmouth Kings Gets Back to Punk Roots With the X Pistols

​Brad "Daddy" X has long earned his reputation as the voice of Placentia "rip-hop" crew the Kottonmouth Kings, but before the vocalist would spend most of his career rapping about weed, his roots were in punk rock. Years ago, in a different period of his career, he fronted punk bands Doggy Style a ... More >>

Oh, Say Can You Hear: 10 Songs That Should Be Our New National Anthem

20th Century Fox​"The Star-Spangled Banner" has an image problem. That is, no one likes it.Oh sure, everyone respects and reveres what it stands for, what it evokes in us as nation and as a people. But no one really admires it on its merits as song, and singers and sports fans have long detested t ... More >>

Prosecutors Enthusiastically Endorse Sheriff Sandra Hutchens

Prosecutors: Hutchens deserves to win sheriff's race​Out on the campaign trail it often looks like Dana Point's Sandra Hutchens doesn't enjoy politics, but today the appointed sheriff has reason to smile after receiving the "enthusiastic and unconditional endorsement" of the Association of Or ... More >>

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 >>

Young People With Multiple Tattoos and Piercings More Likely to Become Deviants: New Research

Extreme-girltattoo.blogspot.comInky!​Evidence shows that college students with several tattoos or piercings are more likely to engage in deviant behaviors than those who have just one "innocent" tattoo/piercing, according to a new article in the research magazine Miller-McCune, which also finds on ... More >>

Four Skinheads' Attempt at Racial Holy War Turned Into a Slater Slums Smackdown

Judge to Costa Mesa White Supremacist: "You Shall Suffer the Death Penalty"

Serial killer before he inked two Nazi SS tats over his throat​It took almost 12 minutes for Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel to summarize Billy Joe Johnson's extensive rap sheet and mention a few mitigating factors before finding that the Costa Mesa-bred white supremacist gangster's 30-year sp ... More >>

White Supremacist OC Nazi Gets His Wish!

Will Billy Joe's Suck Up to Prison Gang Work?​In what may have been acclaimed homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh's easiest conviction, a jury this afternoon found Billy Joe Johnson--the notorious, wide-eyed and lisping Costa Mesa white supremacist--guilty in the 2002 conspiracy to execute a fello ... More >>

[Sound Guy] Making a Street Scene

12 Things I'll Always Remember About Street Scene '09

Beth Stirnaman​It's Monday morning and another Street Scene is officially in the books. And while it's important to note that this parking lot extravaganza of fog-filled stages, oddly eclectic line-ups, mind-altering drugs and festival food has reached it's 25th year, it's also worth mentioning th ... More >>

Street Scene: Like a More Comfortable Coachella

​ After attending Street Scene, the two-day downtown San Diego music festival that took place on August 28 and 29, I was left with this impression: it's better than Coachella.

Don't Be Stupid, Be a Smarty, Come and Join the Inland Empire Nazi Party!

  Orange County has its fair share of haters, racists and hater/racist skinheads thanks to the Hitler lovers of Anaheim, the Mexican bashers of Costa Mesa, the assorted white supremacists of Black Star Canyon, the Republican Central Committee of Orange County and haters and ... More >>

FBI Top 10 John Dillinger Myths Misses Biggest One of All

To mark the 75th anniversary of the end of John Dillinger's crime reign--which ended July 22, 1934, when Public Enemy No. 1 was shot and killed by FBI agents near the Biograph Theater in Chicago, the bureau's press room just issued a list of 10 myths about the outlaw given new life in a Hollywood mo ... More >>

Death Official for PEN1 White Supremacist Killer

Dana Point's Michael Lamb ditched his menacing shaved head look and entered Judge William Froeberg's 10th floor Santa Ana courtroom this morning with a full, messy head of hair that still couldn't cover the white supremacist tattoos doting his scalp, face, throat and neck. It wasn't like Lamb, a v ... More >>

Lamb Chopped: White Supremacist Gets Death

White supremacist gangster and killer Michael Lamb (pictured) trotted into a heavily guarded Orange County courtroom this afternoon, chuckled with his lawyers and watched quietly as a court clerk announced the jury's verdict: death. But the proceedings, which took less than two minutes, nearly lef ... More >>

[Moxley Confidential] Billy Joe Johnson Tries to Save Pal From Death Row. Plus, Adieu, Buffalo Jim

[Sprawl of Sound] Highlights, Lowlights, A'ights and Blights From Coachella '08

Five Songs for MLK

From my web ed. brother in Minneapolis, Jeff Shaw: On the Dreamer's day, we offer up five divergent songs about Martin Luther King and the holiday that bears his name. They are upbeat and somber, they are angry and hopeful, they are old and new. 5. Ray Charles, "Abraham, Martin and John" First re ... More >>

Saturday's Headlines & Surprises: Are There Snapple Bottles in Jail?

Sheriff's Lawyer Pal Going to the Slammer: Somehow defense attorney Joe Cavallo—indicted Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s longtime drinking buddy—was able to operate a bail bonds scheme inside Carona’s jail. Hmmm. Wonder how that happened. Any ideas Mikey? Anyhow, yesterday Cavallo (pictured) be ... More >>

N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton Turns 20, Gets Deluxe Reissue

The album that launched Left Coast gangsta rap into white suburban consciousness and mainstream culture, N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton, will be reissued Dec. 4 with a bonus live track and covers by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Snoop Dogg and C-Murder, Mack 10, and WC to anticipate its 20th anniversary. ... More >>

PENI Gangster Won't See Freedom Again

This afternoon Superior Court Judge William Froeberg sentenced convicted killer Jacob Rump, a 30-year-old Orange County gangster, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2002 ambush murder in Anaheim. Details about the case involving Rump (pictured), who is a member of Public Enem ... More >>

How Many Public Enemy Number One Death Squaders Can You Squeeze Onto Death Row?

Billy Joe Johnson, Orange County's most infamous white supremacist and killer, inched closer this week to San Quentin State Prison's Death Row. Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh charged Johnson (pictured) with the lying-in-wait 2002 murder of a fellow Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squ ... More >>

DA Determined to Send White Supremacist Killer to Death Row

Prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh announced this morning he will try a second time to send convicted killer Michael Alan Lamb, 33, to San Quentin State Prison's notorious Death Row. An Orange County jury convicted the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad hit man in July for the execution-style murd ... More >>

New Kicks

DJ Z-Trip enters the Blend Zone with his All-Pro soundtrack

OC Murderer Escapes Death Row--for Now

Jury deadlocks on ‘ultimate’ punishment for Michael Lamb

Fo' Sizzle!

Summer concerts/festivals to heat the beat

White Meat, Please

DA roasts Lamb and Rump, two seasoned white supremacists

Twenty-five Years of Reliable Service

Sonic Youth are old yet still great

Deliver Us From Tastelessness

Ian Svenonius Opiates the Masses

Diary of a Mad County

Dec. 6-Dec. 12

The Creator Has a Master Plan

X Clan back from the East, blackwards

Heavy Metal Muslim

Salman Ahmad really does rock the Casbah

Like Dogs in the Street!

Nightlife and More:
Aug. 25 - Sept. 1

Bring Em On

We go a-visiting with the president

Not Just Soccer Moms' Fun

7 Seconds take the bronze

Letters

Taj Mahal and the Secret of the Blues

I Am a Terrorist: I Teach

A radicals journey from thin mints to the classroom

Noel, Noel

And not a cherub in sight

On the Outside Looking In