Subject: The Jesus and Mary Chain

• Vital Tonight @ Prospector: THE TELESCOPES!

  Top noisy British shoegaze/etc. band on their first US tour ever! Cannot indicate correctly how good this band was/is/will be and how much you should go. Any fans of Jesus & Mary Chain/Spacemen 3/Loop/Spiritualized/Ride/etc. need to be at this. Telescopes were contemporaries and easily equals but never hit it in the US due to label/bureaucratic bullshit. This tour should be hitting El Rey for like $50 and instead it's cozied up in Long Beach for practically nothing. I can't find anyone els

  November 11, 2006

• Three Hot Nights

  I could never understand why the biggest Southern California music festival is in the middle of the desert. To me, enduring triple-digit temperatures to catch the Pixies reunion just seemed like pure sadism on behalf of Goldenvoice. Nevertheless, Coachella always draws a crowd. And this year, the festival has grown to epic proportions. Amidst the perpetual rumors of a Smiths reunion and the last-minute news of a possible Police show, Coachella's 2007 lineup was announced today. There's a ton of

  January 22, 2007

• To Do Tonight - 10/22

  COOKING: CHARCUTERIE, 6:30pm Learn pates and terrines. Sur la Table, 832 Avocado Ave., Newport Beach, (949) 640-2330 www.surlatable.turnstilesystems.com/ProgramDetail.aspx/771020 KNITTING WORKSHOP, 7:30pm Get your knit on every Monday. Free knitting class. All levels of knitting. Just bring your needles and yarn. Portfolio Coffeehouse, 2300 E 4th St., Long Beach, (562) 434-2486 www.portfoliocoffeehouse.com SLEEPY HOLLOW, 8pm Catch Tim Burton’s take on the Legend of Sleepy Hollow on the big

  October 22, 2007

• Last Night: The Vandelles, LSD and the Search for God, Stevenson Branch Davidians at the Prospector

  The Vandelles, LSD and the Search for God, Stevenson Ranch Davidians January 12, 2008 The Prospector Better Than: Staring at your shoes while listening to Jesus and Mary Chain’s Darklands. Download: “Swell to Heaven” by the Vandelles. The most striking thing about Stevenson Ranch Davidians is their female bassist: she plays sitting down and uses her bare feet to press pedals on her Hammond Midi Pedalboard. Otherwise, this SoCal quartet’s psych-pop shoegazery stays stuck in a laggard

  January 13, 2008

• Coachella, Stagecoach Dates Announced

  Goldenvoice announced today that next year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival - the world famous annual haven of indie rock, electronic music and sweating at the Empire Polo Fields in Indio - will take place Friday, April 17, Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19. Yes, that's the third weekend in April, not the fourth weekend like it's always been in the past. OK, sure, it was the first weekend of May in 2004, but close enough. And in 1999 it was in October, but that was the show's fi

  October 6, 2008

• Get Out!

  June 22, 2006

• Travis

  House of Blues

  April 2, 2009

• Locals Only

  DiGiTs

  December 27, 2007

• KATIE!!!

  April 24, 2008

• [CD Review] Brian Jonestown Massacre, 'My Bloody Underground' (A Records)

  April 17, 2008

• [Locals Only] Amazing Reverb Engine, Driver (Deathstack Records)

  March 6, 2008

• [Hits!] Top Selling Records at Black Hole Records

  February 28, 2008

• The Raveonettes at the Glass House and Detroit Bar

  February 28, 2008

• Locals Only

  Codpiece

  January 10, 2008

• CD Review

  Magnetic Fields, Distortion (Nonesuch)

  January 10, 2008

• Pop Goes Britannia

  With a New Four-CD Retrospective, Rhino Records Captures the Agony and Ecstasy of Modern English Rock’s Golden Age

  November 22, 2007

• Rage Against Irrelevancy

  Does RATMs left hook still have punch?

  April 26, 2007

• Atoned and Re-throned

  Jesus and Mary Chain resurrect the rock

  April 19, 2007

• Crash Course

  Asteroid #4 speed toward your stereo

  March 8, 2007

• Slip Me an Anodyne

  Darker My Loves automatic writing

  January 11, 2007

• Prostate Orgasm

  GET OUT! Nightlife and more: Dec. 7 - Dec. 14

  December 7, 2006

• Cream of the Coachella Crop

  April 26, 2007

• Album Review

  October 12, 2006

• Get Out!

  June 1, 2006

• Get Out!

  March 16, 2006

• Get Out!

  February 23, 2006

• Everything Come Through

  February 2, 2006

• Hits!

  January 26, 2006

• Get Out!

  December 15, 2005

• Rich Man, Po Boy

  October 13, 2005

• The 129 Greatest OC Bands Ever!: 1 - 50

  June 26, 2003

• Aaron ChristopherBooker, Chain Reaction

  January 20, 2000

• Starflyer 59, Sparklejets U.K. & The Relatives

  December 16, 1999

• Talk Talk: Justin Kennedy of Army Navy (Part 1)

  Travis SchneiderReally, it's almost embarrassing how much I like LA-based pop band Army Navy. After seeing them open up for the Shys last October at Detroit Bar, I pushed their self-titled record (released on their own label, Fever Zone Records) on anyone that would listen. Songs like "Slight of Hand" and "Saints" are simply way too much fun not to be shared.I'm pretty giddy that they're coming back into town this week--Thursday, June 25 at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana, in a show sponsored by U

  June 24, 2009

• Pavement to Reunite, Let the Speculation Begin!

  ​In the '90s, Pavement were the band to mention liking if you wanted to sound cool, even if all you really knew was "Cut Your Hair." There's probably no current act that fills that role--thanks to the Internet, everyone knows every band and is sick of them after a couple of weeks.They haven't played together since 1999 (though lead singer Stephen Malkmus has kept busy with current band the Jicks), so this scoop from the ever-newsworthy Brooklyn Vegan blog is a Big Deal: according to "reliable"

  September 16, 2009

• Incoming: The Raveonettes at Detroit Bar

  ​The Raveonettes are gracing us with their presence once again this year at the Detroit Bar. The Danish duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo, makes music that can be described as a graceful, but highly destructive hurricane--a whirling sound with feedback and overloaded guitars... and all the while Sharin's melodic vocals cruise throughout their songs. You could say their influences draw from the Ronettes, Buddy Holly, the Jesus & Mary Chain and the Velvets--just take a loo

  November 9, 2009

• Last Night: The Raveonettes at the Detroit Bar

  Andrew YoussefLive at the Detroit Bar​ Last Night: The Raveonettes at the Detroit BarBetter Than: breaking Phil Spector out of jail to produce new albums.How could the Raveonettes top their fuzzy masterpiece album Lust, Lust, Lust? More focus and a little less fuzz. In and Out of Control is aptly named, with eleven songs that span the Raveonettes' sonic spectrum. "Gone Forever" is my favorite tune from their latest album: Its ultra-sticky chorus quickly had my foot tapping.The Raveonettes pro

  November 11, 2009