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OC's Wild Child Picked to Perform on "The World's Greatest Tribute Bands"

Though they're normally used to being sought after on the local level at venues like the Coach House or House of Blues Anaheim, OC native Dave Brock and his Doors tribute band Wild Child are taking the art form of playing another band's songs to a whole new level. The band have recently been selecte ... More >>

The Best Five Shows in OC This Week: Big Business, Major Lazer

Monday, October 15Big BusinessAlex's BarFor those not familiar with the genre Sludge Metal, meet Big Business. Hailing from Seattle and signed to Gold Metal Records, they traffic in crunchy, chugging jams with wonky, drop-tuned strings. Reminiscent of instrumental metal band Pelican, Big Business fe ... More >>

Greg Johnson of the Kettle Drivers Get Atmospheric

[Editor's Note: Spare Notes is a new Weekly music feature highlighting outtakes and personal stories from bands who just finished working their asses off to put out new music.]Guitarist and Kettle Drivers main man Greg Johnson has every reason to feel buoyant. His band's latest release, Digital Demo ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'However Strange' by Détective

DétectiveHowever Strangehttp://www.detectivemusic.com/See Also:*Local Record Review: 'This One's For Terminal Boredom' by Roman Candles*Local Record Review: 'We Are Locally Grown' by Locally Grown Collective*Local Records Review: 'Four Steps in Corsets' by Yellow Red SparksThis Saturday, a band cal ... More >>

La Santa Cecilia Mash Up '80s Hits Like "Tainted Love" and Traditional Latin Elements

La Santa Cecilia represents a generation of genre-mashing Latino musicians raised in Los Angeles. Their preferred forms of expression remain the Latin American realms of boleros, rancheras, cumbias and salsa; nevertheless, they expand far beyond them. The band possesses an impressive talent for inte ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'Captured American Flag Displayed Upside Down' by Kabong

​KabongCaptured American Flag Displayed Upside DownWild WarthogCall it Orange County's history of not-quite-mainstream when it comes to politics, call it a release perfectly timed for the moment given Occupy Wall Street is happening, call it a mixture of anti-authoritarian impulses over the pas ... More >>

Echo Echo Offer Lions and Burning Pianos, Oh, My!

[Locals Only] How to properly light a piano on fire

U2 Traffic Advisory Care of the Anaheim PD

​Tomorrow and on Saturday, U2's sold-out 360 tour is stopping at the Angel Stadium of Anaheim, anticipated over 50,000 people each night. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and the shows will start promptly at 7 p.m. Food, beverage, and bathrooms will be available starting at 8 a.m. (no early arrivals). ... More >>

The Boxer Rebellion Have Gone the Full 12 Rounds

Nathan Nicholson and his group have weathered everything from ruptured appendixes to teenybopper fans

Last Night at the Glass House: Broken Social Scene

Jacob Khan​Broken Social Scene's set clocked in at a robust, marathon-length two-and-a-half hours. By night's end, the nugget of wisdom once uttered by TV bufoon George Costanza rang through my mind like a gong: Leave on a high note. 

TGIF: Thank God it's Friday, We Can Watch Tech N9ne

www.myspace.com/techn9ne​Tonight, Tech N9ne will be making an appearance at the Grove of Anaheim, part of his Independent Grind tour featuring E-40, Jay Rock and plenty more. 

Anberlin

House of Blues

Comic-Con Staying in San Diego

[Mental Notes] Megan Mullally performs with TSOL keyboardist, plus five Asian-American acts to watch

Paramore, Steelwells, Local Natives and Others In This Week's Links Roundup

Christopher Victorio / OC WeeklyParamore's Hayley Williams in Anaheim.​This edition in links to OC-related music writing that we didn't write...

Deciphering Kings of Leon: They're Just Like You And Me!

​Kings of Leon--also dubbed U2's successors, and "the next great arena band," are performing at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine tonight. After a 40 minutes of a round-robin press teleconference with singer/guitarist Caleb Followill and bassist Jared Followill, I realized that KoL ... More >>

U2 360° Tour Rescheduled For 2011; Dates Announced For Anaheim

Andrew Youssef/OC WeeklyBono's back is fine!​U2 announced today that all their 360° tour dates in the US, which were postponed because of Bono's emergency back surgery, have all been rescheduled for 2011. All tickets for the postponed shows will be valid at the rescheduled performances. The Anahe ... More >>

Laura De Martin of TusCA, Part Two

Kimberly Valenzuela​This week we go On The Line with Chef Laura De Martin of TusCA--a new Italian restaurant inside the Hyatt Regency in Garden Grove.If you missed Part One, you can find it here. Check back tomorrow for a recipe from the chef herself!

Will U2 Cancel Anaheim Tour Dates?

