Subject: Vancouver

• "Death" takes to DVD

  One (or two, depending on how you look at it) of the highlights of the past Newport Beach Film Festival was the Death Note movies, the latest in a powerhouse franchise from Japan that began with comics, then spawned an anime series and many toys, and finally these live-action adaptations. Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name are really more like one big story cut in a half than a story with a sequel; fans of the anime have been hard of them, but I wrote at the time that "for all the twists a

  September 18, 2007

• A Bloggy Valentine: 20 Songs About Love

  By Jeff Shaw at our sister paper, Citypages. Love is a many-splendored thing and all, but it's also dependent upon a relationship's context -- and so is the associated music. You don't want Al Green's "Let's Get Married" to stream through the car speakers during your third date, you don't want your intended to think you stopped listening to new records after "I Love You Just The Way You Are" was released. . .aaaand you don't want "You Oughtta Know" to come on, well, ever. Swapping out these em

  February 14, 2008

• Radiohead's N. American Tour Dates Announced

  Closest the British mope-rock kings come to OC is a two-date run at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 24 and 25. Pre-sale tix are available April 9 and general on-sale April 12. Grizzly Bear support Aug. 3-15, Liars Aug. 19-28. Radiohead have good taste. August 1 - Lollapalooza - Chicago, IL August 3 - Verizon Wireless Music Center - Indianapolis, IN August 4 - Blossom Music Center - Cleveland, OH August 6 - Parc Jean Drapeau - Montreal, QC August 8 - All Points West Music & Arts Festival/Liberty State Pa

  April 7, 2008

• Yes to Complexly Rock Honda Center Aug. 20

  Set aside your negative bias toward Yes—and while you're at it, lose your knee-jerk hatred of prog rock. Yes fuckin' rock—albeit in a long-winded, redonkulously complex manner. And Chris Squire's bass playing? Completely slaughters Les Claypool's. Ask Squarepusher. He'll vouch for me. As those SoCal badboys the Mars Volta know, prog rock can be damned exhilarating, when done with just the right amount of excess, killer chops, trippy album artwork and a keenly rococo melodic sense—all of

  April 10, 2008

• Last Night: International Pop Overthrow @ Fitzgerald’s

  International Pop Overthrow Festival at Fitzgerald’s on July 26 Better Than: Bingo night at the old folks home It’s hard to imagine that in a constant media barrage of the Avril Levines, Jonas Bothers, and Simple Plan’s of the world, the pop rock genre has anything to offer besides an endless supply of fresh faced, power chord pumping puppets long on looks and short on talent. That is, until you take pop out of the bright lights of the arena and into the dark, cramped quarters of the loc

  July 27, 2008

• FANatic

  February 3, 2000

• Incoming: No Doubt Returns to Orange County! Eventually.

  Full tour dates have finally been announced for archetypal OC success stories No Doubt's tour with Paramore--we've known for a while that they were going on tour at some point and the first date would be May 3 at the Bamboozle Festival in NJ, but now we've got the whole sched, and the three month-ish tour will close out with two dates at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine--where they had a mini-reunion during the encore of one of Gwen Stefani's solo shows back in June 2007--on July 31 a

  February 25, 2009

• Ron Reyes lives!!!!!!!!

  Ron Reyes -- also known as Chavo Pederast, also known as the right answer to the question "who's the best Black Flag singer?" -- has seemingly been living under a rock since bailing on the South Bay punk band more than two decades ago. Rumors swirled that Reyes moved to Vancouver, Canada, and had found God. And now, thanks to myspace.com, those rumors can be confirmed.I don't make a habit of posting links to people's myspace pages, but this is something totally different. Reyes was -- and still

  March 18, 2009

• Warped Tour to Launch in Pomona This Year, Lineup Announced

  For the third straight year, the Vans Warped Tour--46 dates in 2009-will be kicking off at the Pomona Fairplex, this time on June 26. Pre-sales for tickets start April 1 (not a prank), with the "regular" on-sale date being April 18. They've also announced the list of bands performing, though we don't yet know who's performing at what date yet. Names include: Newport Beach's Saosin (pictured), Huntington Beach's The Dirty Heads, Fullerton punk vets D.I. and Thrice, from Irvine, natch. And if you'

  March 25, 2009

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  Sorry for the light posting this week, folks; been busy exposing anti-Semites over at Navel Gazing...This week's entry is actually from last week but is now just percolating up to the mainstream media instead of merely existing with the Daily Rottens of the world. From the state of Washington:A family's plans for a $15 dinner at Taco Bell turned into a meal costing hundreds of dollars because the restaurant overcharged them, a Vancouver man said Thursday.Alan Merrill used his debit card to buy d

  March 26, 2009

• Fee Waybill and the Tubes Have Survived More Than Three Decades of Rock. Somehow

  January 1, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] The Great Brown South Meets the Great White North

  November 6, 2008

• [Pucker Up] Why Is Sex With Someone You Don't Know Such a Powerful Fantasy for So Many?

