DIGITAL JOURNALIST
New Way On (Contributed Image)
If the Mayans are right, you can celebrate your last night on Earth with a rock show in Riverside Friday with the “End of the World” show.
It’s chock full of established and up-and-coming Riverside bands.
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The Kinks (Contributed Image)
Put tonight’s entry on the depressing Christmas songs list, but it has a great guitar riff. It’s The Kinks‘ “Father Christmas,” touching on materialism, classism, economic woes and beating up Santa Claus raising money for those less fortunate outside a department store. But did I mention that it has a great guitar riff?
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The Sleeping Sea King has a toy drive and concert in Riverside that will benefit kids in Loma Linda. (Contributed Image)
The Sleeping Sea King is throwing a concert at Romano’s Concert Lounge that will benefit “Totally Kids” specialty children’s healthcare in Loma Linda.
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Phora will perform at Big Cheese in Riverside this weekend.
Big Cheese Pizza and Brewery Co. will be the site of an all-ages hip-hop show featuring Inland and O.C. artists on Saturday, Dec. 22.
Phora, an up-and-coming teen from from Anaheim, will be the headliner.
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Jenni Rivera performs at San Manuel Casino in Highland on March 10, 2011. (File Photo)
My colleague David Olson is at the Gibson Amphitheatre today to cover the memorial for Banda queen and reality star Jenni Rivera.
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Another year, another wish for Daft Punk to return to the Coachella stage. (Contributed Image)
Good morning. The Coachella 2013 hype is growing ever louder and NME over in England has a report that Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Phoenix are playing the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
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The Paper Crowns recently released the album “See You Tonight.” (Mod Photography/Contributed Image)
Devore’s The Paper Crowns will be performing at the State Street Winery in Redlands on Saturday, Dec. 22 and there’s a lot of holiday music planned for the event.
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David Bowie (AP/File Photo)
Has there ever been a stranger pairing in music than Bing Crosby and David Bowie?
I never get tired of the juxtaposition of these two, and the ridiculous premise that Bowie has no idea who Crosby is. I watch it every year even though they’re singing my least favorite Christmas carol, “Little Drummer Boy.”
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Limited tickets for Jenni Rivera’s memorial service at the Gibson Amphitheatre will be made available at 12 p.m. pacific on Tuesday, Dec. 18. (File Photo)
There will be a public memorial service for the late singer and TV star Jenni Rivera, who was killed in a plane crash in Mexico Sunday, Dec. 9, at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal CityWalk on Wednesday, Dec. 19.
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Knock-Out will perform at the Mission Tobacco Lounge on Friday, Dec. 21.
(PHOTO: JUDD IRISH BRADLEY)
Knock-Out is back from tour for its annual Home for the Holidays show on Friday, Dec. 21 in Riverside at the Mission Tobacco Lounge.
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