Just a reminder: Free Blood (ex-!!! percussionist John Pugh, singer Madeline Davy and !!! keyboardist/trumpeter/percussionist Dan Gorman) play Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. Read what I said about them here. Also on the bill are some of OC's most discerning DJs, including Scotty Coats and DJ Spun of the excellent Rong label, the Dirty Money spinners (Tea-Long, BB Gunz, Jay $) and Ryan Esca. The actions runs 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $5, 21 .
Below check these videos of Free Blood performing “Quick and Pai
Cobra Starship landed at the Pomona Glass House Friday night for the closest-to-OC leg of their "Really Really Ridiculously Good Looking Tour." Christopher Victorio caught the main act and support band Metro Station (but missed out on We The Kings and The Cab, also on tour with Cobra). The venue was packed, and some fans brought their Cobra Starship action figures along for the ride. Photos here.
Saturday took OCW intern and Cal State Fulleron student Nate Jackson to the L.A. Convention Center
DJ Harvey, the Sarcastic Disco potentate.
To honor the memory of Avalon Bar owner Mike Conley, the Suck My Disco crew (Poppa, Scotty Coats and Dirty Lo, formerly Double Fisted Underground and featured in Sprawl of Sound last month) are doing a monthly at the Costa Mesa venue called The Other Side, which is the title of one of Conley's M.I.A. songs. Each edition of The Other Side will be dedicated to the late entrepreneur/musician, with the debut happening March 15. The first guest will be DJ
The Bizarre Love Triangle crew has booked DFA Records producer the Juan Maclean for a DJ set at Fullerton's Continental Room Thursday April 10. This New York musician—who used to play guitar in Six Finger Satellite—has great taste as a selector, if his set at SXSW I caught in 2006 is any indication (and I think it is). Expect hot trax from the underground-disco, house, techno and krautrock genres—and probably more. Hardy support comes from BLT regulars Scotty Coats, AM180, Beef, Dijon
Darondo, Nino Moschella and the Park, Rhettmatic, Jud Nester, Cocoe, Scotty Coats, Schmuck and others @ Detroit Bar on 5/31
Better than: Sex and the City… or in the country. Almost.
Download: tracks from Darondo’s Let My People Go
Just about everybody brought his A game to Abstract Workshop’s 10-year anniversary shindig (for some reason, I brought my B game; sorry). People were in a festive mood and the strong lineup really kicked the crowd members’ emotions into a higher gear.
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Normally, a good full-body stretch isn't totally necessary before heading out the door on a Friday night. But after only a few hours spent bouncing to the beats of Bristol Sessions at Detroit Bar, you'll be glad you spent an extra minute loosening up those quads. Especially if you consider that OC's longest running House music club is celebrating all night for its seventh anniversary. And they're definitely going big on this one. DJ Garth, a pioneer of San Francisco House music, is dropping in
Wednesdays: notoriously slow. But there's always BusyWork at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa, which tonight gets blown the eff up via a gaggle of guest DJs, a live performance (and the usual crew). The night is called "Too Hot," and features, among others, Scotty Coats (our best club DJ last year!), and a set from rap duo U-N-I. But all this radness comes with a price, quite literally. Wednesdays at Detroit are usually no cover, but tonight it's $10.
It's a little obscene how much OC Weekly love that Santa Ana bar/restaurant/book store The Crosby has been gotten. Gustavo needles the place from time to time, but this week we published a rave about the joint's food. Before than, we gave it a cover story. So, before I give props to The Crosby's musical line-up for tonight, I will offer this defense: I've never been there. See? No conflict of interest. I might even hate the place.Anyways, in addition to Long Beach's Scotty Coats, The Crosby h