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Delicias Peruanas' Great Chicken Salad?

[Hole In the Wall] This Lake Forest spot wows with a simple-yet-potent Peruvian menu

Green Day's Billy Joe Makes a Mess of His Life, Asks Fans to Pay the Price

Billy Joe Armstrong sat down this month with Rolling Stone to atone for his infamous mid-set rant at last September's I Heart Radio concert in Las Vegas. You may remember the gig, which featured the puerile Bay Area punkers performing along with the likes of Rihanna, Bon Jovi and Swedish House Mafia ... More >>

Rival Sons Are Stomping Back Across the Pond

Standing backstage before a show in London, the Rival Sons had a lot to look forward to. They'd relentlessly toured Europe, opening for such legends of rock as AC/DC and Guns N' Roses, but nothing could have prepared them for the praise that was about to be heaped upon them by Led Zeppelin's Jimmy P ... More >>

The Five Best Songs On Barack Obama's Campaign Playlist

It's Election Day and that means not only will millions of Americans be making their way to voting booths in order to participate in our great democracy, but chances are they'll first have to work through that dreaded pre-election anxiety as the fateful hour draws closer. What better way to pass the ... More >>

Will Filming The Hangover Part III Leave Orange County with a Splitting Headache?

In the summer of 2013, movie fans will likely be rolling in the aisles to The Hangover Part III, which is to reunite "The Wolfpack" (a.k.a. Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha and our bearded opener page boy, Zack Galifianakis).But the road to boffo box office pisses off some locals who reported ... More >>

Top Five Hits: Creme Tangerine in Costa Mesa

[Editor's Note: Every Friday, our resident record store expert Michael Chin checks in with his weekly report of what the hell people who still buy records at local shops are listening to.]See Also: *Five Unexpected Cover Songs from the Insane Clown Posse*Top Five Hits: TKO in Fountain Valley*Top F ... More >>

David Cross Lets It Slip More Arrested Development is Coming Than First Planned

Making a fourth season of Arrested Development, the side-splitting comedy more realer about Orange County than any reality show claiming to depict the real OC, is succeeding because of Netflix, according to Mr. Tobias Fünke himself, David Cross. That's not a reference to the tens of millions of vie ... More >>

Bert Kreischer

Irvine Improv

Neil Young and Crazy Horse at Outside Lands Festival, 8/10/12

The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he's putting everything into a solo, Neil Young's face looks like his electric guitar sounds: flush with feeling, vaguely threatening, and thoroughly aged. Not old as in frail, but vene ... More >>

'Rock Of Ages': Aside From All the Singing, What Makes This Thing a Musical?

No matter what kind of musical it is, the director and charismatic cast belting out their lines in the production are beholden to certain format for it to be considered true to the genre. It doesn't matter if the music was written specifically for the stage. It doesn't matter if it is My Fair Lady ... More >>

No Doubt Announces New Album Title, Release Date And Single Info

Good news No Doubt fans. Yesterday, the Anaheim-bred band released a slew of news pertaining to their long-awaited sixth album. The band announced in a message posted on their website that the title of their first record in 11 years is Push and Shove. They'll also be filming a video for the album's ... More >>

Anthony Anzaldo of Ceremony: 'Punk is broad, it's like calling yourself a rock band'

​Ceremony, the Rohnert Park punk band that's been labeled everything from punk rock to  shitgaze (yes, that genre exists) just released their new album Zoo last Tuesday, and they'll be at the Center For The Arts in Eagle Rock, then Chain Reaction in Anaheim on Friday (along with Cold World, ... More >>

Geek Out With Rock's Backpages

Lou Reed in 1973. If this was fat in the '70s, it's no wonder we're all considered obese now.​The online music-journalism archive Rock's Backpages is 10 years old this month. If you've never heard of the site, it's probably because a) you're not a music geek or b) you don't want to have to pay to ... More >>

Fred Durst, Now with Sitcom! (Called 'Douchebag,' Cough Cough)

​ According to Rolling Stone, Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst is developing an autobiographical sitcom called "Douchebag," news that prompted dozens of showbiz bloggers to declare it the most accurate sitcom title ever.

