Subject: Tom Child

• Album Covers Of The Year 2006

  To their credit, Pitchfork compiled a more-or-less well done 25 worst album covers of the year list, but they're remiss in not recognizing the power of a well done album cover. Rather than complain, we're taking matters into our own hands and making a list of our own. If RIAA doomsayers are to be believed, the great sun of the era of the tangible album is being eclipsed by filesharing, iTunes, and the menacing iPod. Art should be more important today than ever, if for no other reason than to giv

  December 28, 2006

• There's a Spotlight Here with Your Name on It (Possibly)

  Hello... is this thing on? Check! Check! Okay. Everything appears to be in working order. I'm Dave Segal, the new music editor of OC Weekly. Pleased to meet you. To expand a bit on this post by Tom Child, I come here from Seattle, where there are as many bands as there are Starbucks units. A fair number of them are pretty good, too (the bands, I mean, not the coffee shop; I don't frequent Starbucks because I'm a rebel). I'd like to think that an area as sprawling and cultured as Orange Coun

  March 30, 2007

• Lavender Diamond, OCMA, July 19, 2007

  Lavender Diamond demurely demand world peace forever. First thing I hear out of Lavender Diamond singer Rebecca Stark's well-designed mouth—and uttered with not a trace of snarkiness—is something to the effect of “Let's hear it for peace on Earth.” The editor in me always wants to retort, “Like, where else—Saturn?” (This is why people tend to shun me at parties.) Anyhow, Stark's little preamble at July's edition of Orange Crush wasn't unexpected by anybody who read Tom Child's fi

  July 20, 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

• What you missed over the weekend: Part XIV

  Dave Segal and Tom Child spent the weekend in Austin for the South By Southwest Festival, which they live-blogged out of Heard Mentality. Browse the SXSW blog for their coverage here, and do scroll down and flip through some slide shows while you're there. Chelsea Ide wraps up the SXSW weekend quite nicely over here. Once again, the Reg-O-Meter (which now has a snazzy new logo - thanks, Steve!) went negative after Rich Kane fed it this week's notables from the Orange County Register. Check back

  March 17, 2008

• Because You're Ugly: Holistic Wisdom and Green Sex Toys

  It's not everyday one receives a press release on green sex toys in their inbox. Lisa S. Lawless, the CEO and founder of internet-based company Holistic Wisdom, Inc., has been pushing for an environmentally conscious movement in the sex toy industry. She stresses the importance on knowing what sex toys are made of in addition to the ingredients in personal lubricants—and yes, it is apparently possible to recycle your worn out vibrator. Or... butt plug. Or what have you. Holistic Wisdom's off

  September 29, 2008

• OC Weekly Local Music Compilation 2008

  Whew! We made it. OC Weekly is proud to present the best of Orange County. Download one or download 'em all! (we recommend them all, of course)

  November 26, 2008

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  September 25, 2008

• Free Crap That Came In The Mail: The Slow Poisoner Strikes Again

  I feel some definite cognitive dissonance (cog dis, if you will) for calling this "Free Crap That Came In The Mailm" because the negative connotation of crap--things that are worthless and lame--doesn't seem to apply. This is actually all kind of cool. But the more non-judgmental meaning of "crap," as in, just a lot of random stuff, as in "I got to clean up the crap in my apartment." (Because it's probably not literal crap that's making your apartment messy, it's probably your belongings, that y

  February 26, 2009

• Laguna Beach Independent Sold; LA CityBeat Folds

  Laguna Beach Independent city editor Andrea Adelson reports today the company behind 18-month-old Laguna Beach Magazine has agreed in principle to acquire the publication "at a time of financial difficulty for the weekly newspaper." Firebrand Media LLC will consolidate the Indy's operations with other titles and create advertising opportunities with its range of publications, which also includes the village's visitor guide and soon-to-launch Newport Beach Magazine and an in-house magazine for

  March 27, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 7, 2008

• [Summer Guide] The Simple Pleasures of an OC Summer

  June 12, 2008

• Hotter Than the Temperature at Coachella? Black Lips, Animal Collective, Duffy and 43 More

  April 17, 2008

• [This Hole-In-the-Wall Life] Cannoli Like Burritos at Tina and Vince's

  February 28, 2008

• Thursday - 12/6

  John R. Wooden Classic Golf Tournament at Oak Creek Golf Club, Ocean Adventure Cruises at Dana Wharf

  November 29, 2007

• Tuesday - 12/4

  Deborah Harry performs at the House of Blues, Quadrophenia at Irvine Fine Arts Center
  

  November 29, 2007

• Wednesday - 11/28

  No End In Sight at Marie Callenders, Army of Darkness at Regency South Coast Village

  November 22, 2007

• Tuesday - 11/27

  Anti-Flag at the Glass House, A World of Puppets: Expressions of Culture at Cal State Fullerton

  November 22, 2007

• Monday - 11/26

  Rock Star Karaoke at Slidebar, Christmas Tree Lighting at South Coast Plaza

  November 22, 2007

• Saturday - 11/24

  Travis at the House of Blues, GWAR at the Glass House, Scarlett Sisters Circus at the Bowers Museum

  November 22, 2007

• Thursday - 11/22

  Cirque du Soleil: Corteo at the OC Fairgrounds, Hank Williams: Lost Highway at the Laguna Playhouse

  November 22, 2007

• Tuesday - 11/20

  When the Levees Broke: Part II at the Irvine Fine Arts Center, The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey at the Barclay

  November 22, 2007

• News

  August 31, 2006

• CD Review

  Magnolia Electric Co., Sojourner (Secretly Canadian)

  August 30, 2007

• Meet the New Music Boss

  Not the same as the old music boss

  April 5, 2007

• Letters

  'How DARE you call the film phony. This is a war against the Vietnamese community. We will organize a major protest against OC Weekly'

  April 5, 2007

• Letters

  'This is the USA. We dont do satire, thank you. We are very serious, thank you. But next time you have a good fart joke we will laugh like hell.'

  January 25, 2007

• Less Food, More Wine

  Fear planning large group dinners? Try hosting your next one at Utopia
  

  January 18, 2007

• 2006 of One, Half a Dozen of the Other

  2006 of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
  

  December 28, 2006

• Cream of the Coachella Crop

  April 26, 2007

• Diary of a Mad County

  Oct. 4 - Oct. 10

  October 12, 2006