DIGITAL JOURNALIST
Jerry Lee Lewis will not be playing Stagecoach 2013. (AP Photo)
I have even more Stagecoach Country Music Festival news I’m working on, but here’s a big one–Jerry Lee Lewis, who was originally announced to play Sunday, April 28, has dropped off the bill.
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Marshall Crenshaw (Contributed Image)
Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace is bringing in a double bill of icons on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Marshall Crenshaw and Dave Alvin are teaming up for a show at the spot.
Crenshaw, beloved singer-songwriter best known for “Someday, Someway,” has recently started his own subscription music service for fans. Crenshaw plans to release six three-song 10-inch, 45 RPM vinyl EPs over the next two years for subscribers (who also get a download of the music).
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The Sandbox Bullies (Contributed Image)
A car show and live rockabilly and psychobilly bands are coming to Hemet this weekend.
The Lowbrow Showdown will be at Sharkey’s Pizza and Games on Sunday, Feb. 10.
Aces & Thieves, Graveyard Drifters, ThrillBillyz, Tres Muertos, Dr. Bizarro’s Victims, The Daffys, Sandbox Bullies, The Lake Pipes and The Vampz are all on the bill.
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Porter Robinson will be headlining the Heat Festival at UC Riverside. (Contributed Image)
The Heat is on at UC Riverside, where the student body will not get that Glenn Frey reference at all.
The UCR Heat Festival returns to campus on March 2, with a lineup of EDM phenom Porter Robinson, rapper Tyga, plus AWOLNATION, Surfer Blood and Best Coast. Kid Ink, The M Machine and Audien round out the lineup.
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Davis Fetter plays an acoustic set at The Press-Enterprise. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
A couple of years ago, we used to have a regular video series called PE Live (later Audio File Sessions), where local musicians came in and did an interview with me on camera and played a few acoustic songs. It was like “MTV I.E. Unplugged.”
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Darasuum (Contributed Image)
An early show is worth checking out if you love metal.
The Paradigm will be the site of Crown of Glory’s final show on Friday.
Hammerfist, OnexChoice, Darasuum (pictured), Colossal, Surveyor and Against the Fallen Angel are also performing.
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Buck-O-Nine returns to The Vault on Friday. (Contributed Image)
The next show in The Vault’s Legends of Punk and Ska Series is happening on Friday with San Diego’s Buck-O-Nine.
The Temecula venue has been bringing in acts from the genres through the spring. Buck-O-Nine is best known for the song “My Town.”
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Alex Pappas plays the drums for Finch’s first “What It Is to Burn” anniversary show at the Glass House in Pomona on Feb. 1, 2013. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)
Temecula’s Finch continues its reunion run celebrating the 10th anniversary of debut album “What It Is to Burn” at the Glass House in Pomona this weekend.
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Robots are covering Motorhead and it’s kind of awesome. (Contributed Image)
Robots, metal and punk music. These are a few of my favorite things. Thankfully a friend sent me a video of Compressorhead, a band made up of robots that rock out. It’s like “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” where the robots play, except these are way, way better.
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The Brewer Boys perform in Temecula in 2012. (2012/File Photo)
Over the last few years, Temecula Live! brought out the best in local country music to raise money for the nonprofit Oak Grove Center.
For 2013, the event is changing. Now called Rock the Oaks, there will be three shows featuring a variety of performers over two days to New Covenant Church in Murrieta over Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9.
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