Punk super group Implants, featuring current and former members of bands like Strung Out, Pulley, Ten Foot Pole and Death By Stereo, performed at the Juke Joint in Anaheim Friday night. Drown the Witness, Lowbrow and Sederra opened.
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Static-X, fronted by the animated Wayne Static, headlined House of Blues in Anaheim on Friday night. Davey Suicide and Gemini Syndrome opened.
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Techno and house DJ Funkagenda performed at Yost Theater in Santa Ana Thursday night and packed the venue with hard-partying fans.
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Next at Yost Theater: Cazzette, Aug. 31; Sandro Silva, Sept. 1; Labor Day Party with Minaya & Vikus, Sept. 2; Digitalism, Sept. 5. Swedish Egil, Sept. 6.
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DJ JFlex appeared at Silk the Club at Pechanga on Friday, Aug. 24 and Mike Carbonell kept the party going on Saturday, Aug. 25.
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Silk has a $20 cover. For VIP tables, contact Eric at 951-595-9476. The guest list is free before 10 p.m., just RSVP by 5 p.m. the day of the event via the Silk Facebook page, or e-mail your full name to eromo@pechanga.com or text your full name to 951-595-9476.
For upcoming music and comedy events, check out the events calendar here.
The dress code (stylish and elegant club attire) is strictly enforced: No hats, no T-shirts (long or short sleeved), no shorts, no tennis shoes and no athletic apparel. Management reserves all rights to enforce this dress code.
By Derek Hackett, for Pechanga.com.
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DJ Dean Mason celebrated his birthday with a special bash at the Yost Theater in Santa Ana Saturday night.
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Next at the Yost Theater: Speakeasy 307, Aug. 28; Havoc Thursdays with Funkagenda, Aug. 30; Radio City Fridays featuring Cazzette, Aug. 31; Yost Saturdays with Sandro Sliva, Sept. 1.
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San Francisco-based rock band the Stone Foxes headlined Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa Thursday night along San Diego blues-rock duo Little Hurricane and newer local act Old Scratch.
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Next at Detroit Bar: Decode Radio, Aug. 27; Live & Local Tuesdays, Aug. 28; Wax Wednesdays, Aug. 29; Come Together: A Benefit for Steve Guzman, Aug. 30.
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RAWartists Orange County hosted Radiate, an event featuring art, music and fashion shows on Saturday night at Avec Nightclub in Huntington Beach. Dozens of artists – photographers, painters, designers and more – showcased their work around the venue while patrons were treated to live sets by the Relative Strangers (pictured above) and What Nina Answered.
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There was also a runway show featuring hair and makeup by Niloo, Valerie Kristen, Francesca Beniquez, Mimi Starks and Lupita Woo and fashion designs by Denali, VICI Designs and Adriana Diaz were put on display.
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To many of their legion of fans, going to a Phish concert is about far more than the music the Vermont foursome deliver, though that’s nearly as unpredictable as ever after decades of being on and off the road. (They broke up a few years ago and it didn’t take; they’ve been reunited and going strong since 2009, although their name can still elicit “they’re still around?” murmurs from the uninitiated.)
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Phish shows are about camaraderie as much as music. The band breeds a certain tribal bonding among fans who, like Deadheads before them, understand that it’s worth sitting through good shows and occasional bad ones (though those are few and far between) to get a really great gig – or at least an unexpected moment. That’s why so many followers will see three, four, five shows or more in a single tour.
I’m one of those die-hards, but I’m also a professional music writer – and covering Phish has always been difficult because of that. How can you convince skeptics who write the band off as stoner-lazy (if anything they’re unnaturally ambitious) or just plain silly (though what’s wrong with smiling sometimes?) that it’s worth paying attention to their intricacies, their set-list choices, their inner language?
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Photos by Kelly A. Swift, for the Orange County Register; Article by Jeff Miller, for the Orange County Register
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As many might have guessed, Day 2 of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco was all about Metallica. Given that Golden Gate Park was likely the only hometown venue the Bay Area quartet hadn’t performed at during its 31-year career, their day-capping show took the cake for most historically significant of the weekend.
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Though it’s certainly debatable, I’d say the outfit’s two-hour, pyro-packed, fireworks-filled set – comprised chiefly of highly regarded ’80s classics – easily beat out Neil Young & Crazy Horse’s powerhouse performance on Friday and is likely to trump Stevie Wonder’s sure-to-be impressive event-closing concert Sunday night.
Frontman James Hetfield, guitarist Kirk Hammett, bassist Robert Trujillo and drummer Lars Ulrich were clearly out to prove something with selections that began and concluded with their oldest and most thrash-focused material, avoiding anything post-’97 save for “Hell and Back,” from last December’s Beyond Magnetic EP.
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Article and photos by David Hall, for the Orange County Register.
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J to tha L-O, Hello! showed why she’s an all-around diva Saturday night with the no-holds-barred show she put on at Honda Center, her first of three co-headlining area appearances this week with Enrique Iglesias.
“Hello, lovers,” Nuyorican beauty Jennifer Lopez greeted after an extended Disneyesque intro featuring a video, an array of backup dancers and singers and bright lights, all contributing to a nonstop show that was nothing less than the sort of exuberant entertainment you’d expect from “Jenny from the Block.”
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Lopez gave fans in Anaheim close to 90 minutes of dramatization, often reenacting some of her most popular videos. “How about I go back to the Bronx?” she asked. “I’m just a simple girl from the Bronx. Don’t let the sparkly pants fool you.”
She then added a hoodie and a matching New York cap to her outfit, because “it makes me feel tough,” as the set gave way to a montage of the hits “I’m Real” and “Ain’t It Funny” (from her 2001 album J.Lo) and “All I Have” and “Jenny from the Block” (from 2002′s This Is Me … Then), almost all of which were accompanied by their respective clips.
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Review by Martha Ramirez, the Orange County Register; Photos by Christine Cotter, for the Orange County Register
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