This marks the 15th year of the Pacific Playwrights Project, an effort launched in the late 20th Century by South Coast Repertory to try to help playwrights get more productions of their plays whi... »
Nine years ago, I was in this wannabe new-wave band based in Santa Ana. Back then, our big goal in life was to get featured in OC Weekly. The band imploded, as bands are wont to do, way before w... »
With her sultry vocals, Nilu Madadi garnered attention when she released a video earlier this year for the free, downloadable single "Sing For You." The lyrics and arrangement struck a chord with... »
Dillon Francis The Observatory, Santa Ana April 14, 2012 LA-based producer Dillon Francis visited the Observatory last Saturday, playing to a crowd largely made up of white trash and Asian rav... »
We're giving away a pair of tickets to see Italian metal goth band Lacuna Coil at the House of Blues Anaheim on Sunday, and five pairs of tickets for the Christian punk/hardcore extravaganza tha... »
The Devious Means celebrated the release of their EP, Songs We Are All Singing, on Friday at the House of Blues Anaheim. The Silent Comedy, Midnight Hour, Robert Jon and the Wreck and Moonsv... »
The Devious Means' album release show tonight at the House of Blues Anaheim has been garnering a buzz for several weeks now, and is even projected to sell out. They've been in the studio since l... »
This week we're giving away five pairs of tickets for Asian-American boy band Aziatix at the Glass House on Friday, three pairs of tickets to Hawaiian reggae star Sashamon at the Coach House on... »
In what's sure to be one of the biggest rock spectacles of the summer, Kiss and Motley Crue announced that they'll be hitting up over 40 cities on their No Fake Bullshit Tour. If you didn't know... »
Some folks attend South by Southwest to look at bands, but a good many passing through the 2012 edition seem to enjoy the added benefits of being looked at, as well. Even without haute couture,... »
As many have you have likely heard in the past few days, South-by-Southwest, better known in the written form as SxSw, has descended onto Austin for its 25th rendition. What exactly is Sx... »
Remember that Naked and Famous show that got moved from March 19 to March 20 at the Observatory? The Santa Ana venue got bumped off because the New Zealand electro rockers are playing their song... »
Ceremony (with Joyce Manor, Rank/Xerox, Skin Like Iron, and Cold World) Chain Reaction March 9, 2012 Unlike venues like The Glass House where crowd surfers take an Icarus-like flight to the gu... »
Children of the '80s unite! British hard rockers Def Leppard announced that they'll be hitting the road along with Poison and Lita Ford this summer, including a June 22 date at Irvine's Verizon W... »
Why is Rakenrol so cool? The Philippine movie, screening today at 5 p.m. at UC Irvine, doesn't have a groundbreaking plot: it's the story of an indie band trying to make it big, where the mem... »
