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Evan Stone (center) and the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band
Look at the photo above. What do you see? Go on, stare (if you need a larger version, click here). If you can gaze at it for at least five seconds and make any kind of judgement about it, t...
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It's been a pretty hot summer, and it doesn't look like it will be cooling down anytime soon. However, since neither whining nor becoming actively green are going to change the climate by this weekend, one might as well celebrate the heat in style by...
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Dino Cazares (left) and Burton C. Bell (right) of Fear Factory
For just about a quarter of a century, LA based sci-fi extreme metal band Fear Factory have been producing a mechanical, industrial meets metal sound that has blended the harsh, aggres...
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Art Laboe honing the mic for KDAY!
All of Los Angeles County will be riding low with Art Laboe today! The legendary radio host is being honored with an 'Art Laboe Day' proclamation by Mike Antonovich and the County Board of Supervisors. The festiv...
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Jeff Chon
It's hard to believe that just over a year ago we were wondering if The Wayfarer was ever going to be able to fill the shoes of its beloved predecessor, Detroit Bar. Or worse, were they going to do away with the old pair of shoes altoget...
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The queen of rock feuds.
As entertaining as members of the same band fighting amongst themselves can be, feuds between bands can be even better. Rather than seeming like a cheap dose of reality television, fights between bands can escalate into fu...
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Mariachi Las Colibri
UC Irvine
Mariachi group Las Colibri are an anomaly in the mariachi music world, for not only are they an all-female mariachi group, but they...
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Rush has announced that their 2015 tour is likely to be their last, and if their desire is to go out with a bang, then they're doing it. In honor of their stop at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre [thank the gods -- the name has been reverted back from Ver...
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Ice Cube may have leaked the release date of Dr. Dre's new album, the soundtrack to Straight Outta Compton, during an interview with a Philly radio station on Wednesday.
"Dre is dropping an inspired album, inspired by Compton. He's dropping someth...
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They're '90s punk royalty, but they're 2015 dad-rock.
The Offspring
Pacific Amphitheatre
7/30/15
It's hard to argue against the importance of the Offspring in shaping the punk scene of the 1990s, but it's been over two decades since Smash came ...
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Some people talk under their breath and they're considered assholes. And then there are a few people that can talk under their breath in a funny way and those peeps are considered, hilarious. See also: Mitch Fatel. This New York comedian has the sexy...
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Calling his project Against The Current, the MC is in the process of releasing five distinct EPs that will culminate in a coffee table-styled art book and music box-set to be unveiled later this year. Fans unfamiliar with 2na's solo material may be s...
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Vanessa Gaston of Hypocritical Gender
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Just after midnight on July 31, the heat of a packed house in OC's best jazz club will have left the room for good. The chairs will be stacked atop the tables, the soundboard turned off, iron patio furniture locked up, and the stage lights lowered on...
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Chris Gronowski, one of Programme's owners
At the end of a Fullerton shopping center, next to DiceHouse Games, a tabletop gaming store that hosts role-playing nights and Magic: The Gathering tournaments, sits a relatively unassuming skate shop. Pr...
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I can't make any promises about the sticky fingers.
Bad ass babe Nadia G is somewhat of a super woman due to the many avenues she occupies while wearing heels to die for. Some of the powers she's mastered include putting it down in the kitchen, r...
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Fully Fullwood, OC's Jamaican reggae godfather
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Don the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach is stuffy--even worse than outside, where historic summer rains are turning Orange County into one giant ...
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In the last 50 years, the way that we consume food has drastically changed. Take Buffalo Wild Wing's for example, you're offered an iPad to play games as you walk in the door. Sports stream throughout plasma's just about everywhere you look and conte...
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Trey Anastasio of Phish (file photo)
Phish
The Forum
7/25/15
Phish made its return to The Forum in Inglewood Saturday night, their second show there in the span of nine months, a one-off evening in a string of two dozen concerts starting in the Pa...
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The great thing about seeing local bands perform at a local venue (apart from the likelihood that the concert will be free) is that you really get to weigh the band by its musical and performance merits instead of by its popularity or any major buzz ...