Taylor Hamby

The Worst of Coachella: Weekend Two

Here's everything that bothered us about Coachella's second weekend. Hey, at least there was no dust storm! Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irritating woman (not pictured) wore a towering feather mohawk weave, a sartorial statement that combined ... More >>

OC Music Awards: Night 6 Rock Acts Leave Us Both Satisfied and Scarved For Life

OC Music AwardsSegerstrom Center, Founders HallFeb. 12, 2013Night six of the 2013 Orange County Music Awards featured performances both raw (Jeramiah Red) and electrically charged (Devious Means.) Though not all of the five bands hit the high mark set by the aforementioned groups (we'll talk about S ... More >>

OC Music Awards: Night 4 Offers Old-Timey Acts Of All (Too Many?) Shapes and Sizes

OCMA'sThe Constellation RoomJanuary 29, 2013Listening to bluegrass band Moonsville Collective play a jam at last night's Orange County Music Awards showcase about a Tennessee moonshiner named Popcorn, it occurred to me why this competition is so difficult to judge. Not only do I have zero points of ... More >>

Navel Gazing's Project Un-uncensored

Looking back at 2012 news that was fit to blog but not to print . . . until now

Tesla Motors Becomes OC Weekly's Second-Coolest Neighbor

Time was, OC Weekly world headquarters was the coolest, most-Earth-friendly place in our neighborhood, which is in the area of Kalmus, Pullman and Red Hill in Costa Mesa.Then came the Mother's Market distribution facility, now the second coolest, most-Earth-friendly place at Kalmus and Pullman. Now ... More >>

OC Weekly Nominated for Three Awards at LA Press Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards

The Los Angeles Press Club has recognized the Weekly with three award nominations for their fifth National Entertainment Journalism Awards. The awards ceremony will also honor Jane Fonda with their first Visionary Award (as introduced by Robert Redford) on Nov. 18th at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Ange ... More >>

Diatribe With Dave: How to Find Your Dream Food-and-Beverage Job

Every second and fourth Wednesday night of the month, legendary bartender/chef/restaurant insider Dave Mau hosts Dinner with Dave at Memphis at the Santora, where he treats drinkers to a free meal and live music as the evening progresses. To remind ustedes of this great night, Dave treats us ev ... More >>

Our Photos of PBR Drinkers Wildn' Out

We're pretty shameless with out drinking habits here at the Weekly. It's something we tend to have in common with out readers and the people we party with. One thing we can all agree on is the significance of what it means to pop open an icy tall boy of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Whether you're an old schoo ... More >>

VIDEO: Hilarious Knott's Scary Farm Halloween Haunt Monster Auditions

It takes a certain kind of person to want to be a monster at Knott's Berry Farm's monster-maze attraction Halloween Haunt. We were fortunate enough to observe some of these special of folks in action during a day of auditions in July. Michelle interviewed some of the haunting hopefuls and expla ... More >>

Dead Kennedys Top the Print Section, Along With Frank Turner, The Shrills and Ask Exene

[Editor's Note: Every Thursday, in addition to bombarding you with blog posts, this newspaper does something really crazy...we write a print version! Here's a taste of our top stories this week]1) Our lead story this week focuses on San Francisco's iconic punk outfit Dead Kennedys who, despite the a ... More >>

FYF Fest - Los Angeles State Historic Park - September 2, 2012

FYF FestLos Angeles Historic State ParkSeptember 2, 2012See Also:*Interview with FYF Founder Sean Carlson*5 Great Reunited Bands at FYF 2012*Octomom performs at FYF? WTF?Expanding a music festival to two days can be a lofty, even risky task. It's twice the work, twice the amount of bands to keep hap ... More >>

OC Weekly Dominates 2012 OC Press Club Awards with 16 of 'Em!

Last night, the Orange County Press Club held its annual awards ceremony at Encore Dinner Theater in Tustin, and in-between a hoppin' swing music set, a pretty good four-course dinner, reporters gossiping, and way too many smoke breaks to count, there were awards handed out--and, surprise, surprise. ... More >>

Diatribe With Dave: Six Ways to Maximize Your Bar Dollar

Every second and fourth Wednesday night of the month, legendary bartender Dave Mau tends bar at Memphis at the Santora and hosts Dinner with Dave, where he treats drinkers to free meals as the night progresses. To remind ustedes of this great night, Dave treats us every Wednesday morning to a ra ... More >>

OC Weekly Nabs Seven Awards at LA Press Club Affair Honoring Woodward and Bernstein

Celebrities and reporters gathered Sunday night at the Millennium Biltmore's Crystal Ballroom in downtown Los Angeles for the 54th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards and OC Weekly staffers grabbed seven honors.Three of the Weekly's awards were for first place: Michelle Woo for Best Persona ... More >>

OC Weekly Staffers Named Finalists For 2012 LA Press Club Journalism Awards

Los Angeles Press Club judges have named five members of the OC Weekly newsroom as finalists for the 54th SoCal Journalism Awards in categories that directly compete with The Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times.The recognition isn't new: Over the years, the Weekly has won more than a dozen ... More >>

The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 22, 2012

See also: Our Complete Coachella CoverageBy the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

The Worst of Coachella: Weekend Two

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage It couldn't all be great performances, decent recreational drugs, and pleasant weather at Coachella. Here are our writers' picks for their least favorite things from the festival's second weekend.

