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Zach Mabry, Joel Jasper, J.P. Bendzinski and Casey Terrazas
In case the name hasn't tipped you off, Porch Party Records was named after a house with a porch. From 2008 to the summer of 2014, the guys behind Long Beach's infamous indie label lived ...
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Ben Wevers of The Ben Wevers Trio, Maureen O'Sullivan Jazz Group, and OC Swing Band.
With all the hub-bub surrounding the SCOTUS ruling, what better time than now for Orange County to learn about some LGBTQ artists in our community? Contrary to t...
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It takes bravery, skill, endurance, and the right mindset to represent for our country and oddly enough, the same could be said for comedy. Well, maybe if your name is PJ Walsh. This U.S. Navy veteran and stand-up comic houses all of those qualities ...
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Stick to Your Guns--See Thursday
Don't forget to check out our constantly updated OC Concert Calendar
Monday, July 6
The Appleseed Cast
The Constellation Room
Formally-local-now-Kansas-based band The Appleseed Cast seemed to always choose the bu...
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Grouplove's creative journey to success is how we imagine Andy Warhol's Silver era in present times: 'The Factory' was an artists' colony in Greece, where band members met by happenstance during a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Fast forward past a seemingl...
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Don't forget to check out our constantly updated OC Concert Calendar
Friday, July 3
John Butler Trio
The Observatory
John Butler, the driving force behind Australia's John Butler Trio, is a musician of eclectic tastes. He prefers to play his collec...
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Nelly Tells Us What It Must Be
This Saturday, while The Fourth of July marks our nation's proud birthday, it sadly also commemorates nine years since the treasured block of programming BET UnCut went off the air. From 2001-2006, the 3:00 AM ET bro...
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John Butler, the driving force behind Australia's John Butler Trio, is a musician of eclectic tastes.
He prefers to play his collection of twelve string guitars without the high-G, pulls electric sounds out of acoustic instruments, and embraces sty...
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Boom Bap, Original Rap
While underground hip-hop fans around the country have spent much of 2015 celebrating the 20th anniversary of innovative indieground rap label Rhymesayers Entertainment, this year marks a few ten year anniversaries as well. ...
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True!
This Saturday is the day we here in America observe our nation's independence. The wonderful freedoms we have include our opportunity to sell our albums out of the trunk of our automobiles and ride that wave of success into creating a multim...
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Inspired by grunge, rock gods, and powerful post-punk, Long Beach band Spare Parts for Broken Hearts have thrived on a dark, melodic sound since forming in a Downtown LA rehearsal space in 2010. Fusing heavy rock with a side of power-pop, the trio's ...
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Bootsy, Baby!
Are you ready for some surefire funk before the 4th? This Thursday, DJ Quik and Bootsy Collins play The Observatory in Santa Ana. That's right, the self-professed "Godzilla-toned high minister of the all-powerful 'one'" and the "Way ...
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The Julie Ruin
While women dominate the charts, especially in terms of pop music, festival bills are still dominated by men. The gender gap isn't happening because there aren't enough female-fronted acts -- it's happening because rock & roll is st...
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Since they first met as sophomores in high school deep in the San Fernando Valley, Jose Varela and Ashley Stuart were interested in playing music. Though their interest and participation in the local punk rock scene initially led them to become part ...
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Alice Cooper in Wayne's World
It's nothing new for actors to want to be musicians and musicians to want to be actors. Unfortunately, few do both well (Donald Glover/Childish Gambino is one of the rare exceptions).
Thankfully, rock stars and rappe...
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Vibe Street proved that "grass-hop" is way better than it sounds. s
Since its founding in 2008, Electric Forest has split the difference between jam bands and EDM. On Friday night Skrillex, playing a guitar, joined String Cheese for a medley of Do...
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Talkin' mad shit, yo!
It looks like the relationship between Punk Rock Picnic promoters Steve Smith and Rick Bottrell is over. And they've gone out of their way to make it Facebook official. Though last weekend's sour ending to their Punk Rock Pic...
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The Meatmen
From the moment the Punk Rock Picnic opened its gates, the homegrown festival was faced with a Herculean task--it needed to be perfect. By punk metrics, that basically means open on time, have all the bands get to the stage when they'...
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DanceSafe is at Electric Forest to help people stay informed about their drug use, but they aren't allowed to sell testing kits
We all know kids die at raves. It happens all the time, including most recently at EDC last weekend in Las Vegas.
That...
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Kendrick Lamar kicked the party off "Alrite."
Last year's host of the BET Awards was Chris Rock and we can only imagine attempting to follow him would be pretty rough. Nevertheless, this year's hosts Tracey Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson really ...