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PE LIVE: Watch The Shape of the Earth’s ‘Pharmaceuticals’

The Shape of the Earth (Contributed Image)

After a weekend of metal awesomeness with Iron Maiden, here’s a change of pace with some catchy indie rock from Redlands’ own The Shape of the Earth.

We caught up with the band a week and a half ago at Hangar 24 Brewery. Here’s “Pharmaceuticals.”

Check out more from the band, including the excellent 2012 release “Fire, Then Rain” over at The Shape of the Earth’s Bandcamp.

Want to see PE Live in person? Come out to Hangar 24 on Wednesday, Sept. 18, to see the Redlands brewery’s house band Strangebrew.

6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Hangar 24 Brewery and Tasting Room, 1710 Sessums Drive, Redlands, free.

Visit www.hangar24brewery.com for more information.

PE LIVE: Watch My Own Holiday, catch a taping

My Own Holiday (Contributed Image)

Did you see our latest edition of PE Live? We’re featuring Lake Arrowhead band My Own Holiday in a series of videos we filmed a couple of weeks back at Hangar 24 Brewery in Redlands.

If you want to come to a taping, join us Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. when The Dares take the stage at Hangar 24. The show is free and all ages are allowed. You must be 21 or older to drink, though.

You can also subscribe to PE Live and get videos delivered to your inbox every week.

Watch our interview with My Own Holiday below and let the video play to see the performances.

PE LIVE: Watch My Own Holiday, see them in Riverside Saturday

My Own Holiday performs at Hangar 24 brewery in Redlands. (Vanessa Franko/Staff Photo)

Our special guest band on PE Live this week is Lake Arrowhead’s My Own Holiday, who are coming down the mountain for a show at Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside this weekend.

Check out “Devil In Me” from the band’s Hangar 24 performance below. Let the video play for more tunes and an exclusive interview.

My Own Holiday plays the Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Saturday, Sept. 7.

Also on the bill are Sound Preservation Society, which now includes members of Glass Bottle Grenade, plus performances by The Tic Tocs and Treefort.

9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, Mission Tobacco Lounge, 3630 University Ave., Riverside, free, 21 and older only.

Visit www.facebook.com/myownholiday for more on the band.

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Correction: A previous version of this blog described Sound Preservation Society as a new band. The group has been established and has added new members.

PE LIVE: 5 artists to listen to Labor Day weekend

New PE Live videos are released with artists every Thursday at PE.com. (Staff Illustration)

PE Live features Inland artists giving exclusive interviews and performances (Staff Illustration)

Need some music while you study for a fantasy football draft? Want to impress friends with the best underground music for your barbecue? We’ve got you covered.

Spend your holiday weekend with PE Live. We have more than 80 videos of performances and interviews with the best in local music.

You can get PE Live in your inbox every week by subscribing to the newsletter. It’s like being in a super secret awesome club with fellow music lovers. Plus, you won’t get spammed. I only send it out once each week.

Below you can see some of the great artists we’ve had on PE Live so far. Let the videos play for more music and interviews.

If you don’t know ColeSlaw, you should. Matt Coleman and Chad Villarreal talk about the project and how ColeSlaw came to be.

Check out the bluesy rock of Redlands’ The Great Late and the track “Hopeless Bitter Ghoul.”

The Paper Crowns bring energy, fun and lots of love to their Americana. Witness it yourself with “Glory Glory” below.

Derrick Sanderlin’s voice will give you goosebumps. I promise.

Science Fiction Theater crafts beautiful songs. They also bring really fun instruments to PE Live shoots.

RIVERSIDE: Black Bear, Nathan Rivera visit Back to the Grind

Black Bear and the Cheyenne Autumn Band (Contributed Image)

Three up-and-coming acts are headed to Back to the Grind in Riverside on Saturday.

Black Bear and the Cheyenne Autumn Band, a Corona-based group with an Americana sound, will perform. The band has been recording new music.

Here’s “Rollin’ Train” from Black Bear’s PE Live session.

Also, Nathan Rivera, who you might have seen on the promos for the MTV Video Music Awards before Miley Cryus took it to crazy town, will have his accordion and perform his unique blend of songs.

He also stopped by PE Live earlier this year.

I’m sure you’re thinking, “Wow, PE Live sure has some great local music. Where can I sign up to get new videos delivered to my inbox weekly?”

Well, it turns out we have a brand new PE Live newsletter.

As for Saturday’s show, Jessie Andra Smith is also on the bill.

8 p.m. Saturday, Back to the Grind, 3575 University Ave., Riverside, free, all ages.

POMONA: Acts not to miss at D.I.Y. Music and Fashion Fest

Speak will perform at the D.I.Y. Music and Fashion Fest this weekend. (Andrew Quesada/Contributed Image)

Want proof that the Inland Empire is bursting with hip-hop talent? Check out the D.I.Y. Music and Fashion Festival at the Glass House in Pomona on Saturday, Aug. 31.

Celebrating its third year, the festival not only highlights some of the brightest in local music, but also local designers.

Here are some of the artists to keep an eye on. I’ve included some links for your listening pleasure, but beware–most are explicit.