The Best Of Coachella: Friday, April 20, 2012

See also: *Our complete Coachella coverageThe first weekend of Coachella: cold, damp, and wet. The second weekend of Coachella: hot, sultry, and steamy. Here are our scribes' picks for the best of what they saw on Friday, April 20 at Coachella.

The 10 Most Awkward Dance Moves At Coachella

See also: *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella: The Black Lips' Cole Alexander Goes Full Monty, Plays Guitar With His Ding-Dong At Coachella, folks come from all over the world to lose themselves in the music. They'll employ almost anything in this quest -- but mos ... More >>

Mysteries of Huntington Beach: Dirty Donald Duck and Johnny's Saloon

Put that on my bill please.​​Those who drop by Johnny's Saloon in Huntington Beach to listen to a little Johnny Cash on the jukebox and have a drink will find a relic of the Magic Kingdom that imagineers would probably prefer you didn't see. It's a kiddie ride, such as one finds outside of super ... More >>

Parker Macy Celebrates Creme Tangerine's First Anniversary

​Yes, it's really been a year since Parker Macy opened Creme Tangerine, the record store in a trailer at the Lab on March 1. It's been a challenging one for the blues guitarist-turned-entrepreneur, to say the least. There was a break-in a couple of months ago, and Macy also lost his partner Jon St ... More >>

This Week In Food: Gratuitous Use of the Fuck Word, Beer is the Fountain of Youth!

​So it looks like the Dec. 16 edition of This Week in Food offended a reader. I regurgitated a post Michelle did about a nifty little website called "Where the Fuck to Drink." Because the work fuck and alcohol always catches eyes, mine included, I included it in the headline as a featured story. D ... More >>

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Letters From OC Weekly Readers

Garageland, a Joe Strummer Tribute, at 2nd Floor Last Night

Taylor HambyDuane Peters' Joe Strummer-inspired art.​GaragelandAug 3, 20112nd FloorDirectly above the mayhem from the U.S. Open of Surfing on Main Street in Huntington Beach, a celebration of three other cultures gathered: punk rock, art and skateboarding. "Garageland" was a tribute to Joe Strumme ... More >>

Two Days 'Til Rapture: OC Weekly Staffers' Last Meals

Flickr user pasukaru76Kinda like this, but not as cool.​So if Oakland preacher Harold Camping and hundreds and hundreds of other crazies are right, the world will be ending this Saturday, May 21--around 6 p.m., to be exact. Which got us thinking: What would we spend our last hours doing? Stuffing ... More >>

Volcom Sues Jay-Z

[Mental Notes] More important, what's going on for Record Store Day in OC?

Caifanes Reunite to Play Coachella?

[Mental Notes] Also, the Fling get signed (woo-hoo!), Kottonmouth Kings get high (duh!)

RIP, Jesse Rich

[Mental Notes] Also, an MJ video in Tustin, Fauxchella and Young the Giant

Tomorrows Bad Seeds at the Coach House Last Night

Taylor HambyMoises Juarez of Tomorrows Bad SeedsTomorrows Bad SeedsDec. 2, 2010the Coach HouseWhen Tomorrows Bad Seeds kicked off their Holidaze winter acoustic tour at the Coach House last night, it marked their first (almost) acoustic show. Singer Moises Juarez said normally, "there's a lot of e ... More >>

Open Melody at UCI Last Night

Taylor HambyXBXRX takes Acrobatics Everyday literally​Open Melody FestivalNov. 20 and 21, 2010UCI The two-day Open Melody festival hosted by Acrobatics Everyday at UCI had something for everyone--everyone interested in underground genres, that is. From in-your-face, ear-bursting bands like XBXRX a ... More >>

Fingerprints to Leave Belmont Shore

[Mental Notes] We predicted KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas lineup, and an interview with our local Justin Bieber

Mmoss at Thee Men's Warehouse Over the Weekend: Eight Observations

Taylor Hamby Mmoss at Thee Men's Warehouse​ Mmoss Oct. 9, 2010Thee Men's Warehouse, Anaheim1. Burger Records' Mmoss is finishing up their week-long San Francisco to San Diego tour, and one of their stops was at Thee Men's Warehouse in Anaheim last Saturday. 2. The eveni ... More >>

The Rambles Fight the Good Fight for Pop Music

North Orange County's The Rambles are warriors in the battle of reclaiming pop music from acts like Justin Bieber and Katy Perry. Their pop revival army is made up of guitarist Eric Plunkett, rhythm guitarist and singer Isaiah Silva, lead vocalist and tambourine player Kevin Fry, bassist Brad Babin ... More >>