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    May 17, 2012
  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Dennis Robicheau's Five Most Formative Recordings

    ​Long Beach native Dennis Robicheau's sound is, for a lack of a better word, something I'd describe as bluesy groovelica (groove based, psychedelic music some electronica in there). We're pretty excited for Robicheau's second EP, I Just Don't Know, to come out in March. In the meantime we've ask ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 29, 2011

    Bourbon Jones

    Alex's Bar

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Top Five Hits: Fingerprints in Long Beach

    ​Here are the top five selling records this week from Fingerprints, 420 E. 4th Street in 
Long Beach, (562) 433-4996.This week's top seller is Tom Waits' latest album, Bad as Me.

  • Calendar

    October 20, 2011
  • Music

    June 30, 2011

    Ben White Is a Southern Boy by the Sea

    [Locals Only] Hear the folk noirist pluck out tunes in the LBC

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2011

    Infantree

    Fingerprints

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Bon Iver to Release New Album This Year

    Lilledeshan Bose​Rolling Stone says that Bon Iver's follow up to the awesome 2007 debut For Emma, Forever Ago will be out in June. In the interview published today, frontman Justin Vernon says that for this set, holing up in the woods of Wisconsin to write songs of heartbreak wasn't really feasibl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    Hall of Shame: 10 Artists Who Absolutely Need to Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

    ​Each year, the old bastards at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame invite some other old bastards to join the club. Usually, they're either obvious (this year, Tom Waits, who really should have been in about 15 years ago) or questionable (Alice Cooper is cool, but he has maybe ten truly great songs in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    OC Music Awards At the Gypsy Den in Santa Ana Last Night

    Christopher Victorio/OC Weekly​Click here to see the photos!The OC Music Awards really give new meaning to the phrase "awards season." A months-long competition like this really starts to test the resolve of even the most intrepid music blogger. Last night saw the Gypsy Den's small stage hosting p ... More >>

  • Music

    February 3, 2011

    Barren Earth: The Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of Baltic Heavy Metal

    The Helsinki-based supergroup span pretty much every alloy of metal you could dig up

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Tom Waits to Publish Book of Poetry

    Myspace.com​Tom Waits has long been known as one of the finest songwriters and weirdest talents on the music scene. Now, he is branching out into the world of letters with Seeds on Hard Ground, his first book of poetry. The collection will be accompanied by gritty pictures of homeless people ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 4, 2010

    Le Switch

    The Prospector

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    WTF of the Week: Tom Waits to Release Single on 78 RPM

    ​WTF?Yesterday Pitchfork reported bluesman Tom Waits will be releasing a 78 RPM vinyl single on Nov. 19 through New Orleans-based Preservation Hall Recordings.Each side of the limited edition vinyl platter will feature a cover song recorded in collaboration with the Preservation Hall Jazz band inc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    More Than 100 Visible Nipples: 30 Album Covers That Feature Our Favorite Anatomy Part (NSFW)

    Apparently, no one sent Maroon 5 the memo that we're in middle of a Boob War. How do we know? Just look at the cover to the band's newest release. It features a sexy woman erotically caressing her naked body with her two pairs of arms. That's a good start. But why cover up the breasts? Where's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Oh, Say Can You Hear: 10 Songs That Should Be Our New National Anthem

    20th Century Fox​"The Star-Spangled Banner" has an image problem. That is, no one likes it.Oh sure, everyone respects and reveres what it stands for, what it evokes in us as nation and as a people. But no one really admires it on its merits as song, and singers and sports fans have long detested t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2010

    Fingerprints' Top 10 This Week

    Top 10 selling records from last week at Fingerprints in Long Beach. The shop specializes in a wide variety of underground music, introducing customers to new bands while still selling mainstream stuff. The shop even holds live performances from some of their favorite bands. 1) Massive Attack, Heli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 12, 2010

    Fingerprints' Top 10 Selling Records From Past Week

    Fingerprints in Long Beach specializes in a wide variety of underground music, introducing customers to new bands while still selling mainstream stuff. The shop even holds live performances by some of their favorite bands. If you love music, it's pretty much the place to be. But you already knew t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    Today in Music News: 'We Are the World,' Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Tom Waits

    Lil Wayne (who "humbly noted that he recorded the solo originally sung by Bob Dylan"), Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Miley Cyrus, Barbra Streisand among 80-plus musicians who participated in "We are the World" remake for Haiti. Interesting New York Times piece on Taylor Swift: "Big Win Means Innocence L ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Weepy Rainy Day Playlist

    ​I understand it doesn't rain much in Southern California. That's a good thing. These gloomy skies make me want to curl up on the sofa with strong drink and do nothing but listen to sad, sad songs--timeless ones that equate rain with sorrow. Here are my faves. Enjoy. With cocktails. And no one aro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Today in Music News: Pussycat Dolls, Snoop Dogg, Trent Reznor, Tom Waits, Vic Chesnutt

