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Battles, The Troubadour, June 30, 2007 Better Than: Any other show happening in Southern California on this night. “That is the future of music,” freelance photographer Choncey Langford declared after Battles’ performance Saturday night. It’s a hard statement to refute, so I’m not going to try—mainly because I agree with it. If you read my …
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At 6:45 a.m., I'm awakened in my bed at the Little Saigon Inn by a worrisome text message from a man who's already told me enough disturbing tales to keep me in nightmares for weeks. “I'm on my way to the gym. The Mercedes is still parked outside. I should make him some coffee, perhaps. The …
Busy Work, a Wednesday night weekly held at Costa Mesa's Detroit Bar, debuted last night with Steve Aoki's Cinespace DJ crew from LA, ModRocket, Japanese Motors and headliner Har Mar Superstar. It was a strange beginning to a new event: the venue was sparsely populated till 11, then a massive influx of hipsters arrived, schmoozed, …
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Last night was the opening of Lalita, a new Monday club at Fury, and Leslie (Le Receptionist) came along with me to provide her brilliant photography skills. This was my first time going to Fury, and weekday night clubs are always questionable in terms of awesomeness. Sometimes they absolutely go off, like Call Sick, and …
State Senator Dick Ackerman is as conservative as they come, and must no doubt be thrilled that ICE raids in OC are now as common as sunny days. But his thinking on a proposal by Los Angeles-area State Senator Gil Cedillo to require that California schools teach kiddies about the illegal roundups of Mexican-Americans during …
The Parson Red Heads photo by Zach Schrock The three bands on this bill proved that rock can be uplifting without being corny—which was an inspirational lesson on a Sunday night in a mostly empty house. Detroit Bar's desolation was a shame and maybe to be expected, as the lineup seemed to be cobbled together …
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It's tough being a non-pro photographer at a major concert. The folks from the AP and Panic Channel are a clannish bunch, united by their über-long lenses and jargon-heavy trade talk. Standing there with your starter digital SLR can feel like dropping your pants at the men's room – and having the shortest stack. It …
The Police June 21, 2007 Honda Center, Anaheim Better Than: Sting solo. Sting and Stewart Copeland have aged as well as most of the Police’s back catalog; Andy Summers, not so much (he looked like a marathoner in his 25th mile by the third song). To my mild surprise, the trio, who have owned a …
In the dim studio of a small gym in an alley off Pacific Coast Highway in Newport Beach, the women in Edith Aboul-Hosn's exotic-dance class cheer one another on. One woman climbs the polished pole jutting out of a small stage in the middle of the studio floor and swings one, then both legs around it …
Clutching their fishing rods like spears, a group of 60 weekend warriors push and nudge their way onto the fishing vessel Freelance in Newport Harbor. At sunset, the boat shoves off. Miles down the coastline, their quarry swarms and bullies its way through the water: thousands of the tentacled beasts known as Humboldt squid. The Humboldt …
Karizma breaks it down for y'all. If you don't agree with at least 90 percent of what he's saying, you're just frontin'. Hat tip to my Seattle homie J-Justice.
What: The Death Dance Tour When: Saturday June 16 Where: The Glass House, Pomona Maybe this should be called the Scions of Anticon Tour (although Alias still records for the Oakland underground-hip-hop label). He and anticon alumni Buck 65 and Sage Francis are now seasoned vets of the stage and they commandeer it with ruthless …