DIGITAL JOURNALIST
City Mouse (Denise Borders/Contributed Image)
Riverside punkers City Mouse are around to rock out this weekend with a hometown show at Morgan’s Tavern.
They will be joined by Dead Broad, Goodbye to Sunlight and Floor Notes.
7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, Morgan’s Tavern, 4850 Tyler St., Riverside, free, 21 and older only.
Anita Pointer, founding member of the Pointer Sisters, performs with neices Sadako and Issa at Pechanga Resort & Casino. (Fielding Buck/Staff Photo)
It feels like a Pointer Sisters kind of day, probably because we’ve been talking about them here in the office.
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Divide the Day. (Contributed Image)
Divide the Day, As You Were, Sederra, Valora, Nations Afire and IllFX are on board to play a show at the House of Blues in Anaheim on Friday, Jan. 4.
Divide the Day has been posting new songs periodically over at their Bandcamp page. Here’s the latest one, “Prove them Wrong.”
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Neon Trees. (Contributed Image)
Did anyone else ring in 2013 with the faces of Neon Trees on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve”?Singer Tyler Glenn and guitarist Chris Allen hail from Murrieta and were in Times Square where even Jenny McCarthy recognized them as one of the biggest acts of 2012.
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Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula are Bob & Lisa. (Contributed Image)
Some of the Inland Empire’s finest songwriters and rockers are gathering for a special show at the Mission Tobacco Lounge in Riverside on Saturday, Jan. 5.
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Death Cab for Cutie (Contributed Image)
Here are some songs about the New Year that I enjoy. Also, I promise you that the Semisonic song is not “Closing Time.” It’s “This Will Be My Year,” another great song off “Feeling Strangely Fine,” which I feel deserved more attention than just to be labeled as an album of a one-hit-wonder. Dan Wilson is an incredible songwriter and I love Semisonic.
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The 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, shot from the Ferris wheel. (2011/File Photo)
Here’s my final Coachella 2013 lineup predictions post of 2012.
I did a quick search for bands playing San Francisco from mid-late April and came up with four more Coachella Festival predictions: Alex Clare, Lucero, Beach House and Alabama Shakes.
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Neon Trees performs at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in April 2012. (Charlotte Bray/Freelance Photographer)
Times Square will get some Murrieta love tonight on “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.”
Neon Trees, whose singer, Tyler Glenn, and guitarist, Chris Allen, hail from Murrieta, will be one of the acts on the show.
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Assuming We Survive (Contributed Image)
A crop of Inland bands will rock out with a show at The Glass House in Pomona on Friday, Jan. 4.
Rancho Cucamonga’s Assuming We Survive tops the bill of A Mid-Winter Night’s Scream at the all ages venue with sets from Cromwell, Implants, I, Omega and Hammers And Hearts.
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Big Papa and the TCB. (Contributed Image)
Revered Redlands-based blues outfit Big Papa and the TCB is working on a new record and is seeking help from its fans to raise money to put it out.
Big Papa and the TCB is expecting to release new album “Six Pack of Blues,” in early 2013 and is raising money to put out physical copies via Kickstarter.
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