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Frank Kramer is Radio's Crazy, Foul-Mouthed, Workaholic One-Man Army

As the leader of the "Frank Army," Frank Kramer's devoted fans count on his quick wit, his mind that seems to stay forever on the dirty side, and his ability to be brutality honest in the most charming of ways. With Heidi by his side, this unflappable duo riff effortlessly like a married couple that ... More >>

Cro Mags - The Observatory - February 3, 2013

What better night to throw a hardcore punk/metal show than on Super Bowl Sunday, a night when many people are already drunk by 6 p.m. The Constellation Room inside the Observatory was crowded to full capacity last night for a raging concert featuring the Cro Mags. The concert was presented by the P ... More >>

Young The Giant's "My Body" and "Cough Syrup" Go Gold

As has been already established, Irvine's own OC Weekly cover boys Young The Giant have proven to be a force to be reckoned with both on tour and on the radio waves. This was only confirmed with the big news that the band's first two singles, "My Body" and "Cough Syrup," have been certified Gold in ... More >>

Comedian Jim Norton Wants to Sleep With You, If You Can Stand His Sleep Apnea

See Also: *Dave Attell Talks Filthy and Dirty Porn (Bush Optional) *Jim Breuer Talks Dads, Radio and Goats (Yeah, Goats) *Amy Schumer Didn't Win "Last Comic Standing" But She Is The One Getting the Last Laugh. Jim Norton's comedy comes across differently than even the most perverted dirty comics ... More >>

TV On The Radio, Grouplove And Best Coast To Play The U.S. Open Of Surfing

When you think of the U.S. Open of Surfing, you think about people on their boards gracing the Pacific. Though the event usually features free live music, there may not be another free concert in the area that can compare to this year's event. Presented by Converse, Hurley and Nike, the show will ta ... More >>

Just How Many Times Did Ska Legends the English Beat Say 'Fellator' In One Song?

By the late 1980s ska was tired and in need of a heart and lung transplant. Orange County would, in fact, become home to the biggest and most influential of so-called third wave of ska revivals (there was also one in New York) because it had two things vital to the development of any such trend: inv ... More >>

Best of the LA Times Book Fest: New California and Old, and Bruce, too!

Mr. Bib caught up with friends, and met new ones, at last weekend's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC. I'd like nothing better than to do that every weekend. Imagine: a world where the value of literacy, poetry, science, the arts, civic participation is assume, despite or in opposition to t ... More >>

Orange County "Wealth Coach" Sentenced To Federal Prison For Running $25 Million Scam

Thanks in part to licenses to practice law and mortgage brokering in California, Gerald Lawrence Wolfe once boasted that he and his wife enjoyed monthly income that topped $150,000.Wolfe, 42, bragged so much about his financial acumen that he confidently presented himself as a "Wealth Coach" with a ... More >>

Tom Leykis Returns to the Airwaves; Expect Mucho John & Ken Bashing/Support

​The day that multitudes of men (and more than a few women) have been waiting for three years is here: Tom Leykis, former radio genius on KFI-AM 640 and KLXS-FM 97.1 is back!REALLY?DO YOU CARE?Damn straight we do. And you should, too!

Dntel: On Postal Service, Bjork, Male vs. Female Vocalists and Touring for the First Time

​It's not good journalistic form to say certain things about famous people, but I'll confess: James Scott Tamborello, or Dntel of Postal Service fame, is a pretty odd dude to chat with (only further hamstringed by my own awkwardness). Luckily, in Dntel's case, his music speaks ... More >>

Former Angels Radio Host Dave Smith Sues Team Over Alleged Racism

​Dave Smith was a popular talk show host on AM 830 KLAA, the radio broadcast station of the Los Angeles Angeles of Anaheim. His voice mysteriously went off the air in 2009, leaving some listeners questioning his whereabouts.    Two years later, his name resurfaces, this time in cour ... More >>

Art Alexakis

Coach House

[UPDATED] Marilyn Davenport: Real Racists Are Democrats; Sees Chance to Use Her Racist Email to Win Black Votes For GOP

Repeat after me: Racist emails are actually pro-black.​UPDATE, APRIL 22, 2:05 P.M.: The executive committee of the OC Republican Party voted today 10-2 to send the Marilyn Davenport matter to the ethics committee, says the FlashReport.com's Jon Fleischman, a prominent local Republican who sup ... More >>

'Sweet Child O' Mine' Vid Filmed in Huntington Beach 23 Years Ago Today

​[via Anti Music] Before Fergie and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas ruined it with their Superbowl version, the signature riff from Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" was an era-defining moment in rock & roll. And the video for it was filmed in a ballroom in Huntington Beach, 23 years ago. T ... More >>

[BREAKING] House Cuts NPR Funding

​UPDATE, MARCH 17, 12:41 P.M.: The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to defund National Public Radio (NPR). The matter now goes to the Senate.Start buying those tote bags.

