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RIVERSIDE: Larry the Cable Guy, Tech N9ne booked for downtown venues

Tech N9ne performs at the Rock the Bells Festival in Devore on Saturday, September 7, 2013. The rapper will return to the Inland region with a show at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium on June 3.(David Bauman/Staff Photographer)

The acts just keep on coming for the Fox Performing Arts Center and Riverside Municipal Auditorium, with a new batch of performers announced for the downtown Riverside venues.

The Fox will see the 30th anniversary of the Happy Together tour with Flo & Eddie of The Turtles, Mark Farner, Mitch Ryder, Gary Lewis and the Playboys and former Three Dog Night singer Chuck Negron on Wednesday, July 16 and two shows from comedian Larry the Cable Guy on Friday, Sept. 12.

Tickets for Happy Together are priced at $35.50-$65.50, before fees, and are $41-$96 for Larry the Cable Guy, before fees.

Meanwhile, the Riverside Municipal Auditorium will host rapper Tech N9ne on Tuesday, June 3, and the Beatles Vs. Stones musical tribute battle on Saturday, June 21. The Tech N9ne show is open to guests 18 and older and tickets are $23-$33, before fees. Tickets are $10-$18 for Beatles Vs. Stones, before fees.

Tickets for all of the newly announced shows will go on sale Friday, Feb. 21 at noon.

You can pick up passes for all of the shows online at www.livenation.com or at the box office of the Fox Performing Arts Center at 3801 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside.

The box office is open weekdays noon to 6 and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on show days until show time. You can also call the box office at 951-779-9800.

Also of note: the Trace Adkins show scheduled for Sunday, May 18 has been postponed. The country star had entered an alcohol treatment facility earlier this year.

The new date has not yet been determined, but refunds are available at the point of purchase for ticket holders.

Visit www.foxriversidelive.com for more information.

LAKE ELSINORE: Good Vibes on the Lake Festival makes debut

E-40 will perform at the Good Vibes on the Lake Festival in Lake Elsinore this weekend. (Contributed Image)

Lake Elsinore is getting a new music festival in town this weekend. The Good Vibes on the Lake Festival will run Saturday, Feb. 15 and Sunday, Feb. 16 and feature sets from Sean Kingston, who just played Bear Mountain last week, E-40, Tribal Seeds, Tha Dogg Pound, Fortunate Youth, New Kingston, Marlon Asher, The Expanders, Spawnbreezie, Common Sense, Mystic Roots, Irie Love, Krooked Treez, Ezzrah, Go Gettas and Iya Terra.

The first-time festival will include food and craft vendors and a children’s play area.

10 a.m. Saturday and Sunday, La Laguna Resort & Boat Launch, 32040 Riverside Drive, Lake Elsinore, $55 for a one-day pass, $75 for a two-day pass. Children 5 and younger get in for free.

If you want to purchase tickets on the day of the event, you must get them at the Lake Elsinore Outlets at 17600 Collier Ave., Suite A-107, in Lake Elsinore.

Visit www.goodvibesmusicfest.com or call 951-244-9662 for more information.

MUSIC: Babyface talks about lasting songs

Babyface will perform at Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella on Friday, Feb. 14. (Contributed Image)

I interviewed Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds a couple of weeks back for Friday’s Go + Do cover (he’s playing Spotlight 29 Casino on Friday, Feb. 14 ) and we got to talking about his back catalog.

He has worked with a staggering amount of artists from Aretha Franklin to Eric Clapton to the members of New Edition.

“It was always hard to tell whether you were writing something that was going to last forever,” he said. “The only test is that years later you listen to the radio and something comes on and whether it still feels good.”

He said some songs get better with time. I asked him to elaborate and he mentioned the songs from the 1990s he wrote for Bobby Brown and Johnny Gill

“I think the 90s music starting to feel really good now, to a lot of people. There was a positivity that was there that isn’t in a lot of things today, or over the past decade or so,” Edmonds said.

He also performs in Anaheim on Sunday, Feb. 16.

PALM SPRINGS: Doo Wop in the Desert gets modern

DJ Alf Alpha performs at Tachevah at the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photographer)

The Coachella Valley Art Scene has been putting on its annual Valentine’s themed show, Doo Wop in the Desert, for five years.

This year the event gets an even higher profile as part of Palm Springs Modernism Week and larger digs at the Hard Rock Hotel. (Goldenvoice has joined with the Coachella Valley Art Scene to put on the event, too.)

The desert’s own DJ Alf Alpha (a Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival vet), will be on the decks and The Evaros will be playing live music.

Dressing up in a poodle skirt or sporting a varsity jacket is part of the fun—the event is also a 1950s-themed costume party.

9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15, Hard Rock Hotel, 150 S. Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, $25, 18 and older only.

Visit www.thecoachellavalleyartscene.com for more information.

SAN BERNARDINO: Basscon will visit Orange Show on March 29

Electronic music fans enjoy Nocturnal Wonderland at San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore on Sept. 21, 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

For those who love electronic music, Insomniac’s Crush, set for the National Orange Show Events Center in San Bernardino on Saturday, is sold out, but the promoter will bring another event to town on Saturday, March 29.