Andrew YoussefU2 at the Rose Bowl, October 25, 2009.​Speaking of cancellations, U2 just canceled their June 3 concert in Salt Lake due to Bono's emergency back surgery. Can the Anaheim dates for Sunday and Monday, June 6 and 7 be far behind?

Awsha...Ascha...Aush-WHAT? Thank God They're Now Called Pacific Hurt

​See that old chestnut of an Aushua publicity photo up there? Take a good long look, because this might be the last time we use it.The Santa Ana band, whose knack for U2-when-U2-was-good-esque hooks won them widespread acclaim and "Best Song" at the 2009 OC Music Awards for their undeniably catchy ... More >>

Today in Music News: 'Thom Yorke????,' Jay-Z with U2, 'Hope for Haiti Now,' Kate McGarrigle

Oh, so that's why the Coachella poster reads "Thom Yorke????"Coachella-headliner Jay-Z to collaborate with U2 on Swiss Beatz-produced Haiti charity track. Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, which airs Fri., 8 p.m. ET/PT, features a slew of stars playing New York, London ... More >>

Year in Review: Best of Albums and Tracks Lists Reveals Much Love for Animal Collective

Approximately 800 zillion records were released in the past 12 months, and that's just the ones issued on old-fashion CD. Like never before, definitive tallies of the year's greatest are absurd. But us music geeks still like to see what others were obsessed with--even if it's just to get a head shak ... More >>

[Locals Only] Stereofix and Their Catchy Modern Rock Head to Detroit Bar for a December Residency

What You Missed: UFC 104, Autumn Food Festival, Zombie Pub Crawl, Kid Sister

Keith MayNewport Beach Zombie Pub Crawl​Okay, so a whooooole lot of things happened this weekend. Like a lot. First up was the Zombie Pub Crawl in Newport Beach, where tons of fabulous zombies dragged themselves to Newps for the first ever undead pub crawl. Sponsored by LocalHipster.com, the all-d ... More >>

[CD Review] Howling Bells, 'Radio Wars' (Nettwerk)

Dishney: Flash Mob at Disneyland Plaza This Thursday

Paul Hiffmeyer/DisneylandFreeze frame!​In continued protest of the Iran Election, Twitter user @GreenThumbNails has organized a flash mob event for a two-minute freeze at Disneyland Plaza on Thurs., July 30 at 6:30 p.m. If you're not familiar with the flash mob phenomenon, it was recently popular ... More >>

[Locals Only] Modern Subject Keep It Up-to-Date

[Sound Guy] The Best of the Music Blog for the Week of June 15-21

Aushua, Yellow Red Sparks, Parade of Lights

Detroit Bar

Red Chinese are All Over Barack Obama's Visit to OC

White House photo by Pete SouzaBring on the Australian beer-battered Twinkies.Barack Obama's visit Wednesday to the Orange County Fairgrounds will mark his first visit to Southern California since becoming president, the first visit by a seated president to the facilities more prone to hosting gun s ... More >>

Musical Advent Calendar: Death Cab for Cutie, 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'

At this point, who hasn't covered the Phil Spector co-written classic "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"? Mariah Carey sang it on her 1994 Merry Christmas album, U2 on the 1987 Christmas compilation A Very Special Christmas. Original singer Darlene Love performs the tune every year on "The Late Sho ... More >>

[CD Review] Kanye West, '808s & Heartbreak' (Roc-A-Fella)

Amy Caterina Goes Green at Santa Ana's Grand Central Art Center

Tom Delonge of Angels & Airwaves Soars Out of Blink-182's Punk Orbit

CD Review

Kanye West, Graduation (Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)

'Free Avian!'

The Wildbirds' rugged-outdoorsmen rock is built to blast

Shins-ing the Night Away: A Sounds Eclectic Evening

[photo by Marc Goldstein] Making a classic SoCal newcomer mistake, I only gave myself 45 minutes to drive from Costa Mesa to Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, where influential public radio station KCRW was holding its sixth annual Sounds Eclectic concert; this year proceeds go to help conver ... More >>

Soul Stirrers

Soweto Gospel Choir

Cherub Rock

A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies

Choke You Out

Nightlife and more: Nov. 2 - Nov. 9

Live Review

Big Nothing: Big Japan, Big City Rock at the Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana, Sunday, June 4

Video Killed the Video Star

DVD spotlights that music-channel rarity: the music video

Black to Comm

Black Mountain, obscured by clouds

Another Great Band Bites It

Cross Pollination

Kennas color-blind new wave

Sneaky Good

The Year in Girl

Congressman Rohrabacher? Meet Jan from the Vandals!

Im a Puss

But sos Governor Gray Davis

Rage Against the Radio

Steve Soto

Holiday in Anaheim

Notes from a week at Chain Reaction