Canadian Band The Sheepdogs Sell their Souls to Rolling Stone, Tim Gunn

Persephonemagazine.com​If this blog seems less than timely, I apologize. But I just can't get last Thursday's episode of Project Runway featuring Canadian rock band The Sheepdogs out of my mind. 

[UPDATED with Spin Doctors Album Info] Four Reasons 1990s Nostalgia Should Be a Felony

​ UPDATE, Sept. 7, 9:44 a.m.: And what do you know, there's a 20th anniversary edition of Pocket Full of Kryptonite that features the album "as you remember it." Original post, Sept. 6, 10:36 a.m.: Nostalgia for the 1990s has been surging lately, spurred, as nostalgia often is, by a yearning by s ... More >>

C'mon, No Doubt. We Can't Even Have a New Album Teaser? (Plus, a Collab with Major Lazer!)

​Ahh, No Doubt's new album. While we have a bunch of song titles from various Twitter posts  and Rolling Stone/Entertainment Weekly articles, we haven't heard anything from the new album. We did hear that daggering proponents Major Lazer (made up of Diplo/Switch) were collaborating with the g ... More >>

No Doubt Album Ready in Two Months, Says Rolling Stone

Andrew Youssef/OC Weekly​Rolling Stone came out with an interview with No Doubt, this time to talk about the deets of their newest album, the band's sixth. The part you definitely want to know about is that the album is "about two months from completion."

Is the Register's Martin Wisckol Part of the Liberal Media Campaign to Build Up and Then Tear Down Michele Bachmann?

​Is Martin Wisckol one of the liberal media meddlers a right-sided journalism watchdog warned us about?Let us seek the clues in a recent write-up by the Orange County Register political reporter on one Michele Bachmann.

Impressions of Lady Gaga: 'She's Weird and She Wants People to Buy Her Weird Music'

​It's been a Lady Gaga overload for the past year. She graced the cover of this week's Rolling Stone, and she's been featured in almost every blog almost every day for months. Frankly, I'm sick of reading about what eccentric outfit (meat dress, pregnant suit) she's sporting, what "little monster" ... More >>

Bedouin Soundclash at the Galaxy Theatre Friday Night

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Check out our slideshow here!Bedouin Soundclash June 3, 2011 Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana What's that old cliché, don't judge a book by its cover? Well, the same can be said for parking lots. Don't judge a concert by the amount of cars in the lot. One would think ... More >>

Bon Iver to Release New Album This Year

Lilledeshan Bose​Rolling Stone says that Bon Iver's follow up to the awesome 2007 debut For Emma, Forever Ago will be out in June. In the interview published today, frontman Justin Vernon says that for this set, holing up in the woods of Wisconsin to write songs of heartbreak wasn't really feasibl ... More >>

The Steelwells Eliminated From the 'Choose the Cover of Rolling Stone' Contest

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​ Unfortunately, The Steelwells will not get to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. The magazine today announced the eight finalists who go on to the next round: Empires, Fictionist, Lelia Broussard, Mod Sun, The Romany Rye, The Sheepdogs, Skyler Stonestreet and Tha Boo ... More >>

UPDATE: The Steelwells On the Cover of the Rolling Stone?

UPDATE: Today is the last day of voting! Give our local boys some love before midnight!​The editors at Rolling Stone picked 16 bands to compete in a contest for Best Unsigned Artist. The prize includes one of the biggest honors any musician can garner: the chance to grace the cover of Rolling ... More >>

'World-Shaping Minds' Convene in Long Beach for Annual TED Conference

​Invading the Long Beach Convention Center (and our Twitter streams) today is the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference, the invite-only gathering of "world-shaping minds," aka Woodstock for nerds.Astronaut Catherine "Cady" Coleman will launch the week-long event over a live video ... More >>

Franki Doll's Rock and Roll Wedding

[Mental Notes] Plus, vote early and often for the Steelwells in Rolling Stone's contest

Thin Lizzy Guitarist Gary Moore Dead at 58

​According to Rolling Stone, guitarist Gary Moore, who jammed with Thin Lizzy and had a solo career, died Sunday at the Kempinski Hotel in Estepona, Spain.[More details to come.]

Coachella's Six-Day Sellout: Blame the Mexis?

Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyCoachella 2010​After the three-day Coachella music festival finally revealed its official lineup, tickets were snatched up in a record six days! Rolling Stone looked to the headiners--Kanye West, Arcade Fire and Kings of Leon--for possible explanation, noting the est ... More >>

The Flaming Lips to Release New Songs in January

Myspace.com​Maybe it's a rip-off of Kanye's brilliant idea, but Oklahoma City psych-rockers the Flaming Lips are releasing new songs each month with longtime producer Dave Fridmann, and you can hear the first one in January. Frontman Wayne Coyne announced to Rolling Stone that they ... More >>

Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, Dies at 69

​​The world has lost another mad genius today. Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, passed away at the age of 69. Best known for his groundbreaking musical work that melded blues, free jazz and art-rock lunacy. Van Vliet's career included poetry and graphic art, as well. Sadly, Rolling Stone ma ... More >>

Kanye West Leaks Holiday Song 'Christmas In Harlem'

Myspace.com​Everyone loves to hate Kanye West. In fact, we were shocked when Pitchfork gave his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy a 10.0, and Rolling Stone rated it a super-rare five stars out of five and named it Album of the Year. Kanyeeze is back with his Christmas gift for all: Mor ... More >>

Obama Tells Rolling Stone What's In His iPod: Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan and Rolling Stones, Natch! (Plus Some Jay-Z, Nas and Lil Wayne)

Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner got to sit down and interview President Obama; they talked about the war, the Tea Party, Afghanistan and other important, state-of-the-nation things, but the most interesting part of the interview was when RS asked what Mr. Preside ... More >>

Achtung, Baby! Are Katy Perry and Lady Gaga's Dueling Titzkriegs Desperate Cries for Help?

Rolling Stone/Mark Seliger; Vanity Fair/Nick KnightAt this point, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga need to get their raging narcissistic tendencies a hotel room and let them scissor each other into submission. Neither can go 72 hours without finding an 85-mm lens and a light kit to shove their cans in front ... More >>

Come On Pilgrim: Eight Comic Book Musical Acts That Are Ready for the Big Screen

​Besides San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest comic book event to happen this week has been the release of the sixth and final volume of Bryan Lee O'Malley's musical-video game-romantic epic, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour.(Oh, and you might've heard that the series is getting the big-screen treatment fr ... More >>

Boob War 2010: The Battles Rage On as a Lady and a Dame Draw Up Their Tit Offensives

​Two more enemy combatants have entered the fray of this summer's Boob War, which was ignited by Katy Perry's frontal assaults at the MTV Movie Awards and in her video for "California Gurls." Ms. Perry, prepare to face off against Lady Gaga and Dame Helen Mirren.

An Interview With a Rare Breed: OC Blogger Indie Peddler

[Mental Notes] Plus Weenie Roast highs and lows

Chiddy Bang Talk the Hip-Hop Talk

Can the teenage rap duo live up to it?

The Mysterious Indie Peddler, Kim Conlan, Revealed

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Dr. Dre to Join Jay-Z at Coachella?

Twenty year anniversary's comin' up for this one.​The latest wacky, unsubstantiated Coachella rumor comes from Rolling Stone, which means it's maybe true! At least, it's something we don't feel dirty for repeating.

Sunny Day Real Estate Recording New Album, Pink Floyd Wins Legal Battle, Madonna Designing Clothes for Your Children, Billy Corgan on John Mayer

Emo establishers Sunny Day Real Estate planning to record first album in 15 years with original lineup. Pink Floyd win legal dispute over download royalties with EMI; label banned from selling band's music online.Madonna and daughter Lourdes are designing fashion line for teen girls. No word yet o ... More >>

The Mexican Calendar Girls

Bowers Museum

It Ain't Me, Babe

Highway 61 Revisited

King of Hearts

B.B. King

Quote(s) Of The Day: Marilyn Manson

Has-been Marilyn Manson was recently quoted about his upcoming “Rape Of The World” tour (what a charming name) on Rollingstone.com. He says “It’s going to be difficult for people to keep us from tearing our faces off.” That crazy, huh? OK, I’ll stand back and just watch you try and um, ... More >>

All of This and Nothing

Psychedelic Furs, the Fixx and the Alarm bask in the An-glo of nostalgia

Apocalypse Now

Mirainga raped by Olsen Twins!

Aggro-Rock Gets Aquabattered

BAM: RIP

My Life As a Glamour Cat

No rest for the wicked