Ulrich Schnauss, Detroit Bar, October 7, 2007

Ulrich Schnauss, pimping his Ride. Based on the disappointing Goodbye album, I had little hope that German laptop/shoegaze practitioner Ulrich Schnauss' live show would impress me. So I'm happy to report that Uli far exceeded my expectations. Performing solo in front of scintillating nature footage and vividly piquant abstract and figurative imagery, Schnauss generated a …

A Critique of a Critique Criticizing My Bishop Brown Critique

Google is great, really: a couple of random searches, and voila! You have a media critique. At least that's how Dave Pierre, author of The Media Report and a contributor to NewsBusters, operates with my recent LA Times opinion piece bashing Catholic Diocese of Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown. Under the headline, “Facts, Fairness Out …

Radiohead to Release New Album, Shift Paradigm (Possibly)

Radiohead drink to a (potentially) new record-industry paradigm. As everyone with an Internet connection knows by now, Radiohead will release the follow-up to 2003's Hail to the Thief, titled In Rainbows, on Oct. 10. In a crushing blow for music journalists everywhere, no advances will be supplied; we wretched scribes will have to wait until …

Miss Surf City Sunday

Inked-up dames and the fellas who love 'em headed out to the first annual Miss Surf City Tattooed Lady contest at the Surf City Saloon in Huntington Beach on Sunday. The strip mall block party included Saloon neighbors 13 Bones, One Stop Smoke Shop, Hair International Salon, and Sick Dogs Tattoo. By the time the …

Stupidest Accusation of Plagiarism Ever

We here at the OC Weekly have been accused of many things over the years: libel, slander (whenever one of us appear on radio), lies, Commie-sympathizing, Reconquista cheerleading, selling ours souls to New Times, and—most memorably—”Satan instrument,”what Congressman Robert K. Dornan called the Weekly's R. Scott Moxley on television. But in my five years at …