    Pussycat Dolls wooing Snoop Dogg again for new album; wanna bring in Fergie, too."Retired" Trent Reznor promises new Nine Inch Nails material for 2010.New Tom Waits album? "We may record in the spring," he tells Los Angles Times. Heard Mentality post from Saturday on Vic Chesnutt's sad, untimely ... More >>

  • Music

    August 27, 2009

    Zee Avi Brings Her Personal Lyrics From Malaysia to Costa Mesa

    Pussycat Dolls wooing Snoop Dogg again for new album; wanna bring in Fergie, too."Retired" Trent Reznor promises new Nine Inch Nails material for 2010.New Tom Waits album? "We may record in the spring," he tells Los Angles Times. Heard Mentality post from Saturday on Vic Chesnutt's sad, untimely ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2009

    Dolphin City

    Pussycat Dolls wooing Snoop Dogg again for new album; wanna bring in Fergie, too."Retired" Trent Reznor promises new Nine Inch Nails material for 2010.New Tom Waits album? "We may record in the spring," he tells Los Angles Times. Heard Mentality post from Saturday on Vic Chesnutt's sad, untimely ... More >>

  • Music

    February 26, 2009

    [CD Review] N.A.S.A., 'The Spirit of Apollo' (Anti-)

    Pussycat Dolls wooing Snoop Dogg again for new album; wanna bring in Fergie, too."Retired" Trent Reznor promises new Nine Inch Nails material for 2010.New Tom Waits album? "We may record in the spring," he tells Los Angles Times. Heard Mentality post from Saturday on Vic Chesnutt's sad, untimely ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 27, 2008

    Mind Blown

    Mike Watt, Moris Tepper, Crystal Antlers

  • Music

    July 3, 2008

    A Strange, Hot Trip to See Tom Waits Live in Phoenix

    Mike Watt, Moris Tepper, Crystal Antlers

  • Music

    May 1, 2008

    [Locals Only] The Fling

    Mike Watt, Moris Tepper, Crystal Antlers

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2007

    LYT's Film Pick of the Weekend 11-2-07

    This week's pick is a no-brainer. It's WRISTCUTTERS: A LOVE STORY. I don't think the movie has been promoted correctly -- I haven't seen any trailers, just those annoying li'l wraparound things on the OC Weekly papers. You may have been misled. I caught this movie at AFI Fest last year, when it had ... More >>

  • Music

    October 25, 2007

    Locals Only

    Costumed in Doom: Repeater, Forcefield ON, Maritime Academy Scare Up Covers for Helloween

  • Music

    September 20, 2007

    Song As History and News Commentary

    People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938 Resonates With Today's Zeitgeist

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2007

    Sage Francis' Death Dance Tour

    What: The Death Dance Tour When: Saturday June 16 Where: The Glass House, Pomona Maybe this should be called the Scions of Anticon Tour (although Alias still records for the Oakland underground-hip-hop label). He and anticon alumni Buck 65 and Sage Francis are now seasoned vets of the stage and the ... More >>

  • Music

    May 31, 2007

    Hits!

    SecondSpin

  • Music

    January 18, 2007

    Hits!

    Vinyl Solution

  • Music

    January 11, 2007

    Hits!

    KUCI-FM 88.9

  • Music

    December 23, 2004

    OC Weekly Staff Mixtape Picks

    Happy holidays, from some of the joyless jerks who bring you this music section:

  • Music

    December 23, 2004

    SecondSpin

    Happy holidays, from some of the joyless jerks who bring you this music section:

  • Music

    November 11, 2004

    Fingerprints

    Happy holidays, from some of the joyless jerks who bring you this music section:

  • Music

    October 28, 2004

    Pepperland Music

    Top 10 selling records from Oct. 18 to Oct. 24

  • Music

    July 15, 2004

    Rewind Your Walkmen

    Jonathan Fire*Eater

  • Film

    May 27, 2004

    Secondhand Smoke

    Spilling the beans in 11 chatty skits

  • Features

    June 26, 2003

    Chase Frank's Top 5

    Chase Frank Productions, Quiverfish

  • Columns

    January 17, 2002

    Not Over My Dead Body

    Gulfstream of Consciousness

  • Music

    October 11, 2001

    Unmasked!

    The genius of Los Straitjackets is genius

  • Music

    March 22, 2001

    Clap Hands

    John Hammond tackles the Tom waits songbook

  • Columns

    March 1, 2001
  • Unknown

    November 2, 2000
  • Music

    April 6, 2000

    New Music

    Jim goes bi-polar

  • Music

    February 10, 2000

    Steve Lynch

    Drummer, Burnin' Groove

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