DIGITAL JOURNALIST
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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Fans enter the Empire Polo Club grounds for Coachella 2009. (2009/File Photo)
If you purchased a shuttle pass along with passes for the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, you have until Thursday, Feb. 7 to change shuttle lines.
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Solwave is playing Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Thursday.
San Francisco rock band Solwave is coming to the Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Gordon Raphael, who has produced The Strokes, will be producing Solwave next month.
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Deap Vally (Brian Sheffield/Contributed Image)
Today’s Audio Files features two blues-influenced artists out of the greater Los Angeles area who are both playing the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Daniel Bambaataa Marley is going to be at The Barn at UC Riverside on Wednesday, Feb. 6. (Contributed Image)
Celebrate what would have been Bob Marley’s 68th birthday on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at The Barn at UC Riverside.
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