  June 5, 2008

• Tegan and Sara's Subtly Subversive, Tart Pop Comes to the Glass House

  April 17, 2008

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

  April 17, 2008

• Hits!

  Radiation Records
  

  October 4, 2007

• CD Review

  Cave Singers, Invitation Songs (Matador)

  September 20, 2007

• A Phoenix From the Ashes

  Pretty Girls Make Graves

  May 31, 2007

• More Festival Reviews . . .

  What's playing at the Newport Beach Film Fest

  April 19, 2007

• New Reviews

  Code Name: The Cleaner; Freedom Writers; Happily N'Ever After; Thr3e

  January 4, 2007

• New Reviews

  November 23, 2006

• Strange Days Indeed

  September 21, 2006

• Hey There, Cupcake!

  August 17, 2006

• Clean and Sober

  May 18, 2006

• New Reviews

  February 23, 2006

• New Film Reviews

  December 15, 2005

• Take Out Venezuela!

  On a date!

  September 1, 2005

• Black to Comm

  August 18, 2005

• Inter-Arena Porn!

  June 23, 2005

• The Inmates are Running the Asylum

  November 25, 2004

• Angels, Osmonds & Bosoms!

  August 5, 2004

• Rest In Peace, Ray

  April 29, 2004

• It's a New Day, Caulifornia

  October 23, 2003

• Scorecard

  June 19, 2003

• DOA Lives!

  November 21, 2002

• Undeserved Self-Abuse!

  July 11, 2002

• A Very PhilDickian Existence

  July 4, 2002

• Revenge of the Archies!

  August 3, 2000

• Sex, Smoke and Shyness

  February 17, 2000

• Once in a Lifetime

  September 16, 1999

• No Go Emo

  June 3, 1999

• Crossing Guard

  March 4, 1999

• Letters

  September 3, 1998

• Incoming: Sunny Day Real Estate

  If you call yourself emo and don't know Sunny Day Real Estate, then it's time to learn your history. The foursome -- singer/guitarist Jeremy Enigk, guitarist Dan Hoerner, bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith -- helped create the template for dudes with loud guitars to play music that shunned anger and welcomed sadness.The orginial quartet broke up in 1998, but Enigk, Hoerner and Goldsmith reunited a few times with a couple of different bassists once Mendel joined this little group c

  June 23, 2009

• [Sound Guy] SJC's the Union Line Have Gotten a Lot Done in a Little Time

  June 11, 2009

• Electro-hop Duo LMFAO Prepare for an Arena Show in Anaheim, Bitch

  August 6, 2009

• Wax On, Wax Off: Andrew Atkinson and Nolan Hall of Japanese Motors Talk About Recent Tour With the Horrors

  by Patrice JacksonFollowing their recent, rocking West Coast tour with The Horrors, local surfers Andrew Atkinson and Nolan Hall of Japanese Motors agreed to share with Wax On, Wax Off a bit about their trip. They just got back yesterday, and answered a few questions about their travels and their upcoming album. OC Weekly: Let's just start with the obvious. What was the highlight of the trip? Nolan Hall: Probably Seattle. Actually, no. The highlight for me was I bought an American Jaguar i

  October 9, 2009

• Japanese Motors to Tour West Coast with the Horrors

  ​Costa Mesa's Japanese Motors are one of Orange County's most promising current bands, having toured all over the place with Modest Mouse and landed a spot on the Vice Records roster. UK garage act the Horrors have had one of the best 2009s of anyone, with their sophomore album Primary Colours ending up a finalist for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. So it seems inevitable that they'd find one another and be successful together, right?So in news that very well might be the hand of fate at

  September 18, 2009

• Lady Gaga Announces Tour, Skips Orange County

  ​OK, so we all know by now that the Kanye West/Lady Gaga show at the Honda Center, once scheduled for November 15, isn't happening. Heck, the whole "Fame Kills" tour isn't happening. But even though Kanye is dealing with his own post-Taylor Swift issues, the hope still remained that the seemingly more stable Lady Gaga (insert your own "you know you're in trouble when Lady Gaga is the sane one" jokes here) would announce her own tour, and hit us up solo-style. Well, half of that came true.As re

  October 16, 2009

• Got a Black Flag Tattoo?

  ​If the answer to that question is yes, then do you want to be in a book? Because if you do, you can. According to a Myspace bulletin posted by former Black Flag singer Ron Reyes, a book of people with the Black Flag bars is in the works. Here's what Reyes typed:"so I got a friend on Myspace who is working on a book called Barred For Life it chronicles in words and pictures the commitment of a ton of Black Flag fans who have been "barred for life" by a Black Flag logo (4 bars) tattoo. His team

  October 19, 2009