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Burgerama Day Two - The Observatory - March 23, 2013

Burgerama 2 The Observatory 3/23/13 Beer was flowing, burgers grilling and music blaring as day two of Burgerama picked up where Friday left off. By the end of the night, the walls of the venue were moist sweaty and the concertgoers were sweaty and smelly. Both hallmarks of a good punk/garage/indie ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in OC This Weekend

Friday, February 15 The Ziggens Slidebar If you don't know much about Orange County ska/ surf/punk/garage band the Ziggens, it's ok, somehow they've been over shadowed by one time label mates such as Sublime. But unlike Sublime, who burned out before becoming massively succesful, the Ziggens have ... More >>

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House of Blues

Yellow Red Sparks Make "Emotional Vomiting" Sound Like a Good Thing

It's clear that Yellow Red Sparks are the kind of band committed to fighting the good fight. In the years since their heartfelt folk rock sound branched out of the OC music scene, they've managed to hold onto the work ethic that elevated them to one of the must-see acts in places like Detroit Bar, L ... More >>

Chris Porterfield of Field Report Is Happy to Take the Scenic Route to Stardom

Watching your former bandmates succeed can be a tough thing, especially when you're Chris Porterfield of Field Report. Having played with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and members of Megafaun, the Wisconsin-native thought his chances of becoming a full-time musician passed when his former band, DeYarmon ... More >>

Top 10 OC Shows of Summer 2012

The only thing tougher than realizing that yet another summer concert season has come and gone is taking the time to sort all the best moments together an relive them in numerical order. For us, the difficulty of the latter usually means that we got to experience enough slam-dancing, chorus-shouting ... More >>

She Wants Revenge - The Observatory - September 14, 2012

By: Ryan CoxSee Also:*FIDLAR On What It's Like To Party With The Hives *The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 22, 2012 *Ceasefire - House of Blues Anaheim - 6/16/12She Wants Revenge w/ theSTART, The ChildThe ObservatorySeptember 14, 2012It was a warm night in Santa Ana, but it was even warmer inside ... More >>

Fiona Apple - Greek Theatre - September 14, 2012

See also: *The Originalites - House of Blues Anaheim - September 13, 2012 *The Hives - The Observatory - September 11, 2012 [w/ VIDEO] *FIDLAR On What It's Like To Party With The Hives Fiona Apple Greek Theatre 9/14/12 It's hard to believe that Fiona Apple has been making music for nearly 20 ye ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in O.C. This Week

See Also: *Free Ticket Wednesday: She Wants Revenge at the Observatory*The Hives - The Observatory - September 11, 2012 [w/Video]*Jim Norton Wants to Sleep With You, if You Can Stand His Sleep ApneaMonday, September 17Martin Sanchez (Residency)Detroit Bar Martin Sanchez is an absolutely manic rappe ... More >>

Top Five Hits: Fingerprints in Long Beach

[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:*The Hives - The Observatory - September 11, 2012 [w/ VIDEO]*Top Five Hits: Left of the Dial in Seal ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in O.C. This Weekend

See Also:*Free Ticket Wednesday: She Wants Revenge at the Observatory*The Hives - The Observatory - September 11, 2012 [w/Video]*Jim Norton Wants to Sleep With You, if You Can Stand His Sleep ApneaFriday, September 14She Wants RevengeThe ObservatoryIs that the sound of the 1980s reemerging from the ... More >>

Lobster Fest To Hit San Pedro This Weekend with Dum Dum Girls, Saint Motel and The Blasters

See Also:*Doheny Days: Day One - Doheny State Beach - September 8, 2012*Doheny Days: Day Two - Doheny State Beach - September 9, 2012*FIDLAR on What it's Like to Party with the HivesSummer isn't officially over until you've had some lobster in your belly. And since the 14th Annual Port of Los Angele ... More >>

The Hives - The Observatory - September 11, 2012 [w/ VIDEO]

The Hives The Observatory September 11, 2012 See Also: *FIDLAR On What It's Like To Party With The Hives *The Best Of Coachella: Sunday, April 22, 2012 *Ceasefire - House of Blues Anaheim - 6/16/12 When we first learned the The Hives were stepping out of their American touring hiatus and coming t ... More >>

FIDLAR On What It's Like To Party With The Hives

See Also: *Nora Kirkpatrick: The Accordion Goddess of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros  *Milo Greene Made Their First Full-Length Film With Zero Movie Making Experience *Wayne Coyne Says 2013 is the Year of the Flaming Lips Since 2009, FIDLAR (an acronym for Fuck It Dog, Life's ... More >>

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Observatory

Milo Greene - Fingerprints - 7/16/12

Milo GreeneFingerprints7/6/12If Milo Greene sounded at all plaintive at their (unofficial) record release show last night at Fingerprints in Long Beach, it's not because they weren't excited play the popular local record store -- they made their excitement clear between songs, telling the packed rec ... More >>

5 Reasons Why "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" Rules With The Hives

Unless you've lived in a shoebox for the past few years, you know that the Stieg Larsson's The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is an international phenomenon as both a book and a film. There have been two versions of the film: one made by the Swedes (where the film takes place) and an another by America ... 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.

Refused, Arctic Monkeys, tUnE-yArDs, Explosions in the Sky All Playing Glass House Secret Shows in April

​On leap year day (Feb. 29),  the Glass House announced via Facebook that they were hosting six secret shows, with most onsales set for March 9 and 16. Well, now we know what they are! Here's the list of not-secret-anymore shows:    April 11 Arctic Monkeys (on sale Mar. 16) April 12 ... More >>

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Fox Theater Pomona

[Sound Guy] The Union Line and Avi Buffalo: Signed, Sealed, Hopefully Delivered

The Willowz Set to Release 'Everyone' November 17

Amanda Milius​Remember the Willows? They're back! In Pog form! Well, that's just not true (unfortunate, yes). But they are back with a new album, Everyone, scheduled for release on November 17. It's their second album on Steve Aoki's Dim Mak label, following 2007's Chautauqua.

Boston Duo Pretty & Nice Work Hard to Produce Music That's Just That

Sonics Front Man Jerry Roslie Enjoys a Rock & Roll Retirement

Last Night: Jose Gonzalez @ OCPAC

Last Night: Jose Gonzalez at the Orange County Performing Art Center's Samueli Theater on September 25, 2008. Better Than: Shopping at IKEA. Download: "Killing For Love" video from the Jose Gonzalez website The "Off-Center" concert series at the Samueli Theater closed out their concert season wi ... More >>

The Hives, Eagles of Death Metal and The Willowz at The Grove

San Diego Street Scene lineup announced

The two-day lineup for this year's San Diego Street Scene was just announced today, and it doesn't look half bad, in this humble ex-music editor's opinion. Headliners include Beck, the Black Crowes, X, Tegan and Sara, Justice, plus Spoon, TV on the Radio, STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9), Michael Franti ... More >>

How Swede It Is

Five bands besides Laura Lee

Suburban Robots Monitoring Reality!

Borders Are Stupid

Enjambre is/is not the Hives