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The Rolling Stones - Honda Center - May 15, 2013

The Rolling Stones Honda Center May 15,2013 You have to hand it to The Rolling Stones. If you told any rock fan, critic or musician that they'd be playing live shows nearing the age of 70, they would have laughed and you would have been ridiculed. Just think back to the Jimmy Fallon character in Al ... More >>

Allensworth - The Copper Door - 4/27/12

Allensworth The Copper Door April 27, 2012 The Copper Door in downtown Santa Ana has pros and cons. The eclectic beer bar turned live music venue is a haven for local talent and an incredible melting pot of college students, hipsters, fine beer connoisseurs and the occasional gangster. In the past ... More >>

'Orson's Shadow' Is Citizen Screwed-Up

The Long Beach Playhouse production fictionalizes Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier playing each other for one big gig

Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa at the Wiltern Last Night

Ryan Ritchie​Snoop Dogg and Wiz KhalifaWiltern December 13, 2011 To use a tired party cliche, if you remember the Snoop Dogg/Wiz Khalifa show last night at the Wiltern, you weren't there.I mean, seriously, was anyone not getting high? The answer is no.Wiz performed for about a half hour ... More >>

A Brief History of Great Guitarists with Less Digits

Django Reinhardt​This Friday and Saturday evening at Segerstrom Hall, guitarist Dorado Schmitt will present an evening dedicated to Django Reinhardt.

La Dispute Talk Rawness, Concept Records and Growing Up

​La Dispute have deeply embraced the philosophy of "If you're going to give something a shot, you might as well give it everything." The Grand Rapids, Mich., screamo quintet write turbulent songs that do absolutely anything they must to affect you. Guitars amble, stab, and soar in histrionic fashi ... More >>

'Magic Trip' Is an Acid Flashback

On the road with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters

Tales From the Surf Ghetto

Meet the ragtag band of craftsmen, entrepreneurs and weirdos at the heart of OC's surf industry

Newport Beach Film Festival: Programmers' Picks!

A dozen of the finest the fest has to offer

Wave of the Future

Surfer magazine's sometimes-wild, sometimes-mild 50-year ride

Los Lobos: Still Far Gone

The seminal country-roots-Mexican-rock band's new material is fresher than ever

Melvins Don't Need to Break Up to be Relevant

Look up longetivity in the dictionary, and you'll see a photo of Melvins

Don't Start a Riot

Fourteen years after Bradley Nowell's tragic death, Sublime (With Rome) are back and headed for a town near you

Today, Medical Marijuana. Tomorrow, Legalize It!

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes ... More >>

Breath of Fire, Breath of Life

Guilt and Revelations in Santa Ana

Eternal Sunshine

Director William A. Kirkley rediscovers the dark side of OC’s Summer of Love

Highs, Lows & Heavenly Blows

More than three decades on, Sly & the Family Stone stand fresh

Fais Do-Do

Beausoleil

Harshing Their Mellows

Smug host rips counterculture icons in Tom Snyders Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show

Commie Girl

Romeos in Black Jeans: A night with Dave Alvin and his way Guilty Men

Get Out!

Special Summer Festival Edition: You are the star!

A Horrible Guide to Reasonable Noise

Get Sick, Get Well. Hang Around an Inkwell

Dylans Volume 1 saves the best for Volume 2

Live Previews

Feedback

Are You Too Late for the Trend?
28 Local Greats

The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever!: 1 - 50

Pet Project

For Greg Ginn, its not about the moneyits about the cats

Vampire Can Mating Oven

Camper Van Beethoven take the skinheads masturbating

Love and Grief United

The life and death--and struggle with death--of Ken Kesey

Eclectic Company

Chris Schlarb and Pete Deeble put out music for the love of itthe freaks

Rich Buttholes

Once dangerous, Butthole Surfers are radio-friendlier

Soul-Soothing Magick

Joe Louis Walker makes you proud to be an American

Planet RTH

The greatest blues show in the universe. Plus, Ode to Nugent

Uncork the Dorks!

Buddy insults just about everybody!

The Partys Over

Buchanan crashes Reform Party convention in Long Beach

Weezer Fever!

Rage Against the Classical Machine

Christopher Russell leads the OCHSA orchestra into new terrain

Its a Miracle!

Willie G.s tuff vibe survives smack, Jesus

Masters of Snore

The Peoples Republic of Barclay!

For one night only, when Arlo Guthrie presides

Downright Hiddy!

The "new" HBAC aint likely to piss off the bluehairs, but the rest of us? Sheesh!

Letters

Locals Only

The People Formerly Known as Fans

Faced with a lawsuit from their idol, online Prince worshipers turn the tables on the Artist

What's it like to be a big-time music writer at a major metropolitan newspaper?

45 Months in the Life of a Register Rock Critic

Localer Than Ever!

Shameless self-promotion! Your handy track-by-track rundown

A Selected OC Rock History Time Line

There's Life in This Corpse!

Thanks in no small part to merely the finest actor you may ever see

'You Gotta Write Your Own Blues'

Dave Alvin likes audiences without categories