On Sunday March 4, while watching the Academy Awards with a glass of whiskey, Russ Solomon–the founding father of Tower Records–had a massive heart attack and died at home at age 92. It was another historic day when the music died again for many of us Tower Records employees and fans of Solomon. I never met …
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Tiki Makeke Market @ Don the Beachcomber
OC Weekly‘s Fresh Toast Brunch Party @ Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach
Burger-A-Go-Go 2018 @ Alex’s Bar: Coathangers, Dengue Fever, Flytraps & More
Black Label Society & Corrosion of Conformity @ The Fonda
Since forming the seminal heavy metal band, Anthrax in New York in the early ’80s, guitarist Scott Ian has been a vocal presence and ambassador for thrash metal going on 35 years. Ian not only formed a band that would contribute to the bible of thrash metal, but managed to keep Anthrax alive, despite turbulent times …
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As entertaining as reality is, particularly during this last year, opportunities to step into another world can be quite appealing. For some people, venturing into an altered reality provides not only an escape but also a catharsis from their daylit lives. Over the past several years, there have been several nocturnal costume balls that have …
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Viva Los Tacos @ The Main Place Mall
Dimebash 2018 The Observatory 1/25/2018 December 8, 2004. A date that rocked the metal community to its very core, whose tremors are still felt thirteen years later. A day that will forever exist in infamy, known simply as the night metal’s ultimate bro was violently stripped from our ears and yanked from our hearts. Darrell …
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From Donald Trump‘s inauguration to the dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency to devastating massacres and the new tax-bill scam, 2017 has been a loaded cannon of swine feces. Honestly, how often have you approached a new year feeling as if the previous one were a psychotic relationship you’d do anything to wash your hands …
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