DIGITAL JOURNALIST
DJ Ickee will host the Cali Love concert in San Bernardino this weekend. (2012/File Image)
A major hip-hop and reggae event packed with local talent is coming to San Bernardino this weekend.
Dubbed Cali Love, it has a number of notable Inland artists.
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B.B. King will headline the Rhythm, Wine and Brews Festival in Indio on Feb. 23. (2009/File Photo)
There’s a big festival happening at the Empire Polo Club in Indio and it’s not the one you’re probably thinking of.
The Rhythm, Wine and Brews Fest returns to the site on Feb. 23 with blues legend B.B. King.
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Vintage Trouble is playing Coachella 2013. (Contributed Image)
It’s Coachella season here at the Audio File and I’ve been spending some time putting together an interactive map of all of the 170-plus artists playing the Empire Polo Club in Indio April 12-14 and April 19-21.
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Cold War Kids perform at Coachella 2011. (2011/File Photo)
The Cold War Kids are playing Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace on Friday, Feb. 15.
The Long Beach-based alternative band, which most recently played at the Coachella Festival in 2011, is releasing a new album, “Dear Miss Lonelyhearts,” in April.
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Fontana’s Hit-Boy (a.k.a. Chauncey Hollis) accepts the award for best rap song during the pre-telecast at the 55th annual Grammy Awards. (AP Photo)
Dubbed “Music’s Biggest Night,” the 55th annual Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 10 and one of the winners hails from the Inland Empire.
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Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants are coming to Stagecoach 2013. (Contributed Image)
Some notable artists have joined the Stagecoach Country Music Festival lineup.
Chris Shiflett, of rock gods the Foo Fighters and most excellent punk bands No Use for a Name and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, brings his Americana outfit Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants, to Stagecoach 2013 on Sunday, April 28.
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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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