DIGITAL JOURNALIST
Randy Strohmeyer, of Finch. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Temecula’s recently re-formed Finch will be doing a live chat with fans at punk music website www.absolutepunk.net on Thursday, Feb. 21.
The chat will take place at 7 p.m. PST/10 p.m. EST.
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Nate Barcalow will perform with his new band, Reverend Crow, at Bratts in Temecula on Saturday, Feb. 23. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Bratts in Temecula has is celebrating local music on Saturday, Feb. 23.
The lineup this weekend includes The Infamous They, Reverend Crow, Lyrically Twisted, Illnoise, Project X, Last Anniversary and Yeggi Watts.
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Mumford & Sons performs at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. (2011/ File Photo)
Bonnaroo just announced its lineup, with Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and Mumford and Sons headlining the June festival in Tennessee.
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Uli Jon Roth plays M15 this weekend. (Contributed Image)
Celebrated guitarist Uli Jon Roth is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Scorpions with a show at M15 in Corona on Saturday, Feb. 23.
Roth, who became famous with his work with the band in the mid-‘70s, is performing an all Scorpions set.
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Jenni Rivera performs at San Manuel Casino in Highland on March 10, 2011. (File Photo)
The memoir of Jenni Rivera, the grupero diva who formerly lived in Norco and was killed in a plane crash in December, will be published this summer, according to the Associated Press.
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David Guetta, shown here at Coachella 2012, will perform at Beyond Wonderland in Devore on March 16. (2012/File Photo)
After getting approval from the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors to host electronic dance music events at San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore a few weeks back, the first EDM event will be Beyond Wonderland on Saturday, March 16.
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Pixels Bar in Riverside will be the home of an acoustic night on Sundays. (2010/File Photo)
Two established musicians from Riverside are putting together a weekly night of acoustic music in their hometown of Riverside.
Jerry O’Neill, who was the longtime drummer for Voodoo Glow Skulls (and who has been doing some of his own acoustic material lately) and Terry Corso, from Alien Ant Farm, will hold the Bar Brigade acoustic night every Sunday at Pixels Bar in Riverside.
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Country singer Mindy McCready died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013. (AP Photo)
Country singer Mindy McCready was found dead in her Arkansas home on Sunday, Feb. 17. She was 37 years old.
She played in the Inland Region in 1997, opening up for Tim McGraw, a year after releasing her multi-platinum debut, “Ten Thousand Angels.”
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Want to rent a DVD? Why not pick up some concert tickets, too?
The Glass House in Pomona is teaming up with DVD rental company Redbox.
You will be able to purchase tickets to Glass House shows at the kiosk and you will have cheaper service fees.
Tickets from a Redbox kiosk will include the ticket price, plus tax, plus a $1 fee.
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Baauer, Coachella 2013 artist and the man behind the beats of the “Harlem Shake.” (Contributed Image)
Not since “Gangnam Syle” has a dance craze invaded YouTube as much as the “Harlem Shake” has. (With the viral nature of today, it makes me wonder if the “Macarena” would have had as long of a life as it did, but that’s a discussion that says something about America and its shifting culture and bad wedding music that’s for another day.)
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