Speak

You might already know Anthony “Speak” Negrete, the man responsible for “Bulletproof Denali.” He’s featured with his weekly column, “Saturdays with Speak,” on MySpace. He also co-wrote Kreayshawn’s smash “Gucci Gucci.” Speak grew up Moreno Valley and was on the Paid Dues lineup this year.

Listen to “Perfect Hair,” a title which also describes Speak’s locks. See above warning about language.

Visit www.applebird.tumblr.com for more.

Noa James (Contributed Image)

Noa James

Noa James is part of Black Cloud Music, the Inland collective that just keeps raising the bar when it comes to hip-hop. He’s also part of the Brick to Ya Face team, which is putting on the festival. See him this year because he will actually get to perform.

Here’s his latest release, “The Adventures of Young Orca.”

Check out more of his music at http://noajames.bandcamp.com.

Stevie Crooks (Contributed Image)

Stevie Crooks

Stevie Crooks led a successful campaign to perform at the 2013 Paid Dues Festival earlier this year. The Moreno Valley rapper recently posted new music produced by Tommy Boy.

Visit https://soundcloud.com/NYCA96.

Pheo

Moreno Valley’s Pheo has been added with Cashius Green on The Smokers Club national tour this fall with headliners Ab-Soul and Joey Bad… (expletive deleted so I can keep my job).

Visit http://soundcloud.com/pheo for more.

What Hands Are For(Contributed Image)

What Hands Are For

San Bernardino’s What Hands Are For are representing the rock and punk factions at the fest. Last week, the band’s song “We Love the Knife Light” was featured on MTV show “The Challenge: Rivals II.” Expect to hear new music from the band.

Visit www.facebook.com/whathandsarefor for more.

Curtiss King

Curtiss King, another shining spot on the Inland hip-hop scene, is also on the bill.

Here’s King’s performances and interview from his PE Live session a couple of months ago.

Other performers include First Dirt, Awukii, Ill Camille, Waju, Slay Squad, D’zyl, Cam Gnarly & DCXDCXDC, Hawdwerk, Yung Miss, Da Flatlynerz and Gypsy Mamba.

The event is all ages. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

5 p.m. Saturday, The Glasshouse, 200 W. Second St. Pomona.

Visit www.Bricktoyaface.com for more information and pick up tickets at Ticketfly.com.

EPICENTER: Local bands vie for festival spot

The crowd gets doused with water while listening to Thirty Seconds To Mars performs during the Epicenter Twenty Ten music festival at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana on Sunday, September 26, 2010. (File Photo)

The Epicenter Festival is celebrating its fifth year on Sept. 21 and the festival (which was once held at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, by the way), is opening up the bill to a lucky unsigned band.

Ernie Ball is sponsoring the Epicenter Battle of the Bands and the winner will get to play the show.

You can enter your band and vote at www.battleofthebands.com through September 13, 2013.

The top 100 “Buzz Rated” bands that sign up for the Ernie Ball Epicenter Battle Of The Bands will be eligible to win, but a panel of judges will pick the winner, who will be announced on Monday, Sept. 16.

We’ve got some local bands leading the pack right now, too, including Assuming We Survive, Midnight Satellites and Grieve for Tomorrow all in the top 10 so far.

Temecula’s Midnight Satellites actually did a PE Live session with us a while back. You can watch it below. If you love local music, don’t forget to sign up for the weekly PE Live newsletter, either.

Here’s the lineup for Epicenter:

The Offspring
A Day To Remember
Bad Religion
Pennywise
Pierce The Veil
All Time Low
Falling In Reverse
The Wonder Years
FIDLAR
New Beat Fund
Plague Vendor

PE LIVE: Watch The Great Late perform ‘Your Man’

The Great Late (Contributed Image)

This week’s PE Live artist is The Great Late, a rock band out of Redlands that has an appreciation for the blues, psychedelic rock and more.

We filmed this one out at Hangar 24 in Redlands. We’ll be back there on Aug. 28 to interview and hang out with My Own Holiday.

Check out “Your Man” and keep watching for more music from the band.

Here’s more from the band’s debut EP “Human Race”:

PE LIVE: Watch an exclusive interview with The Great Late

The Great Late (Contributed Image)

Check out our latest PE Live interview with Redlands’ The Great Late from Hangar 24 and find what connection the blues and psychedelic rock band has to the sousaphone.

Let the video play and you can watch live performances of three of the band’s songs, “Your Man,” “Divine” and “Hopeless Bitter Ghoul,” too.

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PE LIVE: Sign up for the weekly newsletter

New PE Live videos are released with artists every Thursday at PE.com. (Staff Illustration)

Local music is really important. Right now, the Inland Empire has an incredibly deep talent pool of musicians.

One of my favorite parts of this job is being able to showcase some of them. I’m barely scratching the surface, but since re-launching PE Live this spring, we’ve featured more than 20 Inland artists, with exclusive interviews and performances.

Now, you don’t have to go hunting for the videos. Sign up for the PE Live newsletter and you can get the latest videos delivered straight to your inbox.

I promise not to spam you, either. It’s just a weekly email with the latest in PE Live.

Visit http://subscribe.pe.com/pelive to sign up. All it takes is an email address.

I really believe in this project and I want to get our local artists out to as many people as possible. Please sign up and tell a friend or two.

Watch the videos below to get a taste of PE Live.