Called Basscon, the show will feature D-Block & S-te-fan, Isaac, Darksiderz, Saymyname and a special guest. The event is dedicated to the subgenres of hard Techno, hard House, hardstyle and hard trance.

The show is open to guests 18 and older. Tickets are $40, before fees, and can be purchased at www.flavorus.com.

RIVERSIDE: Live Nation books Queen tribute, Kid Ink

Kid Ink is coming to the Riverside Municipal Auditorium in April. (Contributed Image)

Two more shows have been announced for Riverside’s downtown venues operated by Live Nation.

Up first is One Night of Queen at the Fox Performing Arts Center on March 7. The show has been a popular perennial favorite at the venue. Tickets are on sale now through Live Nation and are $16-$53, plus fees. You can pick them up at www.livenation.com or at the Fox box office for less fees.

Also, a new show has been added to the lineup of the Riverside Municipal Auditorium. Rapper Kid Ink will headline a show at the venue on April 8. Tickets, priced at $18-$28, before fees, go on sale Friday, Feb. 14 at noon at www.livenation.com. King Los and Bizzy Crook will also perform. The show is open to guests 16 years old and older.

You can pick up tickets for both shows at the box office of the Fox Performing Arts Center at 3801 Mission Inn Ave. in Riverside. The box office is open Monday through Friday noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on show days until show time. You can also call the box office at 951-779-9800.

BIG BEAR: Sean Kingston to perform free show Feb. 8

Sean Kingston will perform a free show at Bear Mountain on Saturday, Feb. 8 (FILE PHOTO)

Singer, rapper and songwriter Sean Kingston will perform a free show at Bear Mountain in Big Bear Lake on Saturday, Feb. 8.

The noon performance is part of the “Snowed In” concert from Los Angeles hip-hop radio station Power 106.

Kingston, who is Jamaican-American, has had big hits with songs such as “Beautiful Girls,” “Fire Burning” and “Take You There.”

He’s also made a name for himself with guest appearances on hits such as Natasha Bedingfield’s “Love Like This” and collaborations with Flo Rida, Baby Bash and Bun B.

Bear Mountain is located at 43101 Goldmine Drive in Big Bear Lake. Visit www.power106.com/SnowedIn for more information.

STAGECOACH 2014: AXS TV will return to festival

Dwight Yoakam performs on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. (Charlotte Bray/Freelance Photographer)

The Stagecoach Country Music Festival will be broadcast again this spring.

Sets from the country music festival, scheduled for April 25-27 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, will be aired on AXS TV.

Last year the cable network was the first to broadcast from the festival.

Eric Church, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan are the headliners for the eighth year of the popular country music festival.

AXS will broadcast more than 12 hours of coverage during the weekend.

A broadcast of the 2013 Stagecoach Festival performances will air on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. pacific, in a program called “Best of Stagecoach 2013” with clips from Dwight Yoakam, Lonestar, Phil Vassar, Jeff Bridges and the Abiders, Thompson Square, Florida Georgia Line and Darius Rucker.

Tickets are still available for the festival. A general admission three-day pass is $249 and VIP passes are $799. For tickets and more information, visit www.stagecoach.com.

RIVERSIDE: D’zyl 5K1 to hold Paid Dues rally on Friday

San Bernardino rapper Daniel “D’zyl 5k1” Fromm will perform in Riverside on Friday. (Contributed Image)

Rapper D’zyl 5K1 has designs on being the latest Inland Empire artist to make the Paid Dues Festival lineup.

To get some support, he’s having a rally tonight at The Vibe in Riverside.

He will perform with a lineup that features some of the other most promising talents in the area, including A. Cain, Besatree and K-Serious, Calligraphy, StoneXSober, Kast One, Yung Miss, Royal Gambling Club, Johnny V and GQ.

There’s also an open mic portion, from 9 to 10 p.m.

Paid Dues, an independent hip-hop festival put on by Murs and Guerilla Union, has had some of the biggest artists in the game play on its stages and has featured local artists over the years, including Noa James, Curtiss King and Stevie Crooks.

D’zyl 5K1’s set will include some new music, too.

9 p.m. today, Feb. 7, The Vibe, 1805 University Ave., Riverside, $6, 18 and older only.

Visit www.facebook.com/dzyl5001music for more information.

TEMECULA: James King Band will headline bluegrass festival

The James King Band will headline the Old Town Temecula Bluegrass Festival. (Contributed Image)

The Old Town Temecula Bluegrass festival will celebrate its 14th year in March with Grammy-nominated headliner the James King Band.

The festival, set for March 15 and 16, will feature performances from Bluegrass Etc., Silverado Bluegrass, Next Generation, 3rd Street Bluegrass, Salty Suites, Old Town Road Bluegrass, Bluegrass Brethren, The Wimberleys, Sligo Rags, Old Haywire and the Jamie Olsen Band.

Concerts are free during the day Saturday, March 15, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, March 16 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The James King Band, Bluegrass Etc. and Silverado concert is at 7 pp.m. March 15 at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater stage. Tickets are $20 and are available at www.temeculatheater.org.