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By: Richard Johnson
[Editor's Note: This is the second in a two part series about Richard Johnson's visit to Banksy's Dismaland exhibit in England. Read the first part here.]
After a day spent wandering around Dismaland, the inspiration for the exh...
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Glass Animals's has an electronic infused sound with a similar threading to that of Chet Faker, Purity Ring, and CHVRCHES. Their skillful mastery of beats has the capacity of making even the most blas? of folks feel like they're walking on gummy bear...
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Ready for camp: Dirtybird's J. Phlip, left, Kill Frenzy, Justin Jay, Justin Martin and Claude VonStroke
What if EDM festivals were a lot more like summer camp?
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, West Coast house label Dirtybird has teamed ...
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Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas stays as curious a musical curator as when she first began two decades ago. The prolific musician with quirky eyebrows and an accordion slung over her shoulder returns to audiences with Algo Sucede, her seven...
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Let the bemusement
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By: Richard Johnson
[Editor's note: As a paper that prides itself on mocking Disney at every turn, it's inevitable that the Weekly landed on Dismaland's doorstep before it closes for good on September 27. After a month o...
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Lockout Music Studios owner Dave Leon is expanding their empire in DTSA.
If you've been making music for the last few years in Santa Ana or San Pedro, you've probably at least heard of Lockout Music Studios. The buildings full of rehearsal spaces/...
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MELTED and The Originalites
Delhi Center
9/20/15
Music and politics have always made strange bedfellows. A song can often function as a political tool via its reflection of social and political events. However, when it is used as a symbol for an ideo...
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Despite coming from separate corners of the music business, D.O'B. Sound Studios owner and veteran drummer/producer Derek O'Brien and DC-Jam Records owner Darron Hemann knew they wanted to collaborate on something bigger than their respective individ...
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Funny you should mention that. Here are the funniest Tweets about this year's Emmy Awards.
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By: Lina Lecaro
Hollywood Vampire
The Roxy
9/17/2015
The Sunset Strip has seen its share of mind-blowing super group jams over the years: Camp Freddy's rocker-packed holiday hoe-downs helmed by Dave Navarro, the Viper Room's Neurotic Outsiders meldi...
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This was pretty much the scene for most of Ink-N-Iron Nashville
Just a few months after leaving Long Beach for Nashville, it looks like Ink-N-Iron's ship has sunk. We read the reviews from the new location at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park b...
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metal's biggest bands like Machine Head, Sepultura, Pantera, and Lamb of God, Armed For Apocalypse, spews forth a very groove laden, tribal sound that is heavy and full of angst and brutality, while splicing in the slower, doomy head banging breaks...
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Quotation via complex.com.
It's a big year for rapper Big Sean. He and Drake lead this year's BET Hip-Hop Award nominations, with 10 and 12 nominations respectively.
He's also vying for Lyricist of the Year, MVP of the Year, Album of the Year, B...
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Billy Bob Thornton is the first person to tell you that some people don't know what to expect when they come to see him perform with his band, The Boxmasters. "About three songs in," he explained to his middle-aged crowd, "about seven or eight people...
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Outpost Festival, a one-day street fest headlined by local big timers Cold War Kids is slated for November 14 in Downtown Santa Ana. The inaugural event, with a lineup curated by fellow performers Delta Spirit, includes Blonde Redhead, Beach Fossils,...
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You already know this guy's got some great drinking songs.
There's a fine line between "drinking songs" and "songs about drinking." The first is the type of song that makes you want to drink more, while the second is simply someone telling you ab...
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Dick Dale
By: Jonny Whiteside
Dick Dale is a rock & roll colossus. Inarguably one of the most significant and influential electric guitarists of the 20th century, Dale is a force whose broad-shouldered shadow falls across rock & roll as far and wi...
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The 21st century hasn't been kind to lounge acts. The glory days of natty strangers sipping cocktails in velvet-and-smoke-filled rooms are long gone, replaced by patios packed with Pabst drinkers and e-cig puffers.
One local band, however, won't let...
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Punk-rock goddess Angela Adams-LaBounty is sitting in a Huntington Beach Starbucks and reminiscing about violence, teen angst and sweat-drenched bodies flying through the air at Costa Mesa's legendary the Cuckoo's Nest. The 49-year-old hairdresser's ...
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Greg Friedman in the studio at KX-FM 93.5
The studio at KX-FM 93.5 in Laguna Beach is abuzz on a recent Sunday evening even before the "on-air" light switches on. The host of the eponymous Inner Journey With Greg Friedman hurriedly checks in with ...