Missives From SXSW: Exene Cervenka Finally Arrives at SxSw

Most famous as a punk rock icon and artist, Exene Cervenka (front woman for X, Knitters and Original Sinners) is documenting her adventures for Heard Mentality on the way to Austin's South By Southwest, the country's biggest music festival. Check out her complete tour diary archive here.Christoph ... More >>

The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook: One of the Best Business Books of 2010

​I'm a monthly contributor to the public radio show Marketplace, and last week they got a couple of us regulars to share our favorite business books of 2010. While the other folks plugged great-yet-more-conventional business books, I went with what we care about here: food. Specifically, The Tex-M ... More >>

Four Remixes of David Bowie's "Golden Years," from KCRW

​A friend who's recently moved to Southern California from the Midwest randomly commented that "LA loves David Bowie--you hear him everywhere!" That may be true, and the reason that public radio station KCRW (89.9 FM and KCRW.com) decided to celebrate the Sept. 28 release of David B ... More >>

LUTZ Radio Hour

Long Beach Playhouse

Last Night: Regina Spektor at the Greek Theatre

Timothy CochraneDon't be fooled! This picture was taken at the 2006 Latitude Festival in England.​Last Night: Regina Spektor at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles; October 28, 2009.Better Than: Moving to Regina, the second-largest city in the province of Saskatchewan.MVP of the Night: Dancing dude tha ... More >>

Local Muslim Woman Featured on "Speaking of Faith"

Proud Bruin and Muslim​Speaking of Faith is one of the country's better public radio shows, a thoughtful, hour-long examination of faith in its many manifestations that local listeners can find every Sunday at 3 p.m. on KPCC-FM 89.3. Last week, the show devoted itself to Muslim listener-submitted ... More >>

KROQ Locals Only Spending Some Time with OC Bands

Up until relatively recently, I wasn't even aware that KROQ had a local show, but then I learned about Locals Only (good name), which airs Sunday nights. Given the huge area that KROQ covers, I figured that it would be 95% LA bands, but, surprisingly, they do an alright job of representing OC and th ... More >>

[Locals Only] Duress Give the People What They Want

Live from Coachella: Blitzen Trapper, Other Stuffs

Watching Blitzen Trapper RIGHT NOW in the Gobi tent. Rootsy rocky. Y'know. Pleasant enough. "Kinda boring," said OC Weekly''s Nate Jackson. "Not bad if I was seeing them at the Gypsy Den." Or maybe he said Gypsy Lounge? Who could say. Saturday has gotten knocked for not being up to par, but it's mor ... More >>

Plain White T's; Vedera; Danger Radio

So Many Awesome Pre-Coachella Shows Coming to Glass House

Christopher VictorioFrom the Oct. 30 Jenny Lewis concert at the Orpheum in Los Angeles.They have hotels in Pomona, right? You might want to invest on one for the week of April 13, where the Glass House is taking advantage of their proximity to Indio with a stellar slate of boner-shattering acts comi ... More >>

Amazingly, Hugh Hewitt Only Classy Local Conservative Pundit for Obama Inauguration

The great tragedy of our local conservative yakmouth-gone-big Hugh Hewitt is that there is intellect in him. Yeah, he always seems to walk lockstep with wackos (see: Nixon, Romney, Palin), but the guy is well-read, fund-raises often for good non-political causes and isn't ultimately noxious. Silly, ... More >>

Gustavo KPFK Show, Part III--Preview and Review

Part I at 4 p.m.: Downtown Los Angeles walking tour of lynch spots! Interview with the man behind this ultimate tourist trap, Scripps College Professor Ken Gonzales-Day.Part II at 4:20 p.m.: Southern California ethnic news aggregator LA Beez.Part II at 4:40 p.m.: Your calls regarding your favorite S ... More >>

It's a Wonderful Life

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Why Are Angels Fans Such Pussies? And, In Defense of Dodgers Fans

Faithful reader Cesar's attacks on an Angels fan got me thinking: why are Halos fans generally such pussies? I know of many exceptions, of course (Weekly managing editor Rich Kane being one of them), but the general stereotype of Angels followers being plastic, effete, polite pussies is just too tr ... More >>

So You Want to Be a College Radio DJ...

Well, then, you should probably attend KUCI's DJ Training Class, which begins July 8 at 7 p.m. in HICF 100-P on the University of California Irvine campus (map here). You don't have to be a student at the school to participate; you just need a powerful urge to become a component of what the Weekly h ... More >>

Listen Up! KUCI Could Use Your Help

University of California Irvine's radio station, KUCI 88.9FM, is in the midst of its annual fund drive (it runs through May 10). This student/volunteer-run, listener-supported source of unconventionally excellent music and commentary won the Weekly's Best Radio Station last year. Here's what we sa ... More >>

Record-store Clerk Blues

FEEDBACK: Working Retail Leads to Misanthropy. Here’s Why

Why Isn't There More Classic Rap Radio?

Chuck D: Give this man a Classic Rap radio program, stat! Way back in 1991, I made a prediction that the airwaves would be saturated with Classic Rap Radio by the late '90s/early '00s. That sparkling future obviously hasn't come to pass. Although there are a few such stations on the 'Net (here and ... More >>

Mad World

Highlights from the 2007 film festival spotlight outspoken DJs, prisons, environmental damage, and . . . Pac-Man?

Twenty-five Years of Reliable Service

Sonic Youth are old yet still great

Letters

'The review of Proof in Santa Ana was the best bar review Ive ever read . . . considering I dont read many bar reviews . . . and Ive been drinking . . . and its noon on Sunday'

A Shallow Dig

The countys past lies deeper than Anaheim Home Companion knows

The Show Must Go On!

The Country Bash 2006your last chance to listen to KZLA. Ever

A Happy Coincidence

Parker Macy and the blues

The Mission

What really makes the swallows come back to Capistrano?

Peggy Honeywell

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Sunday, Feb. 6

Pop! Culture

Getting lost on the streets of San Andreas

An Army of One

Whatever happened to the Brea Peace Vigil?

Diary of a Mad County

Gaddi Damn it

THE MISSION

Re-created Miracles

Hey, Mom, Im a Rock Star

On tour with a wildly famous Orange County band

Viva Anti-Radio!

Poorman's local-band show returns