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Get Bryan Ferry to the Greek in October
Wait, I’m confused. Didn’t Roxy Music just reunite again at the start of the year for a series of dates in the U.K. and Down Under, celebrating the art-rock legends’ 40th anniversary? So how come it’s...
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Orange Pop: Ugly Paint applies a fresh coat
The members of Laguna Niguel rock band Ugly Paint never expected to be nominated, let alone actually win, any prizes at the 2011 OC Music Awards held in March at City National Grove of Anaheim. The...
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Epicenter moves to Verizon, brings Limp Bizkit, Kings of Leon’s Irvine show...
Epicenter, the annual event that bills itself as Southern California’s Rock Festival, will be back a third time. But it’s once again undergoing changes. Seems odd to think of a venture that has...
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Epicenter tries to find its footing in Orange County
In its inaugural year, Epicenter was all the rage. When the budding rock show’s almost true-good-to-be-true lineup was revealed in mid-2009 – topped by acts like Tool, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park and...
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Coming up: Blink-182, Santana, Enrique, Gomez
• Blink-182 / My Chemical Romance – To commemorate its 10th anniversary, organizers of the Honda Civic Tour turned to the band they first enlisted for their annual outing: San Diego-spawned pop-punk...
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Blink-182, My Chemical Romance rock Anaheim
During a few moments of Blink-182‘s headlining set at Anaheim’s Honda Center Saturday night, it felt a tad unbelievable to be watching the same trio that helped spearhead the punk-pop scene in the...
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Punk rock dads from Pennywise, NOFX, Rise Against featured in new documentary
For more than 20 years Jim Lindberg has been a driving force in the Southern California punk rock scene. After two decades with his long-running Hermosa Beach-based band Pennywise, Lindberg was forced...
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Social D, Blink, Incubus top Acoustic Christmas bill
KROQ has revealed the first half of its plans for the modern-rock radio giant’s 22nd annual Almost Acoustic Christmas shows, Dec. 10-11 at Gibson Amphitheatre. And as in years past, it looks like the...
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Incubus cancels Acoustic Christmas appearance
It doesn’t happen very often that a band has to bow out of a scheduled set at KROQ‘s much-anticipated Almost Acoustic Christmas shows. Spots on those bills are so coveted, even long-established acts...
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Live review: Social Distortion, Bush, 311 stand out at heavier half of Almost...
While sitting among the bustling crowd Saturday at the first sold-out night of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas at Gibson Amphitheatre, it became clear that this audience was definitely out to have a...
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