The OC Music Awards are still a ways away--April 4 at the Grove of Anaheim--but tonight is the start of the weekly Tuesday night OC Music Awards Showcases at Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa. Much better than watching a House reopeat (spoiler: House figures out the mystery illness towards the end of the episode).Tonight they've got folk singer Will Crum at 9, Melanoid at 9:45, Michael Rosas at 10:30 and Ryan Baxley--pictured!--at 11:15. Future weeks will include OC Weekly-approved acts like The Sweet
Last month, OC folk rocker Will Crum performed an impromptu/flash mob show at a Costa Mesa Wendy's, and he was up to his antics again on Sunday, with a similar show at the Ikea in CM.Except while the Wendy's gig was relatively well received, his foray into affordably priced, Swedish-manufactured furniture did not go over so well, with the singer and his crew being shooed out by security not hip to their offbeat shenanigans. They actually performed on the upstairs showroom inside one of the fake
In "Hive and Seek" Gustavo Arellano discusses saving Orange County's bees--and possibly breaking the odd city code and state law in the process--with the Backyard Beekeepers.And R. Scott Moxley takes a look at what OC's Board of Supervisors has been doing with its loose change for the past few months in "Times are Tight."
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The Weekly's standing columns, ¡Ask a Mexican!, Hey, You! and Savage Love.Restaurant reviews of Royal Kitchen carne and Flor Blanca #2.Culture
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A lot of people are packing up and headed to Austin, Texas as we speak, but none of us here at OC Weekly are among then. I know, sad, right? I've never even been to Texas. I'm not even sure it exists.
We've got something a little different for you this week on Release the Sounds. This time around, it looks like all the noise is coming from our own backyard. Recently, Costa Mesa singer/song writer/guerilla showman Will Crum unveiled the relaxed echo of his latest single "Lil RNR". This exclusive track is so new that not even the true fans have heard it yet. Yeah, that's right, not even you. Sporting a hazy mix of shoe gaze and beach music, the single, which clocks in at a cool two
